Earlier I put up a scientifically verified video of that doozy carpet muncher, rapeinoe, missing the losing kick which saw the US lesso team get booted out of some women’s BS sport. Doubt was expressed about the ability of rapeinoe to not only miss the losing goal but to propel the ball back in time and be responsible for hitting biden in the back of his empty head causing him to fall, again, at a military function. Let me just say it is this sort of scepticism which is destroying science and our precious body fluids. Here is the video again; note the look of joy on rapeionoe’s face as she sees her kick smash biden in the back of his rusted skull. I’m prepared to say she did this deliberately for the greater good thus proving even a hatchet faced, shit brained, blue haired lesso retains some dignity:

https://twitter.com/NautPoso/status/1688174742996447232

Sofronoff and Drumgold may face charges
Jenna Clarke

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and the Attorney General Shane Rattenbury have suggested Walter Sofronoff – the man tasked with conducting an inquiry into the Bruce Lehrmann trial could face charges over leaking the Board of Inquiry report to journalists.

During a briefing regarding the report on Monday they also suggested outgoing ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold – the man responsible for case – could also face charges.

“This is not a government that acts on a whim. We act with care. We act with the focus on due process, and we were stepping through that carefully. It’s also part of the reason why the Chief Minister was so clear that we intend to take a little bit of time to look at the report before releasing it,” Mr Rattenbury said.

Shadow Attorney General Michaelia Cash said she is now pleased the report has been released publicly.

“I’m pleased to say that the AC T government have accepted the 10 recommendations, but I think there’s a long, long, long way to go to actually restore confidence in the ACT justice system,” Senator Cash said.

“If you don’t have confidence in your justice system as Australians, what do you have? If you are ever charged you want to know that if a matter is going to trial, and in particular a criminal trial, a criminal trial that the prosecutors act in particular without fear or favour.”

on tv refusing to deny (3 times asked) that a NO vote would be followed by his government putting laws through anyway.

Why didn’t he do this this first, so we can see it in act…. Ok nevermind.

Daily Mail.

Alice Springs gripped by crime spree targeting airport, university and nursing home – as Anthony Albanese and his Voice ‘Yes’ campaigners enjoyed the $5,000-per-person Garma festival

Alice Springs gripped by crime at the weekend
Airport and university broken into, nursing home bus stolen
Policitians were in East Arnhem Land for Garma festival
Festival was used to promote the upcoming Voice referendum

Cameron
1 hour ago
Methinks our PM has been the very useful idiot here. The indigenous activists have run rings around him and his soothing words are making him look very silly. No wonder previous PMs have declined to support.This is a militant document from many who have derived enormous benefit from a western civilisation and now they want to wind back the clock and embrace very different culture’s rules which do not really have a place in this modern world.

dover0beach

Aug 7, 2023 2:22 PM

The crosstabs for the Yes campaign are absolutely terrible. Kos Samaras is trying to spin it as the ‘politics of grievance but when you look at the crosstabs, Yes is getting pounded everywhere. 

Interesting.
I heard Samaras on 3AW yesterday. He seemed quite measured and objective about the poll results. Pretty much described the Yes campaign as a train wreck. Didn’t once say “redneck” or “racist”.

Mr Albanese says he would make a personal appeal to all state and territory leaders to instate a public holiday.

Which, of course, will ensure that business owners, big & small, will be enthusiastically cheer leading Luigi’s generosity ………

Dot
Aug 7, 2023 4:19 PM
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will use the next meeting of national cabinet to campaign for a federal public holiday, should the Matildas make it to the World Cup final.

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He’s trying out the Bon Hawke routine of a public holiday after the America’s Cup back in the early 80s.

Heston Russell grilled in court over ‘fake’ document given to ABC
Michaela Whitbourn
By Michaela Whitbourn
August 7, 2023 — 1.39pm

Former commando Heston Russell has admitted during his defamation case against the ABC that he gave a “fake” document to one of the broadcaster’s journalists when they were researching a story that is not at the centre of his lawsuit.

Russell, a former platoon commander, is suing the ABC for defamation over two articles published online in October 2020 and November 2021, and a related television broadcast.

As part of his claim for aggravated damages, Russell has alleged a separate ABC article published in December 2021 on a different topic, which linked to the earlier articles, was published to harm him. He is not suing for defamation over this article.

On Monday, Russell was asked about a document he sent ABC journalist Josh Robertson before the reporter wrote the December 2021 article, which referred to Russell’s alleged dealings with veterans’ mental health charity Swiss 8.

