Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023


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


Subscribe
Notify of
guest

1.8K Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

It wouldn’t be some good ‘ole boy not torquing things up proper fer a bit ‘o repeat bizniss now would it?
I think I saw the leaking Beemer thing on an episode of Dukes of Hazzard once.

Is this more of Sancho segueing into a reframing, or just Sancho being juvenile?

So difficult to pick the difference.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:11 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
June 18, 2023 at 11:07 pm

Here’s a tip you piece of stinking shit: You don’t like being called a dago – then stop acting like one.

In fact do more of it as it says more about you and your background than it does me, you filthy piece of shit.
Laughable too, that a envy ridden roach living on some island shit heap tries to run down someone buying a car. Dad taught you that too, did he, seeing he never made it past two stripes.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
June 18, 2023 11:11 pm

rosie says:
June 18, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Pensioners in Canberra should spend their days in the public areas of parliament house.
A quiet protest.

A little while ago a news item explored all the public buildings that ACT pensioners were going to in order to get warm without paying for it.
Not so much a protest as real financial hardship requiring workable solutions.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Oh dearie me, JC is starting to lose his rag (that’s the dago coming out – never takes long)

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:12 pm

Oh look, Captain Kebab is now talking about “reframing”. So 2015.

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 11:13 pm

just watched a show called Greenland where a bunch of asteroids destroy the planet

Gerard Butler and a hottie spend 9 months under ground

and finally emerge to whole new world

devastation is everywhere

and the hardships have only begun

but Dan Andrews is no longer in power

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:14 pm

Oh dearie me, JC is starting to lose his rag (that’s the dago coming out – never takes long)

Reminding us

Polite & civil, as usual.
Nice family you got raised in, manners, class, all those things.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What’s next? 1) I work in a motel. 2) I’m bankrupt. 3) I’m a truckstop 4) [insert stupid & ill informed comment here]

Just insulted everybody in the US South as being dumb & incapable – a comment that could be made only by one who has never been there.

Get Jeeves to drive you down there for a run, wind the window down & tell the yokels they’re stoopid hicks.
Then order Jeeves to drive back north, to where folks is decent & got manners ‘n’ stuff.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:16 pm

Look at Captain Kebab “reframing”.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

While you’re down there, tell the hicks that they got no honour – if there’s one thing the south is known for it’s having no honour – right?

Then tell them you welched on a bet – while telling them they’re too dumb to work on your car – heck they prolly say “wrench” when they mean “spanner” & all sorts of other stoopid things.

We all know German car makers hire dumbass goofballs to staff their service centres – Yep, yessiree, you’re one smart Manhattan type guy – so superior to them southern hicks.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

If the rednecks get stroppy – just point out to them that they can’t hit you, coz they’re paid less than you, & they’re stoopider.

A double whammy for them – they won’t know what to do, but at least you’ll be safe.

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:24 pm

Look at Capt. Kebab continuing to reframe, obviously experiencing a strong emotional reaction.

MatrixTransform
June 18, 2023 11:25 pm

ffs

the missus is listening to some old crap on her phone about wymynsys

people with a kiwi accent should never be allowed a monologue

JC
JC
June 18, 2023 11:28 pm

Just, just wow.

Yes man’s plan for punishment

Pro-voice unionist Thomas Mayo described former prime minister John Howard as a ‘bastard’ and threatened that politicians will be ‘punished’ if they ignore the voice advisory body.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 18, 2023 11:29 pm

Pro-voice unionist Thomas Mayo described former prime minister John Howard as a ‘bastard’ and threatened that politicians will be ‘punished’ if they ignore the voice advisory body.

Oops.
That cat is going to be difficult to get back in the bag.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 18, 2023 11:41 pm

politicians will be ‘punished’ if they ignore the voice advisory body.

But those politicians were democratically elected, right? If the people are with them, who is doing the punishing?

Bruce in WA
June 18, 2023 11:44 pm

“OK. How about ‘Pinchara’ as a name for our new compact 4WD?”
“Uh-uh. No. It means ‘small penis’ in an ancient Mayan dialect.”

Mitsubishi Pajero.

Pajero just sounds euphonious to us. But the laughter coming from South America is because it also means “wanker” there.

Gabor
Gabor
June 18, 2023 11:57 pm

MatrixTransform

Did you mention a “solid state” battery being developed by someone?
I didn’t get the link, but today I saw an article that both VW and Tesla are working on a ‘dry’ battery, is that the same or something different?

Probably out by 2027 if all goes well.

Solid state to me implies a different matter, I’m not in electronics, wouldn’t know but always thought solid state is sort of a silicon or germanium based component.
Amazing how the voltages for EVs are increasing from the early years, now they are talking about 600 Volts.

MatrixTransform
June 19, 2023 12:27 am

we’ve had solid state batteries for a long time
more than 100 years

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
June 19, 2023 12:32 am

Crossie at 9:10pm

Calli, Federation Square in Melbourne is ground zero for Australian ugliness.

Looka like a giant took a dump in the Square –all those beautiful buildings and then that hideous eysore

Gabor
Gabor
June 19, 2023 12:33 am

MatrixTransform says:
June 19, 2023 at 12:27 am

we’ve had solid state batteries for a long time
more than 100 years

Should’ve looked it up, it’s what Tesla and VW is trying to do,

“A solid-state battery deploys solid-state technology using solid electrodes and a solid electrolyte, instead of the liquid or polymer gel electrolytes “

JC
JC
June 19, 2023 12:34 am

Gabor

Link to MIT tech review. There’s nothing better in terms of keeping up and you can ignore silly comments posted here.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/04/1066141/whats-next-for-batteries/amp/

MatrixTransform
June 19, 2023 12:38 am

try not to sail off the edge of the map JC

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 19, 2023 12:54 am

The Oz article about pro Voice activist Mayo is a cracker destined to cause many more no votes.

He is MUA union and co wrote a book on the Voice with Kerry O Brian.

Their own side with people like Pearson and Langton are doing far more damage than Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price.

Why would anybody let them have any power over parliament?

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
June 19, 2023 12:58 am

I see Dover has been following the Rogan / JFK Jr / Hotez debate saga.

Am thinking Hotez had a bad day, especially if he has seen the devastating clip compilation of his ever changing vaccine comments. Just brilliant work by whoever put it together.

Gabor
Gabor
June 19, 2023 1:13 am

Interesting read, thanks.

calli
calli
June 19, 2023 1:18 am

Today’s Adventures in Tourism…

Got as far as Stow on the Wold and the GPS died. Kaput. Fortunately the battery life lasted long enough for me to transcribe the highway numbers to our final destination before it gave up the ghost. Get Apple Maps I hear you say. Well…that’s definitely going to happen now. The culprit is a faulty USB converter, which will be replaced tomorrow. Thank you AVIS.

So, the upshot was that we didn’t get to Ludlow, but instead took many back roads* to the M40 around Birmingham and wended out way across to Shrewsbury. Basically blind apart from a list of road numbers, no maps at all. A nutritious G&T and a couple of beers has settled frazzled nerves. Our hotel hosts couldn’t believe we could do the trip the way we did.

And there I was yesterday admiring those intrepid Arctic explorers!

* including The Fosse Way, which was an ancient Roman route across from Bath to the north east. So not a total loss.

JC
JC
June 19, 2023 2:12 am

Dover

I was sitting besides an interesting dude on the LA NY leg of the flight. I was traipsing through Catallaxy, and he read some of the postings, concluding I was a Trump supporter as there were pro-Trump posts where and when I was leafing through. That made him very happy, as he said he loved Trump.

Anyway, like most Americans, he told me his life story in 38 seconds. He has homes in San Fran, NYC and Miami and said he worked in private equity as a private investor.
He reckons there are almost no Trump supporters in SF, but surprisingly lots in NY. He’s Jewish and said there are a decent number of his NY friends, also Jewish, who are big Trump supporters.

SF, he said, was going to shit and will take ages to recover, if at all. He’s not pessimistic about NYC. We spoke about Florida, and he said he just wasn’t sure about DeSantis as he has a gay son and believes DeSantis is anti-gay, whereas Trump couldn’t give a toss.

You asked earlier about the feels here and that’s one random feels I picked up.

calli
calli
June 19, 2023 3:17 am

And just to top off one of those holiday “days of the unexpected”, it’s Father’s Day here in the UK and all the restaurants are booked out.

Tongues lolling out, like the Man From Ironbark we wandered up and down until we found a pub…no tables for a couple of hours. No worries. Done. Booked. And now it’s raining. 🙂

Here’s some music that encapsulates our day. Composed on something found abandoned in an alleyway.

JC
JC
June 19, 2023 3:39 am

Don’t believe Sports Illustrated. We were having lunch yesterday and Martha was at the other end of the restaurant. Trust me, she looks all of 80 years old and no amount of photoshopping those Sports Illustrated pics will change the fact that she’s octogenarian

Yuck..

Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:04 am

Johannes Leak. More here:

Anthony Albanese’s local Sydney pharmacist and ALP member Adele Tahan has warned that the government’s 60-day dispensing policy will hit pharmacies and­ ­patients “like a wrecking ball”, as new industry modelling warns of mass closures and 20,000 jobs lost.

Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:10 am

Andy Davey. More here.

Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
June 19, 2023 4:17 am
Black Ball
Black Ball
June 19, 2023 4:38 am

Just what is required. Another scold to tell you what to do. Jackie Epstein in the Hun:

Music icon and humanitarian Sir Bob Geldof is hitting the airwaves and joining newcomer Disrupt Radio.

Geldof will be in Melbourne to kick off the station’s first week from June 26.

