Grant will head the Constructive Institute Asia Pacific at Monash, leading projects in the school of media and journalism

aka bringing home the Bacon

Monash – ground zero for The Peoples Republic of Danistan.

You’ve just perfectly described communism.

And Nazism.

Lock the date in.

The date of the Voice referendum will be announced in the must-win state of South Australia with Anthony Albanese to trigger a six-week campaign sprint expected to end in a vote on October 14.

It is understood the Prime Minister will join prominent Voice supporters in Adelaide mid-next week to launch the campaign blitz, which the yes side is hoping will turn their fortunes around after months of declining support in the polls.

The location choice confirms South Australia’s status as a referendum decider, with both sides of the Voice debate certain the result in the comparatively smaller state will determine the overall outcome.

On Tuesday night Mr Albanese confirmed he would announce the date of the referendum “next week”.

“Every Australian will have the opportunity to vote yes for a practical, positive difference in people’s lives,” he said.

“I will be campaigning for constitutional recognition, because if not now, when?”

Advance director Matthew Sheahan has been upfront about the anti-Voice group’s strategy of securing a no vote in three states to prevent the double majority required to win a referendum.

The yes campaign has the tougher task of winning both a majority of the national vote, as well as at least four of the six states to successfully change the constitution.

Internal polling from both sides has placed Queensland in the no camp for some time, while a messy debate over now-scrapped Indigenous heritage laws in Western Australia is seen to have been the death knell for the Voice in that state.

Yes campaigners believe they are on track for a positive result in Victoria, NSW and Tasmania, though the latter island state is still in the sights of no campaigners.

This leaves South Australia as the ultimate battleground state of the referendum.

Avoiding multiple football finals, parliamentary sitting weeks and the wet season in Northern Australia has made October 14 the favoured date for the poll, which must be held no later than December.

Sources have estimated the no campaign will spend some $10 to $12 million during the formal campaign with ads mostly targeting lineball states like South Australia and Tasmania, while the yes campaign is likely to splash up to $25m across the country as it seeks to secure both the national vote and individual states.

Mr Albanese on Tuesday joined ultra-marathon runner and former Liberal MP Pat Farmer for some of the Sydney leg of his 14,000 kilometre run around Australia in support of the Voice.

The Prime Minister said the referendum question was “very clear,” and would lead to recognition of First Nations people with a committee through which they could offer advice to government.

“The clauses which are there are legally sound, they will not interfere with the way that the government operates on a day-to-day basis,” he said.

“Our Parliament will still be in total control of its destiny.”

Once the date is confirmed all households will be mailed a pamphlet outlining the yes and no cases.

Similar to a general election, Australians will be able to apply for a postal vote, attend a pre-poll or a polling station on the day.

The ballot paper will ask voters to write either “yes” or “no” to the question asking if a Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice should be enshrined in the constitution.

Or maybe not lock it in.

Buyback so farming can dieback

We know that south-east Australia in particular is getting hotter and drier … the next drought is just around the corner,” Ms Plibersek said.

“We can’t stand by and allow our threatened species, our rivers, our wetlands, and the three million people who rely on this river system for their drinking water to be unprepared for the next dry period.”

Murray-Darling Basin plan revived with controversial water buybacks, but won’t include Victoria

Nanny says, leaves those sticks alone.

Yes – a very good interview. In fact I’d say that Colonel MacGregor was spot on in everything he said.

Colonel MacGregor has been commenting on this stuff since the Russian ‘Police Action’ began. Loads of his videos on ‘You Chube’. Top Man.

How did Plibbers end up with Environment? Da bruvvas must have had a laugh when they told Albo that was what was happening.

but I’ll bet he claims Australians are just racist scum

He can renege on his promise, blame the Murdochtopus (his tentacles everywhere) and accuse Dutton of being in cynical league with those malign forces for purely political gain.

Worlds oldest continuous culture!

Colour me suspicious, but I’ll bet he claims Australians are just racist scum, who need firm leadership, and he’ll legislate the Voice.

Doubt even the Liar Left would try that on.

Brent Boltitude

Is that his real name? As in Bolt on steroids?

My mistake it’s Bultitude not Boltitude. But it is pronounced Boltitude.

cohenite
Aug 22, 2023 7:30 PM

My mistake it’s Bultitude not Boltitude. But it is pronounced Boltitude.

