Now that’s a pantry I like, not a carrot in sight. And no refrigeration in those days either!
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Real love and devotion to each other. We hear about the divorces and cheating of celebrities but hardly ever of…
Ants know what’s healthy and good for them.
Petrol pumping petrol when electric is out. Human ingenuity.
Thanks Tom.
Some you seem to think David Pocock is in Toytown government. He is an Australian Senator for the ACT and as green as they come. He tried for the greenslime but they rejected him. Others in line first. They must have been pissed when he beat them coz they’ve come close with candidates before. They missed the bus on that one.
Sleazy’s commie Invoice not gonna get up eh? Well all I can say is:
Sleazy’s commie Invoice not gonna get up eh? Well all I can say is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp8pIQ3Eh2A
ZK2A you’d have to be pretty sick to go after Clamydia Ford.
Clemmie’s in need of attention again.
Tim Blair will be delighted.
I would like to see more investigation of the Bradshaw paintings, which seem to have been sent down the Memory Hole. Inconvenient to the ever-so-precious “Narrative”?
Sharri Markson’s 5pm show on Skynews is by far the best hour of TV journalism in Australia — well worth the $A60-odd monthly subscription, unless, of course, you can get it for free on regional TV.
Dark Portuguese
Australian Museum: “The name ’emu’ is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.”
Other than linking to a Ch9 piece, I really don’t know.
No naughty words, nothing defamatory, no code snippets – I guess there might have been some sort of corruption on my computer, because I then couldn’t post because ‘You’ve already posted that, idiot’ message.
Meaa’anji’n actually means “Queensland swamps are for Queenssslanders”.
Former KGB Agent, Yuri Bezmenov, Warns America About Socialist Subversion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1EA2ohrt5Q
Still not enough to slow Victoriastan emigration.
What is aboriginal for “unrealised capital losses”?
DrBeauGan
Aug 8, 2023 4:58 PM
I want to see cultural artefacts like rock paintings preserved. Any records of what human beings have got up to is worth preserving.
I would like to see more investigation of the Bradshaw paintings, which seem to have been sent down the Memory Hole. Inconvenient to the ever-so-precious “Narrative”?
I want to see it all preserved. I have also seen the Bradshaws – quite exquisite. Years ago the local mob called them “rubbish art” & clearly believed they were not of their cultural heritage.
Do better.
A lie goes half way around the world before H B Bear puts his pants on
The closer we get the more I see a select group of Aboriginals set on vengeance for past injustice, real and imagined, and the Voice is the vehicle to deliver it.
A great deal of ill will that no amount of money and knee bending will assuage.
Sounds racist.
Appropriately, most days the Mother of the State (Lor’ bless you ma’am) has her ample bum parked on the bit named Meaa’anji’nn.
It’s anecdote o’clock, so I’ll tell you a story … located in our local shops.
A long haired, hippy-ish gentleman approached The Beloved. Uh-oh, it’s on, thinks the great grey warrior.
Sir, what do you think about the proposed offshore windfarms?
I think it’s a load of bullsh*t. If it was economic, why does the government need to fund it?
Sign our petition please.
Wonder of wonders, an actual environmentalist.
FIFY.
How do those paintings compare to Lasaux and Altamira? Do Europeans attribute those sites to be the creations of different ethnic groups? Cultures typically produce extraordinary individuals whose talents seemingly appear out of nowhere.
I’m not interested in their narrative. If truth be told nor are most of them. Archeologists, anthropologists, and activists are more interested in those narratives than the descendants of those peoples.
All you munni bilong me.
A versatile phrase, it suits many situations.
What should be preserved and at what cost?
Should every shovelful of soil at building sites be dug by hand and put through a fine sieve just in case there is a knapped flint in the vicinity?
Should every site that bears the slightest evidence of aboriginal use be declared sacred?
It’s a completely unreasonable hiding to nothing.
And too often the demands for surveys and digs are made out of greed and contrariness.
Juukan Gorge should have been preserved because of the evidence of long term use over thousands of years but holding up every project because there just might be a scatter site?
It’s excessive.
John H., in our recent trip we drove past Lascaux. It’s a major tourist attraction, bringing in many…many people who want to see reproductions of the art.
We passed, not because we didn’t want to see it, but because of time constraints. I studied the work in High School and it really is a wonder.
The pragmatic French use it for €€€€s, and as a hat tip to ancient art, which is what it is. Time and culture moves on. While caves in the vicinity have been used over the centuries by many subsequent inhabitants for various reasons, it is what it is. An artefact.
They have moved on, like all sensible civilisations. We seem to be heading for a cul de sac.
Earlier:
Or not even that.
I have heard it said that the indig name of my ancestral seat was ascertained by one of the pioneers – Henty or Mitchell or somesuch – pointing at the place where he intended to start a township and asking a local countryman what it was called.
Apparently, the act of pointing may (or may not) have resulted in my hometown being named after the local indig word for ‘finger’.
Big win in the soccer. Tracey Holmes reporting this morning from Gadigal, which looked like Manly or Balmoral.
Juukan Gorge should have been preserved because of the evidence of long term use over thousands of years but holding up every project because there just might be a scatter site?
It’s excessive.
Absolutely agree. Known sites – eg of rock paintings and engravings – should be preserved where possible. But even middens beneath rock shelters are covered over once excavated and recorded.
Tracey Holmes reporting this morning from Gadigal, which looked like Manly or Balmoral.
