Cassie,
Look out for former VIC Pol staff Sergeant Krystle Mitchell who was the one who resigned on air whilst criticising the Andrews Government.

She might be with LDP people.

What is it with nurses and mass murder?

I think it goes back to Seinfeld. Jerry asked Nooman why postal workers went postal. Nooman responded that it was the mail. It just keeps coming and never stops.

It’s the patients. They never stop!

Reflect that mass murder is just the tip of the triangle.
Way higher are the number of medical mistakes leading to death, and vastly outnumbering these in turn are correct actions not resulting in good outcomes because the feedstock is not perfect.

Terry Pratchett’s book ‘Going Postal’ certainly showed the mail never stopping; it actually was compounding due to a feedback loop in the epistemology.

But the real reason for the rash of ‘going postal’ in post offices was social imitation. People act based on the stories of similar other people.
Far more suicides than mass killings result from this, and the prevention tactics are or should be based on similar principles as the suicide reporting guidelines.

You begin to wonder if there’s anything in it for him personally.

Not sure but he’s your typical political parasite who’s never had a real job and neither knows nor cares about other people’s hard earned. More Eloi.

BB

I won’t continue with the article but according to Andrews, spending close to $400 million to not hold an event is the best possible outcome from this debacle. FMD

The “event” to which he refers is the Liars’ success at the last election. Nearly $400 m to get him back into power? A bargain, just ask Dan, he’ll tell you.

Certainly I had no sense of just how malign and perfidious US state institutions have turned out to be

me neither

You can only cheat so much before it’s too obvious to deny or obfuscate.

The Dems invented about 15 to 16 million votes in the 2020 election without being called to account on it.

Biden may break the 100 million barrier in 2024. He a very popular president! /s

Robert Sewell
Aug 19, 2023 11:59 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BePLrsN_lqI

Former Adviser to the Treasury and Bank of England, Dr Roger Gewolb, congratulates GB News on the success of the Don’t Kill Cash Campaign,

Perhaps the bosses have totally misread the socio/political mood that first surfaced with the Red Bull owner sacking his marketing team https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8527767/Red-Bull-fires-executives-pushed-diversity-inclusion.html over their BLM arrogance. Lesson unlearned, we next had the Bud Lite saga, where admin still hasn’t woken up to the message that the consumer is King and isn’t captive to the marketing departments flings with political fashion. Next we have Target US who were a little quicker to disown the worms in their apple.
When corporations decide to treat their customers with respect and stay out of the political arena, they may get them back. But at the moment the customer who has been ear bashed for years about how non woke they are, are in the mood to kick a few heads themselves.

Robert Sewell
Aug 19, 2023 12:08 PM

HBBear

Aug 18, 2023 6:57 PM
Have you ever tried to put your left hand in the right hand pocket?

Could never do it.
The pocket was always occupied by the government either scratching my balls or stealing the loose change.

The Country Hour

Went to my first Limousin sale during the week; auctioneer line of the day, “38cm in the broad beans.”

Tell you what but. That Angus beef marketing campaign has worked a treat; boutique breeds like the ‘Limo’ have had to reinvent themselves as the new black – more than half the catalogue.

Lucy Letby is a name which will go down in infamy. Murdered 7 newborns and attempted 6 others in England somewhere. Just shit.

I listened to two pommy journos actually worthy of the name, who podcasted brilliantly during the close to year long trial. Amazing work as they unravelled the complicated and complex circumstantial evidence to its well deserved conclusion.

Also amazing work by other individuals, consultants, doctors and others, who once they got past the “unthinkable” reason as to why these NICU babies were mysteriously collapsing and dying, eventually reached the truth.

Not so much the NHS managers at the hospital who went to great lengths to do nothing about it.

Thinking of the two baby boys from an identical triplet birth who were murdered by this monstrously inhumane excuse for a human being, just broke me. The parents were switched on enough to the fact that there was something rotten going on in that unit that they insisted the third baby be immediately transferred to another hospital.