Near enough is good enough for any top notch legal eagle.

In fact, I happen to think that the Minns government is a lot more conservative than the previous Liberal government, but nobody should be surprised by that.

Cassie, it always falls apart near the end with the Liars.

They..

Where is the appropriate place to discuss soft furnishings?

From the Oz

Adam Cranston handed 10-year minimum sentence over Plutus Payroll scam

Adam Cranston, the self-declared “biggest fraudster in NSW”, will spend at least 10 years behind bars.

The son of a former Australian Taxation Office deputy commissioner has been sentenced for tax fraud and money laundering over the Plutus Payroll scam that swindled the tax office of $105m.

Adam Cranston, who declared himself “the biggest fraudster in NSW”, will spend at least 10 years in prison after defrauding the ATO between 2014 and 2017 when he was regularly using illicit drugs ketamine, cocaine and LSD.

Justice Anthony Payne told the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday that the 36-year-old still did not appear to understand his conduct amounted to a “gross violation” of social norms and put his prospects of rehabilitation at “only fair.”

Let me go further.
His prospects of ever being a half-smart crook are close to nil.
Despite their ABC calling it a “sophisticated scam”, this was the clumsiest racket ever.
Areas for improvement:-
1. Using junkies as fronts for your bank account buckets;
2. Disclosing your real ID to said junkies;
3. Spending the money on bling, fast red cars, and pardee drux;
4. Employing a juice-head bikie to standover the aforementioned junkies. As bikies do, he decides that it might be more profitable to stand over these Eastern Suburbs wannabes than collect $2k a shot for scaring junkies witless;
5. Not considering the possibility that the ATO might notice an employer who was remitting $250k a month and suddenly drops to close to zero. Accordingly they go the full “bada-bing gangster” chatter on their phones. Their hot phones. Pro tip … if you’re running a Ponzi*, don’t say “Ponzi” on the phone.
3/10.
Improvement required.
….
* It wasn’t a Ponzi. The dicks didn’t even know the correct name of their criminal enterprise. Which was “theft”.

From the Oz

Adam Cranston handed 10-year minimum sentence over Plutus Payroll scam

Huge mistake he didn’t use Bunter Hiden’s lawyers to sort things out for him.

Justice Anthony Payne told the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday that the 36-year-old still did not appear to understand his conduct amounted to a “gross violation” of social norms and put his prospects of rehabilitation at “only fair.”

WTF is all this from judges making calls whether accused are penitent and/or can be rehabilitated? How the hell do they know? Also, if this is so important why aren’t the accused weeping in court for the entire case?

Interesting points Dot.

Just wondering out loud. What hell happened to Tickler? Any moment now he’s going to go Roths-child on us. Don’t go full Roths-child, Tickler and you never come back from that rabbit hole.

Roths-child appears to be banned thanks to GB.

But hey, at least we can use the words Jew and Jewish here. Sinc bannrd them in case Bird flew in though an open window.

Pauline has earned respect the hard way. I don’t know what the animus is between she and Latham

Simple.
Ego.
She simply can’t stand the thought of someone stealing the limelight.
That is why the suggestion of a PHON – Fat Cloive merger would never work.
Both massive egos.

Roger, I know, but boy I’ve read this a lot lately. So why aren’t accused all drying their tears throughout their trials. I don’t get it. You could still plead not-guilty and not have a dry eye for the duration as well as huddled and hunched over

JC,

Many offenders are so hubristic they imagine, to the last moment, that they’ll get away with it. And even when convicted they’ll maintain their innocence. Prison is full of such types.

Human psychology can be perverse, particularly with criminal types.

James Morrow on the dog collar wearing mayor of Sydney:

Vladimir Lenin, commenting on the appalling human cost of the Soviet project, once supposedly said that “you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.”

Fast forward a hundred or so years to Clover Moore’s Sydney and it seems that you also can’t make a proper egg fried rice, full stop.

Because to do that might require a restaurant to use one of those really high powered gas jet burners for its woks.

Never mind the unique flavour that sort of heat can provide, using natural gas is just not on for the planet.

Interfering with restaurant kitchens is just a small part of Moore’s utopian scheme – more about which in a moment – to crash through on a program to cut Sydney’s emissions to essentially nil, even if it means crushing the city’s businesses in the process.

And crush them it will.

