But on solar, it has made big strides. According to the Clean Energy Council’s latest national report card, NSW hosted the majority of new large-scale solar projects completed and commissioned in Australia in 2022.

The “Clean Energy Council”?
Why can’t it be called what it actually is? “Bullshit”

Then the above quote would read

But on solar, it has made big strides. According to the Bullshit”s latest national report card, NSW hosted the majority of new large-scale solar projects completed and commissioned in Australia in 2022.

Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc:

A Doctor’s Challenge to the BMA
28TH JULY 2023

I recently received a copy of a statement made by Mr Philip Banfield, an obstetrician who is the BMA UK Council Chair and who spoke at the official covid inquiry.

Banfield said: `Speaking in my capacity as BMA chair of council, I was acutely aware of the responsibility I held not only of speaking on behalf of its association and all its members, but for every single doctor working in our health service and the millions of patients they care for.’

I didn’t know whether to cry, scream or punch the wall when I read that. The arrogance! Banfield was not speaking for all doctors. And he certainly was not speaking for patients. The BMA has been the patients’ enemy for years, and never more than it is now. BMA strikes are causing untold damage to endless numbers of patients. Not surprisingly, hospital and GP patients are increasingly dissatisfied with the care they receive. For Banfield to claim that he was speaking for patients is simply extraordinary and shows a level of disconnect that is deeply worrying.

If BMA members had the guts to strike for better health care, for an end to working practices which have led to the longest waiting times in history or for the end of the General Medical Council’s absurd disciplinary process which punishes doctors who dare to ask questions or share truths, then I would not approve of their methods (doctors are never entitled to withdraw their labour by going on strike) but I would approve of their motives.

But BMA members are striking for more money.

Consultants on an average salary of £128,000 (plus pension) are striking for a 35% pay rise. That’s an extra £45,000 a year. They must know they cannot possible receive such a pay rise. If they did they would destroy what is left of the National Health Service and they would help push inflation still higher.

The doctors’ strikes are official BMA strikes. Far from caring for patients the BMA appears be using them as a weapon, boasting recently that one in six people will soon be on waiting lists if doctors don’t receive the 35% pay rise they are demanding.

It is the BMA which has, in my view, helped destroy health care in the UK. It was the decision of GPs not to work nights or weekends which destroyed hospitals and the ambulance service. And today the average GP works around three days a week. Librarians and accountants work longer hours than GPs.

Does the BMA want to destroy health care in Britain? Or does it want to destroy Britain?

I’m pretty sure it’s the latter. It seems to me that the BMA is helping to take us into a world of 15 minute cities, digitalisation, mass vaccination programmes and the Great Reset. It was, I remember, the BMA which said that climate change should be a new priority for doctors. It seems to concern them not at all that climate change is just a myth – and a myth, like covid and vaccination which must never, ever be debated.

Banfield of the BMA went on to discuss covid-19 as though it were a real pandemic. Does he really not know that the evidence proves that covid-19 was no more than the rebranded flu? Does he really not know that doctors and hospitals and bureaucrats and politicians killed more people than covid-19? Does he not know that all scientific debate was crushed by the medical establishment? Does he not know that the covid-19 `vaccine’ does not do what it is supposed to do and is so toxic that it should not have been given to one patient – let alone billions?

If he doesn’t know these things it may be because the medical establishment of which he is a part has crushed all debate and helped silence those telling the truth.

Once again I issue my now well-worn challenge.

I challenge Mr Banfield to debate his so-called pandemic, live on national television. I will prove to him that everything the medical establishment did made things worse. Those BMA members who followed the official party line and who wore masks and gave covid jabs were behaving like ignorant fools. They were the problem – not the solution. They should be ashamed.

But Mr Banfield won’t accept my challenge, of course. Even if he wanted to he wouldn’t be allowed to risk it. The establishment dare not risk allowing the truth to be broadcast on mainstream media.

And they know that I’d chew up Mr Banfield and spit him out in bits because I have the truth on my side. I can prove very quickly that if one of us is speaking on behalf of patients it isn’t him.

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Day 820 of Build Back Better

More like – Build Back Worse –

Robert Sewell
Jul 30, 2023 2:48 PM
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/it-will-be-a-bit-contested-australia-to-introduce-national-digital-id-by-mid-2024-post-5429057
We gave this insidious plot a damn good kicking when it first stuck its head up years ago. We’ll be doing the same, with a lot more enthusiasm this time around.
I will be taking note of the politicians who vote yes.