He will take the helm with Libbi Gorr, co-hosting Disrupt Radio’s Enterprise Breakfast Show.

Disrupt Radio’s founder and CEO Benjamin Roberts said: “We could not be more excited to have Sir Bob Geldof – a global disrupter, maverick thought leader and social entrepreneur – spearhead our launch for a week of live Breakfast radio. His passion, influence and relentless desire to push boundaries perfectly represents our ethos.

“Sir Bob and his team have been staunch allies of Disrupt Radio from the very start. Their commitment has been nothing short of extraordinary and we eagerly anticipate the moment audiences get to tune in to a Breakfast show that promises to stir conversations across Australia, captivate listeners and provoke thought.”

Other hosts featuring on Disrupt Radio include Jules Lund, Adam Ferrier, Moana Hope, Nazeem Hussain, George McEncroe and Nick Bracks.

Geldof is also in town for an intimate one-off event at Crown Towers’ newest event space, Horizon, in aid of The Salvation Army on June 30.

Hamish McLachlan will host the evening which will include an audience Q&A and will be limited to 100 tickets.

Geldof said: “I am delighted to be returning to Australia after a long time. Covid certainly disrupted a lot of my plans including playing here again with my band.

“It is a great pleasure to be back at Crown, it is almost like coming home. I am fully behind their support for the Salvation Army and, in my younger years, did lot of work in Ireland with the Simon Community who fulfil a similar role, primarily with the homeless and downtrodden.”

You’d maybe think they could host such an event at the Dandenong RSL or similar. You know, hear some real concerns. Crown Towers just doesn’t cut it. Wonder how much one would pay for the Q&A session.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 19, 2023 4:46 am

Well I asked the question. It’s answered here. Nice bit of coin which old mate from St Albans probably can’t afford. Maybe well heeled Q Grade celebrities from FM Radio could. Looks another Leftie love in.

Johnny Rotten
June 19, 2023 4:56 am

Thanks once again Tom.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 19, 2023 6:04 am

Cassie of Sydney says:
June 18, 2023 at 5:10 pm

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

Was at Bronte Beach around that time. A couple of ladies were finishing off their laps in the pool and another young couple arrived for a dip. Both entered and dunked quickly although she was back up and standing in short order.

I’m still not used to the idea that a ‘sensible’ one-piece for swimming laps leaves almost all of the ‘slapping zone’ uncovered, but I guess if you have the physique…

Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 19, 2023 6:12 am

Rabz says:
June 18, 2023 at 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. 🙂

Not a Z3 M clown shoe, but awfully close. Watch that licence. I’ve seen both the e-cops and the flesh-&-bone-cops taking revenue while up here. Hopefully no surprises waiting at home for me in the letterbox…

Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 19, 2023 6:35 am

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
June 18, 2023 at 8:38 pm

But don’t tell Hairy I said that or he’ll come home with a 70’s Mustang, and I will not be pleased.

There’s an immaculate gold ’60s Mustang in a shop window in Edgecliff now, but I think it’s a coupe.

Me, as much as a ’65 Mustang appeals, I’ll stick with the MX-5 and stay the hell away from Towoomba. Any weather can be roof-down weather as long as there’s no water on the road to splash in your general direction. And the MX-5’s roof, for me, can be down or up in seconds without moving from my seat. I like the absence of electrics (or, shudder, hydraulics) in that department.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 6:44 am

“Johannes Leak. More here:

Anthony Albanese’s local Sydney pharmacist and ALP member Adele Tahan has warned that the government’s 60-day dispensing policy will hit pharmacies and­ ­patients “like a wrecking ball”, as new industry modelling warns of mass closures and 20,000 jobs lost.”

Leak is on fire.

As for Ms Tahan, an ALP member….she voted for this. What a stupid, stupid woman.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
June 19, 2023 6:45 am

Rabz says:
June 18, 2023 at 9:25 pm

Joh – about (twenty years ago?) the female members members complained that parlyfax house was underheated so that the male members could get around in suits without discomfort

My thought is that the blokes may not object to that if the females dress accordingly. We all know how it made BH feel…

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 6:51 am

From The Oz…the problem with the bulldust that is “believe all women” and when DPPs become politicised.

“Credibility brushed over when mentally ill claim rape: judges
By STEPHEN RICE

Defence lawyers have urged DPP Sally Dowling to hold an inquiry into what they said appeared to be a growing tendency by prosecutors to ignore issues of credibility in complainants suffering severe mental illness.

Judges and lawyers have warned that prosecutors are failing to properly assess the credibility of rape complainants diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and refusing to disclose evidence of mental illness to the defence.

A recent rape trial of two men was discontinued in the NSW District Court after it emerged prosecutors were aware of the complainant’s significant mental illness and history of false sexual assault allegations.

The judge in the case sympathised with a claim by the men’s legal counsel that “this case appears to be yet another example of a glaringly improbable allegation being made by a gravely psychiatrically ill complainant, being shepherded through the criminal justice system by police and prosecutors who are seemingly determined to ignore obvious issues of credibility and reliability”. The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions had told the defence that “while the Crown does have some knowledge in relation to the mental health history the Crown will not be disclosing any private information pertaining to the complainant”.

That was a clear breach of the DPP’s duty of disclosure, the defence said.

The Australian understands this is one of a number of cases where borderline personality disorder has emerged as a key issue in sexual assault trials in NSW. A senior legal source said: “The phenomenon of personality disorders driving improbable and unbelievable allegations of sexual assault is real. So too is the refusal of police and prosecutors to engage with this reality. The ‘believe all women’ mantra has no place in the criminal justice system and is wildly inapposite when one is talking about the significant cohort of allegations made by deeply troubled complainants, especially those afflicted with BPD.”

Actor Johnny Depp’s defamation case against former girlfriend Amber Heard last year turned the spotlight on BPD after a psychologist diagnosed Heard with the condition, said to cause patterns of emotional instability and attention-seeking behaviour.

In the most recent NSW District Court case, lawyers for the two accused men relied heavily on expert evidence as to the psychological nature of BPD. Their application submitted that: “The research in this area supports as a general proposition that the extreme emotional dysregulation, reactivity and instability of persons with borderline personality traits makes them more likely than the general population to lie, confabulate and reconstruct.”

The DPP eventually dropped the charges but then – unsuccessfully – fought an application by the men for costs.

The men, aged 24 and 31, had flirted with a woman who worked at a ­licensed premises in a NSW town. After finishing work she drove them to her house where they continued drinking. She alleged that both men kissed her and touched her against her will, including digitally penetrating her. All the criminal charges related to these events.

However, as judge Gordon Lerve noted, there was “further sexual conduct which occurred soon thereafter and which is not the subject of any charges”.

The woman had walked one of the men into her bedroom, where they had consensual sex. “I observe that it is unusual that … the charges are brought in respect of conduct before the complainant and the men entered the bedroom but no charges in respect of what occurred in the bedroom,” Judge Lerve said. Neither man had any criminal record.

Even before evidence was obtained of the woman’s psychiatric history, defence lawyers wrote to the DPP asking that the case be dropped because her statement was “strongly suggestive of a ­mental illness or disorder”.

The DPP’s refusal to drop the case led the defence to issue a number of subpoenas, revealing the woman had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder.

The subpoena also led to the discovery the woman previously made a false allegation of sexual abuse against her brother, having apparently recovered a memory of events years afterwards when a school friend made similar allegations against a sibling.

That allegation would have been inadmissable at any trial because of statutory protections that exclude evidence of an alleged sexual assault victim’s past sexual activity or experience. It was able to be assessed by Judge Lerve only because he was dealing with an application by the two men for costs, not a criminal trial.

Judge Lerve noted the prosecuting authorities were well aware of the woman’s false accusations and her mental health history but had refused to disclose it to the defence on privacy grounds.

He also noted a claim by defence counsel that the case was “yet another example …. of police and prosecutors who are seemingly determined to ignore obvious issues of credibility and reliability”. The prosecutor complained that the statement was “nothing short of offensive”. But Judge Lerve said: “Having presided over a number of sexual assault trials … which to my mind were in fact doomed to failure from the outset, one can well understand the frustration of counsel.”

He found it was, “extremely difficult – if not well-nigh impossible – to perceive how the tribunal of fact could be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt” in the case.

The judge accepted there was no “playbook by which victims of trauma are supposed to behave” but “it is quite extraordinary that someone who was subjected to the indignities and criminal behaviour which the complainant says she was subjected to earlier in the events would then willingly encourage consensual sexual ­activity with one of the men ­involved in inflicting those ­indignities”.

In their application to discontinue the case, defence lawyers urged DPP Sally Dowling to hold an inquiry into what they said appeared to be a growing tendency by prosecutors to ignore issues of credibility in complainants suffering severe mental illness.”

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 7:02 am

Disrupt Radio’s founder and CEO Benjamin Roberts said: “We could not be more excited to have Sir Bob Geldof – a global disrupter, maverick thought leader and social entrepreneur … 

Ooooh!
Trooble brewing.
This town ain’t big enough for two Thought Leaders.

Anchor What
Anchor What
June 19, 2023 7:08 am

If my comments do not appear there will be no more.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 7:11 am

“Anchor Whatsays:
June 19, 2023 at 7:08 am
If my comments do not appear there will be no more.”

Err…what do you mean. Comments don’t appear if there’s a naughty word…..such as f*ck.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 7:13 am

Black Ballsays:

June 19, 2023 at 4:46 am

Well I asked the question. It’s answered here. 

