Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023


An Out-of-Doors Study, John Singer Sargent, 1889


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Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 18, 2023 11:29 am

The Vic indigenous treaty is just a thinly disguised land and water grab mechanism.
The ALP is actively seeking conflict with rural Australia. The progressives are going to hit a very big angry roadblock.

Bluey
Bluey
June 18, 2023 11:29 am

miltonfsays:
June 18, 2023 at 10:09 am
Agree Bear, the Melb CBD is very unpleasant now and I avoid it- lucky I live in an ex urb. Rural and regional Vicco, like rural and regional NSW is still very lovely but the political class and their pubic masters in Canbra are doing their best to wreck it.

Indeed. Where my old man lives the Andrews government policies have destroyed several major employers that had been institutions. Let alone the blight on the landscape the wind towers are.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 11:33 am

Porter didn’t deserve what was done to him. Sure, he’s an arrogant prick but so what, nobody deserved that.

shatterzzz
June 18, 2023 11:39 am

One day, about 5 years ago, my oldest sister an dI decided to take a driving tour of the old rentals ……

I passed the bed-sit (30 of ‘em) 3 storey house I lived in from 1967 thru 1971 in Neutral Bay, back-garden runs down to the Harbour, a coupla years back .. outside preserved at it was back then but the interior now converted into 4 $million+ flats ..
I used to pay $10.50 a week rent, share bathroom but own cooking, including power & weekly bedding change .. LOL!

C.L.
C.L.
June 18, 2023 11:40 am

RFK Jr is 70 next year.
He’s in seriously good condition.

Great podcast with Rogan. Joe is one of the best interviewers and chatters on big topics I’ve seen. Nobody on TV is even close.

A snippet wherein he explains the sell-out of ‘comedians’ during the ‘pandemic.’

Kennedy is now breaking through with his analysis of Pfizer’s criminality too.

C.L.
C.L.
June 18, 2023 11:41 am

Kennedy explaining Pfizer’s criminal vax effectiveness scam:

https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1670146537349959684

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 11:41 am

Porter didn’t deserve what was done to him

Some may argue with that. Surprising it hadn’t happened sooner.

sfw
sfw
June 18, 2023 11:41 am

If the UAP, LDP and PHON did merge they would get at least 15% of the first preference votes, going on the voting at recent state and the recent federal election. With a good leader and team they would get even more first preferences, they would be a major force in politics, bigger than the Greens and an outright threat to the LNP.

Sadly all three parties hate each other more than they hate the Libs or Labor and even preference Lib and Labor over their philosophical mates. I’d love to see a merger but it take a new Menzies to do it and there’s no one like that anywhere in our politics.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 11:43 am

The Vic indigenous treaty is just a thinly disguised land and water grab mechanism.

I just see it as a cunning plan to render that State ungovernable, should the voters have the temerity to ever elect a Liberal Government.

JMH
JMH
June 18, 2023 11:43 am

Gez:

The Vic indigenous treaty is just a thinly disguised land and water grab mechanism.
The ALP is actively seeking conflict with rural Australia. The progressives are going to hit a very big angry roadblock.

Just wait and watch as the Victorian ALP slime introduce an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act equivalent to that in WA. It’s coming.

Tom
Tom
June 18, 2023 11:46 am

The ALP is actively seeking conflict with rural Australia.

That’s partly because the Nationals socialist party is such a pushover that most of its members are closet admirers of the trade union socialist party that runs the capital cities from sea to shining sea without opposition.

For example, that state of rural highways and roads in Australia is a national scandal. How long since you saw a headline about it?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 11:47 am

Porter didn’t deserve what was done to him

Porter must regret the move to Federal politics – Colin Barnett was grooming him to succeed him as State Premier.

JMH
JMH
June 18, 2023 11:47 am

in addition to my comment above, I’d like to see ALL West Australians go about their businesses, ignoring this ACH crap. The Courts would cave as would the government. By the Way, where are the Libs and Nats on the Act? Under rocks, or are they actually participating in the removal of ‘freehold’?

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:50 am

sfw says:
June 18, 2023 at 11:41 am

If the UAP, LDP and PHON

Lol, The Gruppenführer really is an idiot. The LDP wouldn’t merge with those other two. There’s nothing in common.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 11:50 am

Cultural Heritage Act very much looking like a Sneaker’s sh1t sandwich left in the bain marie to mix a metaphor.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 11:52 am

By the Way, where are the Libs and Nats on the Act?

They are actually mounting quite a vigorous campaign against the Act. Rodger Cook’s conduct has been a disgrace, branding any opposition as being based on racist grounds

C.L.
C.L.
June 18, 2023 11:53 am

Ladies and gentlemen…

I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:57 am

Ladies and gentlemen…

I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Cute as in leftwing circles. It’s one Cronkite’s cute owls.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 11:57 am

Porter must regret the move to Federal politics – Colin Barnett was grooming him to succeed him as State Premier.

Interesting counter factual. Porter was Treasurer as debt expanded rapidly under Emperor Barney. All forgotten as the iron ore price went ballistic giving us Twiggy as well. He certainly had a skeleton packed cupboard.

Tom
Tom
June 18, 2023 11:58 am

I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

FMD, CL. Needs a warning.

PS: When are they going to do something about fat chicks?

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:58 am

of

JMH
JMH
June 18, 2023 12:01 pm

They are actually mounting quite a vigorous campaign against the Act. Rodger Cook’s conduct has been a disgrace, branding any opposition as being based on racist grounds

Thanks, Zulu. At least something is happening. In Victoria, when we face the same dilemma, we can guarantee the Libs will be under their respective rocks!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 18, 2023 12:01 pm

I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

I can understand why you are giving it away.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 12:02 pm

Rodger Cook’s conduct has been a disgrace, branding any opposition as being based on racist grounds

Yep. Not a good start. Wonder if there’s more on the way.

areff
areff
June 18, 2023 12:06 pm

Via Powerline, Biden and Fetterman attempt to make sense, fail miserably:

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/biden-v-fetterman.php

The Biden clip is just one of what must have been that speech’s 15-minutes of error and incoherence.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 12:07 pm

Yep. Not a good start. Wonder if there’s more on the way.

I’ll bet good money on it.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 12:07 pm

Bill Hayden let the cat out of the bag iirc Cassie.

Please this is a family blog.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:10 pm

sfw

Just a question that’s been hanging around at the back of my head I needed to ask you. Recall when Vicpol arrested the pregnant woman in her home in front of her husband and kids because she wrote a comment against the lockdown on Facebook?

If you were on duty at the time and the call came to action the order, what would you have done?

1. Refuse to act and resign?
2. Arrest a pregnant woman?

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 12:13 pm

Lol, The Gruppenführer really is an idiot. The LDP wouldn’t merge with those other two. There’s nothing in common.

Craig Kelly and Latham could make it work with someone like Leyonhjelm. It could be a complete nightmare of a shotgun marriage that is true, but it could succeed too. The problem to me is Palmer. When I’ve listened to him talk, it is a mix of liberal ideals and labor promises…and I totally agree with Palmer’s anger at the WA government given they believe they can wriggle out of mediated agreements.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:19 pm

Dot

Latham was a member of the LDP and left. Also, it’s not Latham’s call to make. Palmer has no ideological beacon. He’s a motormouth spoiler.

Look, the only common themes PHON and the LDP have would be the issue of introducing race into the constitution. After that, there’s zero. Phon is basically a socialist party economically and socially conservative.

areff
areff
June 18, 2023 12:22 pm

The luvvie judge who garlanded the CL-linked snapshot winner not only looks exactly as you might expect, right down to the pink jumper and fetching scarf, but also produces similarly predictable “art’

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 12:23 pm

I think Pauline has become less socialist and Latham certainly gets economics.

I actually think the old labor voters in PHON would object the most.

This doesn’t stop a joint ticket, draw the ballots by a lottery.

That 15% of the vote can guarantee everyone two Senate seats at each Senate half-election.

Build on that and you can start getting traction in the lower house where you are strongest, just as the Greens did.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 12:27 pm

A guarantee almost of one NSW LC seat for all three parties too at each half election, if that 15% doesn’t grow.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:32 pm

I think Pauline has become less socialist and Latham certainly gets economics.

