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COYS
The Productivity Commission report on Indigenous expenditure in 2017 put the figure at $33 B
(a) This is a shedload higher – almost Thirty Billion higher – than the supergeniuses on Das Projekt jibed at Kamahl over.
(b) This is 6 years ago, what would today’s figure be?
Kamahl is correct, The Project beta soys owe him an apology.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Sep 25, 2023 12:32 AM
The Productivity Commission report on Indigenous expenditure in 2017 put the figure at $33 B
One of Tennis Elbow’s Election Manifesto lies was greater transparency. LOL. So how about the latest figures for 2023. Hidden down in the Feral Budget details I guess. FFS.
It’s been about 6 hours.
Has Kamahl changed his mind yet?
The Australian:
I missed the alarm when Tony Abbott was headbutted in the street, & when Fraser Anning was attacked from behind.
Perhaps I just don’t pay attention to the important stuff.
(The internet is alive tonight, if I read one more joke about the NT Chief Minister being cream-pied by a constituent, I’ll hit the bottle)
We have ended up in Montepulchiano, area of Vin Noble, which is one of my favorite tipples. It’s not far from Sienna. We did an ambling tourist drive today through the World Heritage listed Val D’Orcia here, which is where Tuscany does its Toscana thing. Here are those fabled palazzos and farm homsteads with pencil cyprus-lined driveways and other cyprus surrounding their soft yellow buildings on hilltops throughout this glorious golden vista of rolling hills. Gone is the green-tree dream being foisted on all open agricultural land elsewhere in Tuscany, that terminates traditional vistas as it does in Australia, and here is still the rough stubble, remains of the season’s harvest, and thick gray-ochre ploughed fields on the open hillsides, ready for next season’s planting, as has been done since Etruscan times here.
Eat your heart out Russell Crowe, for here is where Maximus in Gladiator dreamed his return to his darling wife and child in a Roman rural idyll. Here is where in TV’s ‘Succession’ the helicopters flew in the outrageously rich to enjoy the splendour of a Tuscan wedding on these hilltops. This is Italy in capital letters, where lunch in a splendid restaurant overlooking such a vista was our pleasure, with porc and plums for me and bifstek and special mushrooms for Hairy.
We arrived last night into our Agritouristo farmhouse stay, which is a thing around here, to stay in a comfortable arched-windowed room laced overhead with ancient ceiling beams. There are iron latches on its heavy centuries-old oak doors, made from great oaks like the two at the entrance to this property. It opens onto a private terrace overlookng a steep forested gulley where I sit writing this. Hedges of tall Rosemary line a fence along one side and purple crepe myrtle flowers nearby.
On arrival we were greeted by a huge shaggy dog of the Alsation type, who scared me witless announcing his arrival by thrusting his nose up my bum as I leaned back into the car to collect my handbag. He is only four months old and turns out to be super friendly, as is the other dog and three cats. As we walked around this large farmhouse to our room a very close gunshot took my wits to task again. That is the hunter in the forest says our hostess, telling us in broken English that he is allowed to hunt as Covid has increased the numbers of feral ‘porc’ and ‘bambi’.
We give up all thought of a gentle forest walk before dinner.
At dinner, we drank this farm’s own vintage with some remarkably good home-made pasta. She is cooking us up another storm tonight.
We head for Bologna tomorrow.
Hope he is still with us tomorrow.
Only Joking, only joking!!! Bad joke as it happens but I couldn’t help myself.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
Tits is annoyed. Daily Telegraph:
And none of this could possibly have been predicted in advance. Not by bureaucrats, at least.
Any conspiracy theories that credit the parasitic class with superior intelligence falls apart as soon as you think about their total inability to make obvious predictions.
Just checking Premier League results and Liverpool get the 3 points over West Ham. Then see Newcastle put 8 past Sheffield United. A pasting of the highest order.
Lizzie your travelogue was a joy to read – Bologna is called La Grassa ( the fat one) because its fabulous food – Chin chin and salute! Safe travels – ciao
The NDIS is a creature designed by the beauraucracy -hence the outcome we see today
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
DrBeauGan
Sep 25, 2023 3:49 AM
I’ve had the ‘pleasure’ to meet and employ some who had the intelligence below the measuring scale, but had the cunning intelligence to lash onto any scheme going at the time that would pay without doing any work.
They are way ahead of any bureaucrats.