During a hearing last month, Russell initially told the court this document was a genuine invoice for fitness equipment he ordered in 2020 for Swiss 8, his employer at the time.

Justice Michael Lee asked Russell during a hearing in Sydney on Monday: “I thought we got to the stage … where you agreed that what you sent through to the journalist was not a genuine invoice; do you remember giving that evidence?”

“Yes, your honour,” Russell said.

“So you knew on the 30th of December 2021 [after the ABC’s article was published] that what you had provided purporting to be a genuine invoice was, in fact, a fake invoice?” Lee said.

“Yes, your honour,” Russell said.

“So was the reason you didn’t seek a copy of what you say is the original invoice on 30 December 2021 because you’d already provided a fake invoice so you didn’t need a genuine invoice?” Lee asked.

“Yes, your honour,” Russell replied.

Under cross-examination on July 28, the first day of the trial, Russell told the court he had altered a document bearing his own company name and address to include Swiss 8’s name and address.

Asked why he had initially described this as a genuine invoice, Russell said he was confused by the question and in any event “it did represent the correct invoice”, which he could not locate at the time.

He denied trying to mislead Robertson and said the altered document was an “exact representation of what occurred”.

WTF is that green sculpture at the back of the malls near the bus depot in the city near stuff like Betty’s Burgers?

Dot, our kids call it the booger.

Cassie of Sydney

Aug 7, 2023 3:36 PM

If the Voice flops at the referendum, and I suspect it will (although we can’t be sure of anything nowadays), Sleazy will then legislate it, and the legislation will easily pass with the help of the Greens and Pocock. It will be “a la ATSIC” all over again.

Which will be a yuuuge political mistake.
Effectively giving the middle finger to the electorate who just voted it down.

I also expect that if it flops, we’ll see an enraged Sleazy and his government. They don’t take kindly to rejection, because they’ve had little of it. They’ll take it out on Australians, that is you and me. Just watch. It won’t be pretty.

Yes.
My guess is they will work the “International Pariah” angle, trying to gee-up Saffie apartheid type boycotts against Australian business and travellers. They won’t do it overtly, but they will enable it in the background.

Yep. Like going for a drive with Bob Collins.

Double jeopardy if you are aged under 10.

My guess is they will work the “International Pariah” angle

The UN will be all over it. Although being denounced by a former NZ Prime Minister is hard to take. Thank goodness Kevni isn’t Secretary General. Awks as they say.

Solar Analytics CEO Stefan Jarnason says gas is no longer a transition fuel and Australia needs to move “as quickly to renewable energy as possible”.

Stefan’s vegan face, sallow, sneering and patronising, is very puncheable.

Mr Albanese says he would make a personal appeal to all state and territory leaders to instate a public holiday.

I think he waaaay overestimates his personal appeal.

People voting ‘No’ have already decided he is trying to pull a fast one. His personal appeal will only cement that opinion in their minds. His slobbering melodramatics will likely turn some ‘Yes’ people against the the Voice because they had previously thought about it only in terms of the warm fuzzy banalities used to date.

Or he is carefully crafting a Whitlamite legacy – a man too much better than the time in which he lived. Gough was a disaster by any metric. Even the yartz he supposedly fostered are in fact are way worse off than before – parochial and sterile, not a single thing in the plastic arts that is not exactly equivalent to an undergraduate text, the visual aspect adding nothing, and the written arts a bead-stringing of PoMo cliche which grinds to a stop in defeat – whereupon activist rage is meant to take its cue.

And just like Gough, the defeat will be glossed over (Australians decidedly and unambiguously vomited Gough out twice) and it will be painted over as having been due to some diabolical subterfuge by a small number malign conservatives who somehow tricked everyone.

Gough had way more people singing his praises for his PM-ship than he did during his PM-ship.

Can’t say I’ve ever been peed on in Perf. You weren’t wearing an NRL jersey?

You’ve never been to East Perf?

Albo tried. . That will guarantee him a place under the Tree of Knowledge. Which I believe has died (?).

You’ve never been to East Perf?

Perf station to Oates St. Always. RPH by ambulance only.

LOL HB!!!! I guess that’s the place to be if you want to see where your 40 Billion is going every year!!!

WA YES campaign is like handing out Lieboral HTV cards in Fremantle. Gotta keep your chin up.

cohenite
Aug 7, 2023 5:12 PM

Solar Analytics CEO Stefan Jarnason says gas is no longer a transition fuel and Australia needs to move “as quickly to renewable energy as possible”.

Stefan’s vegan face, sallow, sneering and patronising, is very puncheable.