FIFA refers to the match location of Australian women’s soccer team as Sydney/Gadigal.
Not “Eora”? Now I’m depressed again.
Vicki
Which is why I want to see them properly investigated. That the local mob calls them “rubbish art” suggests to me that they fear close investigation would expose some “inconvenient truths” about who arrived first and from where.
Have they been given protected status, or would some activists like to see them Juukanned?
The sites I would love to see are underwater. The huge changes in human culture and gene flows that occurred at the end of the ice age are for myself very interesting. The Black Sea in particular is fascinating because of low oxygen content hence artefact preservation. Additionally the migrations into Europe, India, and northern Asia from north and south of the Black Sea point to it possibly being a crucible of human cultural and genetic evolution. A few pointed sticks and bones pales in comparison to what might be learned there.
It is excessive Rosie and it is also impractical. Apart from that I have no time for the concept of sacred. Obviously many people take the concept seriously so we need to set some conditions. For example, Jerusalem Mecca are obviously sacred. Sacred sites need to be subject to ongoing involvement and visitation upon by the relevant individuals. Blunt sticks and bones without involvement of the people don’t make a place sacred.
Last night I watched a show about the wine makers of the Languedoc region of France.
Languedoc doesn’t quite have the prestige of Burgundy or Bordeaux, and produces cheaper wines of a lower quality.
A bit like NSW wines if you are looking for a comparison.
Anyway, this has exposed them to international competition from Spain and elsewhere, and the locals are none too happy about it.
Sabotage – well it is a French word, after all – and mayhem ensued.
My schoolboy French is a bit rusty, but I could swear that, at one of their improvised riots, they were chanting “We make nafink! We make nafink!”
Not the first time Languedoc wine producers have rioted.
Loads of experience there.
“Languedoc region of France.”
My favourite region of France, the land of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Cathars, a land of walnuts, prunes, duck fat, lots of yummy goose and duck dishes, cassoulet, and Roquefort cheese.
BREAKING: The revolutionary government of Niger has responded to the suspension of US aid by telling the US: “We don’t want your money, use it to fund a weight loss program for Victoria Nuland.”
https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1688718553174745088
And burning tyres in your warehouse if you import wine from Spain.
Euros arguing amongst themselves. Plus ca change.
I’ve had this same discussion with serious Aboriginal people. Their argument is along the lines of: ‘Exactly. We are involved and visit our country‘. (Where ‘country’ is a location they are involved with, rather than a political idea.)
I can respect that.
I can’t similarly respect the strongly-held opinions of people who don’t have that connection. With the greatest possible respect, their ‘involvement’ with Country is pretty much like mine…
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ABC referring to it as Wangal.
Spears at dawn!
One of the most toxic aspects of the ACH act 2023 was, if you find archaeological items, you don’t contact an archaeologist, you contact your local Yunipingu.
Also, if you find human remains, you don’t contact the police, you contact your local Yunipingu.
Or risk farm-busting million dollar fines.
It’s a perversion of all that we hold sacred about humans and human culture, and the objective process
of methods and evidence which we were once humble and proud of.
Just get a load of this.
Doctor Jill Biden and friends.
the trouble is though, it wasn’t sacred to you until Rio did th e archaeological survey, found the hair plait and linked it to your DNA.
Then you did your belated song and dance act.
That was a comparison that came to my mind, indeed.
Today, in a statement, the ACT Bar Association said Mr Drumgold currently held a restricted government practising certificate that allowed him to work as a barrister in the ACT, but only while employed in the top job or for that office.
that kind of implies he wasn’t currently meeting the standard to practice as a barrister in the ACT.
From Rosie’s link. Good luck with that one!
Is there anything he doesn’t say that’s too outlandish and isn’t funny.
Kellie Parker Rio CEO on Australian racism
“There’s a number of senior Indigenous leaders who are under enormous racial attack at the moment – vile racial attack – and that’s distressing that Australians can’t have a respectful debate, that racism really, truly comes through,” she said.
That should give the No vote a good kick along.
Imagine a dating app that included both of these fine people. And Lydia to make a 3-some.
Only 6% renewable energy being generated across the five eastern states tonight at 7.45pm. The sun isn’t shining of course so no solar, and the wind has dropped. Glad we still have both brown coal in Vic and black coal in NSW and Qld stoking the turbines.
Pity the USA played before Colombia .. they may have gained an insight into how a team that is proud of their country responds to the national anthem ..
Reckon that was the loudest and most enthusiastic rendition of the entire WC to date …..
/Sydney has always been known as Wangal/.
Even when it was known as Gadigal/, which was last week.
..also, FFFIFA sponsor Cadbury has increased the chocolate ration.
I am sick and tired of giving way to this fraud. The best way forward for all is to adopt the culture that has built this nation and the world, the world that has afforded all of us such plenty and such luxury.
The drive for the Voice and the drive to Net Zero are one and the same, retreat into the past, into famine and misery. I vote for future and modernity.
The God Emperor has a point.
Under his really, really great leadership, the Yankee Femme Footbots won the cup. Maybe if those harpies had deigned to meet him for a post-match chin wag, they might have learnt something about staying power.
Our nobility has spoken and the peasantry better mind their manners.
OK.
This sounds like the elevation to the bar was totally contingent on his DPP job.
It seems this is a public sector thing.
I think Brett Sutton was automatically granted the title of Perfesser when he was given the CHO job.