Government agencies are always in a catch-up mode.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Chip Bok.
Thanks Tom.
To fight crime in the NDIS remember it was Julia Gillards reason to reduce unemployment .The ALP have a history of using a front eg The Aboriginal community for sleight of hand manoeuvres and distraction publicity.
Forgot to mention too that today we visited this chapel built first in 1533 where legend says a vision of the Virgin appeared to a shepherdess on the hillside. The road to it is not very well signposted and as I was navigating we took a wrong turn, ending up on a rutted farm cart track along a ridge where turning around was impossible till luckily we reached a dereict building where Hairy managed to do what he calls one of his seventeen-point turns. When we found the right turn off, the walk to the chapel from the carpark, about one km, did us both good and the interior of it is quite special. Not too many international tourists around at all in this lovely vale, tourists are mostly Italians from the north, where we’re headed next. Some speak German and call themselves German-speaking Italians.
The large Alsatian-like puppy here I mentioned earlier is six months not four months old. He went to his first puppy-school day this weekend. He must learn to greet visiting adult human females with more decorum when checking out our credentials. lol.
Salvatore, how can one support your pub? It’s nice to support others of like mind.
The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists
Stanford’s president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers who expose faulty or fraudulent research papers
https://www.wsj.com/science/data-colada-debunk-stanford-president-research-14664f3?mod=djem10point
Paywalled.
A great read if you can access.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
PARIAHS, OR ARE WE JUST A NATION AHEAD OF ITS
TIME?
TIM BLAIR
Monday 26 Sep 2023
Certain Australians have always felt tremendous shame about our beautiful, peaceful, friendly nation.
They believe that Australia, viewed from enlightened foreign aspects, is a backwards, small-minded place –
bitterly and irrationally hostile to outsiders and their superior ways.
They are mortified, or claim to be mortified, by how far Australia falls short of European sophistication.
These types, overwhelmingly of the left, are basically insecure and self-hating snobs whose notions of
themselves are formed entirely by others.
They’re the adult equivalent of kids who demand to be dropped off three blocks away from school due to being
ashamed of their parents’ car (understandable these days if it’s an EV. Easy, too, because EVs often spark out
prior to reaching intended destinations).
And nothing distresses our anti-Australia crew more than democratic political leadership of which they
disapprove. Mention former Prime Minister John Howard to these people and even now, some 16 years after
Howard was voted out of office (and out of his own seat), they’ll rage and foam with fury.
One line from Howard, improvised during his successful 2001 election campaign, particularly wounded our
pro-sophistication colonial cringe community.
Speaking of Australia’s quest to halt illegal immigration, Howard memorably declared: “We will decide who
comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.”
Seems reasonable enough, but those words and the Howard government’s border-protecting deeds boosted
various individuals to peak claims of shame.
Notably, they decided that merely safeguarding our borders – philosophically identical, although on a larger
scale, to putting up a fence or locking your house door – caused the rest of the world to hate us.
“Australia is rapidly becoming an international pariah,” former Family Court chief justice Alastair Nicholson
wrote in 2014, “riding roughshod over solemn treaty obligations into which it has entered like the
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Refugee Convention and the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child.”
Whatever you say, your judginess. Although “solemn treaty obligations” sounds like a terrific excuse the next
time I roll up to home at 3am.
“Australia has become an international pariah,” former Australian immigration detention doctor John-Paul
Sanggaran announced in 2015.
“Our policies and treatment of people fleeing persecution, war and torture are infamous for their cruelty and
selfishness.”
Woo-hoo! If Australia was a mega-selling mid-’90s super songbird with a five-octave vocal range we’d be
Pariah Carey. Our hard-earned international shame kept keeping time with our successful border shutdowns.
Of course those whose strategies threw open Australia’s borders weren’t too happy about it.
“We should be leading the global policy debate,” ex-PM Kevin Rudd wrote in 2016, offering a familiar
concluding phrase: “Not turning ourselves into some pariah state.”
Yet Aussie travellers, then and now, rarely encounter any anti-Australian sentiment, much less the sort of
hostility you’d expect for pariahs.
Once or twice I’ve been asked why Australia has no nuclear power plants, but that question assumes confusion
or superstition on our parts rather than evil.
And a New Orleans friend just came right out and said it during our Covid lockdowns: “What happened to
Australia’s testicles?”
