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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2023 6:28 pm

Daily Mail.

Old Parliament House fire: Bruce Shillingsworth and Nicholas Reed found guilty

Old Parliament House set alight in December 2021
Two men faced trial over the roles in the blaze
Bruce Shillingsworth and Nicholas Reed guilty

Tom
Tom
September 4, 2023 6:29 pm

“Qatar Airways can add more seats into Australia today. Right now. Right now,” the Prime Minister said.

“So (Qatar Airways) are certainly welcome to do so, and they can fly as many flights as they like into Adelaide, into Gold Coast, into Avalon, into Hobart.

In other words. Elbow is saying Qatar Airways is banned from serving Australia’s primary airports and is allowed only to fly to shit secondary airports.

The inevitable result of international air rights being decided by politicians.

Elbow is a lying sack of shit. Once again, he assumes voters are too stupid to see what he’s up to.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 4, 2023 6:30 pm

Opening question time on Monday, opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie asked Mr Marles “whether or not the minister has taken golf clubs, a putter, a driver etc” on any of his special purpose aircraft flight.

I saw the footage just before of that exchange BB.

Seems the journalist also left the part of the question off about whether the minister had bought family members on said flights that was never answered. I reckon Hastie has been leaked something.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 6:36 pm

…and what does it prove?

it proves you don’t know how to find who owns a particular IP or range of IPs

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 6:38 pm

I think my Marles meme is still there.

😀

Dot
Dot
September 4, 2023 6:38 pm

I have a bee in my bonnet about the falsity of the (P)RICE protocol for [usually, sporting] injuries; here is a good article written for those without a Ph D in cell bio:

https://thesportjournal.org/article/the-r-i-c-e-protocol-is-a-myth-a-review-and-recommendations/

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 4, 2023 6:38 pm

Cali

😀

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 6:39 pm

Elbow is a lying sack of shit.

Surely not.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 6:39 pm

Seems the journalist also left the part of the question off about whether the minister had bought family members on said flights that was never answered. I reckon Hastie has been leaked something.

Oh goodie !

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 6:43 pm

“Elbow is a lying sack of shit.

He always has been, he always will be.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 6:46 pm

Any Cats watched Tokyo Vice ?
Totally unrelated to Sancho’s holiday.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2023 6:47 pm

Any Cats watched Tokyo Vice ?

Watched Kill Bill 1 and 2.

Very informative.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 6:48 pm

Kill Bill 2.

The movie that wouldn’t end.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 4, 2023 6:48 pm

Yup just re checked in Hansard, I was a little wrong but Question & answer below:

Mr HASTIE (Canning) (14:08):
My question is to the Minister for Defence. Can the minister confirm whether anyone outside of his family, personal staff or departmental staff have travelled with him on his defence VIP special purpose aircraft flights?

Mr MARLES (Corio—Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence) (14:08):
I can confirm that there are those who have—ministers from other governments, representatives of other governments and representatives of the media. But let me again be clear that there are legitimate reasons why those who are not on our staff or in the department would be aboard a special purpose aircraft. The guidelines that are in place I completely comply with and so does every other person in the government who uses the special purpose aircraft. I absolutely stand by the
way in which all persons on this side have complied with those guidelines. Again, let me be clear: the special purpose aircraft has a critical function, as those opposite well know, which facilitates government travel. The degree to which the Leader of the Opposition has been desperate to get back on that special purpose aircraft ever since he lost government says everything about what he misses most about being in government.

Point stands though, Marles is being evasive and I pray that Hastie actually has something. Why would he ask that question if he didn’t have a whisper.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
September 4, 2023 6:50 pm

Further to gangsta rappers endorsing Trump, there’s no end of young black males getting a tattoo of Trump’s mugshot.
This presents the Democrats with the very real possibility that a lot more than 30% of the black vote will switch from them. They may also have a lot of trouble rigging it so the black vote stays home on polling day.

Pogria
Pogria
September 4, 2023 6:51 pm

Dr Mirkin. I would go a name change. Stat! 😀

https://www.colleen.nz/archive/short-and-curlys

Pogria
Pogria
September 4, 2023 6:52 pm

Bern,
Tokyo Vice is great. I am hoping SBS screens the second series.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 4, 2023 6:53 pm

Zatara

Sep 4, 2023 4:20 PM

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.

Months ago someone did the calcs on the weight and speed of a 767 vs a B-25.
The impact difference was several orders of magnitude higher for the 767 … not just 2, 3, or even ten times higher.
I think God-Oracle sneered at the calcs, which is a decent confirmation that they were on the money.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 6:54 pm

who is this debbildebbil Kiwi

it appears GSL Networks are just an ISP but they are much much bigger than UnZed alone

behind their public exit points will be millions of private IP addresses

if somebody has a complaint there should be an abuse email address and probably a publicly available abuse policy.

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 6:56 pm

I get that, Matrix. Someone is using a VPN to troll. As if that has never been done before.

I presume NFA suspects someone commenting here, and is giving notice. Fair enough.

eric hinton
eric hinton
September 4, 2023 6:57 pm

GreyRanga
Sep 4, 2023 3:22 PM
I just had one of those oh shiite moments on the way back from the shops.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 4, 2023 6:58 pm

So, it’s No, No, Prosciutto now?
Must have been a howling gale to turn the weather-vane.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2023 7:01 pm

… a rogue group of community pharmacists …

Surely the lab coats was a giveaway?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2023 7:03 pm

Time to move Twiggy from the Asset to the Liability column.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 7:04 pm

several orders of magnitude higher for the 767 … not just 2, 3, or even ten times higher

magnitudes eh?

sancho, yr very cute with the puppy math

eric hinton
eric hinton
September 4, 2023 7:05 pm

Oops. So did I GR. My fault. No damage done but I sure would have freaked someone out. Kind of weird, I’m the idiot rider a few people are talking about over dinner!

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 7:06 pm

sancho … are your little Lego hands cupped like that so that they clip better onto your little Lego cock?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2023 7:07 pm

Out of interest, how would one troll the Furniture Store? A troupe of flying nanowrigglers might do it I guess.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 7:09 pm

Looks like Patreon has purged a few content creators that they don’t like.
Might be blamed on a “tech issue” depending on the blow back.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 4, 2023 7:11 pm

calli

Sep 4, 2023 6:56 PM

I get that, Matrix. Someone is using a VPN to troll. As if that has never been done before.

I presume NFA suspects someone commenting here, and is giving notice. Fair enough.

Not fair enough.
Needs to give the paranoia a rest.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 7:15 pm

don’t wanna be a sneerer but, several you said

so let’s fact-check the fact-checker …

how many orders of magnitude sancho?

1, 2, 3 … 4?