Gross take $695 x 100 = $69,500.
Trust me, Geldof will charge a fee, and maybe McPolo-Pony too.
Take out Crown costs for the food and booze, it will raise s.f.a.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 7:14 am

“Anchor Whatsays:
June 19, 2023 at 7:08 am
If my comments do not appear there will be no more.”

Flounce alert!!

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:20 am

“Don’t move or the nigger gets it.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:23 am

Exactly zero votes lost taking on Big Pharmacy. I was listening to Perf ALPBC morning talkback when it came on. Suffice to say it was less than sympathetic.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 7:28 am

My local pharmacy is not big pharma.

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 7:28 am

So The Australian is this morning reporting that Angus Campbell has directed all SAS to wear body cameras. Is there no end to this insanity?

We are living in some sort of nightmare whereby every we are knowingly weakening every aspect of our society.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:30 am

Trigger warning: a photo of Sarah Hyphen – Sea Patrol’s house sized arse in today’s Paywallian Media Diary column. Don’t say you weren’t warned. A Cat makes an appearance too!

johanna
johanna
June 19, 2023 7:32 am

Thanks to commenters yesterday who clarified that the Wanganeens are SA based.

The Wanganeen I used to know lived in Melbourne, but must have been a transplant. Very smart and shrewd political operator, probably learned at Mum and Dad’s knee. I gather the family has a fair bit of collective clout in Indig politics.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:35 am

My local pharmacy is not big pharma.

They all are. TPC carve outs, restrictive trade practices, sweet heart deals, Canberra lobbying … it goes on. Individual pharmacists may be great but collectively they are no friend of the consumer.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 7:36 am

“So The Australian is this morning reporting that Angus Campbell has directed all SAS to wear body cameras. Is there no end to this insanity?”

Indeed, and as mentioned upthread we also should make Angus Campbell, the rest of the army top brass, along with our scummy parasitic politicians, also wear body cameras on the job. That old adage applies here…what’s good for the goose is also good for the gander.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 7:37 am

The Australian understands this is one of a number of cases where borderline personality disorder has emerged as a key issue in sexual assault trials in NSW.

There’s your problem. Young women afflicted with this are often very handsy themselves, cuddly and express their love physically. I’m not being a smart arse here. They can be very affectionate and flattering, then not only change their mood but change their mind and be very vindictive.

Do. Not. Put. The. Pickle. In. The. Crazy. Sauce.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 7:38 am

Alexander Shuglin would have been a great personal pharmacist.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 7:38 am

“They all are. TPC carve outs, restrictive trade practices, sweet heart deals, Canberra lobbying … it goes on. Individual pharmacists may be great but collectively they are no friend of the consumer.”

Nup. My local pharmacy is great, it’s a family run business and it’s always helpful to me and other locals. It isn’t a “Chemist Warehouse”. And why shouldn’t pharmacies lobby? Everyone else does. To equate a family run chemist with big pharma is ridiculous.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 7:40 am

Alexander Shuglin vs bern’s personal pharmacist (John H):

GET OUT OF MY TERRITORY!

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 7:44 am

Gavin Newsom is nuts.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fcalifornia%2Fstory%2F2023-06-05%2Fnewsom-desantis-migrant-flights-kidnapping-charges

Newsom threatens DeSantis with kidnapping charges after migrants flown to Sacramento

Is he going to indict ICE and his own AG as well?

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 7:48 am

BORIS JOHNSON 2024!

Anchor What
Anchor What
June 19, 2023 7:49 am

Comments don’t appear if there’s a naughty word…..such as f*ck.
Thanks Cassie.
So when I use a “u” instead of * the comment is censored.
But truckloads of cr*p by Head Case and Montster no probs.
As for smart*rse sancho … you’ll get yours.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 19, 2023 7:52 am

I’ve got a crush on my pharmacist. She’s a posh Zimbabwean, reliable flirt, and has been correct about all aspects of the China Virus from the get-go and not afraid to vocalize it either.
Nonetheless- the Pharmacy Guild of Australia is a protectionist cartel. I’ve got limited sympathy if they are betrayed by their enabling partners in Government, or threatened by the Colesworth behemoth.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:53 am

… it’s a family run business …

I don’t doubt many of them are. It would be paying licence fees to some umbrella group or other. The fact it is on the ground at all means it is part of the racket. Try opening a pharmacy next door to them and see how you get on.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 7:57 am

BORIS JOHNSON 2024!

I wouldn’t be putting one of those on my Z4 unless I was getting mates’ rates from a good panel shop.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 8:00 am

Diseases of modernity:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12812862/

Psychoneuroendocrinology
2003 Aug;28(6):751-66.
doi: 10.1016/s0306-4530(02)00068-9.

Estrogen fluctuations, oral contraceptives and borderline personality

Results from three studies suggest fluctuation in estrogen level may influence the expression of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. In the first study, 226 women were administered the Personality Assessment Inventory, borderline scales (PAI-BOR; L.C. Morey, The Personality Assessment Inventory, Professional Manual, 1991) and a questionnaire that assessed time in menstrual cycle and use of oral contraceptives, that is synthetic estrogens. BPD symptoms were most common in women using oral contraceptives and during times in the menstrual cycle when estrogen level is rising. In Study 2, 52 women were measured four times across one menstrual cycle and provided salivary samples at each test session. The samples were assayed and estrogen levels were obtained. The principle finding was that variation in estrogen levels predicted the presence of BPD symptoms (r=0.4, p<0.01). This relationship remained significant when a general increase in negative affect was statistically controlled. Study 3 employed a pre-post Oral Contraceptive (OC) design with a control group. It was found that for women with high pre-existing levels of BPD, symptoms became significantly worse after starting pill use (F (3,42)=4.7; p<0.01). Research findings that link the serotonin system and estrogen are reviewed and theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
June 19, 2023 8:01 am

The OG and only bumper sticker.
I’ll order a hundred when the 2024 version gets drafted- who’s getting the MAGA hats this time? Was that you H.B.?

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 8:03 am

“I don’t doubt many of them are. It would be paying licence fees to some umbrella group or other. The fact it is on the ground at all means it is part of the racket. Try opening a pharmacy next door to them and see how you get on.”

Nup, again, inappropriate analogy. Anway, try opening a cafe next door to an existing cafe and then see what happens.

Anyway, those same people who compare a local family run chemist to “big pharma”…well, these new government script regulations will simply make small pharmacies extinct and all we’ll then have are those huge chemist warehouses, which are, strangely enough, part of “big corp”.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 8:03 am

As for Ms Tahan, an ALP member….she voted for this. What a stupid, stupid woman.

Labor always talks about making other people pay their ‘fair share’ – a childish formulation which in children usually means everyone getting the same number of lollies.

As adults no one thinks they are not paying their fair share. What Labor does is use this term to persuade people that they will be not be burdening you (whoever they are talking to) “because you do pay your fair share, right?” Must be other people! They are going to pay!

I mentioned one of Sartre’s famous lines the other day, “Hell is other people.” But it is perhaps closer to the original meaning referring to the disconnect between a person’s thinking of themselves and how they are perceived (as an object) by others if I tweak it as “OPM is other people”.

No one sees their money as “other people’s money”, but other people do.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 19, 2023 8:06 am

Ed Casesays:
June 18, 2023 at 10:14 pm
That was enough for consignment to a concentration camp, and property confiscation. Also, most of those executed had at least the form of a trial.
All Communist revolutionaries.

Does that include the conservative Christian anti-Hitler plotters?

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 8:06 am

Yes – Cassie – just realised that the full transcript of the body camera idiocy was on the blog last night.

Us farmers go to bed early! BTW minus 4 degrees here this morning. Big big frost. But will be beautiful sunny winter day as yesterday. Cows on hillside getting early morning sun & defrosting. Birds have finished off the last olives outside our bedroom window/door so no Eastern Rosellas, King parrots, Maggies, Butcher birds & others to watch.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 19, 2023 8:07 am

The grauniad brings the hilarity.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
June 19, 2023 8:09 am

I presume pharmacies face halving of their income from dispensing fees, plus need to increase their stock on hand by fifty percent. Anything else?

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:14 am

Personally I’d be happy to minimise doctor and pharmacy visits merely to collect scripts.
Both the monthly GP visit and the dispensing seems like ticket clipping to me.

sixty day dispensing government propaganda

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 19, 2023 8:14 am

Colonel Crispin Berka says:
NSW, QLD and WA can sink the voice.
I heard TAS is more likely to say No than NSW. Plausible?

Probably Tasmania will be a No to da Voice. In the inner Hobart cafe set, and the loonie Green element – stronger there than anywhere else in Oz, IMO – the No will of course be the mantra.

Outside that lot, the average Tasmanian has had a gutful of white aboriginals demanding money, the signage changes – Mt Wellington is now kunayi/Mt Wellington for example – and the grabs for land. In the privacy of the voting booth they will get their revenge.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 8:15 am

H B Bearsays:

June 19, 2023 at 7:35 am

My local pharmacy is not big pharma.

They all are. TPC carve outs, restrictive trade practices, sweet heart deals, Canberra lobbying … it goes on. Individual pharmacists may be great but collectively they are no friend of the consumer.

OK.
Up until 3-4 years ago you could get your full 6 month prescription filled in one go.
We then moved to monthly dispensing apparently because “a lot of drugs were wasted when prescribed medications changed”.
I doubted this, and if the doctor thought it likely that medication may change, he/she could just note that on the prescription.
You had to produce airline tickets and a letter from the bishop to get two months supply at once.
My question is, did dispensing fees reduce when they went to monthly dispensing?