It’s still an ongoing investigation as they are now looking at all neo-natal deaths in the unit while she worked there before 2015 and at her previous hospital. This seven may only be the tip of a very big iceberg.

Set me to thinking about how hard it is to overcome our belief in, or willingness to trust others without becomimg a totally paranoid cynic.

She looks like the quintessential girl next door.

BTW we all blame a local wag for causing the incident in parliament with Julia Gillard. At the cafe one morning this lovely, elderly lady said to Tony, “Don’t you worry about her darling – she’s a “piece of work”! Some of the locals reckon that it was that fateful expression – murmured under his breath – that caused Juliar to go into a paroxysm of rage & cry “abuse of women”!

In the play ‘I’m with Her’ presented last week in Darwin, Julia Gillard was presented with great dudgeon as an inspiration to women everywhere especially the Mysogyny speech.

When JG was made Prime Minister, I was at a school event with Dr Liz Constable our WA Minister for Education. (I volunteered for her)
I asked Dr Constable ‘What do you think about your Federal counterpart’s big move?’
Sharply indrawn breath. “That woman! She couldn’t lie straight in bed!”

The ABC of Wokery

19th August 2023

Nicholas T. Parsons

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/an-abc-of-woke/

Australia

The Vietnam War and the Present Crisis

Mervyn Bendle

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2023/08/the-vietnam-war-and-the-present-crisis/

Lucy Letby should be executed

One hundred years ago this would have been seen as the right and just outcome.

However, here in the darkest, swampiest state in the country, a pathetic magistrate gave the lightest possible sentence of 2years 6 months to an unlicenced 2i year old moron with four bail breaches who drunkenly ploughed through a stop sign 30k over the speed limit and killed a 69yo. grandad, because reasons.

Reasons included time served (some of it in an indigenous ‘healing centre’), having a baby, having anxiety and intergenerational trauma of her aboriginality.

The family of the forgotten victim had to endure the ultimate insult of her blowing kisses to her family and telling them she’d see them soon.

Justice denied.

Indolent:
Thanks for the links – many of them end up on my FB page to my Eastern State readers – both my sisters. 🙂

Janet Albrechtsen does it again, gee she’s really baiting the she-wolves

Female leaders’ daft words are not doing anyone any favours
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
Months ago, I read this from Dante: “I love to doubt as well as know.” An exquisite and wise phrase will linger in the mind.

Equally so, for different reasons, it’s hard to dislodge from one’s mind an ugly set of words.

A few weeks ago, a senior woman talking about gender parity said it’s simple – “it’s about more women coming in and more men going out”.

Emma Covacevich, the first female chief executive partner of one of Australia’s most esteemed law firms, conjured up the worst image for a workplace, which ought to be premised on fairness, logic and expertise.

Increasingly, daft words like this seem to emanate from women in senior leadership roles. It’s not that men don’t say dumb things too, but when women say them, the celebration of women in these positions means they are seen as role models for other women. Most of them relish the gender fame, until they stuff up. If only more of them understood that if you want to play first grade, it comes with scrutiny and responsibility.

On that score, it was not, by all reports, a merry day for men, or women, at Clayton Utz to hear, thanks to Covacevich, that parity at their firm appears to boil down to a brutish equation where expert legal skills take second billing to XX chromosomes. As much as the chief executive partner may wish to distance herself from what she told this newspaper, her words cannot be unsaid, even if they won’t be appearing – at least formally – as an addendum to her job title.

Not to labour the relevance of fairness, but test her equity equation by switching genders. More men in, more women out, anyone? Screeches of outrage would bellow from every woman – and many, many men too – because an enlightened society does not discriminate on the basis of sex. We have laws to drag even the stragglers to progress onto this same enlightened page.

So why would an educated new chief of Clutz – as we young lawyers used to call the law firm in the 90s – imagine that switching the genders in favour of women is a clever and fair thing to do? Are we dealing with wicked old-boys clubs where nothing less than a sledgehammer will do to deliver restorative gender justice? Does Covacevich wish us to believe she landed her plum job because she is female?