Indolent
Indolent
September 4, 2023 7:20 pm
Razey
Razey
September 4, 2023 7:21 pm

Google Search: can men menstruate

Results: Having a period is not a feminine thing, and people of all genders menstruate, including non-binary people, agender people and even plenty of men! Menstruation doesn’t change anything about your gender, it’s just a thing that some bodies do.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 7:21 pm

Out of interest, how would one troll the Furniture Store?

the back-end of an internet forum is a very dirty, scummy, stinky place

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 7:22 pm

That won’t happen.

The Venn diagram may show countless sectors of overlap, but it’s the ones that don’t that matter.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 7:23 pm

Marles is on the run.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:23 pm

Elbow is a lying sack of shit. Once again, he assumes voters are too stupid to see what he’s up to.

The chair of the ACCC has revealed that QANTAS is the most complained about business in 2023.

As with the Voice, Albanese has misread the electorate.

And it’s not as if he has a big pile of political capital to play with.

Muddy
Muddy
September 4, 2023 7:24 pm

Today in History.
Eighty years ago, on the 4th of September, 1943, Operation Postern began with an amphibious assault by the Australian 9th Division on the coast to the east nor-east of Lae, New Guinea.

The following day, the U.S. 503rd Parachute Regiment, with Australian artillerymen, air dropped on the old Nadzab landing ground about 30(ish) miles west of Lae in the Markham Valley. During the following days, the Australian 7th Division was flown into Nadzab and push east towards Lae, which fell on the 16th of September after just 12 days.

The second part of Postern, the capture of Finschhafen on the southeast corner of the Huon Peninsula, was planned at lightning speed, though its capture – the Americans wanted to develop airfields in the vicinity – took longer than expected due to a stubborn and active Japanese defense.

The primarily Australian capture of Lae and Finschhafen, along with Salamaua, which had been declared clear on the 12th of September after an 11 week campaign, allowed the Americans to assault the western coast of New Britain (opposite the Huon Peninsula). Once consolidated, these possessions gave a clear passage through the Dampier and Vitiaz Straits between New Guinea and New Britain, and a pathway for General MacArthur’s drive to the Philippines.

This was by no means the end of the war on the mainland of New Guinea, but it is important to remember, on this 80th anniversary, the role that Australian forces played in pushing the enemy from the Huon Peninsula.

The alternative route to MacArthur’s cherished archipelago was through the Japanese island garrisons to the west of western New Guinea, and it might be argued that the SWPA at that stage, did not have the naval or maritime transport resources required for such a route. It was a better strategy resource-wise, to let the Australians perform the grinding work.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 4, 2023 7:25 pm

If the pressure on Marles keeps up, Stoker will pipe up with something to defuse it all.

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 7:25 pm

I should qualify that. The overlaps matter to me.

The others stray into this.

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 7:25 pm

I think Rita has said it best…

“if the yes advocates really think they can turn these figures around with a boomer song from the 1980s then they need to have their collective heads read”.

Quite so.

Jorge
Jorge
September 4, 2023 7:26 pm

BHP donates 2m to the Yes campaign.

It must be floating in money.

calli
calli
September 4, 2023 7:28 pm

BHP donates 2m to the Yes campaign.

The Big Australian despises Australia.

How about that.

MatrixTransform
September 4, 2023 7:32 pm

Farnham sells out.

Doc Neeson is rolling in his grave at the missed opportunity

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 4, 2023 7:33 pm

Dunno how true it is but I got told on the weekend that a whole battalion is about to be disbanded in Adelaide and their troops used to fill holes in other battalions. That came second hand to me but originated from a serving member allegedly.

Wonder what other bad news is in the pipeline.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:33 pm

BHP donates 2m to the Yes campaign.

Think of it as protection money.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:39 pm

Dunno how true it is but I got told on the weekend that a whole battalion is about to be disbanded in Adelaide and their troops used to fill holes in other battalions.

7RAR to Darwin and 1ARMD possibly to Townsville, RD.

Part of the strategic reorganisation of army in line with expectations of future littoral operations in the north.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:39 pm

Dunno how true it is but I got told on the weekend that a whole battalion is about to be disbanded in Adelaide and their troops used to fill holes in other battalions.

7RAR to Darwin and 1ARMD possibly to Townsville, RD.

Part of the strategic reorganisation of army in line with expectations of future littoral operations in the north.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
September 4, 2023 7:46 pm

BHP went woke years ago.

My last contract with them a while back now, the lower management was wall to wall underdone women. Some showed promise but the resentment by the blokes passed over for the ones with less ability was evident at the water cooler so to speak.

Them giving to this doesn’t surprise me. The Canadian blow in at the top did love his virtue signalling.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:47 pm

VIC Lib MP Russell Broadbent has reversed his support for Yes after local elders told him they didn’t support the change.

Indolent
Indolent
September 4, 2023 7:49 pm
Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 7:51 pm

BHP went woke years ago.

My last contract with them a while back now, the lower management was wall to wall underdone women.

Mentioned here last week a headline I came across from 2016 which announced BHP workforce would be 50% women by 2025.

In 2023, could the BHP CEO give a straight answer to the question, “What is a woman?”

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 7:51 pm

Dunno how true it is but I got told on the weekend that a whole battalion is about to be disbanded in Adelaide and their troops used to fill holes in other battalions.

Why would anyone join the army? Their own senior officers are their worst enemy. And the government.

I suspect it is a strategy, the Left knows that the Right don’t do revolutions because of Christianity. But the military can do coups. So it is necessary to geld the military. Especially the most effective military – the Commandoes and the SAS.

Pinochet becomes a vampire in Chilean director Larrain’s Venice entry ‘El Conde’ (1 Sep)

They hate him.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 7:51 pm

False Nazis being used by FBI to substantiate joe biden’s claim that white supremacy is the worst problem facing the US/West:

Find the Fed: Here’s Hoping Someone Can Identify the Tattooed “Nazis” at Gathering in Florida …UPDATE: One Nazi Identified – Says He Was Backed by CIA

Indolent
Indolent
September 4, 2023 7:52 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 4, 2023 7:52 pm

Well, I’d seen the videos of this awful transgender surgeon Blair Peters, but I learned something new today from the video above on transgender ideology. He practices a form of surgery called ‘nullification’. This is really Frankenstein stuff. He should not be practicing medicine or surgery anywhere already but this is its worst.

Rufo highlights one doctor in particular: Dr. Blair Peters, a plastic surgeon who performs trans genital surgeries at the Oregon Health and Science University. His specialties are phalloplasty, the creation of an artificial penis, and vaginoplasty, the creation of an artificial vagina.

But Dr Peters’ most horrific surgery is what’s known as ‘nullification’:

In this procedure, doctors perform a castration or a vaginectomy on the patient, then create a smooth, continuous skin covering from the abdomen to the groin, reducing the genitalia to nothing.