Australia already has the Medicare Card Number and the Tax File Number.

There is no need for a National ID Card with another number either physical or digital.

The usual spin coming out of the Swinging Pig byelection. The Cookie Monster describes a 33% swing against the Liars on primary votes as a “solid result”. I would hate to see a bad one. I’m off to make enquires about Lieboral preselection.

ON laptops .. methinx like anything else someone somewhere getz a lemon .. just luck of the draw ..
I’ve an HP Inspiron (14inch 6gb 500gb HD) 10 years old bought for $100 new cos running W7 when the next W came out .. in 1st 3 weeks it crashed 3 times after I’d re-installed Windows .. so fed-up wiped Windows .. installed Linux Ubuntu ……
never had a problem since .. and wiv the lid covered in “toon” stickers it couldn’t be happier! … LOL!

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Roger Cook describes Labor’s by-election win as solid result despite party’s drop in support
Jake DietschThe West Australian
Sun, 30 July 2023 12:15PM
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Premier Roger Cook has described Saturday’s Rockingham by-election as a “solid result”, despite a 33 per cent drop in Labor’s primary vote in the once ultra-safe seat for the Government.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday after Labor’s Magenta Marshall retained the seat on Saturday night, Mr Cook said he would not take the electorate for granted.

But an emboldened Liberal leader Libby Mettam, whose party candidate Peter Hudson saw a meagre 8 per cent rise in support, said the result had put the Premier on notice.

The count on Sunday morning showed Labor’s Magenta Marshall just short of a majority of the primary vote, winning the seat with more than 65 per cent of the vote after preferences, a two party swing of more than 20 per cent against Labor.

The WA Liberals received less than 18 per cent of the vote in the by-election caused by Mark McGowan’s shock decision to resign from parliament.

The Premier said Labor did not take Rockingham, its safest seat where Mr McGowan received nearly 83 per cent of the primary vote in 2021, for granted.

“Like I’ve always said we took nothing for granted in relation to Rockingham and that’s why we put forward a positive plan which focuses on the issues that concern people today,” he said.

“This is a solid result for Labor and won of which we are very proud.

“We knew that with any by-election, with its own unique set of circumstances and issues impacting on both the local state and national level, that it was always going to be tough.

“The fact that we’ve produced such a solid result was obviously a great testament to the fact that we had a wonderful candidate in Magenta Marshall.”

But Liberal leader Libby Mettam said her party, which holds just two seats in the lower house, could take “much encouragement” in one of the safest Labor seats in the country.

“A huge swing against the Labor government, clearly the Premier is on notice,” she said.

Ms Mettam dismissed concerns that her party’s primary vote had only grown by 8 per cent.

“We can understand that for some in protesting against the Labor government it was too much to vote for the Liberal Party in one of the safest Labor seats in the country. But this is the best result for the Liberal Party in over a decade in WA Labor’s safest seat,” she said.

“It’s still an improvement on 2017.”

Liberal candidate Peter Hudson said forcing Labor to rely on preferences to win the seat for the first time since Mr McGowan was initially elected showed the people of Rockingham were “listening to the Labor government’s failures”.

“The shambolic implementation of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act is an example of some of the worst policy ever implemented in the WA parliament,” Mr Hudson said.

“The people of Rockingham, with a strong Liberal voice in Rockingham will not take the inadequacies of the Cook Labor government.”

Indeed, a few hours after last Friday’s announcement, the NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns refused to rule it out when pushed by the media, even though banning gas appliances will only further drive up costs to householders.

He may dream of banning ’em in “new” “private” dwellings, like the Vic idiot, but he won’t be forcing it on the “already connected” ..
NSW has 250 000 public housing properties, 95% have gas connections (NSW also has a, current , pay to connect contract wiv AGL for public housing dwellings) so not only would he be up for a contract penalty but also the astronomical cost of mass conversion .. not mentioning that given the age of 3/4 of these properties it, probably, wouldn’t be financially viable …….
I know a proper inspection of my place would entail , at least, $10 000 of upgrade repairs on top of conversion .. they avoid these sort of repairs by relying on tenant complaints & tenants don’t bother complaining (unless it’s really serious!) cos they know it’s a waste of time .. but wiv the full inspection an electric refit would entail they (Housing) wouldn’t be able to keep the additional problems under wraps …… occasionally a bit of media publicity can be a wake-up call .. LOL!
Given some of the dithering that Ho Chi Minns has dispayed so far he’s trying harder to be liked rather than undertaking contentious decisions ….
He’s more inclined towards the “Barrel” than “Gladys” image ……

New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind

Be miserable to save the planet you worthless useless eaters.