A small list of businesses that will be in the frame if Moore’s plans to ban new gas connections gets up include restaurants (particularly Asian joints that demand high heat for their woks), breweries (who often use natural gas burners in the beer making process), a variety of creative arts studios, and more.

The fact is gas is simply better for a lot of things.

It is also as such things go relatively clean, and if only policy makers and bureaucrats would get out of the way, it would also be incredibly cheap.

Yet here we are, with the Lord Mayor of what is supposed to be Australia’s most cosmopolitan city wanting to meddle in how its citizens and visitors eat.

This at a time when, thanks to similar utopian ideas at the national level, we are less and less sure where any of that electricity is supposed to come from.

The Australian Energy Market Operator is already sounding the alarm that the push to renewables – the cheapest form of energy for everyone except those paying a power bill – is leaving the grid dangerously exposed.

No wonder a review of the closure of Eraring has suggested keeping the power station going past its scheduled close date.

And in these circumstances we are supposed to be putting more demand on the grid?

But the really important thing to remember is that none of this will not stop here.

Sydneysiders will not be able to hand back their gas cooktops and make peace with the Net Zero mob, which wants to hold a modern bonfire of the vanities (with the emissions properly offset, of course) to rid of us all the sinful conveniences that make modern life nice.

Some years ago Moore signed Sydney signed up to be a “C40 City”, committing its residents to a program of radical environmental utopianism that would see every aspect of its citizens’ lives monitored and controlled to ensure they did not emit too much carbon.

In 2016 she even flew all the way across the Pacific (hope she offset her emissions) to accept a sustainability award at a C40 Cities summit in Mexico.

But while it’s all very well and good for Moore and her fellow mayors to go on jaunts around the world, what the C40 mob has in mind for you and me is a little less luxurious.

A 2019 report on the C40 website entitled “The future of urban consumption in a 1.5C world” reveals some of the group’s aspirations for how the rest of us might appease the angry weather gods.

Among other things, it tells us that we city dwellers are eating too much, and should one way or the other have our calories cut. They say that while ideally no one should eat animal products, they would like to see people top out at 16kg of meat consumed a year, or about 300g a week.

Not surprisingly, the group also wants us to buy fewer clothing items, ditch our cars, and limit ourselves to one return short-haul flight every two to three years.

Won’t that be a boon for the city’s tourism operators!

It’s all a bit like Covid, but without the fun of bingeing.

Now, the C40 website is careful to say things like the plan is “an invitation, not a prescription.”

But cynics will be forgiven for noting that those who are determined to save the planet their way never seem to really believe people should have much choice in the matter.

One of the great ironies of the past fifty years is the way the left has gone from demanding the government stay out of the bedroom to insisting the government meddle in every other room of the house, from the kitchen to the garage.

Then again, the impulse has always been there.

The great American conservative William F Buckley once noted that a liberal (in the US sense of the term) is someone who wants to reach into your shower and fiddle with the temperature.

Today, they don’t just want to tell you the temperature of your shower but determine how you heat the water as well.

Of course she is leading by example. Annnd I will see myself out.

Not saying Pauline Hanson wasn’t motivated by good intentions at first.
But 25 years on, I think we are a little bit wedded to the Canbra spotlight.
And James Ashby would also be very concerned to ensure the career of James Ashby continues unhindered by sudden electoral shocks.
See also, Joyce, Barnaby.

On the subject of drug induced delusions, I’d go with

1. We’re purchasing imports at below cost.
2. Duarte’s anti-drug policy was a workable, conservative attempt to reduce illicit drug use in the country with the least amount of disturbance and loss of life.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/stan-grant-quits-the-abc-to-head-monash-universitys-centre-to-rebuild-media-integrity.html

Commenter on Michael Smith, raising the story of Stan Grant, telling his children about the poisoned waterholes. Words fail me…

Pauline on PML: it’s all those dirty dick men’s fault.

Knuckle Dragger
Aug 22, 2023 9:29 PM

The daughter of award-winning actor Vince Colosimo is following in her famous father’s footsteps with a career in entertainment, but it is not acting that Lucia has been dabbling in, rather exotic dancing.

KD, you didn’t link, but I’m guessing there are tatts?

Female tatts and Trump derangement.

Dunno about this one though, although the bull dyke haircut shows potential.