Rufo reflects:

This barbaric procedure is the perfect symbol for the ideology itself. Nullification is the pursuit of the Latin nullum, meaning nothing, and that is exactly where trans ideology ends: a profound nihilism that denies human nature, and enables barbarism in the name of progress.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2023 7:54 pm

Muddy

During the following days, the Australian 7th Division was flown into Nadzab and push east towards Lae, which fell on the 16th of September after just 12 days.

As the 7th Division was preparing to fly into Nadzab, a loaded B-24 crashed into a compo=any of the 2/33rd Battalion waiting to board transport aircraft at Jackson Strip near Port Moresby. About 60 Australians were killed, and more than 90 injured. The crew of the B-24 also died.

After a quick conference, the remainder of the 2/33rd Battalion boarded their aircraft, and were flown to Nadzab.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 4, 2023 7:56 pm

I’d rather take a drill to my head than listen to that song.

Rukshan:

John Farnham’s Voice in Support of the Yes Campaign Divides Australia

miltonf
miltonf
September 4, 2023 7:57 pm

the Left knows that the Right don’t do revolutions because of Christianity

what a ridiculous statement

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2023 7:58 pm

… company …

Figures
Figures
September 4, 2023 8:01 pm

There is a correlation between oestrogen levels and breast cancer.

What a ridiculous circular argument.

Why don’t men get vastly less *all-type* cancers than women if oestrogen is so carcinogenic?

And a 60 year old’s breasts don’t function JC so why would a 60 year old woman get cancer there?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 4, 2023 8:04 pm

BHP donates 2m to the Yes campaign.

Given some of their write downs over the years this barely rates a mention.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 8:04 pm

I suspect it is a strategy

In this instance it’s military strategy, Bruce, not political. See above.

7RAR was previously linked with 5RAR in Darwin before being transferred to Adelaide, a move which never made much strategic sense. The proposed move north undoes that mistake.

Dot
Dot
September 4, 2023 8:06 pm

Part of the strategic reorganisation of army in line with expectations of future littoral operations in the north.

A comfortable life in the Radelaide Hills, then being punted 2000 km north, next week you’re tromping through tropical mangroves, being molested by crocodiles.

I’d quit and join a fire brigade.

There are no problems only solutions.

Dot
Dot
September 4, 2023 8:10 pm

Why don’t men get vastly less *all-type* cancers than women if oestrogen is so carcinogenic?

Because men and women have different endocrine systems with differing dynamic chemical equilibria.

Gender is real or you can choose to believe it isn’t.

Likewise testosterone makes prostate cancer dangerous for men.

Muddy
Muddy
September 4, 2023 8:12 pm

B.J.
Yep. Carnage. I don’t know how many eventually succumbed to their wounds, but the casualties from that were multiple times the KIA and DoWs from the short campaign itself.
I believe a V.C. was awarded for Lae, and a U.S. amphib was posthumously awarded an MoH for Finschhafen.

The capture of Kaiapit in the Ramu on the 19th and 20th by the 2/6th Independent Company (previously at Buna with the Americans, and flank patrols over the Owen Stanleys) was a noteworthy achievement also. Few people know that the Japanese were sending a regimental-sized force through the Ramu to reinforce Lae.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2023 8:12 pm

After a quick conference, the remainder of the 2/33rd Battalion boarded their aircraft, and were flown to Nadzab.

My grandfather was a veteran of the New Guinea campaign. He had been horribly seasick on the troopship on the way up, so, come time when he was posted home for discharge, authority organized a flight home. Standing by the side of the airstrip, waiting to board, another member came running up and told him “Sorry, I have priority, over you.” Grandfather stood back, the passengers boarded, the aircraft departed. The aircraft crashed into the side of a mountain, with the loss of all passengers and crew, and grandfather was horribly seasick all the way back to Australia.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 8:14 pm

what a ridiculous statement

Why? The Right has a strong basis in Christianity, and the precepts in the bible about obeying governments are inescapable. Not everyone in the Right are Christian but the ethos is clear.

I cannot recall a single revolt or revolution coming from the Right in any country on Earth any time in all of history. Happy to be corrected. By contrast I cannot count the number of such events coming from the Left.

The only possible candidate is the US Civil War, but that was state governments vs federal government. The Christians looked into their hearts and chose one or the other. Both were legitimate governments that the Christians were required by the bible to honour. But which? Some chose one some chose the other and the result was history and blood. Lots of blood.

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 8:14 pm

A comfortable life in the Radelaide Hills, then being punted 2000 km north, next week you’re tromping through tropical mangroves, being molested by crocodiles.

It’s a mechanised battalion, dot.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 8:17 pm

Recent highlights from the wacky world of islam:

Candid Camera: Migrant Caught On Tape As He Rapes Pony In Germany

In Swedish City, Women Warned Not to Wear Expensive Jewelry Because of Migrant Gangs

Canada: Under pressure, government-funded Muslim org cancels speaker who calls Jews descendants of apes and pigs

miltonf
miltonf
September 4, 2023 8:18 pm

I cannot recall a single revolt or revolution coming from the Right in any country on Earth any time in all of history

the American revolution

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 8:22 pm

In this instance it’s military strategy, Bruce, not political.

Roger – Just a symptom of the underlying disease, which is no one signing up. The leftist strategy is to geld the military. The US is well ahead of us with the trannies and the vaccine mandates. They’re not filling their recruitment quotas. It’s a mystery.

Here we are persecuting heroes with VCs and generally undermining the services.

Army launches second phase of ad campaign amid recruiting slump (21 Aug)

The ad push comes as the Army continues to struggle to hit its recruiting goals amid what Army Secretary Christine Wormuth has called the “most challenging recruitment environment in years.”

Golly that’s amazing! How weird?

Roger
Roger
September 4, 2023 8:27 pm

the American revolution

I was going to say…but then King George III probably didn’t view Washington, Franklin et al as “on the Right.”

The Scottish Revolution of 1559/60 might qualify.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 8:29 pm

I cannot recall a single revolt or revolution coming from the Right in any country on Earth any time in all of history

the American revolution

You may as well say WW11 was a right wing effort.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 8:30 pm

the American revolution

Maybe. I suspect that was proto-lefty too, since it was about taxes. The bible tells Christians to render unto Caesar taxes. And that the government has in turn to render an account to God, which tends not to go well. Hell ain’t a nice place. On the other hand there were the governments of the 13 Colonies who decided to oppose the Poms. It is biblical for Christians to fight for the government they are under. Which makes 1776 another example like the Civil War. Jefferson for example was not a Christian.