This makes me think of how the French Revolution proceeded, everything was torn down to bring in the new reality. With Napoleon France clawed back most of their traditions but it was never the same. We seems to be in the middle of a revolution without a name or fanfare but a revolution none the less. Where is our Napoleon? Who is our Napoleon? One thing is for sure his name is not Peter Dutton or Barnaby Joyce.
Yes.
The treatment of Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine has been appalling.
This may be a commonplace & standard caveat.
Jurisdictions within Australia differ in many ways, & the ACT I have little first hand knowledge of.
However IIRC a Qld Certificate to Practice was issued with similar restriction, i.e. specifying Crown employ, private practice, & so on.
Lethal Weapon 2 on Focks.
The Saffie villains. Just started, too.
My cup runneth over.
On Sunday, Drumgold was whining about not being afforded procedural fairness. Now one of his lackeys is whining about his trashed reputation. The lack of perspective here is shocking to the point of near-hilarity, given what he very deliberately did to Lehrmann’s reputation in ensuring he would convict in the court of public opinion once he realised he couldn’t secure an actual conviction by way of doing whatever he could to deny procedural fairness to Lehrmann throughout the entire process.
Deplometic emunitie! Whoops!
Re Gobweedson and “Regenerative Agriculture”
Link
Patronizing to say the least.
So how do we measure success in this endeavour?
In other words “increase in soil organic carbon”.
Most farmers today, if practicing zero till etc, will be well on the way to background carbon levels, if not there already. That is to say the levels in cultivated paddocks are the same as virgin scrub. Maybe it can go higher with the use of added fertilizers in the right ratios?
Let’s see. Rainfall is the limiting factor.
Grain spills offer a bonanza for seed eating birds as do the vast irrigation schemes for aquatic species, and lets not forget the endless mobs of roos and emus, all of which at one time or another have drunk for survival from (white) man made water points.
The biggest threat to native fauna in this country is introduced predator species which farmers are continually trying to keep under control.
The whole AGW agenda is aimed squarely at having less people on the planet.
And what better way to achieve that than throttling food and energy.
Regenerative agriculture is indispensable to Gaia.
Comrades
Jy wil pret maak met die manier waarop ons praat?
Joss Ackland in LW2 “My dear officer, you could not even give me a poork-king ticket!”
And:
“Ooo’s the dickhead now, Eh?”
That EVO was mental.
—
Hoonigan:
1300hp Skyline GT-R vs 1480hp Lancer Evo VI drag race // THIS vs THAT Down Under
Great stuff. The villain’s name is Rudd as well.
I didn’t think Memoryfault would sink that low.
The mysterious affair of the mushroom poisonings in Leongatha gets more mysterious. When you go mushroom picking, part of the pleasure is that you want to cook and eat them yourself so, I find it odd that Erin Patterson didn’t consume any mushrooms. People who don’t like eating mushrooms don’t go picking them, and they don’t usually like cooking them. The Oz is reporting that “Ms Patterson and her two children, who were fed a different meal, did not fall critically ill”. Odd, strange and weird.
Poor old Albo – it’s all slipping away from him..
I think they also call themselves unironically progressives.
Watching NITV for Over The Black Dot which talks about the NRL, Meanjin I am informed is something to do with a bend in the Brisbane River that looks like a spear head. Sydney wasn’t Mangal, rather Gadigal which was some tree.
Yes as clear as mud in a beer bottle but there you go.
Bucket list fishing destination, along with the Argentinian highlands, Pemba channel etc.
JC I noted that quote of Trump ripping Rapinoe yesterday, that’s plagiarism bro.
Err, what did she expect?
Unlike the Eldar, I’m not going to manifest Slaanesh into existence.
August 2023 clot shot stats are out.
Only 61,000 Victorians over 18 have not had the gene therapy plosion. To those, I salute you. God has reserved you a seat at the highest table for resisting tyranny.
Notably, 225,000 Queenslanders are still pure as well. Well done you great people of Queensland.
Jacinta Price (LNP) and Warren Mundine (ALP, formerly) both are opposed to the Voice.
I mean hell, Anthony Mundine was a bit divisive beforehand but you know, he’s actually Aboriginal:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12281517/Anthony-Mundine-voting-No-Warren-Mundine-admits-family-odds-Indigenous-Voice.html
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Mundine breaks his silence on the Voice and gives his surprising view on the referendum – as his high-profile family opens up about the stunning rift over the vote: ‘Straight up trickery’
Anthony, also known by his nickname ‘The Man’, has urged his fans to vote against enshrining the advisory body in the constitution at a referendum this year, expressing fears ‘sovereignty could be ceded’ to the Federal government.
His second cousin Warren Mundine – the former Labor president and a Liberal party candidate in the 2019 election – is likewise voting ‘No’ and has taken a key position in the political campaign against it.
Disgusting heretical and dishonest trash.
Also I didn’t realise that Australia Post were in on the rise until I saw an advertisement on NITV during aforementioned program. FMD a couple of years it’s been in place, and it’s moronic. People here may have seen it but if you haven’t, maybe a stuff drink will assist you getting through.
Just catching up with earlier posts re the Bradshaw paintings, aka “Gwion Gwion” paintings. These are markedly different from the “wandjina” art found in the Napier Ranges of the WA Kimberley region.
Back in the mid 90’s a well known exploration company doing surveys in the Napier Range and came across a rock overhang with several of the Bradshaw figures.