Not to labour the relevance of logic, but women are pouring into law schools at a rate of knots, more than 60 per cent, and filling jobs at law firms at a similarly fabulous pace. At Clutz, 65 per cent of graduate lawyers are women. While women make up 29 per cent of equity partners at Clayton Utz, one does not need a brain the size of Stephen Hawking (when he was alive) to wonder whether more women than men are choosing a different lifestyle to explain that drop-out rate. Maybe working an easier job as in-house counsel, or downsizing work to care for children rather than let a series of nannies do it. Only an ideologue would assume that women and men naturally compete for the same senior jobs in equal numbers and therefore should be represented 50/50 in those ranks.

In the dippy stakes, Ms Equity’s “more women in, more men out” approach to gender parity falls a whisker behind Annette Kimmitt, who was very confused about the purpose and values at Minter Ellison – until partners there provided some refreshing clarity by agreeing to part ways with Kimmitt.

This was back in March 2021 when, as Minters chief executive, Kimmitt emailed 2000-plus employees. She wrote that “it triggered hurt for me” to learn that the law firm was acting for then attorney-general Christian Porter.

“I know that for many of you it’s a tough day and I want to apologise for the pain you may be experiencing,” she added. The decision to act for Porter had not, she said, passed through “the lens of our Purpose and our Values”.

And what purpose and which values might those be? The core purpose of defending a person from unproven allegations, as happens in a democracy where a criminal justice system is premised on the fundamental values of a fair trial and the presumption of innocence?

Kimmitt was gone within days.

Though her email and departure made headlines, two other recent examples suggest that some women are getting a free pass from the scrutiny that their prominent positions should attract.

Last month, Federal Court justice Ian Jackman excoriated his judicial colleague Kathleen Farrell for failing to deliver a judgment for nearly three years before taking retirement on a full judicial pension, around three years short of mandatory retirement age. Her failure meant Jackman had to take responsibility for the matter and deliver judgment.

Instead of thanking Jackman and instituting steps to ensure this never happens again, the Chief Justice of the Federal Court, Debra Mortimer, offered him an implied rebuke. It was reported that Mortimer emailed her colleagues on the bench about the need for restraint and collegiality.

Concern for collegiality and kindness in the workplace is lovely but even grander is the fair and efficient administration of justice, not to mention an overriding concern for the poor litigants before Justice Farrell who had spent huge sums of money on litigation, putting their lives on hold for years while awaiting judgment only to be told Jackman had been reassigned the case on June 30 and delivered judgment fewer than four weeks later. A chief justice might have something to say about the judicial function, perhaps inserting some new KPI’s about finishing judgments, or proposing that absent health or other relevant disabling factors, judges can’t collect the pension until they have finished their judgments.

Too many women in senior roles appear to indulge in emotional blather as if it is part and parcel of female leadership. Last week, it was ACT Chief Justice Lucy McCallum’s turn. The Sofronoff report found that the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold behaved grossly unethically in critical respects including knowingly withholding crucial evidence from the defence, preying on a young solicitor to include false claims in an affidavit to hide the material, and then making deliberately deceptive comments in court to Justice McCallum herself.

A chief judge might, quite reasonably, be incandescent with rage and determine to take every legal step open to her to punish the wrongdoing and ensure it could never happen again. Instead, Justice McCallum issued a note to lawyers giving a quick nod to public scrutiny and then came the urging “to show kindness and respect towards each other at this time and (I) look forward to continuing to work with the local legal profession to build on the many strengths of this jurisdiction”.

To call this motherly drivel is to do mothers a disservice. This is drivel, plain and simple. What about the interests of the community in seeing fair and impartial justice, not to mention the interests of all those brutalised by Drumgold’s behaviour starting first with Bruce Lehrmann, of course, but extending to the ACT police, Linda Reynolds and Fiona Brown, among others?

The Chief Justice appears to care more about a few stern words aimed at Drumgold than these disgraceful injustices.

For all the hoo-haa about the importance of female leaders, too many high-profile women are letting the side – and society – down with daft and woolly public utterances.