BBC Heatwave Reporting DEBUNKED With Facts

We gave this insidious plot a damn good kicking when it first stuck its head up years ago. We’ll be doing the same, with a lot more enthusiasm this time around.

The BAT FLU lockdowns proved they (gummints) can do as they like cos most will obey .. sure there’ll be lotza bleating as there aslwayz is with contentious issues but the end result is you’ll carry & show the “card” when demanded …….. life 101!

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Dr. John Campbell

Freedom of speech

This song is a wonderful tribute to people who really love this land.

Good song, but farming in that part of the world is living proof that George Goyder was right, all those years ago!

Bern

As you imply, It’s not a big deal as some folks here are making out, although it would be good if it failed.

There’s a medicare number, driver’s license, government services number ( the actual name that I forget), TFN.

As you probably know, people had to sign up for an International ID if owning a company or being a director. Was this the same as the director’s ID ASIC required recently.

Damon
Jul 30, 2023 4:11 PM

I am not aware of any instance in evolutionary history where a more primitive life form has survived in competition with advanced forms.

Crocs and alligators are prehistoric and believed not to have evolved much if at all, but they’re still around.

A decentralised ID number is currently being worked on by the Federal government & two of the big four accounting firms.
The idea is that you give this decentralised ID number to all your service providers instead of giving your drivers licence or passport.
They are trying to build the digital infrastructure that meets all the AML & CRS agreements Australia has signed up to but protects the punters from all the data hacking.

The whole country’s citizenry’s details all in one place, just waiting for an enterprising hacker.

Dot,

Yeah, we are already living under a surveillance state. I forgot to include passport number on that list.

Every, let me repeat, every single one of those numbers/codes has been abused by government since their inception. There could be one or two exceptions because Directors’ ID and the international ID are new and the state hasn’t thought of a reason to abuse them yet.

The fight to take the hill was lost a long time ago.

The best solution in living under these circumstances is to lead a simple and boring life, thereby making the state totally uninterested in you. 🙂

The international ID bullshit, is a requirement for the EU I think. If you deal in financial instruments that are EU related you have to obtain this ID in order to participate. It’s about 20 numbers and letters long. 🙂

When this Voice vote goes down, I can hear the howling now ‘my boomerang won’t come back’!

For shame, don’t you realize that, when this voice vote goes down, Aboriginal souls will be crushed? Nah, me neither.

There’s one and one only, common denominator to all abuse, invective & childishness on this blog.

Reading Peter Sutton’s book “The Politics Of Suffering.” Sutton has lived and worked with Aboriginal communities since 1969.

He makes the point that the average life expectancy of a house in many specifically indigenous communities is extraordinarily short, often about seven years. (Page 127.)

Ah Zulu – I bought and read that book many moons ago. Sutton is a professional anthropologist and lived, as I recall, in the community of Arukun with his wife and child for some years. I always recall his account of finding an Aboriginal woman, who was minding his (then) toddler, pinching the little fellow who was crying out. The woman protested that this must be done to make children tough!

Sutton became disenchanted by the repeated suicides and self harm amongst the young, and blamed this (as I recall) on the meaningless life and limited opportunities in these communities.

In recent times he has been involved in a continuing battles with Bruce Pascoe over the latter’s ridiculous claims for Aboriginal systems of “agriculture,” permanent building structures and other imagined technical accomplishments. It is infuriating that the luvvies refuse to listen to a qualified anthrolpogist who has studied Aboriginal communities for the duration of his academic life, and prefer the outrageous and unproven claims of Pascoe.

I bought a 500ml bottle of Lark – tassies single malt. $200 for 500ml.

Has the standard of Tasmanian single malt improved since it was made from potatoes, and served admirably to dip sheep?

Muddy
Jul 30, 2023 5:48 PM
When this Voice vote goes down…

… the states will step in on account of the people’s failure. The states will offer compensation for present and future generational trauma due to the negative outcome of the inVoice, and continue with their ‘reparations’ (submission to blackmail).

The state premiers would like nothing better but I think the WA example and their by-election result may cool that enthusiasm, permanently I hope.

Zulu first touched on this, now Bolt brings the hammer:

Brittany Higgins is now Aboriginal, too? And even got a job from Victoria’s version of Labor’s Aboriginal-only Voice?

Dear God. This Aboriginal identity craze is just too much.