The precise location and photographs were forwarded to the WA Mines Department and all survey work in that area was paused, pending advice from .gov.
Two weeks later, the Bradshaws had been vandalised by being painted over (in modern paint) by person or persons unknown and lost forever. The obvious conclusion was that someone in the Department had leaked the location to locals who promptly destroyed the figures.
The exploration company later came across a second set of Bradshaws, but kept the location secret. Those figures are still untouched at that spot (at least they were when I saw them in 2019) which begs the question; who would want to destroy ancient rock paintings, and why?
You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes.
The ruse, poxy autocorrect
OCO at 8:46.
I have been starting to wonder if Shane hasn’t been getting a bit of help with his homework.
The fact that he thought the enquiry would vindicate his shitty (and possibly illegal) behaviour and be a catalyst to overturn centuries of legal tradition tells me he is delusional.
But I don’t think he got there on his own.
He has had “mentors”.
I wonder if Geoffrey Watson was one of them.
The left have been itching to turn the presumption of innocence on it’s head for some time.
Not for all, mind you, only their class enemies.
They tried and failed with Pell.
I think this was round 2.
It was supposed to be win-win either way.
If Lehrmann is found guilty, we then have a witch-hunt into how the Liberal Party tried to silence Britnah.
If he is found not guilty, we then have an inquiry into how he got away with it, and what we need to do to fix it.
Who would dare to resist a baying #metoo mob, and a diversity pick DPP?
But then along came Walter and kicked over everyone’s sand-castles.
I always thought that it being a one page document seemed odd. What does make sense is that they didn’t want the Australian public to know the full contents. The dishonesty by all the Yes advocates is disgraceful.
Slipping away ZK2A? You mean crashed burned immolated and then cast into the sun?
Putting on my rarely used optimism hat I suggest this might be the best thing that ever happened to indigenous people because the public at large now will demand a more honest appraisal of the problems confronting indigenous people and how those problems can be solved. For example, at Garma they made mention of the tragedy of Rheumatic Disease becoming a Damocles sword for those with subsequent cardiac issues. The condition is caused by infection. Infections are solved through hygiene. There is evidence to suggest some indigenous have immune responses not so well adapted to some forms of infection, which is not surprising given their genetic isolation. Germ theory and immunity are concepts foreign to indigenous culture, if they listened to us this tragedy could be avoided. They don’t their voice to solve that problem, they need our voice.
This Bradshaw stuff is pretty wild. From WikiPedia:
***Media coverage has at times emphasised his claims of mysterious races. Pettigrew suggests that the Gwion Gwion paintings depict people with ‘peppercorn curls’ and small stature that characterise San groups; he speculates that African people travelled, shortly after the Toba eruption some 70,000 years ago, by reed boat across the Indian Ocean, provisioning themselves with the fruit of the baobab tree.[54] The Australian archaeological community has generally not accepted such claims and believes that Gwion Gwion are indigenous works. For example, Dr Andrée Rosenfeld argued that the aesthetics of the art did not support claims for a non-Aboriginal origin when comparison is made to the aesthetic value of contemporary Aboriginal art.[50] The Australian Archaeological Association in a press release stated, “No archaeological evidence exists which suggests that the early colonisation of Australia was by anyone other than the ancestors of contemporary Aboriginal people”, the release quoted Claire Smith: “such interpretations are based on and encourage racist stereotypes”.[50]***
Um, so it is racist to dispute that stylistically different artefacts may not be from a homogenous ethnic and cultural group that isn’t actually homogenous anyway?
These people are retarded.
Bulldust about Drimgold.He would have received a limited practising certificate.I doubt there is anything preventing him applying for a full practising certificate in any jurisdiction.
Pride goeth … etcetera, etcetera.
Shame, Drumgold?
Curious to see which ‘stats’ these are.
Please, please let it be Madam Zeeee or one of her stable.
I would hope so. Does Albo think the electorate are such mugs that they won’t look up the Uluru declaration for themselves?
Markle Mexit?
This is fair, as 100% of her time is already taken up pretending to be a princess.
What will he need for wills and conveyancing?
Anyone today spending money today to listen Rita on Sky News is useless? She’s a pure MSM whore.
Get Tony Heller on your show. She is useless!
She’s a disgrace!
Perhaps Hazza might care to reflect on the fate of the last member of the Royal Family, who gave up his rank as an Admiral in the Royal Navy, to become Third Mate, to a Baltimore tramp?
Credits rolling on LW2.
Patsy Kensit. Superb. Just superb.
These people are retarded.
Yes Dot, Wikipedia is run by mongs. It is not a good or thorough source for anything.
Is AnAl really that stupid to deny the 26 pages of FOI documentation?
Or is he just stupid enough to have been set up and really believes it’s only 1 page?
Romper Stomper.
Cannot. Get. Better.
Yes and yes slackster.
Before the Gariwerd Nazis start up, Romper Stomper is notable for Russell Crowe’s breakout role, and its location in the western Mongyang ‘burbs where I spent so much time, a lifetime ago.
It’s also cool because the garage skinheads die in the end.
NYT:
In the space of 10 weeks they had to reconstitute a battalion that normally numbers 500 men three times. The butcher’s bill.
Did Trump Know Election Fraud was a Lie?
No. Not Wikipedia in this instance. The stupid Archeology club that declared that its racist to note evidence of anyone else inhabiting Australia before 1788.
RealRobert??