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 8:31 pm

“the American revolution”

Indeed…and the People Power Revolution in the Philippines in 1986.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 8:33 pm

The only right wing revolution I can think of is when Killer Kowalski organised a group of pro wrestlers to take on the collective running the show back in the ’60s.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 8:33 pm

You may as well say WW11 was a right wing effort.

Cohenite – That wasn’t a revolution or a revolt.

Christians enthusiastically fight in wars. They just don’t rebel.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2023 8:34 pm

Muddy

There is now a plaque at the Hyde Park War Memorial in Sydney to the men who died, including the B-24 crew.

My father was in Moresby as an operating theatre orderly at the time, and helped with the wounded.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2023 8:36 pm

PS, I suspect that the VC was Diver Derrick, for actions at Sattelberg, inland from Finschafen.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 4, 2023 8:37 pm

People Power Revolution in the Philippines in 1986.

Led by the Left.

miltonf
miltonf
September 4, 2023 8:37 pm

Christians enthusiastically fight in wars. They just don’t rebel.

prissy – Franco was a Christian

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 8:40 pm

No, not led by the left.

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 8:41 pm

“prissy – Franco was a Christian”

Indeed, as was Pinochet, both devout Catholics.

miltonf
miltonf
September 4, 2023 8:43 pm

The Reconquista in Spain too.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 4, 2023 8:43 pm

It’s a mechanised battalion, dot.

So?
3RAR used to be a parachute battalion then light infantry, now mech.
Both 5 & 7 RAR were mech then light infantry then motorised/mech again.

It’s easy to take the APCs off them, again ( adjusts tinfoil hat… Which frees those m113s to go somewhere else… cough Ukraine …cough)

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 4, 2023 8:44 pm

Bowen hardest hit. Bit of sanity in New South Wales?:

The Minns government will take the first steps in extending the life of Australia’s largest power station tomorrow, when it releases a highly-anticipated review into the state’s energy market.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal that cabinet has now signed off on its response to the report handed to Energy Minister Penny Sharpe last month.

The top-secret report contains 14 recommendations relating to the Eraring coal-fired power station.

It is understood that one of those recommendations is the crucial advice that the government strike a deal to extend the life of the Eraring power plant to avoid shortfalls in supply.

The Telegraph was told that Tuesday’s announcement would signal the beginning of a process rather than a declare a final government decision.

Details of the cabinet decision were being kept top-secret on Monday night, as were the final recommendations from the review headed by former energy adviser (and one time Labor staffer) Cameron O’Reilly.

However, Premier Chris Minns has been all but forced to keep Eraring open longer than planned to keep the lights on until major renewable energy projects are finished.

Ah, maybe not. Let’s continue:

The O’Reilly review, costing more than $200,000, was tasked with working out if NSW would have enough power to keep the lights on if Eraring closes in 2025 – the earliest possible closure date as flagged by Origin Energy.

The Daily Telegraph in June revealed that Minns would step in to keep Eraring open longer if the O’Reilly review found that renewable replacements would not be ready in time.

While the review was handed to the Energy Minister in mid-July, the government had been delaying its release until after a crucial update from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

In that report, released last week, AEMO warned that NSW may not have enough electricity by 2025, and said that keeping two of Eraring’s four generators open longer could help keep the lights on.

So at half of the capacity then. That but of sanity is evaporating:

The need to extend the life of Eraring is largely due to the fact that renewable energy projects due to replace it have been beset by delays and cost blowouts.

Last week, the cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project was revealed to have blown out even further, after a revised estimate put the price tag close to $12 billion.

After Origin Energy announced plans to close Eraring as early as 2025, a number of options were put to the previous Coalition government which could have extended its life.

The Telegraph revealed last year that former Energy Minister Matt Kean knocked back one proposal – dubbed ‘Project Emu’ – which would have kept two of Eraring’s four generators running until 2028.

The highly-confidential Project Emu progressed so far that draft terms were prepared and provided to the state government.

But the deal would have required the NSW government to pay 90 per cent of any losses Origin incurred by running two of Eraring’s four generators from 2025 to 2028.

Meanwhile. Premier Chris Minns on Monday shot down Mr Kean’s claims that it would have cost $3 billion to keep Eraring open for two years beyond its planned closure date.

The Telegraph understands that as of Monday night Origin Energy had not yet seen a copy of the O’Reilly report, but expected its release imminently.

Asked whether the Minns government would extend the life of Eraring, a spokeswoman for Ms Sharpe said: “The Minister will respond to those questions soon”.

Matt Kean should be silent. Arsehat he be.

miltonf
miltonf
September 4, 2023 8:45 pm

The Reconquista is a term used to describe the military campaigns that Christian kingdoms waged against the Muslim kingdoms following the Umayyad conquest of Hispania from the 8th century until 1492.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2023 8:49 pm

Christians enthusiastically fight in wars. They just don’t rebel.

The First and Second Baron’s Wars in England.
Richard I’s rebellion against Henry II.
The Scottish Wars of Independence.
Henry Tudor’s rebellion.
The Cornish Rebellion.
The Jacobites.
The Rising of the North.
The Glorious Revolution.
Numerous Irish rebellions.

All-Christian, all-rebellion. Plus, communism hadn’t been invented then. Everyone involved was staunchly pig-dog capitalist.

Muddy
Muddy
September 4, 2023 8:54 pm

B.J.
I had forgotten about Derrick (later killed on Tarakan). I was thinking of …. French? I’ll have to research this.
Van Noy was the U.S. amphibious engineer at Scarlett Beach who was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Muddy
Muddy
September 4, 2023 8:57 pm

Nope. French was Milne Bay.
My mamary is not as firm as it used to be.

Ellen of Tasmania
Ellen of Tasmania
September 4, 2023 8:57 pm

“The doctrine of the lesser magistrate is a concept in Protestant thought that explains the circumstances in which a lesser magistrate has both the right and responsibility to resist the greater ruler.0 It was first detailed in the Magdeburg Confession of 1550 and teaches that when a ruler has become an incorrigible tyrant, he has abdicated his claim to legitimacy. Consequently, those magistrates with lesser authority under him may defy and resist the illegitimate magistrate (and his unjust laws) for the sake of protecting others.1 The doctrine is a historic tool that provides proven guidelines for proper and legitimate resistance to tyranny, often without causing any major upheaval in society.23 It is applicable to State, Church, Family, Self-government, and their interactions with each other.3 The doctrine promotes the respect for law and teaches how to rein in lawless acts by government and restore justice in the nation.23”

https://search.brave.com/search?q=the+lesser+magistrate&source=desktop

amortiser
amortiser
September 4, 2023 8:59 pm

Organic, free-range honey.
Yes, it really does exist on a label.
FMD.

I now refer fossil fuel generation as organic power.