Think about you’re trying to co-mingle, Dot. The LDP is an inner city grouping for the most part. PHON is rural/regional based. There’s little cross over.

I actually think the old labor voters in PHON would object the most.

I think the inner city LDP crowd would also object.

That 15% of the vote can guarantee everyone two Senate seats at each Senate half-election.

Okay

Build on that and you can start getting traction in the lower house where you are strongest, just as the Greens did.

Kelly and Latham are personalities. They’re good guys but they aren’t ideologies which is where the rubber hits the bitumen. I don’t think it would work. The Gruppenführer was talking about a merger, which wouldn’t work.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 18, 2023 12:36 pm

The luvvie judge who garlanded the CL-linked snapshot winner not only looks exactly as you might expect, right down to the pink jumper and fetching scarf, but also produces similarly predictable “art’

Areff – Your link doesn’t work, but Daniel Boetker-Smith does seem to do good stuff, even if as is obvious he is a lefty. The fat lady in the award winning photo is rendered well, although to be truly rendered she might need to visit a whale factory.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 18, 2023 12:39 pm

Thanks CL for the pic. It’s a reminder that we are at war with the Left.
All that was missing was a tatt and a cigarette from the corner of the mouth. FMD

P
P
June 18, 2023 12:40 pm

Jack Poso @JackPosobiec
·
Jun 17
Hello Dodger Stadium

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1669884374454763520

areff
areff
June 18, 2023 12:40 pm

BoN: Don’t what happened to the link. Here’s the artistic achievement I meant:

https://imagomundicollection.org/artworks/daniel-boetker-smith-australia-racist-italy-racist/

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:40 pm

Maybe it is. Maybe we have a sheila problem.

Tucker just let out a little secret if you read between the lines: Fox News is run by women…

There’s an obvious trend happening in America and it’s worth noting again: several companies, such as Bud Light and Miller Lite, have recently seen women take the helm, but unfortunately, these ladies have made some wildly poor business decisions that have led these companies into disastrous situations. This “women-centric” move in corporate America isn’t a fluke. It can be linked to the significant increase in the number of women joining the workforce over the past decade. With women now dominating higher education and earning the majority of degrees, it’s only natural to see their presence and influence grow in various industries — but at what cost? This brings us to a recent situation that unfolded at Fox News involving a chyron that aired during Trump’s most recent arrest by the DOJ that took a decisive and direct hit against Joe Biden, referring to him as a “wannabe dictator.”

For a brief moment, it looked like Fox News had taken a bold step and was speaking the truth precisely when America needed it the most.

However, the next day, the man responsible for posting the chyron was promptly fired. Who fired him? According to Tucker Carlson, it was a group of hysterically emotional women running Fox News who clamored to apologize to the world for insulting Dictator Joe while he was committing election fraud by unjustly arresting his popular opponent.

That’s right, Fox News is now run by women — a fact that was cleverly brought to light by Tucker on his new Twitter show, if you read between the lines. During the latest episode of his new Twitter show, Tucker revealed what happened behind the scenes at Fox News and how these rogue women who run the network “panicked” over the chyron.

More here

Razey
Razey
June 18, 2023 12:40 pm

The only way for a full political clean out is economic collapse.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:42 pm

Black Ball says:
June 18, 2023 at 12:39 pm

Thanks CL for the pic.

Black Ball, dude, you’re thanking him for the pic? Are you mad? I had salmon for dinner and almost threw up. What CL did was particularly hurtful.
:-_

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 12:44 pm

the award winning photo is rendered well

nothing ‘simple’ about that shot

except perhaps as an example of how rainbow politics cheapens everything

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 12:45 pm

The only way for a full political clean out is economic collapse.

Dunno about that. In our increasingly dirigisme economy, the call will be “capitalism was to blame”!

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 12:45 pm

Razey says:
June 18, 2023 at 12:40 pm

The only way for a full political clean out is economic collapse.

Every single economic collapse that’s occurred in the western world (in particular) over the last century has seen the ascendancy of the left and there’s no exception. Stop freaking talking.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 18, 2023 12:46 pm

The only way for a full political clean out is economic collapse.

Won’t happen when flogs throw money around like confetti to da mates. Kieran Rooney and Matt Johnston in the Hun:

The director of Victoria’s state-owned toll operator will be paid $435,000 a year, five years before the North East Link opens to cars.

And it’s newly-appointed chief executive could earn even more, pushing executive pay on the new agency close to $1m before a single motorist travels through it.

Documents provided by the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal show the government applied to pay the State Tolling Corporation’s (STC) director above the salary limit of $384,000.

This was approved up to $435,000 and applies from November 2022 to 2025.

The Department of Transport and Planning did not respond in time to questions from the Sunday Herald Sun about what the STC does and why it needed senior executives at such an early stage.

It has been set up to manage North East Link as a toll road, with revenue collected by the state and used to pay off the $18bn project.

Construction on the road and tunnel is underway but the motorists who would pay these tolls are not expected to travel through it until 2028.

The STC has a board of directors and this week appointed a chief executive, An Nguyen.

Her salary is not yet disclosed but her role is more senior and expected to also draw a hefty pay packet.

In a release announcing her appointment, Ms Nguyen said: “I feel enormously privileged to be given the opportunity to lead STC on its exciting journey ahead to build its commercial road capability to be the owner-operator of the North East Link and to provide the Victorian Government with flexibility to manage its commercial road network in the future.”

Opposition transport infrastructure spokesman David Southwick said as Victorians battled cost of living, the state was paying a significant salary “to run the toll system on a road that is at best five years away”.

“This is an outrageous use of Victorians money and just another example of Labor’s waste and incompetence.

“With Victorians paying the highest taxes in the nation and our record debt continuing to rise, we simply cannot afford more waste on our major projects and this decision must be immediately reconsidered.”

The Andrews government’s decision to set up its own tolling corporation was announced in 2020 and created through legislation.

It came amid ongoing frustrations over lengthy delays and blowouts on the West Gats Tunnel, which is being delivered in partnership with tolling giant Transurban.

The STC model was created by the government through consultation with PwC, Clayton Utz and other advisory firms.

It is an independent government corporation, meaning it takes on responsibility and manages any risk for how much money the North East Link collects, rather than a government department.

Other pay applications to the tribunal include the salary for Kevin Devlin, the new Director-General of the Major Transport Infrastructure Authority.

The agency received approval to pay Mr Devlin $675,000, an extra $164,000 above the approved rate.

However this was a downgrade from his predecessor Corey Hannett, who received sign off to be paid up to $780,00.

The Chief Actuary at WorkSafe, charged with the financial sustainability of its compensation scheme, was also approved for an increase of $42,000.

It came at a time the Andrews government told the public that WorkCover was “fundamentally broken”.

Cock smokers one and all.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 18, 2023 12:47 pm

Muddy says: June 18, 2023 at 10:39 am

I’m not going to refer to him as a man

Why are you supportive of socially constructed gender, Muddy?

The lesson of WW2 is that everybody, including men, are capable of the most terrible acts if pushed in a precise way. You can’t logically insulate yourself in a superior category by pretending that man is not a man just because there are social roles and performative values that you subjectively feel were missing in him. A man is an adult human male, for better or for worse.

C.L.
C.L.
June 18, 2023 12:58 pm

The ABC strikes solid gold:

An Aboriginal lesbian touting the Voice while decrying her late pastor father as a Christian homophobe who voted against gay ‘marriage.’

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 18, 2023 1:04 pm

A man is an adult human male, for better or for worse.

True. But you can bring to that statement a judgement about what type of person that man is when looked at against some version you hold of what is a ‘good’ man and what isn’t. Saying someone is a ‘poor sort of man’ or ‘poor specimen of manhood’ is OK then in my book. It becomes about character then, within the parameters of biology.
Same for any adult human female.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 1:06 pm

Of course it is Gez.
Apparently a lot of taxpayer money already quietly ‘flows’ to various opaque indigenous entities.
And lots of familiar surnames of professional aborigines there.
Great that when your native title claim fails all the High Court Dan will just bend over backwards instead.
In other words many, if not all of these people lost any connection to Aboriginal culture in the mid nineteenth century* and now we all get to play let’s pretend.
As Dallas Scott pointed out great granny’s ‘truth telling’ about life on the mission is just family history and everyone has one of those.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 1:08 pm

From CL’s post. Same old bullshit.