@Real_RobN
Here’s another poll watcher testifying under oath on how U.S. Democracy was subverted on Nov, 3, 2020.
“I witnessed military ballots being duplicated. I just thought it was strange that only Biden’s name was selected…, and not one of them was for Trump.”
https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/covid-19-vaccination-vaccination-data-4-august-2023?language=en
VIC – Residential State – Unvaccinated Slide 6 61,147
Ja, zay ver only followink orderrrrs.
I know our justice system is meant to be adversarial, but fitting up a bloke with no proof of crime, let alone the identity of the perp, and then preventing him from getting exculpatory evidence, is going a bit further than mere ‘investigation’.
I suppose the only extenuating factor is they may have had roles in which they were not required to know (or didn’t know) what relevant standard procedures were about discoverable/disclosable evidence. Ol’ drummo can’t use that one.
61,147 lions.
Millions of Sheep.
No such thing as a Japanese lion.
Leak of RAND document:
Oh, look at my surprise.
Brilliant. Sleep well folks.
This guy is a JET with the animals.
Rescued LION BROTHERS and Kevin Richardson | The Lion Whisperer
worth a watch … Dr David Martin’s presentation during the International Covid Summit
Unless they’re white and a cartoon character.
Perhaps Rand should also look the other side of this equation they failed to solve. Russia’s incursion into other sovereign countries also risks the potential for global war.
Kimba the White Lion.
A whole new vista of potential entertainment just opened up.
Who lives down in deepest darkest Africa?
Kimba, Kimba……
Memories.
That’s not speculation that’s pulling ideas out of his ass. Speculation still needs to be based on some reasonable grounds. The Bradshaws are not the oldest paintings so it is doubtful they were done by the first inhabitants.
Why assume the Bradshaw paintings were made by different people? That is like Hungarians arguing about Martian heritage, only they say that as a joke. Human history has many examples of extraordinary talents emerging in societies. We don’t know and without further evidence we cannot know. It is OK not to know, it is not OK to pull ideas out of our asses because we’re uncomfortable with not knowing or because we need another publication.
Please don’t suggest to me that a statement by one person settles the matter.
Note the analyses which suggest the paintings are not so fundamentally different. Across the world it is common for artists to explore new styles. Paleoanthropology is littered with mysteries and all too often people claiming to solve those are pulling ideas out of their asses.
Was Drumgold qualified and admitted in the ACT? If not, it would not necessarily be unusual to receive a limited practising certificate in another jurisdiction for specific purposes. Without looking into it further sounds like a beatup to me. Once qualified in one jurisdiction admission in another is an administrative step.
JC you are missing the point. Russia is justified in starting an invasion that could result in the death of millions, crash the world economy, and cause starvation in developing nations. He stuffed up. Took a gamble on an invasion hoping no-one would intervene.
The dumbest argument I have heard was from Jordan Peterson. He argued that Russia invaded Ukraine to save it from becoming morally degenerate like us. He put qualifications around that but it clearly is an appeal to his conservative and evangelical base.
JC, RAND doesn’t care about other sovereign countries. They were positioning Ukraine as a pawn in their own game. They think that as long as it only weakens Europe and Russia, they win.
Gonski!
ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold KC will be unable to practice as a barrister in the territory following his resignation from the top job, with the findings of the Sofronoff inquiry to factor into any future bar applications.
The ACT Bar Association confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that Mr Drumgold will no longer hold a practising certificate from 1 September 2023, when his resignation takes effect.
“The announcement of Mr Drumgold’s resignation … means that from that date Mr Drumgold will no longer have capacity to practice as a barrister in the ACT,” the statement read.
Oz
What the fck are you banging on about?
This is the AFP who didn’t think there was enough to charge Lehrmann, and drafted the Moller report casting doubts on the veracity of Britnah.
Yeah nah. One of the instructive sentences was:
So the US clearly understood that their policy with NATO, and in particular, with Ukraine, would inevitable provoke a military response and yet they continued down this course. The gamble Putin took was that this wasn’t what the US actually intended, except it appears it was, because it would be the only way to pry Germany off of Russian energy and make any independent European defence/ foreign policy impossible.
I dunno.
I am getting the impression he may have been waved through when appointed DPP.
Dover, ordinarily, in some circles, Rand Corp would be considered “globalist”. This assertion of weakening Europe along with Russia to make the US stronger would 180 degrees opposite to what is considered globalist thinking. The basic tenet of globalism , at least in terms of economics, is that trade liberalization and peace etc lifts all boats. Your link implies that Rand is going for zero sum.
Also, what the hell is that site that you linked to? It sounds like a Russian bot.
Appointed DPP 1st January 2019.
Admitted to the bar 2019.
RAND is simply part of the US military-industrial complex. You weaken Europe to maintain it within the US’s foreign policy orbit rather than heading off on its own, etc.
It’s a Swedish news site.
Appeasement has a fine history of concluding in war. Just what was Western policy toward the Ukraine that provoked Russia in to totally ruining a neighbor possibly for generations and cutting itself off from the West? Ukraine wanted to have closer ties with Europe?
You believe, heart of hearts, that the US intention was always to get Germany off Russian gas for defense purposes? That’s a really long bow, especially for this most inept bumbling administration.
That’s a similar set of views we saw being being touted on the left by those suffering the worst symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome . Trump was both eternally stupid and an evil genius at the same time.
