I know that some here don’t like Barnaby, but he is very effective when he appears on Sunrise against TanyaP. He has “cut through”.

This morning Tanya told how the youth crime in Redfern was solved by community consultation and hence the need for a Voice. Barnaby pointed out that The Voice was not needed in that situation and yet the problem was solved.

I’m prolly telling it wrong, but he comes across as speaking common sense. Dutton came on afterwards and was also pretty good.

Actually Chanel 7 runs a few good things at present – that News Spotlight on a Sunday night is good – dealt with trans mutilations last night. Worth a look on 7 catchup if you have time.

The guys that stabbed that woman to death near where I work were in state care.

It is possible to be a member of an oppressed minority and still be an absolute arsehole.

But locking people up is the least productive thing society can do in the long term.

True. It can have bad effects psychologically and a criminal record can affect future employment prospects and travel. For non-violent offenders there should be a better way to punish and reform.

My second son was imprisoned for six months (out on parole after three) for a short period of bipolar madness making false documents to claim back money he believed in his gambling panic and mental confusion was owed to him. Total cost was less than $16k (far less than a damaged car that some get a tap on the wrist for). He didn’t help his case by refusing our legal assistance and insisting on his innocence after having skipped bail twice. They threw the book at him and his oppositional behaviour. It was only in prison that a psychiatrist diagnosed him as having a severe bipolar disorder. His mental state was not raised at all in Court. I visited him in Long Bay prison hospital regularly, and in Bathhurst and Silverwater, for they shifted him around a bit before Long Bay.

It took me five years to bring him back from the results of his imprisonment, living on the streets and drinking his life away, refusing our help, getting into more strife. We brought him back home on parole. He was good at first under meds, but then refused medication, and he absconded after a month. We would have willingly paid back the money had they let us do so.

Incarceration simply scarred him badly. Sometimes I still hear what I call the ‘prison whine’ in his voice. Slowly, that accent is leaving him, and his accent and voice is more that of the ambitious young man once was, studying Science at Uni. But he’s 48 now. He sometimes these days wears the good clothes I got him to apply for work, but not getting much, or having difficulties with it, he falls back into self-neglect. I do my best for him, bring him new clothes and tell him to chuck the rest, for he rarely washes anything, even though I got him a new washing machine. Last year I paid for a ski holiday he was saving for (he only got to $200) to remind him of his earlier life and how he can restore it. I provide regular food, internet and phone and pay vet fees for his dog. Having and loving this dog has emotionally improved him a lot.

I can’t change everything though.

Where do the Walkley boycotters fill up?

Or do they charge their EVs with electricity produced by burning coal?

Hopefully they also boycott AmpCharge – and strand themselves in inhospitable places.

Toyota Outlander, Roger. Also a hybrid, which makes me wonder why the need to plug it in at all.

They don’t work so well in the great open spaces anyway, relying on stop/start to charge.

Yes. It’s false advertising on many levels.

Yikes! I take that back. Trust a chick to get the brands wrong.

Toyota…all is forgiven. 😀

A possible scenario is that local playgrounds, parks, reserves, sports teams etc.. will have their land taken off them (and potentially need to lease it back off the indigenous corporation).

Saw it on Outsiders Sunday. A good sign of what we have already allowed to happen with Native Title legislation and a portent of what is yet to come with da Voice.

Land and improvements all belonga us. You now pay us muni to use them.

The big question is: who are these ‘claimants’? And why doesn’t current usage ‘extinguish’ this chimera of legal fabrication called Native Title? Let alone why funds are made available for such claims, and not made available to legally defend against them.

Once Native Title moves into the suburbs over land enjoyed by all for generations, then it is surely meaningless. As I’ve said, I would legislate it out of existence if I was dictator. Certainly the whole issue should be revisited and new legislation represented to the High Court once some better legal minds are on it to address these issues.

Native Title is already claimed over far too much of the Australian land mass as it is.
Time for some push back, and no better time than a No vote to start the ball rolling.

Land and improvements all belonga us. You now pay us muni to use them.

What does the King have to say about all this land belonging to someone else?

The Toyota hybrid I had in NZ was pretty good and I was sceptical. I got 3.5 – 3.75 lph driving like I always drive. If you were driving on the flat unless stop start it would be useless. Small tin cans frighten me. Mind you the new Forester does as well compared to the old Outback turbo. The old one is a far better car to drive.