Along with the role of the states, that crucial question is beyond the remit of Prime Minister Anthony
Albanese’s inquiry-avoiding pandemic inquiry.
Likewise, we haven’t heard much this week from believers in the Australian pariah theory. They seem to have
fallen oddly silent on immigration issues ever since a compelling recent statement from European Commission
president Ursula von der Leyen.
You’ll recall Howard’s words: “We will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they
come.”
Well, here’s sophisticated Euro boss von der Leyen during a visit last week to the refugee-swamped Italian
island of Lampedusa: “We will decide who comes to the European Union and under what circumstances.”
Twenty years late, but Europe has finally caught up with the solid good sense of Howard and the voters who
elected him.
As The Australian’s foreign editor Greg Sheridan told Sky News, this is all quite a shift.
“Now you’ve got the European Union, the most politically correct body on the planet, actually quoting
Howard’s words,” he said.
“Actually, you hear this all around the world and all around America.”
Not bad. For pariahs.
Meanwhile Wales 16 Wobblies 6.
Wobblies playing like hapless water buffalo…sigh…
Do the Wallabies go home if they lose this?
Or do they just need every result to go their way from now on?
32-6.
If the Wallabies come back from this it would be bigger than the Patriots v Falcons.
They need Fiji to lose against Portugal and Georgia.
Ireland must be favourites by now.
Ireland v Wales would be glorious in the final.
Give Billy Webb to the Irish
Don’t make them take him away
Give Billy Webb to the Irish
Make Billy Webb Irish today!
Says it all.
High drama in the Territory continues (the NT Indy):
As if this wasn’t expected.
Ms Fyles is deeply upset.
Put on two face nappies and get another booster, that ought to fix it.
sources told the NT Independent that the woman suspected of throwing the cream-filled crepe was arrested late Sunday and is expected to be charged with assault.
More than likely a Grampians nazi with a poor sense of direction.
I expect we’ll know more over the next 48 hours about the cream pier than the white robed car chap from Melbourne .
Good news day! ..
crime levels are so low in Oz the media has to go to Serbia for a headline .. FFS! ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-25/kosovo-police-monastery-siege-armoured-vehicles-serbian/102895892
I dunno.
Three years for 10 mn of fraud almost seems worth it if the Commonwealth cannot recover the assets.
BTW
Bought a new Kelpie at the Lucindale sheepdog auction yesterday.
Ted is the name – Big Ted.
A magic day, well run by the locals with lots of quality food and drinks to be had and terrific entertainment provided by the dog vendors as they put the four legged geniuses through their paces.
A cold beer while you’re bidding loosens up the purse strings – $5,500 for Ted.
Ted’s a partly trained pup but a fully trained bitch named Rosie topped out at $19,000.
For Tucker fans, he’s been in Switzerland and Dubai:
“Our System Is Collapsing In Real Time”: Tucker Carlson Gives Bombshell Interview (24 Sep)
$5,500 for Ted.
Ted’s a partly trained pup but a fully trained bitch named Rosie topped out at $19,000.
Still cheaper in the long run than training a farmhand. 😉
Hi Lizzie you are in Iris Origo country in Montepulciano Her place now a beautiful garden open to visitors She has a fascinating history wrote merchant of Prato her first book and helped many during War including rescuing children.
Final score Wales 40 Wobblies 6.
The End.
She should have just spat at her.
I’ll just slip this in to brighten up Monday morning …..!
Toon 8 .. Sheffield United 0 ……..
40-6
Castle’s work is now complete.
Kamahl, Kamahl, Kamahl Chameleon.
Oh joy, more of them.
Environmentalist Owner of Private Jet Forms “Planetary Guardians” (24 Sep)
Maybe Branson should shut down Virgin-the-airline. It must emit quite a lot of CO2, after all. I am sick of rich hypocrites saving the world. If they only left it alone it’d be just fine.
The Kamahl effect ..!
Yesterday the Blue Bet betting YES .. $4.20 …. NO $1.20
Today ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, YES .. $5,25 … NO $1.12
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12554823/Kamahl-backflips-Voice-backs-No.html
The humiliating defeat of the Wallabies by Wales in the World Cup preliminary will cause many to reflect once again in the disgraceful treatment of Israel Folau by the Rugby hierarchy.
Absolutely Calli!
