The Amalfi coast is for Amalfians.

She should know this.

Uptick.

Liberal arts college’s new academic centre, library and halls blessed
By Marilyn Rodrigues – August 30, 2023

Excerpts:

Based in Toongabbie in Sydney’s west, the liberal arts college celebrated the occasion with leaders from the Catholic Church, education, politics and business along with college benefactors, current students, staff and alumni, with the keynote address given by former deputy prime minister John Anderson.

In his address Mr Anderson said the new Campion development was a significant moment not only for the college but for the nation, which is experiencing a “civilizational moment” marked by dangerous social and economic pressures, growing division and distrust, along with an abandonment of the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West.

“We are losing our confidence in the very institutions of freedom, and worse than that, the ideas, beliefs and values that underpin them,” Mr Anderson said.

College president Dr Paul Morrissey said it was also an occasion to honour “two great Australians”—the late Fr Stenhouse who was formerly a trustee of the college, and mining magnate and philanthropist Mrs Gina Rinehart after whom the new library is named.

Turnbull and Bishop.
Winning.

The Clowns of Doom have spoken! 😀

h/t Blair

Snowy 2.0 story featuring Prof Bruce Mountain speaking truth to idiots.
Bruce is a key part of our team to scrap these stupid 500kv transmission line projects.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/am/snowy-hydro-project-price-soars/102792046

Turnbull did tap the breaks on Rudd & Conroy’s NBN.
So he wasn’t entirely terrible.
Only mostly terrible.

Yaron Brook aint great.
Dave Smith & Michael Malice have referred to him as a William Buckley type.
That is, the manufactured opposition that wants to fail but also wants to be invited to all the right dinner parties.

Turnbull did tap the breaks on Rudd & Conroy’s NBN.

All the easy, up front munni had been harvested and all that was left was to actually…deliver?

A Yes activist in action.

Police charge man who allegedly trashed South Australian Liberal MP Tony Pasin’s office and called No campaign ‘bullsh*t’ (Sky News, 30 Aug)

Female staff members at a federal MP’s office have been left “shaken and fearing for their safety” following an altercation with a man reportedly in favour of the Voice.
…
Police were called to South Australian Liberal MP Tony Pasin’s office on Thursday after reports a man had allegedly trashed the foyer and abused female staffers.

CCTV vision obtained by The Australian showed the 61-year-old man appearing to be frustrated as he spoke with an employee at the reception desk.

Seconds later he is seen pushing flyers off the counter before storming out.

We can trust the Voice since they have the righteous high ground. How dare we suspicious people be suspicious of their altruistic motives!

The real slush money with the NBN would have been made with the 20 year plus servicing contracts.
Which Turd effectively ended by changing the technology mix.
Could you imagine trying to check some union doing the maintenance work on the NBN between Bourke & Cobar under the Rudd/Conroy model?

Why do animals of different species pair up in seeming friendships, what’s in it for them? This long video gives some excellent examples of unusual pairings and investigates why they occur, so better than just showing the examples as some others do. The video calls in animal behaviourists to explain some of the sequences shown by looking at redirected instincts due to early attachment deprivation, isolation, boredom when food is plentiful, maternal thwarting and sexual frustration. Many of these situations are found in animals who live with or near humans (an intervening variable), but not always. Play and nurturing instincts are highly explanatory for most instances. It ends with a curious question – can animals keep other animals as ‘pets’ for amusement, offering food and care? Some cases in primates give rise to speculation re this. Fun to watch a swimming orangutan swim, let alone see him sharing his swim with his ‘pet’ dog that he feeds regularly. Stick with it all the way through to see this.

It shouldn’t surprise us if animals go interspecies in emotional seeking. We as humans do it all the time, often for many of the same reasons.

The NBN under Rudd/Conroy was like HIV/AIDS.
Under Abbott/Turnbull onwards it turned into a case of Herpes.