The last time an Australian referendum was successful was in 1967, when we voted to change the Constitution to allow the government to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and include them in the census.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 1:09 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 1:16 pm

In other words many, if not all of these people lost any connection to Aboriginal culture in the mid nineteenth century* and now we all get to play let’s pretend.

How do you know that?
Are you an Aborigine expert too?
I had to school you a while back about Aborigines having very large families.
You had no idea, and actually disputed that.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 18, 2023 1:21 pm

And what sort of wife is it who gets her anniversaries wrong? Hairy and I set off together plighting our troth in 1981 which means we’ve already had our fortieth; our daughter was born in late 1982. We’re into our forty-second year of bliss together now. The years have got away with me. We’ve never made much of anniversaries at all. In fact it was Hairy four days ago on the 14th June who came in that evening and asked me what happened on today’s date, airily looking around like Basil Fawlty teasing Sybil and quoting ‘Now what happened then? The Battle of Hastings? Agincourt? Was that it?’

I still didn’t get the reference!
Birthdays though, we do celebrate those.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 18, 2023 1:23 pm

I’m verrrry disappointed in the fat fascist fool. He came in this morning, full of beans about politicians accused of sexual misbehaviour.

I thought he had developed a broad and deep interest in such matters, so I mentioned a few names of politicians convicted of sexual crimes. Yet he has written not a word on Orkopoulos, Wright or D’Arcy.

I can’t possibly imagine why his interest waned so quickly. //sarc//

Indolent
Indolent
June 18, 2023 1:26 pm

According to this, he’s rejoining Tucker.

Fired Fox ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Producer Heads for a Better Job

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 18, 2023 1:32 pm

An Aboriginal lesbian touting the Voice while decrying her late pastor father as a Christian homophobe who voted against gay ‘marriage.’

That is a sad read. It is interesting how a “postal survey” has now become a vote.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 1:42 pm

“I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.”

LOL…..that should have come with a warning. More seriously, if you need evidence that the West, like ancient Rome, is crashing and burning, this picture is it.

Ugliness, obscenity and filth are now lauded and celebrated.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 1:45 pm

Further to Porter, I never liked the man, however nobody deserves to be accused of rape when they clearly did not rape anyone. The Porter allegations were also tied to the Brittanee fabrications, it was all designed to terminate the Morrison government.

Christian Porter never raped anyone, let alone a lunatic by the name of “Kate”.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 1:48 pm

The way the MSM are treating the Van Damned stuff is ludicrous, and again designed to attack the Liberals. Van isn’t Ted Bundy or Albert DeSalvo.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 1:49 pm

Her name was Kate Thornton, she was well respected by people who knew her.
Porter sued the ABC over their reporting of the allegation, he folded quickly and paid ABCs Costs, if I remember correctly?

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 1:51 pm

Ugliness, obscenity and filth are now lauded and celebrated

here are all the finalists … I’m getting a theme

woolfe
woolfe
June 18, 2023 1:54 pm

Another rejected comment from paywallian

Covid lockdown insanity: shameful leaders should pay

REJECTED
I learned that 90% of my friends would have handed in Anne Frank.

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 1:54 pm

Van isn’t Ted Bundy or Albert DeSalvo.
It turned out later that De Salvo hadn’t murdered anyone.
The cops knew that at the time.
Van is a Mystery Man.
Yeah, the Stoker allegations aren’t a big deal, but traveling to Ukraine last year, against Official advice, to sell drones to the Zelenskyy Government, that needs to be looked into.

miltonf
miltonf
June 18, 2023 1:54 pm

It’s called marxism

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 1:56 pm

the missus was a NPP finalist in 2016

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 1:59 pm

“Her name was Kate Thornton, she was well respected by people who knew her.”

So what! “Kate’s” death was used by those so called “well respected people who knew her” for a orchestrated political hit job. Even her own family had reservations. She was mentally unwell and had been for years.

Now eff off back to Kangaroo Court.

P
P
June 18, 2023 2:04 pm

Indolent says:
June 18, 2023 at 1:26 pm

Our Broken System Needs Disruption, And Trump Is The Disruptor

A re-elected Donald Trump will be limited to one term, so he will be free to act without an eye to his political future. He has demonstrated by word and actions that he loves our country and will do what he feels is necessary to resurrect it, absorbing the ceaseless body blows that will be hurled against him. Trump, America’s “honey badger don’t care”!

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 2:07 pm

She was mentally unwell and had been for years.
Plenty here would say the same of you.
BTW, are you a Psychiatrist now?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 18, 2023 2:08 pm

ADH TV:

‘There’s collaboration in Australia between the federal government and Big Tech about taking down tweets or social media posts deemed to be misinformation.’

Journalist Rebecca Weisser joins Spectator TV.

Australia’s fraudulent politicians are in bed with Big Tech: Rebecca Weisser | Spectator TV

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 2:10 pm

Dover

It would be shit simple for the UAP to merge with PHON. Hell, the UAP could merge with the Greens or the Liars and even the Libs in equal measure. The UAP believes is the Seinfeld of politics. It’s a party about nothing.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 2:11 pm

The Aboriginal expert is telling us pre contact Aboriginal Australians typically raised families in the double digits.
Oh and if you want to dispute the High Court decision in the Yorta Yorta native title claim, have at it.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 18, 2023 2:15 pm
shatterzzz
June 18, 2023 2:21 pm

Yeah, the Stoker allegations aren’t a big deal, but traveling to Ukraine last year, against Official advice, to sell drones to the Zelenskyy Government, that needs to be looked into.

Bloody oath, it does! .. isn’t making money from the Uke ‘goodies” a capital crime in Oz yer supposed to give Zelli “freebie not make money …… shock, horror! .. orf wiv ‘is ‘ead! .. LOL!

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 2:24 pm

The UAP believes is the Seinfeld of politics. It’s a party about nothing.

They believed in freedom when it mattered.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 18, 2023 2:26 pm

Plenty here would say the same of you.
BTW, are you a Psychiatrist now?

Sort of like your flatus across this page.

How do you know that?
Are you an Aborigine expert too?
I had to school you a while back about Aborigines having very large families.
You had no idea, and actually disputed that.

Sort of like your halitosis.
Without any citations or any clue, Ed blunders on with scant regard for anything but his own self flattery.
Go away.

shatterzzz
June 18, 2023 2:26 pm

Ugliness, obscenity and filth are now lauded and celebrated

Bloody hell! .. I thought the, official, media head/shoulders shot was awfie enuf but the rest has rooly, rooly overdun it! .. I may need the smelling salts …. FFS!

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 2:27 pm

More Armstrong for Jerk Off Cretin, Dotty Dot, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and now Knuckle Dragger (probably a Neanderthal).

The Program that Locked Down the World

COMMENT: Marty that was a fantastic interview with Kim. You should have added that people in the British government who opposed the lockdowns gave you the Gates-funded program to review. You said it was a child’s game like SimCity. You are way too modest. You were a decade before everyone with AI. I was there at your 1985 WEC. I remember the delegations from all the OPEC countries and the groups in white dress. It was a memorable event.

JP

REPLY: Thanks. Yes, 1985 was memorable. I was also a lot thinner back then and I still had some hair. So many people have come to me from around the world for so many different trends and crises it’s hard to remember them all. As I have always said, I was trained by my clients. They opened my eyes to see how the world functions by everyone pursuing their own self-interest exactly as Smith’s Invisible Hand states, but on every level right into government.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/press/the-program-that-locked-down-the-world/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 2:30 pm

Jupes

Do you have any examples? The one thing I recall about Palmer was that he sounded like siding with AlGore over climate change.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 18, 2023 2:34 pm
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 18, 2023 2:34 pm

Black Ball at 10:11.
You don’t think it is slightly strange that a confession just sat in a file and no-one asked at Plod Monday meetings, “Err, what about the confession we got boss? Why no charges?”
We are talking NSW in 1971.
What odds two enthusiastic young coppers badgered a confession out of a simpleton. Following that a more senior cop has interviewed him and concluded he would admit to anything to get out and go home.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 2:36 pm

Hopefully we can try and get the [CCTV] footage for Britt’s clarity,

What?