I just asked him on Twitter, if he’s personally living 100% renewable. Interesting if he replies.

He’s his twitter nameplate. You should ask him too Cronkite.

@stefanjarnason
Hi, I read this: “Solar Analytics CEO Stefan Jarnason says gas is no longer a transition fuel and Australia needs to move “as quickly to renewable energy as possible”.”

Are you personally 100% renewable or does that just apply to everyone else?”

Be nice. Don’t be rude and for lord’s sake don’t send him any of those cute trannies pics you collect and jam that horrid stuff down our throats.

WA YES campaign is like handing out Lieboral HTV cards in Fremantle. Gotta keep your chin up.

We need upticks DB!!!! 🙂

Gough had way more people singing his praises when he died for his PM-ship than he did during his PM-ship

Voting for Gough was like Woodstock. Numbers need to be treated with caution. Everybody claims to have done it.

Huh, Bondi gets reated the number 1 beach in the world.

State x state Newspoll on da Voice:-

National Yes 43%; No 46%; Undecided 11%.

NSW Yes 45%; No 42%; Undecided 13%.

VIC Yes 44%; No 44%; Undecided 12%.

QLD Yes 39%; No 54%; Undecided 7%.

SA Yes 48%; No 42%; Undecided 10%.

WA Yes 39%; No 52%; Undecided 9%.

TAS Yes 43%; No 48%; Undecided 9%.

So, nationally the Yessers need 65% of the Undecideds to break their way to win the overall vote. Redbridge says that a forced choice of undecideds in their poll broke to No by almost exactly that percentage.

By state.
NSW. If the Yessers pull 40% of the Undecideds they carry NSW. Possible.

Victoria. Neck and neck. Either side pulls better than half of the 12% Undecideds they win. Too close.

Queensland. Pretty much a write off for the Yessers. All they can hope for is damage control on the National tally.

SA. At 48% Yes and 10% Undecided it os a probable Yesser win.

WA. Totally gonesky for the Yessers. Even ditching the Heritage Grift Act won’t save it. Again all they can hope for is damage control on the National tally.

Tassie. Yessers would need to snag nearly 80% of the Undecideds to get over the line.

So it looks like failing nationally and probably falling two states short on the state by state vote (only NSW and SA as possibles).
Put another way, with Queensland and WA pretty much in the bag, the No campaign only needs one other state to win the “majority of states” limb.

Put another way, with Queensland and WA pretty much in the bag, the No campaign only needs one other state to win the “majority of states” limb.

1. How are NT and ACT categorised? Presumably ACT’ers vote in NSW?

2. You posted 6 states. If it’s 3 states apiece does it then go to the popular vote?

You suspect the Melbourne suburban strip club crowd isn’t a core YES demographic.

There’s possibly a way to let the Cat out of the bag.

That knucklehead leading the Yes vote (Pearson) always claims constitutional recognition wouldn’t do a thing terms of how the country is governed. Then ask him, and the others, if they would support wording that any dispute could not be taken to the high court or any court whatsoever and the final word comes from the parliament. It would be interesting to see the squirming.

So they need 4/6 States to say YES as well as the national majority, which the territory voters are included in.

From memory, there have been at least two referendums where there may have been a majority of voters, but they failed to gain a majority of Sates.

That knucklehead leading the Yes vote (Pearson) always claims constitutional recognition wouldn’t do a thing terms of how the country is governed. Then ask him, and the others, if they would support wording that any dispute could not be taken to the high court or any court whatsoever and the final word comes from the parliament. It would be interesting to see the squirming.

Can’t do that head prefect; once something is part of the Constitution the HC must adjudicate on primary disputes involving that part of the Constitution. The day after the screech gets in tommy the commie, terrific teela, marcia, birney and the rest of the shitboxes will be off to the HC to get an interpretation on what the screech can do; and based on the Uluru statement from the arse what it can do will be anything it wants.

Tim Blair:

Hard to imagine, but there is something worse than cowardice. And that is someone who pretends to be a coward.

Harder still to imagine why someone would fake their fear, but it’s been happening here for decades.

Every time nuclear energy is mentioned anti-nuclear Australians scream about the dangers: meltdowns, radioactivity, rivers of toxic waste and so on.

They know none of these concerns are statistically or technologically realistic. And they know their own panic is a pose. They’re fright frauds. Imitation invertebrates.

If not outright scaredy-cats, they’re at least atomic kittens.

France is loaded with nuclear plants. Dozens of the things are scattered across a landmass barely one-fourteenth the size of Australia – yet there is no chance in hell of any anti-nuke lefty ever knocking back a free flight to Paris.