Robert Sewell
Aug 30, 2023 11:48 AM

NZ as a 7Th State.
Why this distraction at this time?
Rhetorical question of course…

1. The PU is a cost centre.
2. NZ is assaulting civil rights.
3. Hello compassionate conservatism.
4. Nuke up.
5. Use the outlands as forward bases for the homeland against an increasingly aggressive China.

I’m semi-serious.

Boambee John:

Aug 29, 2023 9:25 PM
I think that people should be confronted with the reality of their silly ideas.
Allow individuals to have the same number of public holidays as now, but take them when they wish. If they work on any of the current holidays, they get no penalty pay. All they get is days off at a time of their choosing.

Cancel all public holidays.

This is interesting.

History

In 1878, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco first took to the woods in Taylorville, California (present-day Samuel P. Taylor State Park) for a summer celebration that they called Midsummer High Jinks.[3] Poems were recited, songs were sung, and dramatic readings were given; the practice was repeated each summer in other areas, primarily near the Russian River in Sonoma County. In 1881, the ceremony of the Cremation of Care was first conducted after the various individual performances, with James F. Bowman as Sire.[4] The ceremony was further expanded in 1893 by a member named Joseph D. Redding,[5] with a Midsummer High Jinks entitled The Sacrifice in the Forest, or simply “Druid Jinks”, in which brotherly love and Christianity battled and won against paganism, converting the druids away from bloody sacrifice.[6] Redding formed the framework of the ceremony but the main actors, including George Tisdale Bromley as High Priest, were asked to supply their own major speeches.[6] In 1904, the prologue to William Henry Irwin’s Grove Play The Hamadryads included text such as “Touch their world-blind eyes with fairy unguents.” The play depicted the intrusion, the battles, and the symbolic death of the maleficent Spirit of Care.[7]

In the earliest productions of the Grove Play, several restrictions were imposed upon the Sire (host, chief planner, and master of ceremonies[8]) including that the stage setting be the natural forest backdrop and that the “malign character Care” be introduced in the plot, to wreak havoc with the characters and then be faced down and vanquished by the hero.[2] In these early productions, the Cremation of Care immediately followed, and lasted until midnight.[9] The end of the ceremony was signaled by a lively Jinks Band rendition of There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight,[10] and the club members sat down to a late dinner and revelry.[11]

From 1913, the Cremation of Care was disengaged from the Grove Play, and rescheduled for the first night of the summer encampment.[1] The Grove Play was set for the final weekend.[1] A different Sire was appointed for the Cremation, and some concerns were raised in subsequent years that the Cremation of Care was growing into its own secondary Grove Play. Some Sires experimented with a satirical treatment, or topical themes such as a patriotic World War I treatment in 1918 and an unpopular Prohibition script in 1919. “Care” was not killed, let alone cremated, in the 1922 version. In response to member complaints about the unpredictable quality of the opening night fare, Charles K. Field was asked in 1923 to standardize the script for what became the basis for every subsequent Cremation of Care ceremony.[12]

Iron ore helps us pay!

Gilas, you were right again, take a bow.

A battle of the polls.

New polling has revealed that Tasmanians have joined their mainland counterparts in WA and Queensland in turning against the Voice to Parliament referendum, in what “no” campaign sources are calling a “game changer”.
It comes as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travels to Adelaide to formally announce the date of the referendum vote, widely expected to be October 14.
The poll, conducted by Insightfully for the Institute of Public Affairs, asked 1156 Tasmanian voters how they intended to vote on the referendum, using the official question that will be put to Australians on ballot papers.
The polling found that a majority 53 per cent of Tasmanians intended to vote “no”, with just 42 per cent indicating a likely “yes” vote.
Five per cent were undecided.

Meanwhile, a poll of 605 South Australians conducted by the Australia Institute has found that 43 per cent of voters in that state intended to vote “yes” versus 39 per cent who said “no”.
About 18 per cent said they were undecided, but when asked which way they were leaning those voters split exactly in the middle to deliver Yes a narrow 52-48 lead.
Earlier this month Newspoll analysis found that Queensland and WA were also firmly in the “no” camp, meaning that if the numbers held through polling day the “yes” campaign would need to secure Tasmania as well as South Australia, Victoria, and NSW in order to change the constitution.
The same polling showed Victoria tied at 44-44 and NSW slightly in the “yes” camp” at 45-42.
That analysis also showed that South Australia was firmly in the “yes” camp at 48-42, though many observers have said that it would be a key battleground state.