I reckon Tits’ solution will be a new bureaucracy tasked with ‘cracking down’ on fraud but which will in fact simply add another layer of paperwork, petty-fiefdom building, rivalry, lack of communication, and the delineation of responsibilities will create even more cracks for cunning criminal types to exploit.
Guess what the solution will be then?
Yes, I thought about Izzy when I read the score. It takes a long time to ruin a close-knit team, then it happens all at once.
They went for Folau, then his family. All because he quoted the Bible and stood by what he said. Not lost on the Christians in the team.
Lizzie – you must be in the Sud-Tyrol. Gosh – havnt been there in many decades. Good for Hairy – you have hired a car – the only way to really see the countryside- although the roads up there can be quite scary.
What a con job the NDIS was. I recall Shorten addressing the Sydney Institute all those years ago during the last Labor government when it was being planned. He had a couple with him who had a disabled child & hadn’t had a holiday in many years. Of course everyone was absolutely sympathetic. He portrayed the scheme as set up to give such people relief. It was described as just an insurance scheme for such people.
If it had have eventuated as such an organisation it would have been welcome. But like all Labor welfare pipe dreams it was a disaster in the making.
40-6
Forgot which pride guernsey they were playing for.
Except that the invoice is not addressing ‘mistreatment’ (and neither did the ssm plebiscite).
Let’s just go for some form of anarchy instead, shall we.
I’m sure groups that want child and polygamous marriage would welcome it.
Is it ethical that non-Indigenous people get to decide on the Voice? Is it OK for one group to have rights others don’t? An ethicist explains
More EV woes.
Values Of Used EVs Plummet, As Dealers Stuck With Unsold Cars (24 Sep)
Completely unsurprising, since per another UK story I linked last week it turns out 75% of new EVs are sold to company and fleet buyers doing their virtuous ESG religious observance.
As those vehicles get replaced by the fleets they’re sold onto the used car market. But ordinary proles don’t want a used EV – they’re still too expensive and there’s always the risk of the battery dying very expensively. Going to be fun as more time goes by and this issue builds and builds.
I’d say working exactly how it was expected to when rivers of taxpayers’ money is there for the diverting.
People with disabilities are being ‘trafficked’ for their NDIS funding, insiders say
Yes I meant ‘are’.
From Sky:
That didn’t age well.
Like a E-scooter battery.
Kaboom!
Still cheaper in the long run than training a farmhand.
Many years ago I shore at a station which had a calamity.
They managed to poison nearly all their working dogs by putting some baits too close to the homestead.
They had 2 left, one which was almost a pup and Methuselah the grey, last of his line, with about 2 teeth left in its head.
I’ve never seen such a Labor intensive muster, must have cost a fortune in wages for the muster/ motorbikes etc..
So an estimate what I’d expect to be rounded up by 4 blokes and as many dogs was a dozen blokes instead.
Working dogs are huge help to farmers.
see airbnb is introducing technology that requires landlords to scan from inside the property to prove it’s a real listing.
JC from the old fred.
Correct.
And also Dot at 12:13 PM yesterday articulating the many reasons Bird is a menace.
And who was the other bint who got banned for posting all that “25 famous Australians accused of pedophilia” and “children in tunnels” stuff?
Churches seek exemption for religious belief in misinformation bill
25 September 2023
Former judge Patrick Parkinson says Labor’s proposed laws to combat online misinformation will send it down a “dangerous path” of censorship, cautioning that religious teachings and claims about gender identity could be captured by the bill. Source: The Australian.
Found an actual nasty for mØnty to punch.
lotocoti
A 92 year old might, just might, be within Fat Boy mUnty’s physical capacity, as long as the target is not allowed to run away.
Congratulations, Farmer Gez. $5K is a bargain for a good kelpie sheep dog. Ted will pay for himself many times over.
Lizzie, a lot of Tedeschi bought farms in northern and central Italy in the 90’s- their input of capital allowed them to conform to the terrifying strictures which the government demanded of any alterations to the UNESCO listed heritage areas.
Worked in the Toscana-Maremma for six months in 2001- that triangle between Sienna, Prato and Grosetto. Prato was the local village.
There’s a saying from farmers I can’t remember in eyetalian, but it goes “I hope our daughter marries a nice German, who works in Brussels and sends lots of money home, and I hope she has many lovely children with the boy next door.”
*sorry, Pari was my local.