And wait until I tell you about the latest very senior “Aboriginal” academic.

But let’s start with Higgins, whose story helps to explain why so many academics in particular say they’re Aboriginal when they’re not.

Higgins, you’ll know, controversially claimed she’d been raped in Parliament House by a Liberal colleague. He denied it, but she still won up to $3 million in compensation.

It was extraordinary. Higgins didn’t have to prove either the rape or the nasty treatment she claimed she’d got from the Morrison Liberal Government before the Albanese Labor Government gave this fortune to the woman who’d help them to smash the Liberals.

But Higgins had meanwhile hit a problem. Where could she find another job?

No problem! A friend working at Victoria’s First Peoples Assembly told her to apply there to be a media adviser, and apparently told her bosses Higgins had Aboriginal ancestry.

Text messages uncovered by the Daily Mail show that friend, Emma Webster, then asking Higgins what “mob” she was, adding the Assembly’s “co-chair and CEO are curious”.

Higgins replied that her grandfather was connected “to either the Nyawigi or Gugu Badhun people”. But “we’re not entirely sure which one” and her grandfather “didn’t want to progress any further” with inquiries after reconnecting with his “siblings from the orphanage”.

Higgins added: “We’ve all collectively as a family respected his wishes”, but “my grandma has all the documentation if you’d like”.

Be clear: I’m NOT calling Higgins a fake. Her grandfather may indeed have Aboriginal ancestry, but I wonder how anyone could claim Higgins is in any meaningful way Aboriginal herself, based on such uncertain connections.

Higgins got the job, but many other Australians who get jobs after claiming to be Aboriginal can’t even wave at any documents to supposedly prove it.

I’ve given examples before: author Bruce Pascoe, of course, now Professor of “Indigenous Agriculture” at Melbourne University; and Professor Kerrie Doyle of the non-existent “Winninninii” tribe. Both won’t explain why their genealogies show no Aboriginal ancestors.

But let me now introduce you to yet another academic who has longed claimed to be Aboriginal.

Margo Neale is an Australian National University adjunct professor, and head of the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges at the National Museum of Australia.

She’s been one of the gatekeepers of Aboriginal culture, organising exhibitions of Aboriginal art and working at the National Gallery of Australia and the state galleries of NSW and Queensland.

She’s big. She’s shared in seven Australian Research Council grants, and her many books include the Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture.

Part of Neale’s influence comes from claiming she’s Aboriginal herself – descended on her mother’s side from the “Mirning-language speakers of the Albany region, Western Australia”.

She’s also claimed she’s “Aboriginal descent, from Kulin nation with Gumbayngirr clan connections”, and even “clan-affiliated” with the Wiradjuri of NSW.

The trouble is that Neale’s family tree – now assembled by professional genealogists at dark-emu-exposed.org – suggests she’s actually 100 per cent of Irish, Welsh and English stock.

The researchers couldn’t find a single Aborigine among Neale’s ancestors, after consulting birth records, death records, newspaper clippings of family events, and the family trees and photographs posted on ancestry.com by two of Neale’s very close relatives.

Dark-emu-exposed.org wrote to Neale asking her if they’d overlooked something, but got no answer.

Then I wrote, asking Neale to identify her Aboriginal ancestor. I eventually received a response offering no name or evidence: “Aboriginal histories, as you know, can indeed be tricky particularly if one relies on western records during the long period of disruption and displacement …

“Aboriginal births, deaths and marriages were largely unrecorded outside missions and pastoral properties in earlier days at least, or inaccurately recorded for spurious purposes or surnames changed for legitimacy reasons.”

I’ve since asked Neale again which ancestor was Aboriginal and had their birth record inaccurately recorded.

I’m still waiting, but someone did meanwhile send me one university document which helps to explain why so many academics are now Aborigines about as pale as Higgins.

It was a Queensland University advertisement, seeking a lecturer in maths and physics, but insisting “the occupant must be of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander descent”. I’ve since found many more such racist ads.

How mad. No wonder a great race circus overwhelms even our universities and all common sense.

Nice little trip in the DeLorean back to 2017, courtesy of JC last night.
Some much loved posters featuring … Geriatric Mayfly, Des Deskperson, Infidel Tiger, John Comnenus.
OTOH … St Ruth, Faulty, _eggster, Stimpson, testpattern.

It was a Queensland University advertisement, seeking a lecturer in maths and physics, but insisting “the occupant must be of Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander descent”. I’ve since found many more such racist ads.