Dot
Aug 30, 2023 12:54 PM

Gilas, you were right again, take a bow.

Unnecessary, stupid comment, Dot.
You can do better, as you usually do.

The mal-dentated spittle-flecked gnome has announced the referendum date..

I’d’ve preferred July 14 to Oct 14, but that’s just me.
One can never have too many tumbrils.

Near San Fran. Good luck with that.
The deep-pocketed investors reportedly plan to turn the land into their vision of an ideal city, featuring sustainable energy and a pedestrian-friendly layout.

Multi-funktion polis anyone? — I’d left out the ‘n’ in a previous comment which remains in moderation. Sorry Doverlord

He said he hoped a potential Voice to Parliament, which he said he would vote for, would get more Indigenous children to participate in schooling

How?

Robert Sewell
Aug 30, 2023 1:41 PM
Bruce O’Nuke

Yep. And just wait until they start noticing all the whale deaths and put restrictions on wind construction to protect them. Suddenly the economics will ratchet another step worse.

I’m curious about the level of noise for submarines using sonar systems.
It seems the soundwaves affect whales. Will they enable Russian or Chinese Boomers to hide close inshore to the Continental US? A depressed trajectory missile with 3 nukes each – the Type 094 carries 12 for a total of 36 warheads – could take out a large percentage of the US retaliatory strike capability in far less time than an ICBM launch from the Chinese mainland.

NO. SOSUS.

If law enforcement never received testimony, then why were prosecutors investigating it?

Jealousy. Heavy metal bands get more hot groupies than state prosecutors do.

WTF is Marles doing?

So much for zero emissions.

Demand the details.

Sorry shatterezz- I’ll be sending a postal vote with a big ferking NO on it. Attending the poll place won’t happen.

Notwithstanding some transport and mobility issues I am concerned that I may be arrested for punching out some ferkwit who tries to shove a yes pamphlet down my throat.

‘65,000 years of history’: PM sparks thunderous applause at ‘Yes’ launch.

Basically one day repeated for 65,000 years.

No clothes, shelter, domesticated animals, wheel etc.

Utopia. Unless you had toothache, a boil, infected cut or were female, infant or in some other way weak or suffering some malady.

To call what went on here for however long a “culture” is an insult to cultures everyway.

Pedro: re your query about how the referendum is travelling in the SE of this increasingly stupid country: I live in Kooyong and at the last federal election pretty much every fifth house had a Teal poster stuck to the front fence. For the moment at least, there is just one Yes poster on a front fence every three or four blocks.
The other morning Yes campaigners at the train station were grinning inanely and wishing everyone a good day while trying to hand people pamphlets. Of the ten or so people who walked past when I was going up the ramp, only one took a pamphlet
This all might change of course, but the Yes campaign around here feels very low energy.

Can I get a postal vote before 19th September?

I didn’t think I could.

Haven’t seen a ‘yes’ poster anywhere around Rose Bay or Vaucluse, so far anyway.

This is Teal Central.

Everything of consequence in Australian history has been launched in Adelaide.

These spruikers will be on the receiving end of a verbal spray of the kind they’ve never ever received before. After approaching Cassie of Sydney, they will be stunned mullets!

Video proof, Cass, or it never happened.

In canbra no yes advertising that I’ve noticed. Done and dusted yes, not that it makes any difference in the territories.

*Spiritual home of the late Mr Yunupingu – generational thief, helicopter-owner, condemner of his own extended tribe to endemic poverty and thus revered by the current Prime Minister.

I treasure them all.

Quite rightly. Everything human beings get up to and produce is worth keeping and recording.