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 8:15 am

Hey Dot. Have had two female Borderline Personalities in my life so have had a bit of experience. “Poor Me” was the distinctive complaint. Interestingly, this was for good reason – for both were wedded to men who could accurately (though medically undiagnosed) as having Narcissistic Personality Disorder..

Both women were often driven to distraction by the incessant criticism & belittlement they suffered. One self harmed & the other just put up with it. In one case , the narcissism of the husband declined in his old age & thankfully, both were able to enjoy a relatively good relationship in old age. He was devastated when she died before him.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:19 am

My mother’s once very varied shopping strip boasted shoe shops, a foundation garment specialist, two small supermarkets, two pharmacies, one at each end, now it’s got at least 7 cafes and only one pharmacy, it’s very easy to put a cafe next to a cafe, there wasn’t a squeak from my local when a new one went it, it just got killed by covid instead.
pharmacy locations are tightly controlled

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 19, 2023 8:19 am

But dot.

What if the crazy pickle sauce is really, really hot?
Surely just the tip wont hurt?

Another skinsuit group.
Do you think IVF would have gained any sot of support if it had been pitched at single mums/ trans freaks instead of couples having trouble conceiving??
Olsder laydeeee finds out her boyfriend is a cad. Also finds out older laydeeees arent in great demand as life partners… daddy government steps into her breach…

But at the same time she was exploring her options of going it alone with a fertility specialist. When, a few years later, she hadn’t met the right person through dating, she decided to go ahead with using donor sperm to start her family.

Fed up with dating, Lauren became a mother on her own
Lauren says becoming a solo mum was the best decision she had ever made, despite the added pressures of having a baby on her own

Melissa Cameron, a fertility specialist at Melbourne IVF, says she’s seeing more women who are, like Alexandra, choosing to go down the single parenthood path.

“We[‘ve] certainly had big increases steadily since about 2015 or so. More recently [at her clinic] we’re noticing about a 20 per cent increase in single women each year.”

She says there’s a myth that women are increasingly putting off having children while they focus on their careers, but her experience contradicts this.

“I see a lot of patients that just aren’t able to find the right person to have a baby with — that is by far a more common reason for going down the single parenthood pathway,” Dr Cameron says.

She’s says there’s also “an increasing number of trans men and non-binary folk coming through using our donor sperm program … I’m certainly seeing increasing inquiries around those from all of those diverse backgrounds”.

Queer parent Flick Grey gave birth to her child in May 2020.

Having grown up with a single mum, and single grandparents, she always knew starting a family alone was an option available to her.

The damage wreaked by single mums/cad dads is incalculable.
So of course we subsidize it.

JC
JC
June 19, 2023 8:21 am

Hey Dot. Have had two female Borderline Personalities in my life so have had a bit of experience.

I can’t get my head around diagnosis of this so-called borderline personality disorder thing. Isn’t just being a human female? 🙂

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 8:22 am

In the privacy of the voting booth they will get their revenge.

Nothing surer. Expect to be berated for a while.

shatterzzz
June 19, 2023 8:23 am

You’d maybe think they could host such an event at the Dandenong RSL or similar. You know, hear some real concerns. Crown Towers just doesn’t cut it. Wonder how much one would pay for the Q&A session.

Limited to 100 sez it all .. he’s be lucky to get a dozen in an RSL anywhere ..!

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:27 am

Just reading about BPD, staying in a long term marriage seems antithetical.
A guy I used to work with was married to a sufferer, whatever she had done she was only allowed one hour weekly government supervised visits with the child of her first marriage.
They had two very small children and one day he started commenting that maybe the concerns of her previous husband were justified, without going into any details.
I lost touch as he was interstate and the project ended so don’t know where he went from there.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 19, 2023 8:29 am

Every person at this should be fined/imprisoned the maximum amount.
No ifs, no buts, no appeals.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/18/tory-hq-partygate-video-michael-gove-apologises
Michael Gove has apologised for a new Partygate video that shows Conservative officials dancing and laughing as they broke Covid lockdown rules, deeming their actions “terrible” and “indefensible”.

The video, obtained by the Mirror, shows members of staff drinking alcohol at the gathering in London on 14 December 2020, and mocking lockdown rules the public were following at the time. At least 24 people were in attendance, including Shaun Bailey – made a peer in Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list – whose campaign team organised the event. He left before the video was taken.

And anyone who made the slightest error in statements to the police must be charged with obstruction or whatever other charge will stick.
No mercy, no forgiveness.

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 8:32 am

Rosie – it is strange, but they often do stay in marriages for various reasons.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 8:33 am

Surely just the tip wont hurt?

You really sound like David Allen Coe.

Why there’s a growing number of women embracing solo parenthood

I’ll tell you why. They’re alpha widows.

“Alexandra” looks good for her age and would have been rocking men’s worlds at 21.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:34 am

Given the difficulty a lot of people have getting access to a GP these days reducing script repeat only visits ought to be a step in the right direction.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:35 am

I suppose it depends on the severity of the affliction.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 8:37 am

Indigenous voice to parliament Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo’s radical vision
EXCLUSIVE
By Geoff Chambers
Chief Political Correspondent
@Chambersgc
Updated 10:52PM June 18, 2023, First published at 10:00PM June 18, 2023
271 Comments

Prominent Yes campaigner for the Indigenous voice to parliament Thomas Mayo has described former prime minister John Howard as a “bastard” and threatened that politicians would be “punished” if they ignored the voice advisory body.

The militant unionist and outspoken figure on the government’s First Nations referendum working group has also raised the prospect of a voice to parliament being the first step towards “reparations and compensation” for Indigenous Australians.

Videos unearthed by No campaign strategists feature Mr Mayo appearing in online forums run by the Search Foundation – established in 1990 as a “successor ­organisation of the Communist Party of Australia” to preserve the socialist movement.

The Maritime Union of Australia national Indigenous officer also delivered provocative statements in videos filmed at Invasion Day, Black Lives Matters and May Day rallies held between 2021 and 2023.

“Every time, comrades, that we have established a voice as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the bastards have taken it away from us,” Mr Mayo told a May Day rally in Port Kembla last month.

“And let me tell you a story about how we can relate to that. John Howard, do you remember that bastard? John Howard, do you think he wants normal people, workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to have a voice? No, he doesn’t.”

Legislation approving the constitutional amendment, which was unveiled on March 23 by Anthony Albanese and referendum working group members including Mr Mayo, is expected to pass through the parliament on Monday. Mr Albanese has previously described the change as “modest”.

Amid plunging support for the voice referendum in opinion polls and divisions among Yes campaigners over strategy and language, Noel Pearson last week suggested the focus should be on constitutional recognition ahead of the voice advisory body.

Yes23 campaigners, who say their tracking polling and larger samples reflect stronger support for their side, are planning a long game armed with greater resources and funding than the No ­campaign.

Mr Mayo, one of the strongest backers of a voice body, in 2021 told the Search Foundation that the power of the voice was its ability to “punish politicians that ignore our advice” on legislation and funding.

At an Invasion Day rally the same year, the author and former wharfie said “we need the constitutional right to have a united voice … we need the power of the Constitution behind us so we can organise like we’ve never organised before”.

“We are sick of governments telling us no, we are sick of governments not listening to our voice. We are going to use the rule book of the nation to force them,” he said.

In another video, Mr Mayo said the voice was a “vital step” in delivering outcomes detailed in the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

“‘Pay the Rent’ for example, how do we do that in a way that is transparent and that actually sees reparations and compensation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people beyond what we say and do at a rally?” he said.

The Northern Territory-based Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal, Erubamle Torres Strait ­Islander man in 2020 said truth was “leverage”: “It is a way to further what we need for our people in any negotiations for treaties and for other things like legislation, reform and abolishment of the old colonial institutions.”

In another Search Foundation video, he discusses the need to build “representative structures” not unlike those used by unions and Communists.

Mr Mayo sits on the board of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, which is leading the Yes23 campaign, alongside co-chairs Danny Gilbert and Rachel Perkins, and directors Michael Chaney, Tony Nutt, Mark Textor, Karen Mundine and Lachlan Harris.

Mr Mayo – co-author of The Voice to Parliament Handbook with veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien – said “unfortunately, some of the policy decisions that have been made in the past, have been harmful and divisive”.

“I don’t believe there is anything wrong with pointing that out,” Mr Mayo told The Australian. “We have seen past policy decisions widen the gap, causing a chasm, rather than healing the wound. I strongly believe that this referendum can bring about positive change.

“As I’ve travelled around the country over the past six years, speaking to all kinds of interest groups, including people from all political persuasions, I have sought to bridge the gap by ­helping them to see it from their perspective. I stand by this referendum being a unifying proposal, it is about peace and love and that is purely my interest for this ­country.”

Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who is working closely with right-wing activist group Advance on the No campaign, said Mr Mayo’s “divisive statements were not made in secret, but were said very publicly and proudly”.

“These shocking revelations speak to the aggressive and radical agenda behind the Voice and destroy once and for all the myth that this massive change to our Constitution is ‘a modest request’,” Senator Price said.

“He is very clear that the intention, the goal, the ambition of the Voice and this referendum is to divide Australians.”

Mr Nutt, who sits on the AICR board and was principal adviser to Mr Howard, told The Australian that “Thomas is from the Left of politics and I am from the Right”.

The former federal director of the Liberal Party said: “We could find lots to disagree about including John Howard, who I like and respect. What both Thomas and I do agree on is support for the referendum proposal.”

shatterzzz
June 19, 2023 8:37 am

Time to suffer! .. 5C in Fairfield at the moment but Monday morning is an OAP “freebie” (up to 9.30am, that is!) at the local outdoor pool ………
soooooooo time to brave the elements and wet the toes ………

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 8:37 am

They all are. TPC carve outs, restrictive trade practices, sweet heart deals, Canberra lobbying

I remember when I was a kid the strangle-hold held by Big Milk Bar.