We don’t need female leadership, whatever that entails, we need leadership to ensure that institutions do the right thing.

What is it with female ‘leaders’? Is it a prerequisite for them to be twee? Twee doesn’t cut it. As for ‘justice’ in the ACT perhaps the entire legal system in the ACT should be examined from the Chief Justice down to the registry filing clerk to really see what’s going on. Or better still how about repealing the enabling act that set up the ACT in the first place? Now that would save a lot of money and get rid of the toxic Green infestation completely.

Don’t know if I ended up posting this – I kept getting error messages this morning.

Perhaps the bosses have totally misread the socio/political mood that first surfaced with the Red Bull owner sacking his marketing team https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8527767/Red-Bull-fires-executives-pushed-diversity-inclusion.html over their BLM arrogance. Lesson unlearned, we next had the Bud Lite saga, where admin still hasn’t woken up to the message that the consumer is King and isn’t captive to the marketing departments flings with political fashion. Next we have Target US who were a little quicker to disown the worms in their apple.
When corporations decide to treat their customers with respect and stay out of the political arena, they may get them back. But at the moment the customer who has been ear bashed for years about how non woke they are, are in the mood to kick a few heads themselves.

My goodness, the afternoon session of CPAC was good. From Moira to Alex Antic and then the forum hosted by Nick Cater. If I wasn’t there is person, I certainly was in spirit.

That Cluzt wimmin lawyer’s picture reminded me of someone in a very unpleasant way. Then it came to me- Anne Summers during her Damned Whores and God’s Police phase.

Little filth never fooled me. It saddens me that so many were fooled by him.

Tinta

What is it with female ‘leaders’? Is it a prerequisite for them to be twee? Twee doesn’t cut it. As for ‘justice’ in the ACT perhaps the entire legal system in the ACT should be examined from the Chief Justice down to the registry filing clerk to really see what’s going on. Or better still how about repealing the enabling act that set up the ACT in the first place? Now that would save a lot of money and get rid of the toxic Green infestation completely.

To repeat a comment I made a few days ago, the ACT, as the federal territory, should be reduced to the Parliamentary Triangle; the Lodge, Anzac Parade and the Australian War Memorial. The rest of the former ACT should become one or two NSW shires. The residents of the Lodge already vote in their own electorate.

Plenty of Commonwealth functions are already carried out in the various states, I see no convincing why the remainder of the operating functions could not also be. Ditto with diplomatic legations, which seem to be able to operate in normal cities in other nations.

Albanese:

Australians, in the first referendum in 24 years, will vote on whether or not they support formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants of the nation and putting in place a constitutionally-enshrined Voice.

If established, the Voice will be an advisory body to parliament and the federal government, providing input on policy matters affecting First Nations peoples — including health, education, and economic disadvantage.

So, apparently, Uncle Luigi’s core promise is to deliver the two things that the authors of the Uluru Statement from the Heart expressly stated (in the unread 25 pages) were exactly not what was required from any Constitutional change:

• symbolic recognition; and
• an advisory Voice to allow government to make “better choices” on their behalf.

It’s clearly all gone right off the rails for the First Nations, then. In the ditch. Lost opportunity.

Betrayed by a nasty little man who says one thing at the Garma Festival, but safely back in Canbra, or Meanjin says and does something else. A paternalistic Whitefella getting ready for more business as usual.

So, where is the public criticism of Luigi and Minister Burney for not reading the literature and understanding the request?

Where are the loud corrections of what ‘implement in full’ should mean?

Where is the outrage from the Yes Campaign and the great and good of the corporate world?

Where are Professor Langton, and Tom Calma, or Noel Pearson and the host of second stringers? Why are they not up in arms at this apparent betrayal?

The silence should be shocking.

Because it tells us that the message has gone out: ‘Stick with me on this. It’s what I do; I know how to wrangle the voteherd and bullshit my way through the Referendum – and once “Yes” is up, the real game can begin…’

And that the message has been heard.

Base politics at its worst.