A few centuries ago, Europeans came here and made contact with people who had been isolated for millennia. Nine months later they started producing babies together, and now there are scads of people with mixed ancestry. What this establishes is that there is only one race, the human race, and that the differences are very superficial and not important.
There are profound cultural differences, but cultures interact and change; people learn off each other. Sensible people copy the good ideas wherever they find them. If little green men from outer space come here with superior science and technology, anyone with a grain of sense will try to learn from them. That will destroy our existing culture, and we’ll develop a better one. That’s how it works.

It’s how it’s worked for the great majority of the aborigines. See Bess and Jacinta Price for example. And our own BB.

Pre-history means before written records; in all that time aboriginal society had absolutely no writing.

Not quite 100% true. In certain places they had proto-writing via tree carvings but trees don’t last forever so it’s impossible to know how long the practice existed, as it also wasn’t widespread. As it was a lost art until recently, they can’t really tell what their meanings were. I met a guy who had revived it but they’re ornamental only as there’s no known meaning, but I haven’t read the full article.

I’m on the last chapter now of Rowan Dean’s 2017 novel, reprinted 2018, on two ‘lads behaving badly’, very badly, as they ace the money and girls (supposedly) in the heady ‘drunk then hungover’ lunching-on-the-client world of UK advertising, harking back to the soaked-in-it days of the 80’s. It definitely rings true to things I lived through as a young copywriter in the sixties in the Australian context, for the mass media was where it was at, cranking up the markets in those days of alcohol-fuelled excess, with ‘kiddie creatives’ moving into line to take over calling the shots as paired couples, one Art Director to One Copywriter, married till a baby (the ‘idea’) was born as an ad and raised to be an award-winning offspring.

Titled ‘Corkscrewed’, Rowan Dean’s book took a time warp look back to that golden era when it was published only six years ago, and now it reads like a report from the far side of the moon, an anthropological tour of somewhere else, definitely no longer of this contemporary world. A tightening of the thumbscrews is now doubling every two years. There’s no corkscrewed any more. So much has changed, even the title. We’re screw topped these days in the media industry and strictly after hours for it. Drunks are shunted with embarrassment to AA fervently vowing never again to place an unwanted hand on a chestfeeder’s knee, let alone ever deliver a funny ad to a Creative Director who now waves the ‘rules of woke’ around with an abandon that can no longer be called gay.

You can still get a wet knickers full of laughs at some of Rowan’s scenarios though.

Sorry to hear that bons. I hope he pulls through okay.
It’s a lesson that I’ll put in the memory for our place and as my old dad used to say “Get the fright before the accident not after”.

Click on the photo for a better view. It looks like something Alien would grow in her greenhouse.

Considering the total devotion given to this referendum, where do Labor and the coalition of the woke go if it is defeated?

bons,
send him our best. What a bugger. I hope the burns aren’t too deep.

Ahaha! I was enjoying poor Mr Wilson and Dennis (who bears an uncanny resemblance to my youngest grandson).

I meant to link this, of course.

As well as carved trees, Aboriginal tribes also had Tjuringas or Churungas, which were message sticks. The were small pieces of wood, often shaped into a rounded point at each end, and could contained intricate carvings similar in style to those found on the trees. I used to have one, given to me in Western Australia; it was polished black wood, and the carving was exceptional. It was obviously of sacred significance and could also serve as a tribal identifier. Other sorts of message sticks used simple symbols, were sparse and roughly worked and carried simple messages. I suspect they were mainly a product of European influence, an old idea given new possibilities. The main issue with these ancient sticks is that they were highly sacred objects. Seeing them as some form of ancient written communication is probably mostly wrong.

In a later article, I’ll explain why the unique virtues of the Voice proposal justifies my first ever YES vote.

At a glance, I do believe Mackerras is Hi Alan-ing.

It’s a neat form of nudging. It requires belief, firstly, that he has always voted “no”…but not this time.

It took almost 50 years for the USD to replace the British pound.

Pthah. Newbies.
Nothing beats the Spanish silver dollar. 8 Rrrrreales, me hearrrrties.

Hell!

Yes, I’m worried, I must admit.

The upticks will swing it.