JC
JC
September 4, 2023 8:59 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Sep 4, 2023 8:41 PM
“prissy – Franco was a Christian”

Indeed, as was Pinochet, both devout Catholics.

And Salazar in Portugal. Salazar’s was actually the closest thing to a conservative Catholic revolution.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 4, 2023 9:00 pm
Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 9:03 pm

Then there were the royalist and Roman Catholic led counter-revolutionary wars in the Vendee in Western France between 1793–96. These wars were rebellions and insurrections against the French revolution.

One must never led facts get in the way of bullshit…or links.

Muddy
Muddy
September 4, 2023 9:04 pm

Time to call it a night. The spongy matter is not fully functioning.

Fl. Lt. Newton was awarded a V.C. for Salamaua, but I cannot remember who was awarded the V.C. at Lae (they were from the 7th Div.).

Cassie of Sydney
September 4, 2023 9:04 pm

And Salazar in Portugal. Salazar’s was actually the closest thing to a conservative Catholic revolution.”

Yep.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2023 9:14 pm

Geez.

Seems like most rebellions across time were Christian-led, at least since Christianity became a thing.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2023 9:19 pm

Megan Davis: Video surfaces of Voice architect saying the Uluru Statement from the Heart is about ‘Voice first, Treaty second’ and warning ‘treaties are about reparations’

Voice Yes vote campaign rocked by resurfaced video
Professor Megan Davis declares about ‘reparations’

Daily Mail. How much more of this footage has to show up, before Albo admits hes been made a mug of?

cohenite
September 4, 2023 9:27 pm

On bultitude talkback today some Pastor rang in and said Australians had a moral obligation to vote yes to atone for past injustices to 3rd nations: in other words punishment must be meted out. I rang in and said he was the personification of the reason why church attendance had fallen by 90%. I also said the only relevant moral issue was to preserve the tenet of equality between the citizenry which was the basis of the best society ever invented by humans. I was also going to say the pastor was probably a pervert but I thought that would be a distraction.

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 4, 2023 9:31 pm

Muddy
Sep 4, 2023 8:54 PM
B.J.
I had forgotten about Derrick (later killed on Tarakan). I was thinking of …. French? I’ll have to research this.

Didn’t French get his at Milne Bay?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 4, 2023 9:32 pm

Any, “Sliante” to you mob. I’m reading Max Hastings’ monumental title on the Vietnam war. Hastings is one of the very few, in overall histories, that mentions the Australian and New Zealanders. It’s the first I’d heard that the Noggies in Phuoc Tuy provide believed the Maori soldiers were cannibals…

JC
JC
September 4, 2023 9:36 pm

Cronkers

Did you mention anything about cute owls?

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 4, 2023 9:37 pm

French was a Rat of Tobruk before he went to New Guinea with the 2/9th.

From his VC citation:

The advance of the section of which Corporal French was in command was held up by the fire from three enemy machine-gun posts, whereupon Corporal French, ordering his section to take cover, advanced and silenced one of the posts with grenades. He returned to his section for more grenades and again advanced and silenced the second post.

Armed with a Thompson sub-machine gun, he then attacked the third post, firing from the hip as he went forward. He was seen to be badly hit by the fire from this post, but he continued to advance. The enemy gun then ceased to fire and his section pushed on to find that all members of the three enemy gun crews had been killed and that Corporal French had died in front of the third gun pit.

By his cool courage and disregard of his own personal safety, this non-commissioned officer saved the members of his section from heavy casualties and was responsible for the successful conclusion of the attack.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 4, 2023 9:39 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Sep 4, 2023 9:04 PM

I hope your boobies are good. Oma and Mum had scary times.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 9:39 pm

By popular demand a cute owl guaranteed to make any red blood groin throb.

cohenite
September 4, 2023 9:52 pm

After a hard day being swamped by left bullshit still one of the funniest things is watching that big fat redneck walk past girls letting rip with quality farts. The missus reckons he doesn’t show the reactions of the girls who swear and throw things at him but I reckon there is consistent mirth by the ladies which is a good thing:

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=668400711472622

JC
JC
September 4, 2023 9:58 pm

My kid was a “victim” by some other dude in Central Park earlier in the summer. She was with a bunch of gals and he let rip. Think there’s a group of farters. The gals were laughing hysterically.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
September 4, 2023 9:58 pm
Mark from Melbourne
Mark from Melbourne
September 4, 2023 10:02 pm

cohenite
Sep 4, 2023 9:39 PM

By popular demand a cute owl guaranteed to make any red blood groin throb.

JC’s tauntings are NOT “popular demand”. More “unpopular lack of demand”.

P
P
September 4, 2023 10:02 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 4, 2023 11:14 pm

Ellen of Tasmania, at 8.57. Hello Ellen, good to see you still contributing here at the theological level. Do bring us more news of Tassie when you can too.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 4, 2023 11:25 pm

I’ve had the horrors today trying to unsee that ‘nullification’ surgery in Indolent’s link to a 9 minute analysis of the rise of transgenderism back thread. Also in that video was an outline of the two brothers, inheritors of the Hyatt Hotel fortune, who put massive amounts of money into promoting the transgender push. In Detroit, a desperate area of very needy teenager without families, they’ve financed a transgender experimental ‘clinic’ using these teens as their prey. All in plain sight. As so much of this transgender take-over of our institutions has been. The obliteration of sex is the aim, the end of the family is the game.

Depressing if you let it get to you. Then on Credlin tonight, with Rita in the seat, there were clips from our own MSM where the male interviewer is giving full strength curry to a nasty little man, almost of raincoat variety in his shiftiness, who is excusing the mutilation of children in Australian clinics. Heartening to see that, to know that the ideology is now being questioned more widely in our country.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 4, 2023 11:34 pm

erk Cohenite. More de-femaled women who’ve lost their normal fat due to over exercising and likely use of steroids to build muscles. Not good child-bearing material.

And those pneumatic tits, totally fake in that body. Look closely. You can almost see the scar lines under each one where the inserts went in.

If it grips your groin, well, I guess I’ve heard of worse. One guy once told me he could get turned on by the curves on a wooden chair if he thought about it long enough.
Trying to get me to understand that men respond to visual stimuli. OK, I get it.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 4, 2023 11:37 pm

Quiet tonight. Must be bedtime. Why yes, yes it is.

MatrixTransform
September 5, 2023 12:50 am

several orders of magnitude higher for the 767 … not just 2, 3, or even ten times higher

… you moron

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 12:56 am

Maybe. I suspect that was proto-lefty too, since it was about taxes. The bible tells Christians to render unto Caesar taxes. And that the government has in turn to render an account to God, which tends not to go well. Hell ain’t a nice place. On the other hand there were the governments of the 13 Colonies who decided to oppose the Poms. It is biblical for Christians to fight for the government they are under. Which makes 1776 another example like the Civil War. Jefferson for example was not a Christian.