But no, Russia attacked a neighbor because it felt its national prestige was being questioned and the kleptocract in the Kremlin has desires to put together the old Russian empire. That’s obviously a dream that isn’t going to happen.
Of course the USA was acting in its own interests. Kissinger: the USA doesn’t have allies, it has interests. All countries engage in Machiavellian games. Putin fell for it. He walked right into the trap and now is far worse off. He didn’t have to take the bait. He chose to respond in the way he did. All people and nations are confronted with those choices. Making the smart choice, thinking ahead, is something Putin didn’t do. Now he has to contend with so many more problems than before. NATO never needed Ukraine to attack Russia. NATO could take out the Russian air force in a fortnight, the navy is virtually non-existent, the tanks are crap, the only thing in its favour is huge numbers of cannon fodder, outstanding air defense capability, and nukes. He had nothing to gain by invading and has seriously damaged Russia. They played him like a fool.
Europe never needed the US possess suspicions about Russia. That’s been going on for centuries.
What type of site? Is it a news site like a Swedish version of Reuters, News.com, WSJ? What is it, as I have never heard of it.
Also, of all the places a major story could be exposed about the Rand and US intentions toward Europe etc comes out of Sweden? Color me skeptical.
US$9 billion? According to this site, the US would be overjoyed about a European collapse that in reality would end up costing the US trillions in almost every facet of the US economy. And get this the US would enjoy a flow back of US$9 billion dollars?
This is written by a freaking amateur who isn’t even trying. An amount of US$9 billion dollars flowing back to the US is an atom compared to an elephant when talking about things of this nature.
JC, if the US itself understood that its policy would inevitably lead to a military response maybe you should ask them.
No, the aim has always been to keep Europe under the US’s influence; no other reason why NATO was maintained after ’91. This is a position essentially held independent of any particular administration.
No, that’s simply nonsense peddled by neocon pundits to misdirect. The problem of eastward expansion and Ukraine predates Putin by a decade, at the very least, and Keenan even mentioned using Ukraine as a pawn to destabilize the SU back in the 50s/60s. If what you suggest was true Putin would have never agreed to the peace plan in April ’22 especially with the conditions agreed to, would never have sought talks back in Dec/ Jan ’22 before the war commenced, and so on. The facts simply bare this out.
Undoubted, and the governing American premise from WW2 to the present has been that it is in the US interest to maintain a peaceful co-existent world in order to pursue prosperity. It’s been the harbinger of US international policy for decades
Putin fell for a lot of things as a result of his megalomania.
A trap he set of himself.
Honest question, are you being cynical or reading it like you see it with the above quote?
Color me skeptical as well. That outlet even published a piece arguing the West has already lost the war. It is very odd that a Swedish outlet and only that outlet has this leak. Computer says no.
https://nyadagbladet.se/debatt/usa-har-forlorat-sitt-proxykrig-i-ukraina/
Dover, you’re perfectly entitled to your opinion, but the article you linked to is ridiculous. For someone to suggest or even count US$9 billion flow back to the US as a result of European economic collapse and then leave out the trillions, literally trillions, in economic damage to both Europe and the US resulting from a collapse almost reads like a botched attempt by the Babylon Bee to make something funny. It’s just not credible and I don’t believe this came out of Rand.
I’m taking the purported RAND leak as being factual and taking it to the logical conclusion that Putin walked right into their trap.
I have my doubts about that. For all we know that leak could be series of speculations on what might happen. Think tanks are always dreaming up different scenarios. NATO was never a threat to Russia. The idea that the nukes in Ukraine would be so close to Moscow to be a new threat was pure propaganda. It doesn’t matter with nukes, the USA has more than enough boomers that could destroy Russia by releasing their nukes while under the ice. What’s a few hundred ks with an ICBM? Nuffin.
The USA\NATO didn’t need this war, the USA is largely energy independent and has little to gain by making Germany energy dependent on it. In fact it loses because a strong Germany is the critical component of NATO, without it there is no NATO. So I can see what you are getting at.
Thanks. 9 billion is ridiculous. A rubbish claim by an outlet that allows Kim Dotcom to express political opinions on their pages. Scraping the bottom of the barrel when that is put forward as credible.
This is made to sound ominous, in the sense that Europe has an expansionist mentality. But this would also necessitate a strong military. Europe is anything but strong militarily. The US has been complaining about these f..knuckles not spending enough on military for self defense for the longest time. Europe has been ambitious in its inclusivity and its so-called European ideals. It should have always remained at EU 9. But to have designs on the Ukraine in order to weaken and challenge Russia in some sort of objective to create an Empire. The Euroweenies? Don’t make me laugh.
Su-57: is it INVISIBLE
A beautiful aircraft. The most maneuverable aircraft ever built. I watched his other analyses of it and was surprised at how much technology it contains. Perhaps I have underestimated the potential of SU-57.
He is rather technical so for military tech nerds only. Probably the last of its kind. Earlier tonight I watched an Alex Hollings video about a hypersonic aircraft that a US firm will soon have a prototype ready to fly(next 2 years).
That allegedly Rand Corp document is obviously fake.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Peter Schrank.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Thank you Tom.
Why is it OK for the USA and Australia to invade other countries over made up BS but not OK for others. I suggest the West should shut up and go back to trying to work out what a woman is.
Appreciate the ‘toons, Tom.
The Queering of Tudor History Continues Apace
Hey. There’s no real way of proving any of it unless someone can correlate dating of artefacts and remains together contemporaneously in multiple sites.