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 2:37 pm

I wonder who legal eagle Higgins thought might have grounds to sue her for defamation?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 2:41 pm

Went to the Affordable Art Fair at Randwick today for a few hours.
Some fantastic work on display.
Also some stuff I did not care for.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 2:45 pm

Randwick Racecourse is a weird old place when there are no horses there.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 18, 2023 2:45 pm

Ed Casesays:
June 18, 2023 at 1:49 pm
Her name was Kate Thornton, she was well respected by people who knew her.

Turd Case still shilling enthusiastically for Labor.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 2:48 pm

Her name was Kate Thornton, she was well respected by people who knew her.

Only because she had stigmata.
If it wasn’t for her pending beatification, they wouldn’t have given a shit about her.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 18, 2023 2:50 pm

A last link to the sorrow and the pity.

Well worth 4 hours to watch.
From the last hr.
1200 were arrested in Clermont area after the war, 600 made it to prison…
But after a month ad a half of indiscriminate bloodletting proper judicial processes were put in place, even though for many they may as well have been shot out of hand.

I had read about the French engaging in a “great forgetting” of the immediate aftermath of the occupation.
Where thousands were disappeared or taken care of, some thoroughly deserving, others because of issues as simple as people owed them money…
Theres one gnarly old chap (resistance fighter) who was denounced who knocked back an offer by a revenge group to deal with the person who denounced him.

https://archive.org/details/the-sorrow-and-the-pity-2_202106/The+Sorrow+and+the+Pity+2.avi

Muddy
Muddy
June 18, 2023 2:50 pm

Colonel Crispin Berka says:
June 18, 2023 at 12:47 pm
Why are you supportive of socially constructed gender, Muddy?

I hadn’t considered an alternate interpretation of what I wrote. Fair point.
What I meant was that, quite separate from the whole ‘I’m a unicorn, fondle me,’ thing (by the way, ‘trans’ is a word segment (or whatever the technical term is, like a prefix; word root?), not a word itself). Now I’ve forgotten what I was writing. *Sigh*

Oh, yeah. I meant that he doesn’t deserve the complimentary version of ‘man.’ As in ‘he’s a man’s man’ or similar. Being a bloke can be, should be, a positive label. Apparently he didn’t want to be called a man anyway, either in a complimentary or insulting fashion. Aaaaanyway………………….

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 18, 2023 2:52 pm

BB

Without any citations or any clue, Ed blunders on with scant regard for anything but his own self flattery.
Go away.

Turd Case (a skinsuit full of sh1t) never, ever, provides citations. They would reduce his ability to post sh1t.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 2:53 pm

feelthebernsays:
June 18, 2023 at 2:45 pm
Randwick Racecourse is a weird old place when there are no horses there.

Soon to be shutdown to house all the new Migrants pouring into Sunny Australia. Flemington in MelBum is next and the Melbum Cup has been cancelled until the Australian Housing crisis is over –

– Sarcasm of course. The ‘Pollies’ and rich people would never allow it.

Vicki
Vicki
June 18, 2023 2:54 pm

If you were on duty at the time and the call came to action the order, what would you have done?
1. Refuse to act and resign?
2. Arrest a pregnant woman?

JC, that is a fair question in the context of the debate that has continued for some time on this blog.

I don’t know – call in sick? Actually, I believe the officers involved could have carried out their duty, while refraining from the outrageous manner in which they arrested the woman. The film taken show that little discussion or explanation was offered by the police – that’s for a start. The woman was VERY pregnant and explained that she was scheduled that day for important medical assistance regarding her pregnancy. She could have been cautioned in respect to her (fairly mild) posts on the internet. At the very least, the lady did NOT need to be handcuffed or brought to the ground in the manner that occurred.

The extreme manner in which the Victorian police behaved – on this, and on other occasions – was most certainly encouraged by their political masters. It was also, I feel, exacerbated by the very fear that was promoted by the medical fraternity and their political masters. Many of us saw this fear in the constabulary and their consequential heavy handed responses in other states (we did in rural NSW) as well.

Looking back, it was a perfect illustration of the ease with which the government of the day can use an apparent medical emergency to deny the most basic freedoms which we all thought were inviolate in western democracies.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 18, 2023 2:56 pm

rosiesays:
June 18, 2023 at 2:36 pm
Hopefully we can try and get the [CCTV] footage for Britt’s clarity,

What?

So she could make her story match the CCTV footage?

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 2:59 pm

But after a month ad a half of indiscriminate bloodletting proper judicial processes were put in place, even though for many they may as well have been shot out of hand.

All you had to do was accuse someone you didn’t like or owed money to of being a collaborator & your problem went away.

C.L.
C.L.
June 18, 2023 3:02 pm

Randwick Racecourse is a weird old place when there are no horses there.

That’s how I feel about pubs with no smokers.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 18, 2023 3:04 pm

here are all the finalists … I’m getting a theme

Miriam Margoyles was probably too busy to pose.

‘Harry Potter’ actress Miriam Margolyes, 82, poses nude for ‘British Vogue.’ Experts praise the ‘proud’ display of her ‘sexy self.’ (16 Jun)

But as an ancient angry lesbian if she’d been available she’d win.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 3:04 pm

The ridiculous movie 12 Strong would have been more factual if they showed the CIA & US special forces being duped into killing the local money lenders during the first couple of months post September 11.
The didn’t read much history before heading over to the shit hole.

shatterzzz
June 18, 2023 3:04 pm

Randwick Racecourse is a weird old place when there are no horses there.

All city racecourses are .. I bike ride past Warwick Farm, regularly, it covers a bigger area than the suburb I live in, yet with only ever a few cars dotted around the grounds …. they only have races there once every coupla months these dayz ….

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 3:05 pm

All you had to do was accuse someone you didn’t like or owed money to of being a collaborator & your problem went away.

Which gives you an idea of the sorta shitbags the French Resistance really were.
Plenty were on the lam from the Spanish Civil War, where they’d distinguished themselves by raping Nuns and crucifying Priests.

Anchor What
Anchor What
June 18, 2023 3:07 pm

are you a Psychiatrist now?
Anyone could diagnose you Head Case.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 18, 2023 3:07 pm

All you had to do was accuse someone you didn’t like or owed money to of being a collaborator & your problem went away.

Theres an old duck who was given a 15 year sentence for denouncing a resistance captain.
If you believe her version the wife of the captain wrote the letter in order for it to be “found”.
Sounds far fetched, but during her trial the captain said his wife often copied other peoples handwriting, and after the wife lied about it she admitted she did it sometimes.
Still saw the old duck found guilty.

A bad time to have been shagging someone elses significant other i think.

Or the ex-Chalegmaine division chap who noted that in east Prussia or anywhere people were fleeing the Russians fathers were offering soldiers their daughters if they would protect them rather than leave them to the raping horde headed to berlin.

Is a fascinating little documentary.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 18, 2023 3:08 pm

For those not on Twitter the current offer is US$600,000 to charity if pro Vax Dr Peter Hotez goes on Joe Rogan to debate JFK Jr.

Rogan initially offered $100,000 but then made it $500,000 and Steve Kirsch added $100,000.

This was promoted by Hotez taking a pot shot at JFK Jr.

Which reminds me I still have not listened to full interview of Rogan interviewing JFK Jr.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 18, 2023 3:12 pm

Vicki,
Good points regarding VIC police.

They probably don’t have any HR or Detectives good enough to work out why recruitment is now a major problem.

Morsie
Morsie
June 18, 2023 3:14 pm

If the Victorian Libs had any balls they would already be in the High Court seeking declarations that this Treaty rubbish is outside the powers of the state.

Indolent
Indolent
June 18, 2023 3:14 pm

It’s a doozy.

It is a doozy and I suspect highly accurate but it’s patently obvious, based simply on his first term, that’s he’s wrong about Trump.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 18, 2023 3:15 pm

Ed mong segues effortlessly from knowing less than nothing about about every topic it touches on to revealing it knows even less about the various shades of resistance during WW2.