This is a shockingly bad hot take.

Read some relevant source material and stop with the speculation.

The British were awful and objectively tyrannical. It wasn’t just about the taxes. The taxes were there to prop up a monopoly. There were many other abuses of power that the Americans felt disrespected their rights as British subjects.

Rosie
Rosie
September 5, 2023 3:59 am

I dare say someone thinks you Christians don’t do rebelling arguments fall flat because they don’t consider Catholics are Christians.
Fortunately for us, it’s not their decision.
And really it doesn’t matter how evil a regime is because Jesus told his follows to pay their taxes?
What about ‘unto God the things that are God’s’?
Incidentally I’m not so sure about Franco being a devout Catholic, I thought he paid lip-service because it suited him politically. Perhaps I read that in Beevor’s book.

Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 4:09 am
Rosie
Rosie
September 5, 2023 4:11 am

I’d consider St Thomas More and St Edmund Fisher as rebels against earthly authority.
It doesn’t always have to involve taking up arms.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 5, 2023 4:18 am

Thanks, Tom.

Johnny Rotten
September 5, 2023 4:20 am

Thanks Tom. Some good Toons again today.

Johnny Rotten
September 5, 2023 4:24 am
miltonf
miltonf
September 5, 2023 4:51 am

some Pastor rang in and said Australians had a moral obligation to vote yes to atone for past injustices to 3rd nations: in other words punishment must be meted out

I thought the arrival of the first fleet in 1788 brought the Word of God to these shores and gave Aborigines the opportunity to know Christ. Don’t men of the cloth read the Bible anymore?

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 5, 2023 5:04 am

Don’t men of the cloth read the Bible anymore?

Not much, no. Christianity is rotting from the head down. The Pope is a Marxist, and the less said about the Church of England the better. It’s intellectual and moral degeneration, and it’s been happening for decades. It’s only the happy-clappies who aren’t falling into line, and they’ve never had much intellectual content to begin with.

Gabor
Gabor
September 5, 2023 5:22 am

DrBeauGan
Sep 5, 2023 5:04 AM

upticks. +

JC
JC
September 5, 2023 6:00 am

LOL

This is unintentionally funny.

Yes = 38%
Institutionalised racism = 53%

No other way to put it.

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 6:19 am

Yes, Anthony Mundine just hates Aboriginals.

Anthony Albanese, his bleeds blackness, he loves the Aboriginals so much.

In short, Sainted White Man good, black man bad!

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 6:21 am

I don’t mean to pick on Bruce but the “biblical constitution” has me all burleyed up with no bait.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 6:23 am

Albo’s fig leaf on Qatar is some “safe guard mechanism”* that was put in place in 2018 to stop Qatar airlines abusing its market position.
Can Albo let us know how many other things from 2018 that have been thrown out since the election?
Or is it just this one agreement?

* Whenever you hear safe guard mechanism, be afraid.
Very afraid.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 6:26 am

The press council has given the Oz a whack over an editorial that questioned Milligan.
It said it breached what the council calls “good journalism”.
So much to unpack.
With out speech.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 6:32 am
Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 6:37 am

Fortunately for us, it’s not their decision.
And really it doesn’t matter how evil a regime is because Jesus told his follows to pay their taxes?

Indeed.

“…what is Caesar’s…”

The Romans wanted to rule as much of the world as possible by force and imposed rule by fear.

The Israelites owed them bupkiss. Just pay enough to keep them off your back and so they don’t kill all the first born children under the command of the puppet King they installed.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 6:41 am

You’d think by that age you’d have some sense (But I suppose the average Teal voter would demonstrate otherwise).

A video shows the horrifying moment a tourist is repeatedly gored by a raging bull after he tried to jump on its back during a bullfight.

The French national, said to be in his 50s, had leapt into the arena in Albacete, Spain, on August 24, where spectators were encouraged to test their bravery against the tortured beast.

But as he approaches the bull from the back, it wheels around and slams him against a barrier with its horns, The Sun reports.

Then as he falls to the ground the one-tonne animal gores and tramples him before tossing him into the air. video shows the horrifying moment a tourist is repeatedly gored by a raging bull after he tried to jump on its back during a bullfight.

The French national, said to be in his 50s, had leapt into the arena in Albacete, Spain, on August 24, where spectators were encouraged to test their bravery against the tortured beast.

But as he approaches the bull from the back, it wheels around and slams him against a barrier with its horns, The Sun reports.

Then as he falls to the ground the one-tonne animal gores and tramples him before tossing him into the air.

PS.good on the bull.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 6:43 am

How did that duplication happen?
Nano wrigglers?

Fair Shake
Fair Shake
September 5, 2023 6:46 am

The Australian, said to be in his 50s, had leapt into the arena into the political arena on August 24, where spectators were encouraged to test their Voice against the tortured electorate.

But as he approaches the voters from the back, it wheels around and slams him against a barrier with its horns, The Sun reports.

Then as he falls to the ground the slow moving animal gores and tramples him before tossing him into the air.

Fixed it.

Crossie
Crossie
September 5, 2023 7:13 am

amortiser
Sep 4, 2023 8:59 PM
Organic, free-range honey.
Yes, it really does exist on a label.
FMD.

I now refer fossil fuel generation as organic power.

It is more organic than the so-called renewables.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 7:17 am

From the AFR.


ACCC urges Labor to move on Sydney Airport overhaul

Sorry ACCC, you had your chance to when SYD was being taken over to impose restrictions on the sale.
Instead your response was one of the most flaccid in ACCC history.

This really is ACCC behaviour.
Run dead when they can really make productive, competitive change.
Carry a big stick when it means nothing (like now with Sydney Airport).

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 7:20 am

If you’re in your 50s and jumping into a bullring on holidays hard to have much sympathy. Leave that to Boomers and the Contiki crowd.

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 7:28 am

“Australian Press Council adjudication”

Membership of the Press Council here in Oz is voluntary, and I believe News Corp say adios to it. It is now known to be highly partisan.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 7:37 am

Sorry ACCC, you had your chance to when SYD was being taken over to impose restrictions on the sale.

What and upset Howard, Max the Axe and nix the sale price? Or structurally fix the telecommunications market instead of T1 and T2.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 7:42 am

What and upset Howard, Max the Axe and nix the sale price?

I’m referring to the recent sale to industry super.
The one that gets JC’s BP rising.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 5, 2023 7:45 am

Good morning fellow AIs!

Report: 90% of Online Content May Be AI-Generated Garbage by 2026 (3 Sep)

A recent report from Europol warns that by 2026, as much as 90 percent of online content could be generated by artificial intelligence, raising concerns that the web might be even more jammed with useless garbage in a few short years than it is today.