How mad. No wonder a great race circus overwhelms even our universities and all common sense.

I don’t blame people for lying to get a job in these sort of circumstances because I think it is highly unethical to disqualify applicants on racial grounds.

Yep, there’s one and one only, common denominator to all abuse, invective & childishness on this blog.

Anyone know if that crashed Taipan was equipped with a black box flight recorder or locator device? I’m just a bit surprised that it’s taking so long to find it.

P
Jul 30, 2023 6:22 PM
How did the double post happen? Please ignore.

No. Most of your posts are worth reading again.

Thank you P, you are very kind.

If you have a phone you are not isolated as such.

I would like to expand on this a bit. I am on a WhatsApp group with my children and grandchildren and keep everyone updated on my goings on as they all do. It is a very quick way of keeping up with the family.

I’ve just bought this book as it sounds really good.

The Beginning Of Infinity, by David Deutsch.

Here’s a summary of what it deals with.

This point is a pretty interesting observation.

7. **The importance of culture:** Deutsch also discusses how cultural evolution surpasses biological evolution in shaping human destiny. He emphasizes that our ability to create, share, and build upon ideas fuels our growth as a species.

’No excuse’ for report on Lehrmann rape case to be secret

By stephen rice
NSW Editor
@riceyontheroad
5:55PM July 30, 2023
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The dispiriting mess of the Brittany Higgins-Bruce Lehrmann saga has bred hundreds of conspiracy theories, almost all of them based on ­ignorance and absence of facts.

Now, just when we were about to get the first independent, cool-headed look at what went wrong in the prosecution of the case, the ACT government has decreed that the findings of inquiry chair Walter Sofronoff KC – to be ­delivered on Monday – will be kept secret for at least another month.

The territory government has a reputation for own goals, but for sheer contempt of its own constituents, this one takes the trophy.
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There is no excuse for such a delay; not that Chief Minister ­Andrew Barr has bothered to offer one.

Barr says he “currently intends” to table some or all of the report at the end of August, at which time he “may” provide an interim response, pending a final response that “may take several months”.

Perhaps the government hopes the public interest in this matter will fade over time.

Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC demanded this inquiry after alleging political interference by Liberal MPs and police sabotage of his prosecution. He can’t complain now that it has not gone the way he wanted.

The ACT’s Labor-Greens coalition government happily commissioned the inquiry, no doubt anticipating some political scalps. It can’t bury the report now that it has not gone the way it expected.

The inquiry’s terms of reference were already so limited that Sofronoff had to ask that they be widened to ­include Drumgold’s conduct in the preparation of the proceedings and in the hearings.

The reasons for that are now obvious.

There are a number of potential adverse findings against Drumgold. Depending on what, if any, such findings are made against him, it could result in his instant dismissal.

The government set Sofronoff a gruelingly tight deadline to ­establish the facts, but has given itself a free pass to mull over the spin. When did this cabal plan to ­announce that the report wasn’t going to see the light of day for at least a month?

If The Australian hadn’t picked up a whiff of panic from the government and requested details of the release – the response to which arrived at 5.22pm on Friday; a time-honoured technique known as “putting out the trash” – we might still be none the wiser.

There is no evidence that ­Sofronoff has asked that the ­release of his report be delayed.

If there are parts of the report the commissioner thinks should be kept confidential, there is no reason to suppose he hasn’t made provision for that.

When Sofronoff handed down his report last year into Queensland’s failed forensic DNA testing, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk immediately released the findings and within 48 hours had accepted all 123 recommendations and ­announced $95m in funding to fix the problems.

Many lives have been damaged by the Lehrmann-Higgins case, and more pain has been inflicted thanks to an inquiry demanded by Drumgold, only for him to admit that his claims about political interference and police conspiring against him were wholly misconceived.

Lehrmann and Higgins are both entitled to know what ­Sofronoff has found about the way they were treated by police and prosecutors without it being parsed through “a proper cabinet process”.

Just as importantly, the criminal justice system in the ACT is in disarray.

Trust between ACT Policing and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions evaporated during the Lehrmann investigation, with morale at an all-time low and cases stagnating.

Both sides are waiting warily to see what comes of the inquiry.

Sofronoff’s report could well be the circuit-breaker needed to restore a viable working relationship between the two agencies. Another month, or more, of speculation and turmoil will only add to the hostility already rampant.

If there are rules to be changed, laws to be fixed, that is a debate we should be having in public.

The government needs to take a leaf out of Sofronoff’s book: just get on with the job and do it openly and transparently.