Companies like ‘Streets’, ‘Peters’, ‘Cadbury’, ‘Smiths’, and the Orwellian named ‘Smalls’ – they were Big Smalls.

In the jargon of the left every purloined musk stick and every nicked cobber was a political act.

Johnny Rotten
June 19, 2023 8:38 am

You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.

– George Burns

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 19, 2023 8:39 am

Prominent Yes campaigner for the Indigenous voice to parliament Thomas Mayo has described former prime minister John Howard as a “bastard” and threatened that politicians would be “punished” if they ignored the voice advisory body.

The militant unionist and outspoken figure on the government’s First Nations referendum working group has also raised the prospect of a voice to parliament being the first step towards “reparations and compensation” for Indigenous Australians.

Videos unearthed by No campaign strategists feature Mr Mayo appearing in online forums run by the Search Foundation – established in 1990 as a “successor ­organisation of the Communist Party of Australia” to preserve the socialist movement.

The Maritime Union of Australia national Indigenous officer also delivered provocative statements in videos filmed at Invasion Day, Black Lives Matters and May Day rallies held between 2021 and 2023.

“Every time, comrades, that we have established a voice as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the bastards have taken it away from us,” Mr Mayo told a May Day rally in Port Kembla last month.

“And let me tell you a story about how we can relate to that. John Howard, do you remember that bastard? John Howard, do you think he wants normal people, workers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to have a voice? No, he doesn’t.”

Legislation approving the constitutional amendment, which was unveiled on March 23 by Anthony Albanese and referendum working group members including Mr Mayo, is expected to pass through the parliament on Monday. Mr Albanese has previously described the change as “modest”.

Amid plunging support for the voice referendum in opinion polls and divisions among Yes campaigners over strategy and language, Noel Pearson last week suggested the focus should be on constitutional recognition ahead of the voice advisory body.

Yes23 campaigners, who say their tracking polling and larger samples reflect stronger support for their side, are planning a long game armed with greater resources and funding than the No ­campaign.

Mr Mayo, one of the strongest backers of a voice body, in 2021 told the Search Foundation that the power of the voice was its ability to “punish politicians that ignore our advice” on legislation and funding.

At an Invasion Day rally the same year, the author and former wharfie said “we need the constitutional right to have a united voice … we need the power of the Constitution behind us so we can organise like we’ve never organised before”.

“We are sick of governments telling us no, we are sick of governments not listening to our voice. We are going to use the rule book of the nation to force them,” he said.

More at the Oz

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 8:42 am

.

At an Invasion Day rally the same year, the author and former wharfie said “we need the constitutional right to have a united voice … we need the power of the Constitution behind us so we can organise like we’ve never organised before”.

Indigenous stevedoring.

That’s something Bruce Pascoe forgot to make up.

Anyway, organise for what?

Videos unearthed by No campaign strategists feature Mr Mayo appearing in online forums run by the Search Foundation – established in 1990 as a “successor ­organisation of the Communist Party of Australia” to preserve the socialist movement.

Oh, a commie. How unusual, a rich commie demanding to sit at the highest equallest chair and have the best Dacha. It was black market capitalism that oppressed the serfs in the USSR, of course.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 8:44 am

Bill from Brisbane
1 hour ago
(Edited)
Thank you Mr Mayo for the detail.
The Voice according to Mayo will be an unelected constitutionally enshrined body that will ‘punish’ democratically elected parliamentarians if they don’t obey the Voice demands.
This will be the end of our democratic system of government.
So NO.
Wife

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 8:46 am

Prominent Yes campaigner for the Indigenous voice to parliament Thomas Mayo has described former prime minister John Howard as a “bastard” and threatened that politicians would be “punished” if they ignored the voice advisory body.

Bad enough that this is the tenor of debate from the ‘Yes’ side, but now imagine how it would be once ensconced in the constitution and The Voice is able to interfere with normal government in a way that (apparently) a merely legislated body cannot.

This should be put on T-Shirts with the attribution “the voice of The Voice”.

(It does not cause me any great distress to see Howard thus labelled, but he is still a bit of a hero to some people, and the main point regarding The Voice is not affected anyway.)

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 8:49 am

Indigenous stevedoring

As a country I’m not sure we could afford that. Good news for Toyota dealers.

Crossie
Crossie
June 19, 2023 8:52 am

Us farmers go to bed early! BTW minus 4 degrees here this morning. Big big frost. But will be beautiful sunny winter day as yesterday. Cows on hillside getting early morning sun & defrosting. Birds have finished off the last olives outside our bedroom window/door so no Eastern Rosellas, King parrots, Maggies, Butcher birds & others to watch.

Vicki, frost is still on the grass at my place near the western reaches of M4. This global warming is rather capricious.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 19, 2023 8:53 am

Contrast and compare…

Same chap.

I stand by this referendum being a unifying proposal, it is about peace and love and that is purely my interest for this ­country.
….
Pay the Rent’ for example, how do we do that in a way that is transparent and that actually sees reparations and compensation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people beyond what we say and do at a rally?

Could it be, possibly, a commie piece of shit is lying about at least one of his motives??

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
June 19, 2023 8:53 am

GBN: BBC will have 1000 staff working on Glastonbury this weekend.
Wonder how many ABC staff will also, since they won’t steal any of the BBC’s stuff will they?

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 8:53 am

It is difficult when you see someone giving Howard a kick it is hard to resist the temptation to just join them. Especially now iampeter isn’t here.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 8:54 am

US$42m later:

Spotify podcast chief: Harry & Meghan are “f*#king grifters.”

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 8:56 am

Stand by for “the Mayo effect” in the next round of polling.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 8:57 am

I don’t know the intricacies of the dispensing pharmacy industry but something had made it worthwhile for Chemist Warehouse to continue to expand, a local square with a long term regular pharmacy recently had a Chemist Warehouse plonk itself in a former bank at the other end.
Funny how often government decisions seem to have unintended consequences.

Crossie
Crossie
June 19, 2023 8:57 am

lotocoti says:
June 19, 2023 at 8:07 am
The grauniad brings the hilarity.

A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags

I wonder if they really understand nothing or they thought that their allies against Christians would not switch sides when the liberals’ depravity was too much to take.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 8:59 am

US$42m later:

Bit late once the cheque clears. Unless he can get back on the balcony that number will come down.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 8:59 am

Spotify podcast chief: Harry & Meghan are “f*#king grifters.”

You really have to wonder – what did they expect?

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 9:01 am

Spotify podcast chief: Harry & Meghan are “f*#king grifters.”

HEY! RESPECT THEIR PRIVACY! THEY DID A WORLD TOUR TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
June 19, 2023 9:01 am

If you’ve got a frost then the temperature must have been below three degrees for a few hours previous.

Crossie
Crossie
June 19, 2023 9:02 am

hzhousewife says:
June 19, 2023 at 8:09 am
I presume pharmacies face halving of their income from dispensing fees, plus need to increase their stock on hand by fifty percent. Anything else?

That should make them realise how fixed income families feel about the electricity cost increases. We are all really this time in this together or we all lose separately.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:02 am

I don’t care about the Howard kick.
How do they propose to punish politicians who don’t follow their advice?
Send in the Kurdaitcha?
It’s all about money, lots of money, and power over the rest of us dispensed by the perpetually angry.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 9:03 am

It’s all about money, lots of money, and power over the rest of us dispensed by the perpetually angry.

Well said!

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 9:04 am

Apparently, most Liberal Party Senators are voting to pass the Voice referendum.

Concomitant with communist race baiters.

It’s dead. Let it be buried. There is nothing liberal or conservative about this mob of leather sniffing money-grubbing phonies.

Antic should get the hell out of there.

Zatara
Zatara
June 19, 2023 9:07 am

Public service video: Just in case one hasn’t experienced what marxist new age entitled wokism has brought us.

It’s from New Mexico but I think it translates well.

Is There Any Excuse You Haven’t Tried Yet, Ma’am?

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 19, 2023 9:07 am

Anybody claiming government is coming for your gas stove is a conspiracy theory crank didnt have much of a lifespan did it?

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/deadline-needed-for-gas-appliance-ban-if-australia-to-reach-net-zero-grattan-20230616-p5dh4o.html
Australia needs a deadline to ban the sale of new household gas appliances and hundreds of homes will need to switch from gas to electric every day for the country to reach its 2050 net zero deadline, a new report has found.

Modelling in the Grattan Institute’s Getting Off Gas report, released on Sunday, shows tens of thousands of new homes are still being hooked up to the fossil fuel every year, risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 9:07 am

… had a Chemist Warehouse plonk itself in a former bank at the other end.

The market (sorta) at work. Retail banking is more or less the candlestick making of the twenty first century. The EFTPOS market has largely been broken up. The days of shops paying fat merchant fees are pretty much gone.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:08 am

Pensioners be like the grandparents in Charlie and the Chololate Factory.
1930s northern England exported to the antipodes.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 9:08 am

You really have to wonder – what did they expect?

Be interesting to see the contract.

Indolent
Indolent
June 19, 2023 9:08 am
Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 9:10 am

HEY! RESPECT THEIR PRIVACY! THEY DID A WORLD TOUR TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THEIR PRIVACY!

Somehow I imagine it should be pronounced ‘Priva-CAH!’

“You will respect my priva-CAH!”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 9:10 am

CheRod
25 minutes ago
(Edited)
Wow. We have all been looking for details of how The Voice is going to operate. Now Thomas Mayo has explained it all to us, leaving nothing out.