My farm also had an ancient cavernous oven, we baked for Sunday markets in Prato and Sienna. Prato is where what we know as biscotti, cantuccini, were born.
The dog was named Clyde but I’ve changed it to Ted.
Couldn’t stomach Clyde.
He’s a pup and with the change of boss he’ll pick up his new moniker in no time.
Notable that while the Voice is tanking, Dutton’s ratings continue to plummet, Albo is up by 20 points for preferred leader and Labor is still up by eight points 2PP.
People pay that for a Cavoodle or King Charles Cavalier spaniel to lay around and do nothing.
But…but…Russell Brand!
.. can’t believe what I do to myself sometimes, I duzn’t! ..
Yesterday out wiv the youngest daughter to the CommBank Stadia to see the, migg-ety, North Sydney Bears play in their 1st Grand Final in 20 years .. 24 years since departing the NRL but little improvement winning-wize .. I tellz ya! .. beaten 22-18 by Soufs .. could have been a Wallabies scoreline but Soufs weren’t much better than they ……. LOL!
Anywayz the point being I somehow, no idea how … pulled a calf muscle whilst watching the bloody thing! …… duuuuh! .. absolute agony hobbling to the daughter’s car after declining her “I’ll go get it and come back for you” invite …… age & a brave face aren’t my finest assets …..!
Up this morning and seemed a sight better so thought .. Monday .. swim day! .. and off I toddles .. managed 200mts down the road before realising the teeth gritting wasn’t gonna improve my hobblin’ and if I did reach water the return trip might be a pool too far ……. sooooooo that was that back home leg-up, keyboard tapping and an 8 nil scoreline & Kamahl to ease the pain ………
why is life soooo unkind … sometimes …!
The above is from Tucker Carlson from the interview in the link provided by Bruce of Newcastle. It shows how the left has deformed the world in the last few decades. That was their philosophy and policy in the 80s and 90s yet now they insist that you have no rights even in the privacy of your own mind, you are not allowed to pray even silently near an abortion clinic.
That only works for the politically privileged. Precedent isn’t what it used to be.
Failing upwards?
One of the great consolations of farming is knowing that you can have a brilliant dog, wholly committed to its life and 100% happy with his lot, too.
Preferred Prime Minister numbers are irrelevant. Unless like SloMo you drag the whole ship down with you.
Thanks for the travel piece Lizzie. Mrs TE wants to go and hang out in the Tuscany area next year for a while, so I am passing your pieces on to her too.
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/0ede5eb2-cc52-4f03-8046-cf83eb68120c?j=eyJ1IjoiaG85YmoifQ.bMnuNm5GLk5MFSCvcs0G5r0y-jYhpNwjaZVrL0QBwGM
Pieface attack on NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles prompts alarm over security for politicians
An attack that must be condemned for what it is, outrageous. I don’t want to see politician, any commentator, anybody punched, piefaced, milkshaked, egged or headbutted becaue of their politics.
I missed the alarm when Tony Abbott was headbutted in the street, & when Fraser Anning was attacked from behind.
Indeed, and for far too long right of centre politicians and commentators have been the target of such physical attacks. Remember, our very own comic book Nazi slayer, whose real name is……pervert apologist…..thought that ex-PM Tony Abbott being headbutted in a Hobart Street was a hoot, just like he thought Andrew Bolt being attacked from behind in a Melbourne Street was a hoot. And then, of course, we saw Anning and PM Morrison egged.
There is nothing funny about what happened to Fyles, nothing.
All the enviro billionaires are bored and desperately looking for something with which to amuse themselves and right on cue the devil finds work for idle hands. As for hypocrisy, that’s for self-aware and usually poor folks to notice.
Oh look, the pervert apologist is here.
I wonder if he’s punched any Nazis today?
Promoting the SS as their heroes. I wonder if the Poles feel the same way.
Preferred Prime Minister numbers are irrelevant. Unless like SloMo you drag the whole ship down with you.”
Correct.
Labor increasing its 2PP while the Voice powders tells you that Albo is not going to be punished for it.
Heh, calli.
It’s amusing that this doesn’t qualify as news on the ABC but the Project had him on last night in all his tongue tied inability to take a stand on anything.
somebody at the ABC must know that he would receive a bollocking on their channel and that tearing strips off an elderly, confused brown half wit might not be a good look for the supposed caring and compassionate side in this debate.