Rod spared.
Child spoiled.

A totally entitled mentality but I don’t necessarily blame the dad for that.
He was trying to help out. But she was high on something and resisting.
Calling the cops was the right thing to do. He’d had enough and good on him.
Why kids do this to often very good parents is complex and not always the parent’s fault. When kids on drugs go for ‘help’ they often get reinforced in a victim mentality and encouraged to use their aggro inventing ‘reasons’ to be against their parents.
I’ve spoken to so many parents tearfully clutching photos of their previously ‘good’ kids. Parents who were loving, boundary setting and conscientiously responsible.

The same sort of thing happens now with gender affirmation. Parents are the bunnies caught in the headlights of these cultural onslaughts.

“The Army doesn’t want them”.

I would have thought that General Camp-Belle would very much enjoy the introduction some under-aged “meat”, entering his sphere of indoctrination.

Native Title is already claimed over far too much of the Australian land mass as it is.
Time for some push back, and no better time than a No vote to start the ball rolling.

Probably don’t hope too hard for that.

In the event of ‘No’ at the Referendum, the chances of Team Albanese recalibrating are slight to Nil.

For Labor this exercise has been 97.3% party political, with the expected payoff being a Labor Monument that helps entrench Labor government as ‘the only party capable of delivering whatever it was you voted Yes for’.

The probability of a ‘well, sorry everyone, we completely misread the room and stuffed that one up’ response approaches zero. Instead we can already see the groundwork being laid for exculpatory off-ramps:

1) The politics of division, cynically deployed by those Bastards Opposite;

2) The emergence of Dangerous Far Right tendencies, disturbing the peace, threatening our society, and worrying ASIO sick about the many, many covens of Grampian Gay Garage Nasties and fundamentalist Christians who will stop at nothing and probably need a strong legislative response;

3) Misinformation, spread by sinister foreign Trumpian forces.

Get ready instead for Voice by Other Means, the Department of Makarrata, Healing Treaty – and measures to ensure that unacceptable views are not aired publicly and projected onto the national stage.

Closing the Gap: less of an issue – because the Dutton Monster has destroyed Hope and Goodwill and Politeness and crushed the First Nation’s souls.

Extracting the racist grifters from their “hopes and dreams” will be as interesting as extracting that young person from her dad’s car.

Prepare for much bellowing and accusations of touching private parts…like Swiss bank accounts.

OTOH, is there any famous Aussie song that could be used for No?

Not Australian but the Ramones did I’m Against It. Seems to cover most contingencies and it’s probably more appealing to those with literary aspirations than the Farnham song.

…the local Coleswoths have removed the front of store posters …

My Local Coles has an indigene flag and a TSI flag atop the cigarette cabinet. No Australian flag though. When i asked the checkout chick why not, she replied: “Boss said just those two”

Passed along for the information of those Cats who have not yet tried Aldi (whose lamb shanks are really good)

Fuller details of the Redlands Shire claim.

If the claim gets up, based on the Quandamooka’s traditional management practices on Stradbroke and Moreton islands, access to everything not private property or a gazetted road will be shut off and allowed to ‘rewild’ amidst unresolvable clan in-fighting.

Not sure how this will all work in Wynnum and Manly, the bayside suburbs of Meanjin, or along the reclaimed land of the Port of Brisbane. Or what benefit it will bring to anyone.

But it’s the future we are being asked to embrace politely.

Cassie @1:37
Having been through the prostate cancer process, I have a better appreciation of the indignities that women routinely go through from the medical process. ADT with its associated hot flushes was, shall we say, an interesting experience for a couple of years but not quite as uncomfortable as the ultra sound probe invasion for the biopsy and then again for the gold implants.
The alternative of doing nothing however was not an option so, like many others I put on my big boys pants and took it.
Your reference to a penis squashing x-ray did make me squirm a tad, so here’s hoping no mad medico thinks of that idea.

Mates son just quit the army
Joined just in time for covid buggery arseing about.
Final straw is the number of cocks in frocks he was expected to salute each day.

Every male and 3 females of the last 3 generations of my family have served, some to senior rank. 3 serve in the navy today.

None plan to serve longer than their current contract.

It has nothing to do with benefits or pay.