Be nice if we could convert the ABC over to fully AI driven content. I doubt the few people who watch would notice. It’d be just as lefty but at least the journos would all be fired.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
September 5, 2023 7:53 am

PS. good on the bull.
Good on the umpires for letting them “play on”. Too often these matches are halted when the underdog starts winning.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 7:57 am

On bultitude talkback today some Pastor rang in and said Australians had a moral obligation to vote yes to atone for past injustices to 3rd nations

What…$31 billion a year isn’t enough?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 5, 2023 8:03 am

Wildlife tourism, NYC style.

NYC’s new fad – rat tours (4 Sep)

Tour guides in New York have started to sell tours to rat-infested sites around the city, taking advantage of the growing rodent problem in several areas of the city.

And after seeing the rats they can enjoy them again in a local Chinese restaurant. Ok I just made up that last bit, but mystery meat is mystery meat.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 5, 2023 8:03 am

Just got an email from Nespresso.
A single origin Colombian coffee is being advertised.
It’s like they know me better than I do.

vr
vr
September 5, 2023 8:03 am

Just got an email from Qantas that they are removing the expiry date on Covid travel credits.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:07 am

Just got an email from Qantas that they are removing the expiry date on Covid travel credits.

You’re in an abusive relationship.

Leave.

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 8:07 am

From yesterday, UK time. UK MOD Update on Ukraine:

As of late June 2023, Russia has been appealing to citizens of neighbouring countries with recruitment adverts for individuals to fight in Ukraine. Online adverts have been observed in Armenia and Kazakhstan offering 495,000 roubles ($5,140 USD) in initial payments and salaries from 190,000 roubles ($1,973 USD).There have been recruitment efforts in Kazakhstan’s northern Qostanai region, appealing to the ethnic Russian population.

Since at least May 2023, Russia has approached central Asian migrants to fight in Ukraine with promises of fast-track citizenship and salaries of up to $4,160 USD. Uzbek migrant builders in Mariupol have reportedly had their passports confiscated upon arrival and been coerced to join the Russian military.

There are at least six million migrants from Central Asia in Russia, which the Kremlin likely sees as potential recruits.
Russia likely wishes to avoid further unpopular domestic mobilisation measures in the run up to the 2024 Presidential elections. Exploiting foreign nationals allows the Kremlin to acquire additional personnel for its war effort in the face of mounting casualties.

Which is intriguing given that the Russian military denies KIA casualties equal to or above that of a division (~ 10,000 – 12,000 soldiers). They have pretty much locked down a figure of 6,000 dead of their own (about two brigades) of dead comrades.

Apparently, they have 183 newly formed BTGs ready to go but the Ukrainians are finally breaching their defences.

“Russia always planned this and can wait as long as they like” okay sure but when the planned annexation of Belarus occurs in 2025 – 2030, with what army are they going to do that with?

It always ends in circular reasoning about Russia can just wait and crush Ukraine at will, despite wasting two years and a failed lightning war, which was, just as planned.

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 8:09 am

Single bush coffee is all I drink now.

Aspiring to drink single bloom coffee. He/Him, Blue Wave, Crushing Goals, Fifty books that will CHANGE YOUR LIFE…

Crap, this isn’t LinkedIn!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 5, 2023 8:19 am

Unless you’re drinking billy tea you’re not Australian – like that ‘The Voice’ song.

vr
vr
September 5, 2023 8:21 am

You’re in an abusive relationship.

I have less than a dollar in credits. Used all of it as soon as I could. Not wedded to QF as a flyer.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 8:21 am

The one that gets JC’s BP rising.

To be fair, that doesn’t take much.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:23 am

I have less than a dollar in credits. Used all of it as soon as I could. Not wedded to QF as a flyer.

An attempt at humour, vr.

[memo to self: learn code for emojis]

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 8:25 am

Unless you’re drinking billy tea you’re not Australian – like that ‘The Voice’ song.

Me and a mate both introduced to tea drinking out on a dingo run during school holidays. Both still black tea drinkers to this day.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:25 am

They now know that it’s super dangerous to source semiconductors with Western firms as the US won’t hesitate to weaponize the industry for geopolitical ends.

Happily, Xi man would never do such a thing.

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 8:25 am

Yesterday I wrote a comment where I described how, when we women have our regular mammograms, we must endure the indignity of having a clinic nurse scoop up each breast and plonk it on the x-ray machine, on a particular angle, which the x-ray machine squashes in order to take a picture of it.

I know there are some men, particularly those who have been diagnosed with such awful conditions as prostrate cancer, who must also endure such indignities involving their penises, but when it comes to biological body functions and medical invasions, it is we women who’ve won that particularly lottery. Try having a pap smear. But you know what? I wouldn’t have it any other way because I just love being a woman.

Anyway, I read this morning that a UK lesbian dating group has won the right to ban biological males from its speed dating group, a group designed for adult human female lesbians to meet other adult human female lesbians. What on earth could be wrong with that? Well nothing but alas nothing is black and white in 2023, it’s a sign of how utterly dystopian and depraved our times are when a lesbian dating group designed for adult human females must take legal action to ban biological males from turning up. So, why has this happened? Well, you guessed it, this same lesbian speed dating group has been constantly harassed by perverts, that is autogynephile males claiming to be women who turn up in a frock and lipstick, and then proceed to harass the lesbian women. I suppose, in the weird twisted minds of these perverts, they get excited at the thought of lesbians. Last year this lesbian dating group organised a lesbian only meet up in a pub in Bloomsbury London and what ensued? A bloke in latex turned up, a bloke claiming to be a woman except of course it was very clear to everyone in attendance this bloke was not a woman, but worse, this bloke’s erect penis was visible under the latex. The pervert was getting excited being around lesbians.

So, here’s an idea. Since this pervert and his fellow perverts insist they’re women, despite their swinging dicks, I’ll agree they can attend lesbian only meet ups when they consent to attend a clinic where their dicks are scooped up by a nurse, put on a mammogram machine and squashed, not for five seconds, but for five minutes, and their cocks are then reduced to a a flat pancake of useless flesh. You’ll be able to hear the pervert’s wails, cries and screams in outer space but dystopian times call for dystopian action, and I think that such dystopian action will be the only way to put an end to cocks in frocks turning up at lesbian only speed dating groups, or anywhere else for that matter.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
September 5, 2023 8:27 am

That’s the spirit HB!
We’ll have you relishing crumbed dingo
nuts in no time.

Dot
Dot
September 5, 2023 8:31 am

Single bloom is definitely the way.

Single bloom coffee, jam, wine, etc.