If the Voice fails (and I’ll only count my chickens on the night of the vote), Sleazy, if he had any decency and integrity, would do what David Cameron did after the Brexit poll, and resign.
But here’s the rub, unlike Cameron, Sleazy has no decency and no integrity.
That Tucker Carlson interview is amazing.
Jack Poso ??
@JackPosobiec
The AP wrote that Zelensky and Trudeau honored a WWII veteran of the ‘First Ukrainian Division’
The AP omitted that this was a volunteer division of the Waffen-SS
If only the Eddie Jones experiment was a prog rock concept album. Back to the drawing board.
Almost 40bn per annum is hardly “crumbs”, Lidia.
How about directing your basilisk gaze towards the people running the agencies, councils and other representative bodies – it may just be that they aren’t doing their jobs.
Will the Chook commission a statue to the Wobblies.
She’s into losers, as long as they are woke.
The real jaw dropper for me was the report of some other local politician (forget his name) saying how shocked he was, and that he had never seen anything like it in his umpteen years in Darwin.
Yep, the placid, bucolic streets of Darwin have now been violated by someone throwing – a pancake!
Do they ever listen to themselves?
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
Get off of YouTube as soon as possible. Rumble is the future:
“The Grayzone’s YouTube Live Stream Was Demonetized For Featuring a Clip of Russell Brand”
Yellen
Catturd ™
@catturd2
One of the biggest idiots on planet earth.
The view out of every window in Australia in 2030.
Donald Trump says Rishi Sunak was ‘smart’ to water down key climate pledges
A reminder that m0nty came here to laugh when Abbott was headbutted in the street. Classy guy.
“A reminder that m0nty came here to laugh when Abbott was headbutted in the street. Classy guy.”
I hadn’t forgotten.
I don’t know if even the term pathological liar is sufficient to cover her. Even having it being proven a lie is not enough to stop her peddling it.
Hillary Clinton sounds alarm on Putin election meddling, warning ‘he’ll do it again’
He picked a fight with Elon and got shadowbanned, so yep, he’s pretty dumb.
Joe Biden Hates You (Hate Him Back)
lotocoti
Sep 25, 2023 7:57 AM
40-6
Forgot which pride guernsey they were playing for.
Another “Quaintarse” success story.
Meme
“What do we get at the end of the day … we get crumbs on the table. And that is not good enough.”
I wonder who or what “good cause” Lidia devotes her “crumbs on the table” $210K + freebies a year salary too?
The Great Reversal continues, the leftards have now gone full-on fascist, to an extent even worse than their hysterical imaginings of a “police state” a couple of decades ago.
Yep, the placid, bucolic streets of Darwin have now been violated by someone throwing – a pancake!
Cakes & pies must be bloody expensive in the NT …..!
All the class of a urinary tract infection.
Where have you been for the last 3 years?
Please, Hidia, might I have some of those $39 billion crumbs? A billion or so would be fine.
If the Voice fails (and I’ll only count my chickens on the night of the vote), Sleazy, if he had any decency and integrity, would do what David Cameron did after the Brexit poll, and resign.
But here’s the rub, unlike Cameron, Sleazy has no decency and no integrity.
Cassie – the problem is the latest poll shows Also with still a lead of around 20 points over Dutton, despite the massive swing to “NO” re the referendum.
Dutton continues to fail to impress the electorate. In my opinion it also tells us a lot about what people crave: the truth. No equivocation, no careful use of words. This is why Jacinta Price is having such an effect on people. This lady is fearless – in every sense of the word. She risks actual physical harm from some male members of “the community” as well as verbal abuse from black and white. But she faces up to the lot of them. And with that openness she looks to the camera and/or audience, and tells it like it is.
THIS is what voters crave. But it takes an exceptional politician – most likely an “outsider” to risk it. Abbott, for all his flaws, was such a politician. But they are few and far between.
Yellen is a woman, can’t you tell the difference?
This is a heart warming story. One stunning and brave woman’s account of her health battles. My admiration for a great Australian. Let’s hear the Cats’ support for this lovely, gentle lady.
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/kath-kim-star-magda-szubanski-reveals-major-health-update/news-story/322d44ac10553a85645f04e302d3e158
Struggle with eating?
I say she kicked it’s arse, multiple times over.
She’s got eating figured out to a tee.
She’s an 8th Dan of eating, you might say.
When are they going to do something about fat chicks?