Politicians who disagree with ‘the voice’ will be forced or punished. The Government, probably through the wallets of Aussie citizens will have to pay compensation and reparations on a huge scale dating back to ‘invasion’.

Not sure why John Howard comes into the explanation or how calling an old man nasty names helps the ‘Yes’ cause, but let’s just say that this former excellent PM is the devil in Mayo’s detail.

Anyway, thanks Thomas for your detailed explanation. Now: watch the lips: NO !

Cheryl

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 9:10 am

I presume pharmacies face halving of their income from dispensing fees

Isn’t monthly dispensing a fairly recent thing?

Toughen up.

“We’re all in this together.”

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 19, 2023 9:10 am

Well snap Zulu – didn’t think you WA lot were up that early…

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 9:12 am

Modelling in the Grattan Institute’s Getting Off Gas report, released on Sunday, shows tens of thousands of new homes are still being hooked up to the fossil fuel every year, risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

Kevin Rudd illegally (ultra vires and thus void) collected alcohol excise tax and bullied his way to retroactive legislation to allow his grubby little paws all over the revenue [the Governor-General should have sacked him, installed a caretaker PM and called an election, likely a double dissolution on the request of the new PM], why do these Bolshevik agitators care about what is and is not “LeGaLlY bInDiNg!!!!!1”?

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:12 am

Banks have been disappearing for years, I think the building might have had a restaurant or two in it between bank and pharmacy, I just recall it being purpose built for a bank.
Chemist Warehouse has made a couple of people billionaires in less than twenty years.
article here

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:13 am

Nothing like being an essential service during lockdowns.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 9:15 am

The problem with online media is you don’t have to rely on ratings. Downloads are downloads, right to the last unit column. Would love to see the numbers for some ALPBC Listen shows and government websites.

Cassie of Sydney
June 19, 2023 9:15 am

“Chemist Warehouse has made a couple of people billionaires in less than twenty years.”

I’m pretty sure my local pharmacist isn’t a billionaire.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 9:16 am

Well snap Zulu – didn’t think you WA lot were up that early…

With the temperature at 1 degree, I’m wondering why I get up early!

Indolent
Indolent
June 19, 2023 9:20 am

This is the first response to a short clip with Ron Paul about the aborted fine on Schiff, which he thinks would set a bad precedent! It’s obviously too close to home.

Catturd ™
@catturd2

Adam Schiff has spent years leaking lies to the press. He divided the country and set it on fire with his constant lies and tried to topple a duly elected President. In the first sham impeachment he read a 100% fabricated phone call to the world that was completely made-up (treason)

But don’t worry y’all – the Republican Party soapbox, super duper principled, highroad, do-gooders are going to write him a mean letter (censure) next week with zero punishment.

We are already in a banana republic. The FBI, DOJ, and entire justice system is nothing more than special police for the Democrat party. If you’re a Democrat, you can get away with murder – if you’re a Conservative, they’re coming for you. The entire media is state propaganda. The Democrat party is cheating a thousand different ways at every turn, not to mention, ARRESTING THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS!

If you think the Republican Party is ever going to do anything about it, you haven’t been paying attention.

They bitch, moan, groan, tweet, threaten, gas light, go on Hannity and cry, and on, and on – but when it comes to slightly pushing back or even lightly punishing anyone, they come up with an excuse and fold like cheap tents – every – single – time.

The Republican Party is worthless, spineless, and not worth voting for anymore.

The working class has ZERO representation in Washington D.C. The uniparty has taken over and they only care about money and personal power. Unless you’re a million dollar donor, they don’t care about you.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 19, 2023 9:20 am

MichaelAngelo
1 hour ago
It becomes clearer by the day. It will be a loud, demanding voice, quickly turning into a threatening voice if demanding voice is not obeyed. Then it will become shrill voice, as it sools the baying mob that are waiting to do the punishment bit, with individual members of parliament, our elected members, being hectored and harassed until they do as they are told by the now rightous voice.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 9:20 am

Australia needs a deadline to ban the sale of new household gas appliances and hundreds of homes will need to switch from gas to electric every day for the country to reach its 2050 net zero deadline, a new report has found.

Meanwhile, AEMO has forecast “reliability gaps” in SA & VIC’s electricity supply from 2025 and in NSW, TAS & QLD from 2027.

There is simply not enough generating & storage capacity being built to replace coal fired generators that will be retired early thanks to the distortion of the market created by renewables.

Perhaps the Grattan Institute should write a report about that?

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 19, 2023 9:21 am

Nup. My local pharmacy is great, it’s a family run business and it’s always helpful to me and other locals. It isn’t a “Chemist Warehouse”. And why shouldn’t pharmacies lobby? Everyone else does. To equate a family run chemist with big pharma is ridiculous.

Unfortunately, whilst it might be ‘family run’ you will find its is government/big pharma controlled, just like GP offices. There will be so many layers of government intrusion into their core business (dispensing drugs) that they will most definitely be controlled by same. The PBS subsidy system means pharmacies, large or small are just as effectively controlled by government as GPs are – try running your pharmacy or GP surgery without the PBS or medicare paying most of your customers cost. Those customers will immediately bail and head next door to the one that remains inside the cartel.

I couldnt even get my local pharmacy to fill a *private* script for Hydroxychloroquine in 2020, let alone a PBS paid one.

mem
mem
June 19, 2023 9:22 am

Modelling in the Grattan Institute’s Getting Off Gas report, released on Sunday, shows tens of thousands of new homes are still being hooked up to the fossil fuel every year, risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

My bet is Mr Bowen and his renewable floggers haven’t counted in or modelled the increase in electricity consumption if consumers toss their gas appliances. What do you reckon, probably more than 75% of households have some gas appliances? Our stove top and hot water is gas. And I’m not intending to replace them with electricity.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 9:23 am

Buying a bank branch or an Australia Post building was a pretty popular property play back in the day. I expect most of those initial leases have expired long ago. You wonder how many were renewed. It’s a shame really. The most galling might be a post office outside a Multiplex box that now sells Persian rugs.

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:23 am

No Cassie, but whenever I see a highly regulated industry when most of the money comes via the taxpayer, resulting in some people becoming billionaires, I wonder if it is really operating in the best interests of consumers.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
June 19, 2023 9:24 am

Kevin Rudd illegally (ultra vires and thus void)

It is pretty hard to think of anything not being ultra his vires, he was just not much of a vir – just a desperate little atom where an electron of envy endlessly whizzes around a nucleus of insecurity.

Dot
Dot
June 19, 2023 9:26 am

I couldnt even get my local pharmacy to fill a *private* script for Hydroxychloroquine in 2020, let alone a PBS paid one.

That’s nuts. I thought as long as you had a valid script they were somewhat bound to fill it if they had the item stocked and didn’t have a priority for a more vulnerable patient, sans contraindications, etc.

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 9:26 am

Harry Richardson, who wrote the controversial “The Story of Mohammed. Islam Unveiled”, has now written another tome, this time exploring the rise of the phenomenon of the “cancelling” of any achievements, notables etc of white societies. He labels this new campaign against “white” societies as “Anglophobia.” Not sure if this will prove an agreeable term, but his thesis accords with current world wide developments.

[email protected]

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:31 am

Paywalled.
I get the loss of income for owners but am not at all convinced about the claimed shortages.

NATION
Pharmacy staff ‘pushed to join script revolt’, says union

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 9:32 am

Modelling in the Grattan Institute’s Getting Off Gas report, released on Sunday, shows tens of thousands of new homes are still being hooked up to the fossil fuel every year, risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

Friends in property development in Sydney tell me that any new unit developments are not permitted to install gas appliances or the conduits for gas. Has to be all electric.

I would assume that developments in new housing estates are being forced to do the same. Few people seem to know about this state of the nation.

mem
mem
June 19, 2023 9:35 am

risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

Can someone explain why they are

legally binding

.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
June 19, 2023 9:36 am

Downloads are downloads, right to the last unit column. Would love to see the numbers for some ALPBC Listen shows and government websites.

Now if I were an enterprising little lump of ABC podcasting poo how much would it cost me to have a bot set up to randomly download my podcast 100 times a day?

That way I could have an extremely selective audience and still hit bonus targets..

Or am i being overly cynical?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 9:36 am

Rogersays:

June 19, 2023 at 9:10 am

I presume pharmacies face halving of their income from dispensing fees

Isn’t monthly dispensing a fairly recent thing?

Toughen up.

“We’re all in this together.”

Yes, that was my question.
When we moved from dispensing for periods up to the full repeat period (usually six months) to monthly dispensing, what happened to dispensing fees?
Did they reduce?
If not, aren’t we just moving back to the model we had 4-5 years ago?

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 9:36 am

With the temperature at 1 degree, I’m wondering why I get up early!

Minus 4 when we woke up here, Zulu. Now, at 9.30am it is 2 degrees. A roaring fire going now & it is slowly warming the house – or at least the main part that is not closed off.

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 9:37 am

Our stove top and hot water is gas. And I’m not intending to replace them with electricity.

Gas is looking pretty marginal for my one person household. Use reverse cycle air conditioning for space heating. Really only need gas for your wok (out of action for me anyway). A lot of cooks reckon induction better for general cooking anyway. The demonstration kitchen where I went for a gifted cooking course used gas wok ring and induction burners. The gas hot water storage unit just got replaced like-for-like when it crapped itself while I was in Melbourne. That won’t happen again.

wretch
wretch
June 19, 2023 9:37 am

Watched Guy Richie’s new movie The Covenant last night about US troops in Afghanistan. Thanks to Australian Defence leadership and various jismalists, I realised the movie depicted a series of war crimes committed by the Americans. In an early scene, a patrol raids a shitb*x “factory” where Taliban farmers are making IEDs and suicide vests. Rather than offering safe passage to POW facilities where an assessment process by tribunal could be completed, the Americans simply opened fire shooting most and causing others to explode.