I agree, most of even the rational stuff is speculation.
A blanket statement like this will get nowhere fast.
The short answer is America and Australia haven’t annexed land since 1945, won out of a defensive war.
If only I had this ready reckoner at school.
That Titus Andronicus! Yikes!
Thank goodness we didn’t waste time visiting Portsmouth and the Mary Rose. The blood pressure would have popped a foofle valve.
Oddly enough, there was no Qwerty stuff at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. Now that was worth a look.
Trump should retire from the race and endorse DeSantis.
The Rats want him to run because polls are showing them enough people can’t stand him to get whatever they throw up over the line.
Shapiro said it best yesterday. “If it becomes about Trump, he loses. If it becomes about Biden, he loses”
Luv the fact that Luigi is calling for a public holiday if the Matildas win the Cup! .. never mind the economy or the mug business owners, big & small, who have to foot the bill ..
And of course, Ho Chi Minns is cheer-leading as his lust to be luvved getz more embarrassing .. FFS!
Wonder if anyone has told Luigi that Sam Kerr(which is what it is all about not us winning) ain’t a 251? ..
Thankfully it will all fizzzle on the weekend when the Matildas meet France ..
Winning a friendly is not the same as reputation(s) is at stake .. LOL!
Bonus .. Luigi dressed by Jodie for the fitba .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/CKx2ndV
“our” ABC at it again .. you’d think “reporters” would understand that paying to go to the cinema involves all the cost(s) of running a business .. but know they are concerned that you pay the for entry same regardless of the “length” of the movie ..
Matybe abette rquestion would be why does “our” ABC garner a $1billion + a year of OPM when 90% of the folk suppoeting OPM don’t watch, listen or read the rubbish “our” ABC produces ……….. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-09/barbie-oppenheimer-cinema-ticket-prices/102703386
“The short answer is America and Australia haven’t annexed land since 1945, won out of a defensive war.”
The short answer is that the US, post World War II, has a history of invading, trashing and then doing a cowardly runner from the country it invaded, be it Vietnam or more recently, Afghanistan.
I remember the Saigon withdrawal debacle. Oh and further to the Afghanistan debacle, just twenty years after the US invaded, the Taliban take it back and young girls and adult women are once again forbidden to leave their homes without a male escort, and nine year old girls are sold off to fifty year old adult males. Just dandy, that’s what I call a positive outcome, let’s call it “Groundhog Taliban Day”. The short answer is that the US itself has engaged in too many wars where it should have stayed at home.
Now, I don’t like what’s happening in Ukraine, I don’t like the war, but I do know some history of the area, the fact that the Donbas region has always been predominantly ethnically Russian, and that Crimea was long part of Russia from the days of Catherine the Great until the 1950s, when the clown Kruschvov decided to hand it over to the Ukraine soviet, not ever thinking that one day the Soviet Union would cease to exist. And let’s not forget that the ongoing slaughter, since 2014, of ethnic Russians in the Donbas just might have made Putin and the Russians a little cross, nobody wants to talk about that. Also, perhaps, just perhaps, the malfeasance of the USA in Ukraine, under Obama and particularly the corrupt shenanigans of the Biden family in Ukraine, may well have bothered and infuriated Putin and the Russians. Just saying. Oh and gosh, Ukraine actually does border Russia, however last I looked at a world map neither Vietnam nor Afghanistan border the USA, unless there’s been some major tectonic plate movement over the last few years and I’ve missed something on a map. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I doubt very much that the USA would tolerate similar on its own border.
The USA, under the venal Sniffer and his corrupt administration, is conducting a proxy war with Russia, with the aim of not just getting rid of Putin, but also to destabilise Russia for its own interests. Neither will happen, meanwhile Ukrainians, under the corrupt clown Zelensky, endure more hardship and suffer more. This war could have been resolved last year, but no, it suits Washington and the EU. Where are the calls for ceasefires and so on? Zilch, nada, nothing since February 2022. I find that odd, don’t you?
“Trump should retire from the race and endorse DeSantis.”
I agree.
“Trump should retire from the race and endorse DeSantis.”
+1
Trump should stay on track and fight , come this far why kneeel.
It also avoids bringing attention to the CIA-backed maidan coup in 2014 and the erosion of Russia’s friendly neighbouring countries as a military buffer.
Supporting a war now, huh? Everything bad the prog left said about JBP is slowly becoming true over time. He jumped the shark in 2021.
The f*ck’s wrong with you people?
Trump must win, and he must be seen to win.
“the USA is largely energy independent “
The USA WAS largely energy independent.
Wally Dali + 1,000
The US’ only chance of steering itself back to a semblance of what it once was is Trump. His winning will lay the groundwork for the ordinary American to take back their country.
De Santis is compromised. Since he threw his hat into the Presidential ring, he is no longer his own man.
Shapiro is a GIANT TWAT.
Fun fact courtesy the ABC:
More than 50% of GPs in Australia obtained their primary qualification overseas.
His winning will lay the groundwork for the ordinary American to take back their country.
That’s my thinking. If he doesn’t win, it means a grassroots, small-donors and big rallies campaign cannot win against corporations, appointments and media lockouts.
It’s a man v Swamp, a man v Washington War Machine, a man v Big Brother. If he doesn’t win, then the U.S. as a land of liberty, opportunity and Christianity is probably dead.
There’s nothing wrong with appealing to conservative and evangelical bases.