“Inordinately Intelligent”: Canadian Woman Sentenced to 22 Years in Attempt on Trump’s Life

That same week, there was also a sentencing in a prior case where the threat led to an attempt on the life of Trump. Pascale Cecile Veronique Ferrier, 56, has been sentenced to 262 months or roughly 22 years for mailing ricin to Trump. What makes her case even more striking is the defense raised by her lawyer.

And then there’s this sweetheart.

PICTURED: Tracy Fiorenza, 41, arrested by secret service after threatening to shoot Donald Trump and son Barron in the face

With the requisite tats.

Yes. They wouldn’t have imposed strict rules on movement, like travelling only at night, etc. if they weren’t being surveilled.

I’m not sure you can make that assumption.

Lee Aug 22, 2023 8:55 PM
Look, I like Pauline, I know others here don’t and think she’s a grifter.
A much older guy I knew twenty years ago (an unashamedly proud socialist) once dismissed Pauline as “just a fish and chip shop owner.”
So much for the left being on the side of the middle and lower classes.

This type of comment triggers a Cassie-style rant from me.
Points raised/rammed in this rant:
Pauline created 14 jobs in that fish & chip shop, how many have you created?
No, sitting on a corporate/public service interview panel is not job creation.
How many jobs have you created with your own money?
Pauline got herself off the wages market & into mercantile services (fish & chip shop)
This is not an easy thing to do, very few people ever manage to get themselves off wages (i.e. being paid by a boss for results, this includes “consulting”.)
It takes a very special person to do ever get off wages. Most shit themselves just thinking about it.
Have you ever considered growing a dick & balls and having a go yourself?
[long piece about the dignity of labour & how fish & chip shops are not leeching from anybody]
There’s more, but y’all have got the picture.

etc. etc. etc.

cohenite

Aug 22, 2023 9:34 PM

Pauline on PML: it’s all those dirty dick men’s fault.

Yeah, obviously.
Wut?

There is no way they can do that and get to Zelensky even if he’s in Kiev to capture him, etc. for the fait accompli before he’s gone to ground or fled given the forces they had in the area.

..
Exactly.
They were going to kill or exile him, and replace him with their guy.

There’s no doubt they’re going to try it on again.

EXC: Biden Has Already Begun Buying COVID-19 Equipment, Hiring Pandemic ‘Safety Protocol’ Enforcers

Baghdad International Airport
Further information: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