Ed-Mong will deny there were internment camps for Spanish civil war losers in france right up to the occupation, and most interned were handed over to the boxheads for processing…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_camps_in_France

The most infamous internment camps before World War II were used to intern the Spanish Republican refugees and military personnel during the Spanish Civil War.[3] In 2 weeks in January and February 1939 around 500,000 men, women and children crossed the border.[4] These were interned mostly in camps in the Roussillon Province, such as the Camp de concentration d’Argelès-sur-Mer although internment camps for defeated Spanish Republicans were established in all of French territory, even in Brittany, in the north-west of France.

You are just a pitiful spastic mong who has advanced from fingerpainting with your own poo to using pixels to achieve the same result.

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 3:15 pm

They probably don’t have any HR or Detectives good enough to work out why recruitment is now a major problem.

Not at all.
Sure the numbers applying are down.
But those who are applying are exactly what VicPlod are looking for.

shatterzzz
June 18, 2023 3:23 pm

All you had to do was accuse someone you didn’t like or owed money to of being a collaborator & your problem went away.

I watched a French Netflix, fictional,mini series, A FRENCH VILLAGE, which followed the WW2 years over several seasons and the last few episodes of season 6 were the aftermath of victory .. they included quite a bit of tit-for-tat collaboration set-ups ..
In fact for a French production about French folk they weren’t squeamish about portraying the level of collaboration that occurred from day one ……….
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288631/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl

Now i have to find an English version of season 7 which I’ve just noticed listed on the IMDB page .. I’d thought it ended with 6 ……. duuuuuuuuh!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 18, 2023 3:25 pm

If the Victorian Libs had any balls they would already be in the High Court seeking declarations that this Treaty rubbish is outside the powers of the state.

Well said!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
June 18, 2023 3:28 pm

Gee whiz.

I’ve paused at 20 minutes and going for a walk to soak up some vitamin D. Is she telling the truth?

Who knows.

Vegas’ Dark Side – The Stories of Ex-Prostitutes

Ed Case
Ed Case
June 18, 2023 3:35 pm

In 2 weeks in January and February 1939 around 500,000 men, women and children crossed the border.

They were refugees.
The Priest & Nun Killers knew the jig was up a year before then.
They crossed the Border, and laid low until D-Day, when more opportunities for butchery appeared, calling themselves The French Resistance.
Learn some real history, DickBiscuit.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 18, 2023 3:41 pm

Was Andrew Probyn let go from the ABC for being male and white?

NICK CATER

We will probably never know if Andrew Probyn was made redundant for being male and white.

We can be certain, however, that the former ABC political editor faces an uphill task should he seek employment in any organisation that has boxes to tick.

Discrimination on the grounds of ethnicity, gender or sexuality is officially sanctioned at the ABC, as it is in every organisation that falls for the poisonous doctrine of social equity. The ABC’s Diversity & Inclusion Plan is a standing agenda item in executive and commissioning meetings, skewing personnel decisions and news judgement.

For those who nurture the quaint idea that candidates should be ranked according to their ability to do the job, the ABC’s policy makes for depressing reading. There is a 15 per cent employment target for members of the culturally and linguistically diverse community, or CALD. There are targets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees (3.6 per cent), the disabled (8 per cent) and women (50 per cent).

There are not targets for LGBTQI+ employees suggesting the ABC retains a modicum of decency when deciding which questions it is proper to ask an employee. Members of the LGBTQI+ community should have no fear that they are being excluded, however. The ABC has appointed Mon Schafter, “a proud queer person” as Content Lead of ABC Queer. He describes the broadcasting of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and World Pride as “one of the most exciting moments of my career”.

The ideology of identity is firmly entrenched in the ABC’s structures. The Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee has become a powerful force, and Diversity Equity and Inclusion is a standing item at every executive meeting. Employee network groups like ABC Belong, ABC Pride and ABC Inclusive are acknowledged in the ABC’s annual report for their role in determining the ABC’s culture.

The diversity, equity and inclusion movement is not the gentle bearer of the civil rights torch that it pretends to be. It is the purveyor of a radical ideology based on critical theory, the dangerous intellectual virus created by obscure social studies professors who have improbably become academic rock stars. They write deliberately impenetrable books full of abstract theory, devoid of common sense, that reduces every human interaction to a contest between victims and their oppressors. It reflects poorly on the due diligence exercised by the ABC’s management and board that they allowed themselves to be hoodwinked into adopting this subversive, post-modernist agenda and direct taxpayers’ money towards the fulfilment of its utopian ambitions.

What were they thinking when they decided that their charter as the national broadcaster gave licence to become an evangelist for structural social change? What evidence can they provide that their diversity equity and inclusion plan is achieving its aim of creating “a stronger, more creative public broadcaster”?

If they thought the pursuit of diversity would end once the prescribed quotas were filled they misunderstood the nature of the crusade. The progressive ideology of diversity equity and inclusion rejects the notion of progress because it anchors itself in perpetual injustice.

The ABC has already overshot the mark by employing 54.9 per cent women, but its Gendered Mentoring Program has been rolled over for another year and the organisation remains a member of Champions of Change Coalition, a global initiative for achieving gender equality. But as David Moinina Sengeh explains in his recent book, Radical Inclusion, the quest for social justice doesn’t stop when you cross the 100 metre line. You have to keep expanding and find a new problem that keeps expanding the inclusion boundaries, he says in an interview with McKinsey Global Publishing. “We must have to keep working harder and harder every day.”

Sengeh’s interview is informative not just for its insights into internal logic of identitarianism, but the platform on which it appears: a newsletter from the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, subscribed to by senior corporate executives.

What started as a cult has become the established orthodoxy in the corporate world. The result is that biological attributes like ethnicity or sex which an individual cannot influence have become defining characteristics determining the eligibility for study or employment. The things a motivated person can change, like their complement of skills, social interaction ability or propensity for hard work, are relegated to second place in the list of selection criteria.

Lurking behind the equity movement is the dangerous delusion that its goal is to achieve equality of opportunity. Its effect is the reverse, since inclusivity grants privilege to some and excludes others. Any claim to be an equal opportunity employer is rendered null and void by the official policy of favouring some categories of people and denying preference to others. Discrimination is inevitable once rights are ascribed to groups rather than individuals.

Whether the establishment of ABC Queer, for example, is inclusive or exclusive is a matter of perspective. Members of faith groups that uphold traditional family values may well find such in-your-face diversity deeply offensive. A general contempt for religion within the ABC, and Christianity in particular, has been apparent at the national broadcaster for some time. Yet it is hard to square this with the ABC’s mission to reach all Australians and to accurately reflect the nation’s rich cultural diversity.

Meanwhile the ABC audience continues to decline. The reach of its TV audience both in the city and the country was more 60 per cent a decade ago. Now it’s in the low 40s. It is fair to predict those numbers will continue to fall as the ABC tries to remake itself as a narrowly focused social media content provider and forgets it is supposed to be a broadcaster.

It might build a better rapport with the Australian public if it paid more than lip service to item 4.2 in the ABC’s Code of Practice Present, which requires the ABC to include “a diversity of perspectives so that, over time, no significant strand of thought or belief within the community is knowingly excluded or disproportionately represented.” That after all is the only diversity and inclusion target that matters.

Nick Cater is senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre.

Oz

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 18, 2023 3:47 pm

Was thinking of paying Main Event for the fight. Glad I didn’t.

First round knockout to Tim.

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 18, 2023 4:01 pm

He describes the broadcasting of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and World Pride as “one of the most exciting moments of my career”.

What a glittering career he must have had. These folks are entirely absorbed with events that reflect their complete self-interest.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:05 pm

I think he means lowlight.

Razey
Razey
June 18, 2023 4:06 pm

Been watching a few vids on the Nazis and what happened to the Jews this arvo.

It is unreal how closely the vaxtards resemble the Nazis. There must be a reckoning. The stench of the vaxtard treatment of the unvax’d is still there. Justice must be served.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 4:11 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 18, 2023 at 3:25 pm
If the Victorian Libs had any balls they would already be in the High Court seeking declarations that this Treaty rubbish is outside the powers of the state.

Of course it is. And so is closing the State Border which can only be done in times of EXTREME EMERGENCY such as WAR. NOT for a Virus so called crisis. But they did it anyway. When did the LAW ever stop the corrupt ‘Pollies’ from doing anything they wanted? It was the people of the State that ALLOWED it as they just rolled over. Serves them right.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 18, 2023 4:15 pm

Ed Mong thinks the French authorities didn’t take an intense interest in who was crossing the border during the Spanish civil war.