Farmer Gez
Sep 4, 2023 7:35 AM

John Farnham recorded The Voice but it was written by a four high profile English songwriter/musicians.
Farnham is a bit guilty of presenting a one pager himself.

Fair point, Gez. BTW, who wrote My Way? Hint – it wasn’t Frank Sinatra. Who wrote New York, New York? Hint – it wasn’t Frank Sinatra.

Are you accusing Frank of some nefarious act?

Great game Zatara.
Jared Verse.
Awesome to watch.

Been meaning to post this for ages – Dame Edna interviews k d lang. It’s a hoot. The Grande Dame asks k d when she realised that she was … you need to watch it to find out.

k d seems to be quite sane and grounded considering that she is a very successful and respected singer. Most of them are flakier than baklava in a hurricane. Plus, she has a sense of humour. Canadians (well, the original ones) are largely Scots-descended, so SOH may be optional.

Vale, Barry. And, as to those head lice who trashed his name at the Melbourne ‘Comedy’ Festival, you will be remebered for all the wrong reasons.

ftb

He’s a monster no doubt. Fun guy to chat to as well.

She’s done that all her life.

I tend to agree in her case, Calli. Possibly a situation of a split family, mum vs dad sort of thing, playing them off against each other until dad’s finally pulled the plug. She’s got all the arguments of the hyper-indulged with additional hallmarks of the left-wing cultural tolerance, trying even to do a George Floyd with the ‘I can’t breathe meme’ at the end of it all. The cops were icons of patience with her, so far has the culture of litigation grabbed hold of policing. Even so, the shock of arrest will do her good.

If people here think that I tolerate this sort of behaviour, mental illness and/or drugged out state notwithstanding, let me disabuse them of that thought. I do what I think is helpful without encouraging dependence, in fact holding out hope that a worklife future is always possible. Additionally though, I have always advised keeping the lines of communication open and in the case of the father above, I would still advise that. But on his terms, his negotiation. Bravo, sir, I would say. You’ve made the first step away from her game-playing.

There have been too many funerals where those lines of communication have been swept away by a parental ideology of righteousness over bad behaviour where all contact has been lost and the child falls into utter despair at the final break. Tough love has its place, but also its limits. Faults on both sides can be recognised and healed.

The whole of Canberra is one big middle finger to the rest of Australia well exemplified by the shape of the Parliament House. The people populating the city, staffers and advisers, are far from the general population in attitudes and interests that they cannot know how the rest of us live and what we think.

I don’t know what the solution to this is as even the staffers and advisors brought from the regions soon get absorbed by the Canberra blob. One thing that could help is to hire older staffers who at least have some life experiences apart from social media savvy. I have ranted about this previously that ditzy twenty-somethings are not suited to purpose but seem the only ones who are hired.

Here we go again.

Firstly, the ‘whole of Canberra’ is not responsible for the elected politicians sent there from all over the country. Whatever electorate or State you are in, you sent them there.

Secondly, the ACT economy is not completely a creature of government, in fact less than half of it is, and the percentage is decreasing all the time.

Thirdly, the reason that staffers are overwhelmingly young and unmarried is that they work brutal hours, are always on call, may have to jump on a plane with an hour’s notice, and are in general not suited to being partners, let alone parents.

People in stable relationships, with children, quite rightly don’t want these jobs.

Get used to it.

Women put up with a hell of a lot of invasive investigations and procedures.

I doubt that there is anything more invasive than a forceps birth.

Still, you get a baby as a reward. So we carry on.

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Lysander losing browny points for hopping on a plane is understandable, I used to go fishing. No problem.

Good article by Frank Ching up at news com au about NZ PM saying nobody had to take the vaccines.

Could be writing about Australia as well.

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???

What?

How do you know this and what does it prove?

Johanna its not so much the polititians as the APS. I’ve never come across such an entitled bunch of so and so’s. Most of them couldn’t hold down a job in private enterprise. The majority of the work cough they do cough is completely unnecessary. Its a make work scheme.

Work is work – losing valuable family time when it calls is part of the deal.

Don’t want to loose that family time? Get out of the city, onto the land, and start raising things people eat. It takes a family to do that properly and all those bizarre ‘we hate the world’ things can wait until the chores are done.