When visiting France our anti-nuke warriors moderate their meltdown anxiety. They relax about radiation.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a long-time atomic opponent, seemed perfectly happy when visiting Paris last year despite being in a nation overwhelmingly powered by nuclear energy.

But Albo then returned to Australia, where he dutifully recycled the left’s standard nuclear fear fakery.

Responding to the Coalition’s exploratory Yes campaign on nuclear energy, Albanese sneered: “No one loves a reactor like a reactionary, which is no wonder they’re so obsessed with nukes over there.”

Thrilled with his own wicked wordplay, Albanese tried it on again a few weeks later. “The shadow minister is looking at the nuclear option,” he told parliament. “No one likes a reactor like a reactionary.”

Those “reactionaries” presumably include, as has been previously noted, late Labor PM Bob Hawke, Gaia guy Tim Flannery and ex-British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who were all pro-nuclear at some point or other.

Albanese’s attempts at rewriting history clearly aren’t limited to his own Indigenous treaty views.

And here’s another reactor reactionary for Albanese to consider: former US President Barack Obama.

In 2014, Obama’s government approved loan guarantees for a massive scratch-built nuclear power project near Waynesboro, Georgia.

“The President wants to make clear,” US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said at the time, “that he sees nuclear energy as part of his carbon-free portfolio.”

And lo, the Obama government’s reactor fired up for public energy delivery for the first time last week.

“Plant Vogtle Unit 3 has officially reached commercial operation!!” Westinghouse Electric nuclear risk analyst Jenifer Avellaneda Diaz celebrated online.

The plant, she added, is “the first newly constructed nuclear reactor deployed in the United States in over 30 years and one that can power 500,000 homes and businesses”.

There you go. Science grad Jenifer is not afraid at all of nuclear energy, while a majority of our political class is pretend-petrified of it (selectively, anyway. Their mock alarm evaporates when they’re cruising France – or any other nuke-fuelled nation – on our coin).

Besides all their panic play-acting, Australian anti-nuclear types love a location scare. In 2022, Albanese followed long-established Labor tradition by demanding to know “where the plants are going to be”.

In Teal seats, ideally. Or just about anywhere. The French seem to manage. And so will everybody around Plant Vogtle Unit 3, Obama’s only gift to his nation.

The reactor will not only provide power to half-a-million houses and businesses, but it’ll also provide Australian observers with ways of measuring the economic and social impact of a newly operational nuclear facility.

Some data is already available. It just so happens that the Augusta National Golf Club, site of the annual US Masters tournament, is just an hour or so from Plant Vogtle Unit 3’s immense atomic glory.

Every year local hotels make an absolute killing. In 2020, for example, the charmingly straightforward Rodeway Inn – “all rooms include a clock radio and are warmly decorated with carpeted floors” – jacked up its prices from $75 a night to $1520.

If demand is any guide, hotels seem to be coping with their new nuclear neighbour. The Rodeway Inn is already completely booked out for the Masters next year, obviously wrecking my April holiday plans.

Speaking of money, Australian politicians may claim that the new nuclear plant’s budget blowout is evidence that nuclear is too expensive for Australia.

Please. The “too expensive” argument died when our politicians incinerated billions upon billions during the pandemic.

At least a nuclear investment will provide energy – unlike our pandemic madness, which generated only debt. Let’s drop the panic and power up.

BJohn.

Has the wording come out yet?

Royal filth. Son’s included.

How she became attracted to that ugly inbred w*anker boggles the mind.

The palaces – the servants – the lifestyle?

Zulu and calli nailed it.

It’s an old game, and the English aristocracy have played it for hundreds of years.

Milady goes to the alter a virgin, to prevent any argument over the inheritance laws. After she has produced the “heir and a spare”, both parties may resume any activities outside the marriage. My Lord could send afternoons with his mistress, and Milady could “take tea” in the afternoons with her love interest, and, as long as there was no scandal., it all went on. Lady Di did play the game with considerable enthusiasm, though.

Shane Wand has become quite the little expert on American politics now.

Donald Trump lost the election by 7 million votes and now he’s been charged with a conspiracy to overturn it.

I wouldn’t bet he knows it’s an electoral college system and just lying.

Maybe the report in on the ACT AG website. Can’t find it on the BOI website.

From BB article @ 10:15

“No one likes change. This is no different to any other major development be it coal or gas and it needs to take people on the journey first and to do that peoples’ concerns need to be listened to,” Mr Owens said.

But it’s really NOT like any other major development, is it?