Eb Mong again confirms it knows less than nothing.

Gilas
Gilas
June 18, 2023 4:17 pm

Nomad Capitalist has a couple of clips on your you-beaut Ozzie ATO determining that Australia now has Citizenship-based-taxation, ie. citizens have Australian taxes levied regardless of where they live.. xpt if they have informed the ATO that they have renounced Oz residency AND have fully adopted foreign residency, with all that that rigmarole entails.
The only other country that does that is the US.
The ruling came out on 7th June, fresh out of our beloved Commissioner.

RickW, Carpe, JC and ?others maybe should check their paperwork.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 4:23 pm

Which gives you an idea of the sorta shitbags the French Resistance really were.
Plenty were on the lam from the Spanish Civil War, where they’d distinguished themselves by raping Nuns and crucifying Priests.

They also killed many many Nazis and assisted the Allies right up to D Day and afterwards. Were you there BTW or are you just rabbiting on as per usual?

T.W.A.T. Head Case and a Suitable Case for lots of Treatment………………..Not that the Treatment will ever work. Your Head cannot be fixed. Just to be removed from your body and put on Traitor’s Gate (spike) at the Tower of London or similar wherever you happen to reside. With a bag over your ugly mug as well.

Razey
Razey
June 18, 2023 4:27 pm

If I don’t want to get raped, does that make me anti-sex?

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 4:27 pm

Do you have any examples?

He took WA to court to open the borders. Lost of course. He also strongly opposed vaccine mandates.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:28 pm

It is true that some thousands of Republican partisans joined the French Resistance.
This shouldn’t be surprising as initially the French Resistance was mostly communists.
It was only as the Nazis bit the French economy very hard including removing most able bodied males to work in Germany the French resistance became more attractive to French people.
The whole pre war French government was a little more lenient (not much) but once France was invaded by Germany things changed and some Republican leaders were hunted down then repatriated by the Vichy/Nazis to Spain and executed eg Companys.
Others were sent to Matthausen.

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 4:33 pm

Oh dear. I don’t think the Ukes are going too well with their great offensive. Perhaps Australia should send some more Bushmasters.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 4:37 pm

shatterzzzsays:
June 18, 2023 at 11:39 am
One day, about 5 years ago, my oldest sister an dI decided to take a driving tour of the old rentals ……

I passed the bed-sit (30 of ‘em) 3 storey house I lived in from 1967 thru 1971 in Neutral Bay, back-garden runs down to the Harbour, a coupla years back .. outside preserved at it was back then but the interior now converted into 4 $million+ flats ..
I used to pay $10.50 a week rent, share bathroom but own cooking, including power & weekly bedding change .. LOL!

That was another time in another World and country. That Australia has long gone never to be returned.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:38 pm

The Republican retreat was from Barcelona as it fell to Franco in 1939.
They were indeed wholesale murderers of Catholic religious and lay people.
During the ‘retreat’ the Catholic Archbishop, a long term prisoner was shot in the back.
I don’t have any sympathy for Republicans.
On the other hand I suspect there were many more French collabators than resisters.
What sort of person writes anonymous letters denouncing their neighbours as Jews?

Makka
Makka
June 18, 2023 4:39 pm

ie. citizens have Australian taxes levied regardless of where they live

Gillard brought that in, IIRC.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 4:39 pm

jupessays:
June 18, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Oh dear. I don’t think the Ukes are going too well with their great offensive. Perhaps Australia should send some more Bushmasters.

Unlike boomerangs, those Bushmasters won’t be coming back.

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:43 pm

Another group encouraged by circumstances to join the French Resistance earlier than locals were Jews from Poland etc who had fled to France to escape the Nazis.
If you ever go to a Resistance museum in France you will see the posters denouncing Resistance members and encouraging the French to expose their hiding places.
Photos of wanted men captioned
‘Polish Jew’ ‘Communist’ etc
article here

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 4:44 pm

Makkasays:
June 18, 2023 at 4:39 pm
ie. citizens have Australian taxes levied regardless of where they live

Gillard brought that in, IIRC.

An Australian citizen is taxed on worldwide income and capital gains. However, Double Taxation arrangements do apply with a lot of countries

Talk to your friendly (lol) Taxation Adviser and Tax Agent – If they really know this shite that is.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 4:45 pm

Further to Porter, I never liked the man, however nobody deserves to be accused of rape when they clearly did not rape anyone. The Porter allegations were also tied to the Brittanee fabrications, it was all designed to terminate the Morrison government.

Let’s see the chat logs of proven perjurers and see if any correlations occur – or curious relationships to other matters, such as Porter or BRS.

Let’s see the chat logs. We all know everything we say or do is stored at the Orwellian UDC.

To the Higgins leaker at the Deakin Telephony Switchboard:

o7 o7 o7 o7 o7

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:50 pm

I don’t think the ATO commissioner has the power to rule that all Australian citizens regardless of domicile are subject to exactly the same taxation rules as Australian residents.
Any chance of linking to the actual 7 June ruling?

rosie
rosie
June 18, 2023 4:52 pm
Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 4:53 pm

I don’t think the ATO commissioner has the power to rule that all Australian citizens regardless of domicile are subject to exactly the same taxation rules as Australian residents.

The IRS will not tolerate this.

calli
calli
June 18, 2023 4:59 pm

Just checking in…off to Shrewsbury today via the Cotswolds and Ludlow.

Tough gig but someone has to do it.

On the Arctic Circle, there was a fair bit of bare rock in parts, but quite extensive snow cover as far as the eye could see. It’s summer, nothing that I didn’t expect. A marvellous, rugged landscape, hostile to humans and most wildlife. I understand why the early explorers were drawn to it – a test of endurance and old notions of manliness.

Our route took us up through the Baring Strait, along the IDL just inside US airspace, then around the top and down through the North Sea. The re-jig added two hours to the trip. Thanks warring numpties, much appreciated.

And so on to Stow on the Wold and cute thatched cottages before having a look at the Marcher town of Ludlow. No market today as it’s Sunday, but a good opportunity to get used to the vagaries of UK driving. And the joy of finding a place to park. 🙂

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 5:00 pm

dover0beachsays:
June 18, 2023 at 4:44 pm
Jupes, I mentioned how badly it was going upthread. If the Allies were still ‘on the beaches’ D+12 it would recognized as a catastrophe. It’s now D+12 and they haven’t even advanced past the screening areas of the Russians and heavy casualties are being inflicted daily, today’s the worst of the war so far which is saying something post-Bahkmut. And our media and political elite are silent.

Of course they are all silent. There is NO UKR Counter Offensive. It is just small pin pricks in the Russian defensive line that has been allowed to be built up over many, many, many months.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 5:00 pm

I don’t like Clive Palmer, in fact I remember his various stunts and theatrics during the period from 2013 to 2015, when Tony Abbott was PM, only calming after Turdbull became PM. Those stunts and theatrics were designed to embarrass Abbott and his government, and they worked beautifully. I believe Palmer directly contributed to the media denigration of the Abbott government. He was a media darling, fawned over even by the leftist media such as their ABC and Fairfax…he was even a guest of honour on the ABC table at the midwinter ball in Canberra. Why? All because he was hostile to Abbott. All of this he’d done to QLD Newman LNP government. Mind you, Abbott could have and should have made some effort to confront and cauterise Palmer, but didn’t. I also remember Palmer being very vocally opposed to the Abbott’s government intention to amend or get rid of Section 18C….so much for Palmer believing in free speech, because I happen to think that we the only way we have freedom is if we have free speech.

Palmer gifted us that coarse, vulgar bush pig from Tasmania, and as far as I’m concerned, that’s unforgiveable. That bush pig is like a stain on a garment that no matter how much laundry spray or treatment you use, it won’t go away. She’ll be there until she’s ninety.