Roger

Aug 19, 2023 11:50 AM
Investment property listing, Cairns, FNQ:
WAR Zone Bunker
Top floor (strategic high ground)
Huge balcony with commanding view over battlefield
Free cultural performances (residents screaming and fighting)
Artworks in carpark (graffiti)

Nah. Needs to be fifth or more floors up. Some nimble young feller could get up there real quick.
Even on the fifth floor you need electrified perimeter – not fatal levels, just enough to make the aforesaid NYF let go.

Calim?

CLAIM.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/hoodlums-running-the-show-in-victoria-.html

Wow they didn’t give a siht. Click the twitter link. Not that I endorse this behaviour and realise the younger generations tend to be less respectful of authority but is this a clear case of Vic Pol’s chickens coming home to roost after COVID?

The contempt of the old troopers of the Goldfields for another era perhaps…

Chris you could be PM. Do absolutely nothing and you would achieve more than Luigi the Unbelievable. The destruction of Australia would be halted overnight. Chris for PM, Chris for PM, Chris for PM.

Re. my post above – as an afterthought. Weirdly, Alex Antic’s address with regard to the mis/dis information Bill. His concerns outlined in his address reflected exactly what my submission entailed. MSM exempt; all sectors of government exempt. Orwell would be rolling over in his grave and Antic raised both 1984 and Animal Farm. Go Alex – you good thing.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Aug 19, 2023 5:00 PM

Australians, in the first referendum in 24 years, will vote on whether or not they support formally recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants of the natio

n

Why do I have the nasty feeling that “recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the first inhabitants” will only set off another round of demands for reparations and compensation?

You get that nasty feeling because its exactly what will happen – demands for reparations and compensation.

CPAC has been impresive with first class people presenting.
While it brings on a warm inner glow, one needs to ask what influence it may exert on the wider political landscape.
Unlike the communo/fascist lunacy underway in Brisbane at the moment CPAC does not even have a Party to influence. In fact the ‘moderate’ controlled once conservative party is contemptuous of CAPC, and would vote with the Communists to silence it.
A wonderful expose of conservative intellectual thought it is, but
It has no influence upon the LNP;
it has no influence upon the media;
it has no influence upon the public at large.
When weak LNP leaders permitted the Party to be taken over by the cronies, they also lost the publicity capacity necessary to get counter ‘moderate’ messages out into the public domain.
So complex CPACs are not what is needed. What is needed is boots on the ground, grass roots branch re-energising. Only through rekindling the power of the membership will conservatism be reborn.
Take the intellectuals and idiologues out of CPAC and get them active in the Branches. Jacinta can show them how to do it.
Conservatives don’t need to be told what are the tenets of conservative ideology, it is instinctive. What is needed is organisational leadership. Elitist CPAC does not provide meaningful operational leadership.

I used to call it Royal Socialism

So much US electronic and auto component manufacturing moved across to Taiwan during the 80s.

GreyRanga
Aug 19, 2023 5:35 PM
Chris you could be PM. Do absolutely nothing and you would achieve more than Luigi the Unbelievable. The destruction of Australia would be halted overnight. Chris for PM, Chris for PM, Chris for PM.

My first policy speech; thank you, thank you.
How can we fight back against the evil enveloping our society? Start by being ourselves, the best we can. We start by aspiring to be better. Don’t cheat, don’t lie, don’t steal, don’t murder… and don’t stick your dick in crazy.

I am off to roneo some letterbox literature that will totally fight back against the long march through the institutions.

JC
the laughing hyena issue

Nailed it.

The yep nails it. Of course I agree.

(Nods wisely while groping desperately behind him for a 4×2.)

That settlement over the voting machines must have hurt quite a bit and made them much more cautious.

I’m skeptical of Fox’s caving in over the voting machines. There is plenty of evidence that the voting machines were sus. Plus why would you fire Tucker because of the cost of that loss? He was the least responsible.

I think it is more likely that Fox was either blackmailed or believed that Trump 2.0 would expose the corporate corruption that is now rife in the US. Anyhoo, I hope they go down.