Each bloom’s provenance traced by branch and the branches can be visited on tours for a small fee or sponsored on Patreon.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 8:31 am

It was a bit of an eye opener. The Capstan tin of dog shits was not expected. I guess they must work. I think everyone gave up and just run cattle now.

Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 8:31 am

Breaking news: Outgoing Qantas CEO Alan Joyce will stand down immediately to be replaced by incoming CEO Vanessa Hudson.

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 8:36 am

The first thing Hudson should do is strip Sleazy Jnr’s Qantas Club Lounge membership.

Black Ball
Black Ball
September 5, 2023 8:37 am

Timing is everything. Joyce has it in spades with a fortuitous $10 million jumping in last week. Very good for him. Not so much QANTAS reputation or their customers.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:37 am

Breaking news: Outgoing Qantas CEO Alan Joyce will stand down immediately to be replaced by incoming CEO Vanessa Hudson.

Heh. Word was he wasn’t going to survive.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:39 am

The first thing Hudson should do is strip Sleazy Jnr’s Qantas Club Lounge membership.

After removing the Yes23 stickers from the planes, if she has any sense.

Tom
Tom
September 5, 2023 8:41 am

So, why has this happened? Well, you guessed it, this same lesbian speed dating group has been constantly harassed by perverts, that is autogynephile males claiming to be women who turn up in a frock and lipstick, and then proceed to harass the lesbian women. I suppose, in the weird twisted minds of these perverts, they get excited at the thought of lesbians.

Cassie, I think you’ll find that the cocks in frocks invading lesbian spaces, being male homosexuals, despise women and their sole purpose is to humiliate them. They get off on humiliating women.

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 8:41 am

“After removing the Yes23 stickers from the planes, if she has any sense.”

Yes.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 5, 2023 8:44 am

That cartoon of Joyce walking away from a crashed Qantas jet, with a suitcase overflowing with money, was prescient.

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 8:47 am

“Cassie, I think you’ll find that the cocks in frocks invading lesbian spaces, being male homosexuals, despise women and their sole purpose is to humiliate them. They get off on humiliating women.”

Homosexual or heterosexual, it’s time to permanently squash their dicks, and render those squashed dicks permanently useless. Flatten them like crepes. I was taught to make crepes by my mother, when you lift up the crepe from the frypan you should be able to see right through the crepe. So, using the penis squashing machine, the nurse lifts up the flattened dick, and it’ll only be ready when you see right through it!

Cassie of Sydney
September 5, 2023 8:48 am

“They get off on humiliating women.”

Of course, and that is pure misogyny. That is real misogyny.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 5, 2023 8:49 am

Bruce ‘Muckadda’ Shillingsworth dresses as a ‘cop’ and patrols a 200km-square piece of land in western NSW his mob controls under ‘Tribal Lore Enforcement’ – and he’s got no problem blocking police who ‘trespass’

Aboriginal man stops police in outback NSW
Forbade them from entering Muruwarri land
Bruce Shillingsworth used car to block road

Armed settlers militia could invade this land and force Mr Shillingsworth to sign a formal surrender.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 5, 2023 8:49 am

An order of magnitude is generally considered to be a multiple of ten.
“Several” is more than two but a little bit loose on the upper end. Described as “not many” (often interpreted as 7 or 8).
So “several orders of magnitude” would be between 30 and 70 or 80.
You’re welcome.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
September 5, 2023 8:54 am

Unless you’re drinking billy tea you’re not Australian – like that ‘The Voice’ song.

Made with single billabong water.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 8:54 am

Lot of work now to be done at QANTAS. Loosing altitude fast. Goyder earning his fee.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 5, 2023 8:57 am

The WES QAN approach possibly not coincidence. It really needs to stop.

Roger
Roger
September 5, 2023 8:58 am

Armed settlers militia could invade this land and force Mr Shillingsworth to sign a formal surrender.

Old Parliament House arsonist.

Smoking ceremony gone wrong, he claimed; jury found otherwise yesterday.

Indolent
Indolent
September 5, 2023 9:00 am

Who is there in authority to bring them to justice?

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer

This is massive. You all need to read this.

I have exclusively confirmed that the FBI identified Ukrainian operatives and Neo Nazis who were at the US Capitol on J6 and even questioned J6ers about these Ukrainian spies during interviews with the FBI.

During their private interview with @AmericaShaman, the @FBI asked him how he knew a Ukrainian operative who took a photo with him the day of J6 2021. Chansley didn’t know the guy, and FBI confirmed that the Ukrainian Sergai Dybynyn was a Ukrainian spy who is affiliated with the Nazi Azov Battalion.

This means the US Capitol was penetrated by Ukrainian spies and the US Government and FBI have still not arrested these people or made the public aware of foreign penetration. This is an act of war by Ukraine against the United States, and yet the US Government has sent $200 BILLION to Ukraine in the last 2 years.

The CIA is funding a color revolution in the United States via Ukrainian Nazis and American Nazis who are being recruited by the CIA and FBI to fight overseas in the Azov Battalion and then come back to the US to instigate Nazi political movements in a psyop intended to make right wingers look bad.

The reality is, these people are Democrats and Biden supporters and the FBI has been hiding the fact that Ukrainian operatives penetrated the US Capitol on J6 and they have been hiding the fact that they are working with Ukrainian Nazis to instigate violence to subvert the US Government, including actions to impeach President Trump, instigate violence at Charlottesville which was used as Biden’s reason for running for President against Trump, and to stage violence at the Capitol on J6.

Now the FBI and CIA are using Ukrainian Nazis to instigate racial division in the US during an election year so that Neo Nazi marches pop up in red states when voters are deciding who to vote for ahead of 2024.

This is a CIA funded domestic terror operation intended to interfere in the U.S. Election and to make sure Donald Trump is never allowed to be President ever again.

This is treason. And everyone involved needs to go to prison.

This might be the biggest story I have ever uncovered.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 5, 2023 9:01 am

lol, Cassie, re the Lesbians Only issue. A just solution.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 5, 2023 9:02 am

H B Bear

Sep 5, 2023 8:57 AM

The WES QAN approach possibly not coincidence. It really needs to stop.

I can see how the strategies for running a cheap as chips big box retailer and a supposedly premium airline would be similar.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 5, 2023 9:03 am

“Australian Press Council adjudication”

The Australian should express disapproval of bias and leave this grouping.

Milligan is complaining because they used the term ‘journalist’ for her?
I would have thought ‘activist’ was a better descriptor.

Indolent
Indolent
September 5, 2023 9:05 am
Indolent
Indolent
September 5, 2023 9:06 am
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  2. I had no idea that Rita Panahi is quite famous in the US due to her “Lefties Losing It” segments…

  3. More chick bashing Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In Science -but I’m pleased to see ‘physiognomy’ back in the charts,…

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