As for his stances since Covid, Palmer has been largely correct. He certainly was when he wanted to take the WA government to the HC, and of course our cretinous Liberal government at the time under Scumbag pulled out. There’s no way in the world I would join a Palmer party however, and I hate to say this, I didn’t mind his UAP party and I don’t mind the fact that he pours millions into election campaigns. He’s like a child when it comes to politics…he just throws money with gay abandon, there’s no calculation. But, but, for all his faults, I find Clive Palmer a hundred times less sinister and less dangerous than creepy Svengali Simon Holmes a Court. If Clive was to adopt more calculated tactics rather than beclowning himself, rather than running someone in every seat, instead choosing and targeting six to eight marginal Labor seats, I reckon he could do to Labor what Svengali Simon did to the Liberals last May. But, as I’ve said above, Clive’s a clown whereas creepy Svengali Simon is much more calculating and therefore achieves so much more.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:02 pm

I’d say Flamers are part of the problem.

Ah, good ol’ Eddles. For when you’re looking for some informed commentary and find irredeemable idiocy instead (again).

calli
calli
June 18, 2023 5:03 pm

On the photographic prize, the photos are great, the subject matter (mostly) hideous. Why do I have to see naked blue painted weirdos with bouffant hairstyles and dangly bits? Or horrible saggy boobs and angry, dissatisfied faces?

We are at a stage in our culture where we celebrate ugliness and deride beauty. This is the West. Plenty of loveliness to see in Japan, where beauty is expressed publicly in all its forms. Not perfect, but it lifts the spirits.

Makka
Makka
June 18, 2023 5:08 pm

It is just small pin pricks in the Russian defensive line that has been allowed to be built up over many, many, many months.

If Ukr doesn’t show something is getting done, the Billions in scam dollars might dry up.

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 5:10 pm

The big freeze is here in Sydney. Temperatures have dropped……bloody cold.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 18, 2023 5:13 pm

The Aboriginal expert is telling us pre contact Aboriginal Australians typically raised families in the double digits.

In spite of the great expertise of Ed Case on this matter, that just didn’t ever happen under a hunter-gathering economy. Being on the move constantly limited the number of children at any time to a maximum of two dependent children per woman, and infanticide was widely practiced. The family groups discovered early on in the contact period were not groups with large numbers of children. Children held up the movement of these small ‘hordes’ as they are properly termed, and the food situation prohibited a larger constantly growing population. Population was thus controlled at birth.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 18, 2023 5:14 pm

The Spanish civil war was awful in every aspect.
A lot of the political turmoil and indecision among the democracies stemmed from the fallout of either seeming to support the godless commie losers or the boxhead barbarian winners.

The commies used it as a way to agitate in democracies right up until they were invaded themselves.

Muddy
Muddy
June 18, 2023 5:16 pm

Justice must be served.

Justice* will only be served when it is demanded.
When the consequences for not delivering are laid out loudly.
Fear is required for (theoretical) consequences to be effective.
The elites don’t fear us.
We fear them.
Why else would we not only tolerate them, but vote for them?

* I have no idea what the definition of justice is now.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:18 pm

Why do I have to see naked blue painted weirdos with bouffant hairstyles and dangly bits? Or horrible saggy boobs and angry, dissatisfied faces?

Why indeed, toots?

Collectivists celebrate ugleeness, as it exemplifies their staggeringly stupid destructive beliefs.

Why you would exist on this planet and not celebrate beauty in all its forms is beyond me.

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 5:20 pm

There is NO UKR Counter Offensive. It is just small pin pricks in the Russian defensive line that has been allowed to be built up over many, many, many months.

No, this is the much vaunted counter offensive. It’s just that the Russians are whaling them from go to whoa. The ‘super weapons’ and the Western trained, but rookie troops just aren’t up to it. Not enough Bushmasters, obviously.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 18, 2023 5:20 pm

Stow on the Wold. Makes me nostalgic, Calli.
As we head into winter here with the Solstice coming up.

Brrrrr. Still, good for hunkering down at home and getting cosy. Hairy has a cold. I’m giving TLC.
We are not driving down to see my Big Sis now at Bateman’s Bay until Saturday.

Gilas
Gilas
June 18, 2023 5:21 pm

Makka says:
June 18, 2023 at 4:39 pm

ie. citizens have Australian taxes levied regardless of where they live

Gillard brought that in, IIRC.

Good old socialists eh? Always looking after Ozzies.

In my relevant reading of TR 2023/1 (which is the ruling in question) Australian domicile is deemed to exist if ANY of the taxpayer’s assets are on Australian soil.
Also, if the taxpayer does not have established foreign residency/citizenship, they’ll be liable to the ATO’s reach.
What will actually happen is anyone’s guess, but the previously applicable 4 residency tests have been significantly tightened.
No more dual residency arrangements, paying only taxes in low-taxed countries if spending 183+ days per-annum there.
The paperwork requirements will be eye-watering.
As Gillard was, so is Albo.

Makka
Makka
June 18, 2023 5:24 pm

No, this is the much vaunted counter offensive.

Day 12 and the Ukes are still in the Russian screening lines, still well ahead of the their entrenched defensive structures. Ugly and bloody.

calli
calli
June 18, 2023 5:26 pm

Chuckle. The Beloved loaded Europe into the Tom Tom and forgot UK. He entered Stow on the Wold and it looked at him questioningly.

There will be a short delay as the interwebs do their thing…

🙂

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 18, 2023 5:28 pm

Why do I have to see naked blue painted weirdos with bouffant hairstyles and dangly bits?

Saw that one. 😀
I like the word “bouffant” used accurately and in anger!

feelthebern
feelthebern
June 18, 2023 5:30 pm

Question.
Is the Green Knight in the top ten worst movies made?

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:30 pm

Beauty

Beauty

🙂

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 5:33 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
June 18, 2023 at 5:20 pm
Stow on the Wold. Makes me nostalgic, Calli.
As we head into winter here with the Solstice coming up.

I always as a young lad in Pomgolia going to a village called Upper Upnor. Next door was a village called Lower Upnor. There was no Middle Upnor though……………………………LOL

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 5:34 pm

Why do I have to see naked blue painted weirdos with bouffant hairstyles and dangly bits?

family friendly

Muddy
Muddy
June 18, 2023 5:38 pm

Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.
That is all.

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 5:38 pm

Makkasays:
June 18, 2023 at 5:08 pm
It is just small pin pricks in the Russian defensive line that has been allowed to be built up over many, many, many months.

If Ukr doesn’t show something is getting done, the Billions in scam dollars might dry up.

Which is why the UKR Clown Z head already has his one way ticket to Florida and his luxury Pad with the Squillions in the Cayman Islands ready and waiting for him.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:39 pm

And to make the self appointed arbiters of taste on this blogue even more annoyed, I’m about to buy a BMW M3 Z4. 🙂

Life is too short, Cats. After all the financially frugal discipline I’ve subjected myself to over the last three years, it is time to lash out.

For tomorrow we may be no more.

Frank
Frank
June 18, 2023 5:39 pm

Perhaps Australia should send some more Bushmasters.

Albo: Hammer of Donbass, ripe for a reappearance.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:42 pm

The big freeze is here in Sydney.

14 degrees, Cass.

Get back to me after you’ve trudged from Redfern to Sleazey Hills at 7:45am while it’s 5 degrees. 🙁

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 5:43 pm

Razeysays:
June 18, 2023 at 12:40 pm
The only way for a full political clean out is economic collapse.

Yes and I like CRASH and BURN. Lets start again with a new Great Reset. But NOT the one that the World Economic Forum wants. Off with their heads for a start. Then…………………..

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 5:48 pm

Rabzsays:
June 18, 2023 at 5:42 pm
The big freeze is here in Sydney.

14 degrees, Cass.

Get back to me after you’ve trudged from Redfern to Sleazey Hills at 7:45am while it’s 5 degrees.

I walked from Redfern to the CBD at 4,45 am this morning and it wasn’t too bad. I was rugged up and the walking warmed me up. I remember 6 foot snow drifts in Pomgolia as a young lad in 1963 and we still managed to get to School. Sydney isn’t cold at all.