What’s this actual policy debate when there’s so much grifting to do. If only the vooce had got up none of this wodda happened. Its not my fault all you lot failed, yadda yadda.

Just saw a chap on a blog who brought up 9/11.

He reminded me of the fact that, three buildings, fell virtually within their own footprint, in a matter of hours, after being hit by TWO aircraft.

I did a quick search on YT and actually found the (in)famous video of the BBC reporter, speaking late in the afternoon, reporting that the Saloman Bros Building had collapsed, ……, blah, blah, blah.
The problem was, it is visible in the background as she is speaking. OOPS!

Nothing to see here plebs, ….., move along. Just be afraid of the invisible enemy.
(Covid anyone?)

In 1945, a Superfortress, (B-29), hit the Empire State Building. Amazingly, it didn’t collapse within seven hours, into its own footprint.

I have watched several shows, with engineers explaining how odd, the 9/11 scenario was. They all give examples of other buildings, that have suffered large fires, that did not collapse AT ALL, let alone into their own footprint.

I see the geniuses in charge of the US Emergency Responses are now claiming they were “unprepared” for cyclone Idalia.
Sure, who’d have thought, a cyclone during cyclone season, where cyclones regularly hit.
Bugger me, ……., must be Climate Change, ……, right?

In 1945, a Superfortress, (B-29), hit the Empire State Building. Amazingly, it didn’t collapse within seven hours, into its own footprint.

No, it was a B-25, less than half the weight.

So what’s your point?

JC

Richard Doty is old news.

I don’t believe Elizondo, Graves, Fravor & Salas are covert intel operatives or insane.

Grusch I’m not sure about.

I like this Burchett character.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn) said the group — comprising Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla), Moskowitz and himself — will likely not get another opportunity for a hearing unless Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) designates a select committee on UAPs as they have requested.

That select committee would give subpoena powers to force leaders in the Department of Defense and others to testify and push past the “roadblocks” the group has faced so far in seeing classified material and getting timely responses, Burchett said.

“We’re running into a lot of roadblocks there, and that’s the problem with this whole thing. It just creates more and more conspiracy theories because our federal government is so arrogant and so bloated, and they’ll just run out the clock,” Burchett said. “I’m guilty of this as well, but Americans want their pizzas in 30 minutes or less, and that’s about our dadgum attention span.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4157124-bipartisan-house-group-pushes-for-select-committee-classified-hearings-into-ufos/

There are tens of trillions of dollars of “missing” Pentagon money. There is radar and FLIR readings that correlate to the witnesses and the missing money.

It’s worth investigating. Gaetz put himself out there with his testimony.

Funny how nobody ever asks why men virtually never get breast cancer (it isn’t tissue mass because there’s no correlation between breast size and cancer).

This one question proves that all medical theories outside German New Medicine are abject lunacy.

I guess that’s why nobody ever asks it.

And they whinge when people call them the GayBC ….

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-04/grace-hyland-trans-tv-episode-channel7-/102810318

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In 1945, a Superfortress, (B-29), hit the Empire State Building. Amazingly, it didn’t collapse within seven hours, into its own footprint.

It was a B-25, a much smaller, twin engine (not a massive four engine) aircraft.

There is a correlation between oestrogen levels and breast cancer.
Is is not strong for added oestrogen tho’ as in HRT, but it is there.
Being female is a risk factor for breast cancer.

Being male is not.

Men do produce some oestrogen, that’s normal. There would be outliers.

That’s why, in the absence of massive cheating by the AEC, the referendum will go down in flames on October 14.

Hope you are right, Tom. A No vote could be the start of a claw back on many of Labor’s excesses, such as net zero, not just those regarding aboriginal people (stopping the First Nations terminology for a start), and bring some proper auditing to aboriginal spending.

The campaign strategy of the Yes vote is that voters are too stupid to realise they’re being lied to.

Albanese and the First Nations elite have encouraged the Uluru Statement to be all things to all people:

– A polite recognition;
– An advisory group on limited issues;
– An advisory group inputting into all three levels of government on any issue;
– Very modest;
– A means to self determination;
– Assumption of responsibility by indigenous communities;
– No service delivery function or responsibility whatever.

The important takeaway is a No theme song by Jeff Beck.

Bizarre. I like Americans but they’re neurotic.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/wear-white-after-labor-day-35950