After another firefight with farmers who’d taken a short break from the poppy fields to ride armed with AK47s in the back of utes, some farmers were still alive and wounded, and rather than offering first aid and helicopter transfer to a hospital, an American soldier simply shot them in the head because yeah that was easier before moving on to the next atrocity. /sarc

Not a bad movie if that’s your thing and makes a great point about the US withdrawal and the complete abandonment of hundreds off Afghani interpreters.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 9:43 am

Unfortunately, whilst it might be ‘family run’ you will find its is government/big pharma controlled, just like GP offices.

The protocols imposed on GPs by the health bureaucracy, down to delimiting what drugs they can prescribe and under what conditions in each patient, are quite stringent. Good GPs will try to find workarounds for their patients but there are others who are happy to be dispensing machines. I wonder if they realise they could one day be replaced by AI & algorithms?

H B Bear
H B Bear
June 19, 2023 9:43 am

Gas is still best for any sort of industrial use. The unit complex I was in in Melbourne had a 3 inch gas inlet going to a central recirculating hot water system with split system air cons on balconies. Worked well and I rarely had the air con on much either.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 9:46 am

Can someone explain why they are

legally binding

Because we’ve signed up to international agreements, mem.

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 9:47 am

Watched Guy Richie’s new movie The Covenant last night about US troops in Afghanistan. Thanks to Australian Defence leadership and various jismalists, I realised the movie depicted a series of war crimes committed by the Americans. In an early scene, a patrol raids a shitb*x “factory” where Taliban farmers are making IEDs and suicide vests. Rather than offering safe passage to POW facilities where an assessment process by tribunal could be completed, the Americans simply opened fire shooting most and causing others to explode.

Wretch – from what I have read (somewhere – don’t ask me where!) other western nations which fought in Afghanistan have also been holding witch-hunts to convict their soldiers (not sure if special forces) of war crimes. But our press don’t report that, do they?

I see it as part of the overall spectacle of the suicide of the West.

Vicki
Vicki
June 19, 2023 9:50 am

BTW I reckon those exceptional movies “The Hurt Locker” and “American Sniper” & others – which portray the reality of the duplicitous population in the combat areas – have probably made the general population wary of believing any of the rubbish the Woke brigade dishes up.

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 19, 2023 9:51 am

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/vaccines-cause-sids

I must say this thought occurred to me earlier – if COVID vaxxes are linked to SADs, are childhood vaxxes linked to SIDS?

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:57 am

No

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 19, 2023 9:59 am

I couldnt even get my local pharmacy to fill a *private* script for Hydroxychloroquine in 2020, let alone a PBS paid one.

That’s nuts. I thought as long as you had a valid script they were somewhat bound to fill it if they had the item stocked and didn’t have a priority for a more vulnerable patient, sans contraindications, etc.

The government leaned on the Pharmacy Guild, which instructed pharmacists to NOT FILL scripts for HCQ, except in certain restricted circumstances (eg when written by a rheumatologist for inflammatory arthritis). In short, the govt stepped into a private transaction between the Dr and the patient. Get that, they didnt just say ‘no PBS dispensing’ of a legal drug via a legal script, they said ‘no dispensing at all’.

Unrelated fun fact, Mussolini defined fascism as ‘ a marriage between the corporation and the state’.

PS, AHPRA then got antsy when I started telling people how to obtain veterinary ivermectin online after the govt banned that too. Three years, on, who was right?

rosie
rosie
June 19, 2023 9:59 am

Incidentally the change to 60 day scripts won’t half dispensing fees as it only relates to recurring scripts for specific chronic conditions.
I don’t know what percentage of scripts are recurring but it isn’t 100%.

flyingduk
flyingduk
June 19, 2023 10:02 am

IN todays OZ:

SAS to wear big brother cameras into battle…. The nation’s most elite soldiers face unprecedented scrutiny as Defence rolls out new body cameras to expose misconduct and rebut false claims against them.

At this point, I would settle just for some sort of Police camera that doesn’t ‘go flat’ everytime you want the vision it captured.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 10:05 am

H B Bearsays:

June 19, 2023 at 9:23 am

Buying a bank branch or an Australia Post building was a pretty popular property play back in the day. 

The story of the summary execution of a Golden Goose.
My bruvver does a bit of property work down in Coastal Town (not a KC like Googlery though).
He had a client who owned the freehold of a building rented to one of the Big Four.
I don’t know the full details, but the bank offered to roll over the lease I think on a 3+3+3 lease with annual market reviews of rental with no decreases.
He holds out for a yuuuge increase.
The bank walks and takes a shopfront around the corner.
Get this.
The landlord (we suspect at the urging of his “property expert” maaates) thought he had the bank on toast because the building had a big safe.
He then had to pay to strip out the building and set it up to be leased as general retail.
Lessons:-
1. The regional manager can often approve vanilla flavoured rollovers. Any departures from that will go to Big Bank HQ, who don’t give a rat’s that they have been in that building since 1929.
2. Banks love being landlorded over … not.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 19, 2023 10:05 am

Rogersays:
June 19, 2023 at 9:20 am
Australia needs a deadline to ban the sale of new household gas appliances and hundreds of homes will need to switch from gas to electric every day for the country to reach its 2050 net zero deadline, a new report has found.

Meanwhile, AEMO has forecast “reliability gaps” in SA & VIC’s electricity supply from 2025 and in NSW, TAS & QLD from 2027.

There is simply not enough generating & storage capacity being built to replace coal fired generators that will be retired early thanks to the distortion of the market created by renewables.

Perhaps the Grattan Institute should write a report about that?

Surely you jest?

PS, ask the Grattan Institute what temperature the aircon is set at in the office.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 10:07 am

Given that parliamentary culture has proven itself to be intractable despite several inquiries, suich that it has become a national scandal, I propose a solution:

Parliamentarians and their staffers should henceforth be required to wear body cameras & submit themselves to random drug & alcohol testing when at work .

Implementation of this new regime should be contracted to a private entity, not the public service or parliamentary security.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 10:08 am

H B Bearsays:

June 19, 2023 at 9:43 am

Gas is still best for any sort of industrial use. The unit complex I was in in Melbourne had a 3 inch gas inlet going to a central recirculating hot water system with split system air cons on balconies. Worked well and I rarely had the air con on much either.

Our city penthouse had gas cooktops which were not separately metered.
How evil is that?

Johnny Rotten
June 19, 2023 10:08 am

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

– Leo Tolstoy

Crossie
Crossie
June 19, 2023 10:13 am

Roger says:
June 19, 2023 at 9:46 am
Can someone explain why they are

legally binding
Because we’ve signed up to international agreements, mem.

We don’t have to honour any of these agreements if they hurt our economy, populations or sovereignty.

Top Ender
Top Ender
June 19, 2023 10:14 am

Got another comment up in the Oz, this time for Story: SAS to wear big brother cameras into battle

I served in a war zone where we got mortared and rocketed and so on without warning at any time.

On occasion this was at night while you were trying to get a sleep, and suddenly it was on. The first thing was to get your body armour and helmet on, and then grab your rifle to engage with attacking infantry.

Will there be charges for not putting your camera on and activating it while the bad guys are coming over the walls?

Actually this is typical – the so-called leaders at the top coming up with this sort of thing while allowing untold billions to be wasted on platform failure or non-acquisition, and morale to crash through the floor. I feel an article coming on…

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
June 19, 2023 10:22 am

Parliamentarians and their staffers should henceforth be required to wear body cameras & submit themselves to random drug & alcohol testing when at work .

Implementation of this new regime should be contracted to a private entity, not the public service or parliamentary security.

Absolutely.
As a political tactic alone ScoMo could have introduced random and targeted D&A testing to fix “da toxic kulture”.
Features are:-
1. PH becomes an alcohol free zone and a “0.0” workplace;
2. Testing is conducted by an independent body, excluding large consultancy firms (who are in the Feds pockets);
3. Random tests for staff are conducted by totally random ballot of staff names;
4. Random tests for MPs and senators are conducted by lotto number. Each MP and senator is allocated a number between 1 and 40. Every night of a lotto draw the first two numbers out are immediately tested. A totally unimpeachable selection technique.
5. Every member and senator must be tested at least three times a year.
6. Testing to be recorded on video and samples numbered and tagged like pathology samples.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 10:22 am

We don’t have to honour any of these agreements if they hurt our economy, populations or sovereignty.

Morrison flipped on net zero because the EU & US were working up a range of tariffs and other punitive measures to impose upon us, efectively making us pariahs in the “international community.”.

We will never be able to go it alone against this agenda.

Our best hope is that Trump gets elected in 2024 and western European nations themselves face a popular backlash that threatens their political stability.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 19, 2023 10:26 am

Pocock on his hind trotters in the Senate spruiking the inVoice.

Incoherent.

Darkies in the gallery clapping. And now Lidia the moll is spruiking – was told to put a jacket on to cover the slogan on her T. Even worse than Pocock drivel.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Cats, place blame where it ultimately lies: Morrison/Premiers.

Morrison/Premiers will have made unconscionable threats to the livelihood of any pharmacist who dared fill a non-approved* prescription or supplied a quack remedy* and then with hand on bible stated that the denial of service was totally & completely a personal choice made by the individual pharmacist.