The entrance when the airport was called Saddam International Airport
On the morning of April 3, 2003, US forces advanced on Saddam International Airport. This location turned out to be the best defended Iraqi position of the entire war and two US soldiers were killed by mortar fire early in the fighting.[24] After several hours of combat, the First Brigade, Third Infantry Division succeeded in taking control of Baghdad International Airport, which would become the hub of American logistics in Iraq for the next seven years. Before sunrise on April 4, the Americans were subjected to a fierce counter-attack by Iraqi troops. The First Brigade’s Tactical Operations Center (TOC) began receiving small arms and mortar fire. Under the cover of darkness, a number of T-72 tanks managed to get within several hundred meters of their position. According to one source: “It was not until a chemical reconnaissance vehicle was fired on, and a Bradley actually was hit by a T-72 main gun round, that the battalion became aware of its peril.”[25]
Fortunately for the crew, the hit was only a glancing one, and they were able to drive their vehicle to safety. A fireteam with a Javelin ATGM destroyed two of the Iraqi tanks, while the rest were destroyed by a passing M1 Abrams. As dawn approached, the attack on the TOC intensified, and Iraqi infantry flooded into the position on foot. During the fighting, Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith was killed by enemy fire while fighting off an Iraqi attack on his team in an action that resulted in the posthumous awarding of division’s first Medal of Honor since World War II. During the softening up bombardment of Baghdad Airport on April 3, 2003, an Air Force F-15E fighter mistakenly attacked Battery C, First Battalion, 3–13th Field Artillery (supporting Third Infantry Division), destroying two Humvees and killing Sergeant 1st Class Randy Rehn and Sergeants Donald Oaks and Todd Robins.[26] Five other soldiers from the unit were injured in the air attack. Sergeant 1st Class Wilbert Davis is also reported to have been killed along with American journalist Michael Kelly on April 3 after coming under fire, during operations to secure Baghdad Airport.[27][28]
Thunder Runs
On April 5, Task Force 1–64 Armor of the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade, executed a raid, later called the “Thunder Run”, to test remaining Iraqi defenses. The operation began south of Baghdad and went through main roads to the newly secured airport.[29] Iraqi resistance was disorganized, and the unit sustained few casualties. The unit was forced to abandon one tank due to a recoilless rifle or RPG strike in the rear that penetrated a fuel cell and set the engine on fire.[30] The crew was unharmed. Later, the Air Force bombed the tank to destroy it in place, and the Iraqi Information Ministry claimed credit for destroying it.
Two days later, the entire 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division was ordered to conduct another “Thunder Run”, following the same route as before. This route had been fortified in the intervening period, and senior leaders feared much more substantial resistance than during the prior encounter. Colonel David Perkins, the brigade’s commander, followed the original Thunder Run route north into Baghdad, but then veered east into the government districts instead of west towards the airport. The 2nd Brigade easily took control of what is now the “Green Zone” in one day, dramatically speeding up the end of conventional ground combat in Iraq.[31]
This portion of the battle was described in detail in the book Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad by David Zucchino, published March 22, 2004.
Objectives Moe, Larry, and Curly
On April 7, 2003, intense fighting took place at three locations known as objectives Moe, Larry, and Curly (named after the characters in The Three Stooges). Each objective was a cloverleaf where east–west roads intersected with the main north–south route (Highway 8) being used for the Thunder run. Successfully holding these highway interchanges was essential to keep Highway 8 open thus allowing US forces to remain in the city center following the second Thunder run. Objective Moe was at the junction of Highway 8 and the Qadisiyah expressway, Larry at Qatar Al-Nada street leading to the Al Jadriyah bridge, and Curly at the Dora expressway. At the southernmost location, Objective Curly, an 18-hour battle by the 3–15 Infantry resulted in the deaths of two US soldiers (Staff Sergeant Robert Stever and Sergeant 1st Class John Marshall) killed by RPG rounds and about 40 wounded[32] with 350 to 500 Iraqi casualties (Special Republican Guard, Fedayeen and Syrian fighters[32]). US tank (1st and 4th Battalions of the 64th Armored Regiments) and infantry units nearly ran out of fuel and ammunition and were almost overrun until reinforcements broke through and were able to resupply Objective Curly.[32] Toward the end of the fighting, an Ababil-100 SSM missile or an Iraqi FROG-7 rocket exploded among the parked vehicles of the headquarters of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, killing two soldiers (Private 1st Class Anthony Miller and Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid) and two embedded journalists (Julio Parrado and Christian Liebig), wounding 15 others and destroying 17 military vehicles.[4]
Tharthar Palace

US Marines fighting Iraqi army in March 2003
On April 7, US troops took control of a major presidential palace along the Tigris river. It had been hoped that leaders of the regime would be found in the complex, located near Saddam Hussein’s home town of Tikrit.[33] American commanders on the ground said that they would remain in the city center rather than return to the outskirts as they had done previously.
Within hours of a palace seizure and with television coverage of this spreading through Iraq, US forces ordered Iraqi forces within Baghdad to surrender, or the city would face a full-scale assault. Iraqi government officials had either disappeared or had conceded defeat.

Within hours of a palace seizure and with television coverage of this spreading through Iraq, US forces ordered Iraqi forces within Baghdad to surrender, or the city would face a full-scale assault. Iraqi government officials had either disappeared or had conceded defeat.

dover0beach
Aug 22, 2023 11:32 PM
Not sure the Ukrainian government in Feb ’22 was in the same position as the Iraqi government in 2003

..
Can you try any harder to miss the point?
Watching you turn a fine brain into a pretzel over this shite has been infuriating.

Paywalled at the OZ.
Picture tells the story.
Coles and retailers at centre of organised crime spree

Thanks Tom and with Michael Ramirez it’s the same for Australia. No dams having been built.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

– Sam Ewing

Like the failed Fallschirmjäger in WW2(Hollnd, Crete)

If only the Kiwi Infantry didn’t move off the Maleme Airfield and leave it undefended.

I’d suggest there’s more, dot.

It’s not really that enormously complex to operate a small business with all of 14 employees.it’s just drama queen nonsense that because our Pauline ran a fast food joint she deserves respect. Yeah. It’s Oppenheimer redux. The new film will be tiled “ ‘Hanson”