Liz, is she still popular in the electorate or is there a change of heart?

She’s still popular enough, egged on by the Wentworth Courier which everyone reads for the real estate. I note though that houses that had Allegra pics up for the last election are not displaying Yes signs for this referendum. There is a lot of visual silence around, in spite of the Council Yes banners lining the streets. The lunching crowds in the cafes on the open plaza in front of Woolies where the No team were placed didn’t seem hostile, just a bit bemused, getting on with their lunch, for it is a place to casually meet up and be seen. I think that’s why the No team weren’t rushed, a lot of Shy No’s.

calli

Sep 15, 2023 5:28 PM
All the wild speculation is simply smoke and mirrors for the obvious – a catastrophic, systemic failure on the part of authorities to protect residents.

Hard to believe, but the Hawaiian government and their agencies are even more inept than Australia.

Calli:
What’s making me uneasy about it all is the questions that could be answered today, aren’t.
14 A church group has been given permission to shift the ashes for valuables. No survivors can shift ashes, but this church group has been given special permission. Again, since when is a fire like this classified as TOXIC WASTE hazard????
There is far too much that doesn’t make sense and, isn’t being addressed. That’s a perfect environment for rumours to circulate.

Been listening to Patrick Bet David podcast with Candace Owens.

At 1hr 22mins show AI cameras in a coffee shop. Can track which staff making how many cups (3, 10 and 20 in an hour). Even can keep track of customers sitting down the longest. PBD says you could sack the 3 cup girl and give a raise to the one making 20. Of course depends on their actual duties but was an interesting clip.

EVs has incredible acceleration.

Incredible as an accelerant as well.

Have fun, Doc.

Today one of those polling firms rang me up and I agreed to their questioning, in the hope that stronger NO polls would encourage those who aren’t ‘out’ yet. Ten minutes or so. In the office, I put it on speaker.

All the usual about age, postcode, voting intention, how likely to change voting intention, languages spoken at home other than English, position on the Voice, most important issues.
They had many statements about which they asked my degree of agreement or disagreement. I stopped it partway and said this is starting to sound like push polling. She then told me that they had ten from yes and ten from no. In the end it was not as biased or manipulative as I had feared.
They had questions that asked my opinion about what Aboriginal people wanted; I strongly objected because aboriginal people varied so much in situation (which I described as including senior public servants and members of Parliament as well as children suffering horrors which I named… and it was ridiculous to attribute one thought to them as a group.
Then a colleague came in from next door and said he was glad to hear all that because if they called him he could tell them no thanks to being questioned.

On age and motorcycles.

There comes a point in life where the reactions slow up and the cost of spending months in rehab becomes expensive.

At that point, the sensible motorcycling gentleman turns to riding British thumpers (ones with disc brakes).

Jeepers.

Over 96,000 punters at the G tonight.

Said it before, will say it again.

Cop that you rugby homos.

The Hun:

Trailblazing former North Melbourne and Footscray player Phil Krakouer will be the lead plaintiff in a landmark class action which will allege endemic historic racial mistreatment of former AFL and VFL players.

That would be the convicted interstate drug trafficker Krakouer. Or perhaps that’s his brother Jim. The convicted rapist who wound a car window up, trapping a woman by the head before raping her from behind.

Or maybe I’ve got the brothers mixed up with each other.

Either way, not a great ad for the Voice. Terrible timing if compo’s what they’re after. Which it is.

But, of course , white society is to blame.