I know – For more than two years I had a choice: Deny common business services to people I’d known all my life, or;
I would face life-changing fines, loss of livelihood, loss of the cumulative total of my life’s work, and be subject to brutal kinetic arrest carried out via a “swat-raid” in the wee hours of the morning by overwhelming numbers of police officers, followed by time in police cells.

I don’t blame pharmacists. Not when Morrion/Premiers have such form.

(* Ivermectin/Hydroxychloroquine)

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
June 19, 2023 10:30 am

She’s not supporting the inVoice. I can’t understand her drivel.
.
Says the Constitution is illegal. Wants treaty and truth/ Nutcase on steroids.

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 10:30 am

And now Lidia the moll is spruiking…

Lidia has up until now been against the Voice.

But if she’s switched, that would be…excellent.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 19, 2023 10:31 am

Grattan Institute hates your guts. Hun:

Victoria, as the most gas-reliant state in Australia, would need to take 200 homes off gas every day until 2050 in order to achieve net-zero emissions by the mid-century target, according to a new Grattan Institute report.

While the Andrews government’s Gas Substitution Roadmap phases out incentives for new-build residential gas at the end of this year, Grattan Institute Energy and Climate Change Program director Tony Wood called for more action, by all governments, including banning new gas connections to homes and small business and phasing out the sale of gas appliances well before 2050.

Mr Wood said all-electric homes were cheaper to run and better for people’s health and that emerging technologies like hydrogen or biomethane were too costly and too far off for widespread use as alternatives.

The Grattan report, titled ‘Getting off gas: why, how, and who should pay?’ says gas accounts for 22 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions and calls on governments to also set cut-off dates that require rental homes to have all-electric appliances and heating – paid for through instant-asset tax write-offs for landlords – and says governments should fund the transition for public housing.

It cites all-electric homes saving $740-to-$1020 for properties with no solar and $1070-to-$1250 for homes with solar.

“It will be complex for governments and for many people and businesses but it is absolutely do-able, and further delay will only make this necessary transition harder,” Mr Wood said.

About two million Victorian homes and businesses currently rely on gas, among five million across Australia.

While many manufacturing sectors have no current alternative to gas for production needs, the report says governments must help find solutions, potentially including “local industry clusters using biomethane or hydrogen.”

The report suggests the huge cost of transition to all-electric should be borne for public housing by the state, while private residence upgrades should be assisted by low-interest loans, rebates (Victoria now has $2900 rebates) and federal support, with funds only going to states that have set dates for new gas connection bans.

The Grattan report says while gas will remain for some time, it is not the “transition fuel” being relied upon as coal-generation ends, with renewable energy and storage generating the bulk of needs and gas providing residual capacity and balancing generation for the last 10 per cent.

“There will be costs to the great energy transition and governments will need to decide who pays, how much, and when,” Mr Wood said.

A separate report, by Frontier Economics for Gas Energy Australia, has found Victorian homes would face $11,871 in upfront costs to change from gas to high-efficiency electric appliances.

The Grattan report, noting the Albanese government’s $1bn allocation to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation in the 2023 budget was designed to “turbocharge financing options for household energy upgrades,” said setting an end date for gas would drive down prices by increasing competition among electric appliance companies and finance providers.

Fair to say that Andrews will be all over this piece of excrement. Last bloke leaving, turn the lights out, Victoria is finished.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 19, 2023 10:33 am

Quenthland news (the Courier-Mail):

A man who murdered his wife, melted her body in acid and poured her remains down a drain will be allowed to apply for early release after the parole board ruled he had given satisfactory co-operation under the state’s “no body, no parole” laws.

All that remained of Li Ping Cao were her porcelain teeth after her husband Klaus Julius Andres spent days “gradually dissolving her existence” in a wheelie bin at his Cairns home after murdering her in 2011.

Wait for it……

The board has previously been presented with evidence of neighbours who saw Andres with the bin outside the home in November 2011.

Wait for it…..

“He subsequently lost control of that wheelie bin, given the weight of it, and it spilled down the front of his driveway, the contents, and the witnesses had described the contents as, for want of a better word, a pink slushy mess going down his driveway into the stormwater drain,” the board heard.

Whoopsie-doodle!

Ms Cao’s body has never been found but police discovered 10 of her porcelain teeth in the storm drain outside her home.

Clean those choppers, people. You never know when they’ll come in handy. For a forensic odontologist.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
June 19, 2023 10:34 am

The ‘here darling, get in this special bath’ killer’s name is Klaus.

Coincidence? YOU DECIDE!

Roger
Roger
June 19, 2023 10:34 am

Says the Constitution is illegal.

Depending on her point (I know), that could be construed as treasonous.

Which provides grounds for expulsion from the senate.

What say ye, A-G Dreyfus?

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 19, 2023 10:36 am

And article above that about the holier than thou Left:

Explosive allegations of political coercion at the City of Yarra have emerged after a resident claimed a Greens councillor phoned to warn her off about making a submission to a meeting.

The resident told the meeting on December 9 that she had received a phone call earlier that day from Deputy Mayor Cr Edward Crossland saying any contribution by her that night may affect a separate planning issue to which she had objected.

Other residents later said Cr Crossland had made similar calls to them.

The Herald Sun believes the residents have lodged official complaints with Victoria’s council watchdog, the Local Government Inspectorate.

The resident was one of several ratepayers to address the public meeting, held online.

“I didn’t appreciate a call today to warn me that my submission this evening may impact the development I’ve objected to when it comes to PDC (the Planning Decisions Committee),’’ the resident said.

“I’m going to take my warning as a lapse of … judgment on the councillor’s behalf, which seems to be a common occurrence these days,’’ she told the meeting.

The resident’s allegations were not recorded in the meeting minutes but the video and audio of the meeting remains online. (Until it doesn’t)

The comments are believed to have prompted other residents to raise similar claims.

Their submissions were thought to be in relation to claims of “misuse of position” under the Local Government Act 2020.

Cr Crossland has not responded to the Herald Sun’s questions.

The December meeting had been held at short notice to discuss a motion to overturn a controversial proposal from Cr Crossland for the council to conduct fewer public meetings.

Residents claimed Cr Crossland’s proposal would mean the council was less accountable.

Cr Stephen Jolly later put forward a rescission motion, backed by Cr Amanda Stone.

Cr Stone last month quit the Greens, leaving the party with just three councillors out of nine.

The rescission motion was voted down 5-2.

The Local Government Inspectorate would not comment.

The City of Yarra would not say if it had conducted its own investigation into the serious claims, six months since the issue was raised. A series of questions from the Herald Sun were ignored.

“Yarra City Council is not in a position to comment on this matter,’’ the statement said.

Council Watch spokesman Dean Hurlston said it was disappointing to see allegations of any councillor seeking to intimidate members of the public.

“The public has the right to be heard. We hear Greens councillors like Cr Crossland passionately demand adoption of ‘Mutual Respect Charters’ to control resident behaviour, so the hypocrisy in these allegations is astounding.

“Cr Crossland should address these allegations publicly and apologise if he has made a mis-step.’’

Cr Crossland was elected to the Melba ward in 2020, then one of five Greens councillors to form a majority at the inner-city council which covers Richmond, Abbotsford, Collingwood, Fitzroy, Clifton Hill and parts of Carlton and Alphington.

The Greens have since lost majority control, after Cr Stone’s party resignation and Gabrielle de Vietri’s departure to contest and win the state seat of Richmond last November.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
June 19, 2023 10:39 am

If Meloni hugs Musk, would that be fascism?

Muddy
Muddy
June 19, 2023 10:39 am

These Guccidigenes are doing a pretty good job of giving their so-called bruthas a bad name. Still, I don’t suppose Guccidigenes and Best&Lessdigenes have much in common.

Black Ball
Black Ball
June 19, 2023 10:40 am

And the final field for the Gold Logie has been revealed, Telegraph:

Julia Morris, Osher Gunsberg, Sonia Kruger, Leigh Sales, Mark Coles Smith, Shaun Micallef and Hamish Blake are the field of contenders for Gold at the 63rd annual event that will be held in Sydney for the first time in nearly four decades.

Leigh Sales. Almost pencil it in.

Real Deal
Real Deal
June 19, 2023 10:43 am

All that remained of Li Ping Cao were her porcelain teeth after her husband Klaus Julius Andres spent days “gradually dissolving her existence” in a wheelie bin at his Cairns home after murdering her in 2011.

Queensland? Surely the bloke was from South Australia. There must be a hyphen in his surname.

P
P
June 19, 2023 10:43 am

Former PM slates Albanese’s stance on Calvary Hospital takeover
19 June 2023

Former prime minister John Howard has called the ACT Government’s forced takeover of the Catholic-run Calvary Public Hospital Bruce the greatest assault on the principle of private ownership he has seen in Australia. Source: The Weekend Australian.

Mr Howard said Mr Albanese lacked the “courage to call out what the ACT Government is doing”.

lotocoti
lotocoti
June 19, 2023 10:44 am

Carrying a Torx Driver With Intent soon to be on the books
in Old London Town.
Probably.

Boambee John
Boambee John
June 19, 2023 10:47 am

memsays:
June 19, 2023 at 9:35 am
risking the nation’s legally binding climate goals.

Can someone explain why they are

legally binding

Innernashunal agreements (which do not become “legally binding” until they are incorporated into Australian law. So, because Parliament has passed a law, which can be repealed.

And, of course, our “innernashunal reputation”.

1.8K
0
Oh, you think that, do you? Care to put it on record?x
()
x