Labor’s poll numbers amongst certain Western Sydney demographics must be bad.
Left-Wing Australian Government Turns on Israel: Calls West Bank Settlements ‘Illegal’ (8 Jul)
I suspect that’s the idea. People of no describable ethnicity or religion aren’t likely to like woke-progressivism, with qwerties and First Nations higher on the totem pole than they are, so Labor needs a squirrel for them to get excited about.
“The US’ only chance of steering itself back to a semblance of what it once was is Trump. His winning will lay the groundwork for the ordinary American to take back their country.”
I don’t disagree, it’s just that the violence we saw in 2020 will be akin to little flames compared to the violence of bonfires we will see in 2024 if Trump wins the GOP nomination.
I am an admirer of De Santis. He is, as far as politicians can be, a man of integrity in respect to his commitment to democratic values. And he is a family man in the traditional sense. And he stood tall during the pandemic against the prescriptive rule of the medical technocrats.
But I can’t see that he can prevail and rescue the presidency. Maybe the US is in such dire straits that only an outlier like Trump can inspire a nation to spit upon those who would take away the liberties fought for by their forefathers. Who knows? I wish them well because the US represents so much of the ideals of liberty and the sanctity of freedom that their survival is paramount for the rest of us.
Maybe it’s my morning skepticism but I think that grassroots, small-donors and big rallies have already lost against corporations, appointments and media lockouts.
The ship has sailed.
Australian super funds are writing down their CBD office holdings by 10%-15% as working from home becomes entrenched.
Pogria, I was about to say something similar but you said it best.
I’m amazed by people whose opinions I otherwise value having this huge Trump blind spot. DeSantis cannot win simply because Republican voters don’t trust him as they do Trump. Finally, whether Trump wins or loses will depend on the extent of election fraud.
Cassie, you are right in your fears. I really thought that a general uprising involving the Vets of the many OS war arenas would erupt after the last election. The reluctance of the working class of America to endorse a civil war prevented that, and the so called insurrection in the occupation of the Capitol was in fact a demonstration of that patriotism.
My historical sense says that the Republicans and the sinister forces supporting them have gone too far.
Rita Panahi urging the SFLs to become, you know, conservative and not Labor Lite:
They can go ahead with that tactic and see how many Democrat voters are turned off by the chaos and stay home rather than vote while inspiring republicans and independent to vote in greater numbers.
I don’t think violence and bonfires worked for them the last time either, Tump increased his vote from 2016. That’s why vote counting in six states was shut down on election day to allow time to manufacture more Biden votes.
Paging a Mz Tash Peterson, is there a Tash Peterson in the building?
Want Fries with That? Beyond Meat’s Sales Plunge as Consumers Reject Vegan Alternative (8 Jul)
Like the Extinction Rebellion gluers-to-things the vegan activists are causing blowback. Maybe Yes activists could also take note that being obnoxious and nasty just turns people off.
Cassie – also agree with your assessment of the Ukraine debacle. I somehow doubt that the events would have similarly played out under a Trump presidency. The Biden family involvement in Ukraine had always been the flag that media commentators have ignored. It seems to me that old Cold War memes have blinded many to the actual facts.
What is stopping Australian universities offering more domestic places for medicine?
The cut off for places is arbitrary, the demand for places is there, countries like India are churning out doctors, what is the problem?
For those of you in Perth, that sound you hear is a caravan salesman exploding.
This blog is off the pace.
Mushroom fancier’s husband spent three weeks in ICU last year where he nearly died from “serious gut problems”.
That purported RAND leak may not be legit – but I think we all know the strategy it outlines has the ring of truth to it.
Desantis was a stand up guy during COVID, no question, but he is now a creature of the GOP machine and they will only throw the base the least they think they can get away with. We know they don’t actually care if they win or lose. Trump remains the only way to level the table, everyone else is just varying degrees of slippery slope.
Really?
I think genuine conservative folks don’t start killing people because they don’t like election results, even crooked ones.
It’s their children in the police and military they’d be uprising against, btw.
That is just the beginning.
Australian super funds are writing down their CBD office holdings by 10%-15% as working from home becomes entrenched.
CBUS Super will get hammered as they have a high percentage of Assets invested in Commercial Property – Listed and Unlisted. The Listed Commercial Property should have already been revalued by the Market accordingly.
Forensic testing is being carried out on an item found dumped at a tip which may have been used to prepare the mushrooms three people later died after eating, as it is revealed the former husband of the woman under investigation almost lost his life from a stomach illness.
Where’s the evidence Z man is corrupt (or more than usual)? He agreed with Trump about the Biden’s meddling in Ukie affairs! Remember how the D’rats tried to gaol Trump over this? He’s sacked others over their alleged corruption. He has potential greatness (TM).
I do find the lack of calls for ceasefires odd. The war could end with a couple of phone calls. There is nothing stopping third-party states with little interest in the conflict from providing security forces and overseeing nationality plebiscites. Saint Z and Pukin’ are both responsible for this intransigence.
Putin wants an empire. It’s pretty simple, regardless of the layers of justification and valid America bashing (increasingly valid from 1953 onwards) that can be laid on.
[Let’s be clear here and blame the hawks and CIA more than America and its military generally – but with balance: the Cold War was the greatest threat to the West ever however these two-bit clandestine things usually went sideways very badly].
I hope you’re not Chamberlaining?
Curried sausages?
Uh oh…incoming feminist shipping about a history of abuse.