Major developments of old have come about because of needs based, rational economic decisions.
Not because of the promise of our countries looted taxpayer dollars thanks to some government dictate which is based on a lie and facilitated by corrupt public officials.

It’s a “major development” alright and it will be an ongoing “major development” well into the future as these farces degrade and breakdown, get wiped out by hail and start fires.

Oh and GET F&CKED BARNABY!!

One of Australia’s most egregious covid Karens – up there with the epidemiologist who advised unit dwellers to seal their their doors with tape lest the virus waft in with the scent of their naighbour’s cooking – is still at it:

“Why is everyone sick? – Health with Dr Norman Swan

Sickness is sweeping across Australia, and a combination of a particularly bad flu season and rising rates of another flu like illness are the main culprits.

But… [wait for it – Roger] …another wave of COVID is just around the corner.”

– ABC RN Breakfast Broadcast 10h ago

Maybe, that doesn’t mean Charles hadn’t made it clear he did not love her as she loved him.

pray tell, what exactly is a an “Attwood” ?

For those like your good self who don’t know their way around Melbourne, Attwood is a suburb in NW metro Melbourne. Its location near an airport saw it as a favoured site for a quarantine facilities, along with Avalon. The site was ultimately built slightly further north at Mickleham.
Now that we have dealt with that little diversion, let’s go to the tape.
When our very own Concentration Camp Chicken Little, St Ruth, was having his clock cleaned on a daily basis, he had a couple of ardent supporters, running interference and treating him like their very own sponsor child.
Firstly there was MT was dropping “construction industry insider” tips about “suspicious irregularities” in the planning (can’t say too much, but I know a bloke … )
Secondly came Thought Leader who initially thought it all very plausible, but eventually fell back to “well, it’s just a bit of hyperbolic exaggeration to make a point” and “at least he’s doing something“.
Of course, it all fell apart the day the Queensssland Concentration Camp closed without having executed a single Member of The Resistance, with that immortal declaration of surrender from St Ruth … “Well, what was I supposed to think?”
Memories, eh?

Diana was a flibbertigibbet with the brains of a budgie. She didn’t understand the rules. I still think hazza is that dashing captain.

JC Avatar
JC
Aug 7, 2023 6:40 PM
Why can’t you do that?

The high court wouldn’t be able to interpret anything more than what is stated.

As BJ says above the screech is much more. Any reasonable legal eagle could get a ruling that the screech empowered any 3rd nations to have any whitie as a slave and alround arse licker.

Lol, yeah I recall, the Attwood concentration camp modelled on Treblinka, according to Stuphid.

I still remember feeling bewildered at how the late Queen was treated in that week after Diana’s death.

With you on that one, Calli.

Dot

Aug 7, 2023 6:26 PM

Look.

If TAS is 48% NO with 9% undecided and a mere 5.75% of votes do not turn up or are informal

I don’t know the numbers for past referenda, but the chance of an accidental informal ballot on a Yes/No question is much lower than, say, a bedsheet sized Senate paper, or a reps ballot with 10-12 candidates.

Mizaris@ 11:06

Indeed.
Mater did a post to that subject, or touched on it , from memory.

If the Voice flops at the referendum, and I suspect it will…

After a long conversation with 21 yo granddaughter this afternoon, I’m no longer so confident.

“I want to do the right thing,” she said, twisting her (beautiful, long, white, skinny) fingers, “but it doesn’t seem right to give one race special benefits.”

Aha! Enter Granny, stage right. “It’s not right, especially when we don’t know precisely what we’re voting for.”

“Yeah, I thought that was just me not understanding. But I feel so sorry for those poor children, abused and neglected. Something has to be done.”

Granny, warming up the clue bat: “Currrently, there are ten aboriginal members of the federal government and more in state parliaments. We spend $30 billion* a year on aboriginal services…”

A spluttered interjection. “$30 billion? That’s unfathomable.”

“And the current Minister for Indigenous Australians is Linda Burney, a self identified aborigine.”

“Then why is she waiting? With all that money, why doesn’t she do something about the problems right now?”

Precisely, my darling girl.

I then informed her about the Uluru Statement, the treaty and reparations in perpetuity. She was visibly shaken by all this. I urged her to discuss it with her friends and work colleagues, most of whom, she admitted were going on feelz (like her) rather than informed conviction. Also, they’re driven by those feelz to do ‘the right thing’ as pushed relentlessly by the Yes. Hence my apprehension for the outcome of this referendum.

The above is a very close, if condensed, description of our conversation.

*I know that the actual figure is far in excess of this, but I always underplay to avoid being accused of exaggeration.