Crossie
Crossie
June 18, 2023 5:50 pm

One day, about 5 years ago, my oldest sister an dI decided to take a driving tour of the old rentals ……

My sisters and I did it a couple of years ago, driving from Coogee to La Perouse and on to Tempe and Erskineville, the old places we lived in as young kids and teenagers. There were a few tears shed along the way with each stop having a different meaning for each of us. I highly recommend driving down memory lane.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 5:52 pm

Just do it rabz. People’s taste here can be rather ridiculous. Remember when “Mark L of Canbra” tried to say the Leyland P-76 was a fantastic car, only hated by pettifogging small-minded invididuools…

I’ve taken quite a liking to the MX-5 (what jealous tut-tutting 1995 Holden Rodeo drivers call a “Miata”).

Diogenes
Diogenes
June 18, 2023 5:52 pm

The diversity, equity and inclusion movement is not the gentle bearer of the civil rights torch that it pretends to be. It

DiL reports that a friend who is a DEI advisor say that “Even if a place has 100% identical ethnicity, sex, and sexual orientation among it its employees, it is still diverse as long as the ethnicity is not White , or white adjacent (she means Asians , both Chinese & Indians), the sex is not cis-male, and the orientation is not hetero”

Makes the James Lindsay comment – “They share our vocabulary, but not our dictionary” ring very very true.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 5:55 pm

Sydney isn’t cold at all.

It is when you assume it isn’t.

“Rugged up”. Typical bloody Northerners … 😕

Cassie of Sydney
June 18, 2023 5:56 pm

“I’m about to buy a BMW M3 Z4. ?”

You deserve it Rabz. I look forward to having a test drive…?!

Crossie
Crossie
June 18, 2023 5:56 pm

C.L. says:
June 18, 2023 at 11:53 am
Ladies and gentlemen…

I give you the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

The tagline should be: I’m ready for my mammogram now Mr De Mille.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 5:59 pm

And to make the self appointed arbiters of taste on this blogue even more annoyed, I’m about to buy a BMW M3 Z4. ?

I’m not sure what I would buy instead but something else probably. After riding bikes you can really can just make do with a Corolla- when you need to keep the rain off. Try an Alpine just to weird people out.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 6:01 pm

Try an Alpina just to weird people out.

Already done it, Bear. Three years and the bloody thing nearly bankrupted me.

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 6:04 pm

Beauty

You wouldn’t wear them with the tassles would Rabz? Surely not!

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 18, 2023 6:05 pm

Fair enough. Our Balance of Payments doesn’t need the hit.

Crossie
Crossie
June 18, 2023 6:05 pm

C.L. says:
June 18, 2023 at 12:58 pm
The ABC strikes solid gold:

An Aboriginal lesbian touting the Voice while decrying her late pastor father as a Christian homophobe who voted against gay ‘marriage.’

She is telling us that he died a righteous man. Good to know.

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 6:06 pm

And to make the self appointed arbiters of taste on this blogue even more annoyed, I’m about to buy a BMW M3 Z4. ?

Superb. Once you buy it, your first drive should be with (tassled) Adidas boxing boots and the Strat in the passenger seat!

cohenite
June 18, 2023 6:07 pm

And to make the self appointed arbiters of taste on this blogue even more annoyed, I’m about to buy a BMW M3 Z4. ?

Not bad. I’m saving up for one of these.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 6:10 pm

You wouldn’t wear them with the tassles would you Rabz? Surely not!

jupes – they’re the Cassius Clay originals – mine don’t have the tassles (unfortunately) 😕

Rabz
June 18, 2023 6:15 pm

From 1978 – Andy Partridge is one of my favourite rock ‘n’ roll heroes of all time.

they can film you in bed
or when you take a bath
… “

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 18, 2023 6:15 pm

Managed to get my comment across the line in the Oz’s story: Was Andrew Probyn let go from the ABC for being male and white?

Their quest for “diversity” etc is actually very silly. For if you follow their “logic” then there should be a quota for Greek-Australians, or short people, or very tall people, or those with red hair.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 18, 2023 6:17 pm

Dotsays:
June 18, 2023 at 5:52 pm
Just do it rabz. People’s taste here can be rather ridiculous. Remember when “Mark L of Canbra” tried to say the Leyland P-76 was a fantastic car, only hated by pettifogging small-minded invididuools…

I’ve taken quite a liking to the MX-5 (what jealous tut-tutting 1995 Holden Rodeo drivers call a “Miata”).

Buy it. Then you’ll be able to join the ‘Woomba Miata Helldrivers, and catch up with Numbers.

Razey
Razey
June 18, 2023 6:18 pm

In my relevant reading of TR 2023/1 (which is the ruling in question) Australian domicile is deemed to exist if ANY of the taxpayer’s assets are on Australian soil.

Basically, if you go for the big bucks OS, dont ever come back.

Whether an individual is resident in Australia now depends upon the nature, duration and quality of the person’s physical presence in Australia, and whether there is an intention to treat Australia as home. The Commissioner notes that the following factors inform the relevant ‘association’ with Australia:

period of physical presence in Australia
intention or purpose of presence
behaviour while in Australia
family, and business or employment ties
maintenance and location of assets
social and living arrangements

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a3b0d8f7-3ea6-4688-aa69-784c1bfaea3f

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 6:22 pm

Eb Mong again confirms it knows less than nothing.

That’s OK as MontyPox Virus likes Net Zero which is nothing and happens to be his/hers/its/whatever IQ.

jupes
jupes
June 18, 2023 6:23 pm

Not bad. I’m saving up for one of these.

Wow. That one has less than 80,000 on the clock. Iowahawk reckons the E Type Jag is one of the two most beautiful cars ever made. The other was a Ferrari (can’t remember which one but probably from the ’70s).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
June 18, 2023 6:24 pm

Beauty

Beauty

You need some white leather flares, with dangly bits, Rabz. And tassels!
In the early seventies I had a pair of purple flares. It was a different age.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 6:26 pm

Once you buy it, your first drive should be with the adidas boxing boots and the Strat in the passenger seat!

jupes – the first drive will be through the Royal National park down to the Imperial at Clifton. 🙂

Bar Beach Swimmer
June 18, 2023 6:26 pm

or those with red hair.

Left handers.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
June 18, 2023 6:27 pm

The aura of NATO will take a hammering from this stillborn offensive. Ukraine received NATO training, armaments, planning, intelligence and surveillance and they haven’t even reached the major line of defence. This first real encounter with the mainline Russian army in force was a totally different kettle of fish to previous entanglements.

I’m interested to see how long all these F16s will last (as well as Australia’s recently retired F18s, they’re on the cards now too…)

It’s going to be a great moment for Russian morale when Putin holds a public ceremony celebrating their first Ace pilot in a modern war.
A war against NATO no less.

Anchor What
Anchor What
June 18, 2023 6:28 pm

Tim Tszyu is certainly a chip off the old block.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 6:29 pm

Buy it. Then you’ll be able to join the ‘Woomba Miata Helldrivers, and catch up with Numbers.

That idiot didn’t ruin being Australian, male, white or speaking English for me. He won’t ruin aesthetic and high-performance cars.

If he believed in his own spiel, he would be driving an EV all through the hilliest country he could find. “So powerful!”, he said.

Dot
Dot
June 18, 2023 6:30 pm

Damn this blockquoting. I may as well get an iPad.

Rabz
June 18, 2023 6:31 pm

The other was a Ferrari

This one. The F40 Spider.

Bellissima! 🙂

Bar Beach Swimmer
June 18, 2023 6:31 pm

I’m just watching the Outsiders. They’re talking about the voice and had footage of some traditional owners who’d signed the Statement from the Heart. Very disappointed, they were. One of them called the place Ayres Rock, not Uluru.

cohenite
June 18, 2023 6:31 pm

De Santis drops an add about sex pervert biden’s our kids speech:

https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1669419865600344079

Johnny Rotten
June 18, 2023 6:31 pm

Rabzsays:
June 18, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Once you buy it, your first drive should be with the adidas boxing boots and the Strat in the passenger seat!

I like that adidas word/brand. I always thought that it meant – All Day I Dream About Spurs. But then someone else told me it stood for – All Day I Dream About Sex………………lol

Anchor What
Anchor What
June 18, 2023 6:35 pm

“I don’t mind the fact that he pours millions into election campaigns. ”
He’s like the drunken sailor who spends “like someone with four arms”.

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  1. We need to encourage further outrages of this nature. Every event sends herds of voters into the LNP stockyard.

  2. I must say the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse look like a pack of dickheads. In more good news Alan…

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