LOL. The pollsters are busily pumping up AnAl’s tyres, to soften the blow should Da InVoice go down in a screaming heap.
The MSM knows which side they prefer in government, even if the referendum fails.
Liz
What the hell? Last time I read, you were holed up on a hill top in Malaysia trying to avoid malaria.
When you look at the Newspoll results you immediately see:
Despite best efforts of the commentariat, there is a distinct leakage of voting intention on the Voice poll. Hard to speak for the fallen creatures who vote Green, but it’s clear that a significant rump of Labor supporters are unimpressed by the idea of racial preference, or Uncle Luigi’s performance in selling it.
Post Referendum, when the Howler Monkeys get into action, that is going to firm up as deep-set resentment in the base.
It was funny on the weekend reading Monty admit that the Voice is tanking because Albo allowed the issue to drag on rather than announcing a snap referendum earlier in the year. It’s like a second hand car salesmen admitting his mate lost the sale because he let the buyer take the car for a test drive.
LOL
They should be opposing the bill outright, not seeking an exemption.
Ah.
That takes me back.
It might be Liberal policy (that’s another problem), but by proposing a referendum on constitutional recognition in the midst of the current campaign and offering to work “constructively” with Albanese to legislate an indigenous voice should the referendum fail, Dutton has foolishly made this about his own leadership as much as it is about Albanese’s.
Recently, the 1983 painting here , done by Bob in around 28 minutes , was given a price tag of nearly $10 million. His shows went for 11 years on PBS.
Like watching a magician at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh5p5f5_-7A&ab_channel=BobRoss
No.
No he can’t.
Rishi Sunak reportedly planning to slash or even abolish inheritance taxes.
Dr F
I don’t think the leadership poll matters much. Morrison was constantly outpolling the Albanian and the Liars still won.
I think it was in the final turn that the Albanian caught up on the polls.
Also, the Liars were consistently in front when Morrison was ahead.
Tom
Sep 25, 2023 4:00 AM
Johannes Leak.
Tom
Sep 25, 2023 4:01 AM
Mark Knight.
Points decision to Knight for me; but I guess that, since he works for the state daily rather than the national one, he can go harder on the elephant.
Obviously a different elephant metaphor to the one behind the CL avatar. 🙂
Tom
Sep 25, 2023 4:11 AM
Chip Bok.
An object lesson in the fungibility of money.
Thanks, Tom!
This is absurd:
British Telecom is cutting 10 000+ rural & regional jobs (55 000 by the end of the decade) and hiring more people in major cities as a means of meeting its diversity in employment targets.
Service to customers takes second place to appeasing the gods of DEI, apparently.
BT’s new chief executive, Allison Kirkby, has £220,000 in bonus payments tied to meeting diversity and inclusion targets.
On a brighter note, the company’s share price is rapidly heading south.
Like the jobs – heh.
Haha, Microsoft wants to build a nuclear power plant.
Suck on that Bowen.
I hope the Libs brainstrust (if there is such a thing) is preparing to make the most of the pending failure of the Voice.
They should straight after, while Labor is still reeling from their own uppercut, be pouncing on them for all the energy and money they devoted trying on a cause that no one wanted while being utterly indifferent to the bread and butter issues that do count to the voters.
Labor will have taken months off from trying to help hoi polloi for their own indulgence. Was it because they had no ideas how to deliver on key policies? Or they just didn’t think them important?
They really ought to make a point of going on the attack instead of sitting smugly back while Labor dusts itself off, spins some excuses, then goes on the attack against the Libs.
Energy is going to become…ahem…a hot topic in the summer months and Labor has got nothing.
I agree – and to be honest I don’t really know what the ‘preferred PM’ tag means. It’s a lightweight New Idea concept, really.
Sometimes Albanese is my preferred PM; particularly when he’s running the ALP off the road. And I’m not sure what Dutton’s agenda for government is – so I’ve no real basis to form a view about his potential PM-qualities.
Up above I was pointing out that the poll numbers tell a different story to monty’s preferred narrative – which seems to be that Albanese remains a tower of strength, while a signature policy collapses around him.
This Just Killed the Future of Electric Cars
I couldn’t care less about the political fallout for Elbow if the voice fails.
Lieborals haven’t really got anywhere to go on energy because the policy difference is … about 5 years. There hasn’t been a genuine policy choice since Abbot got sh1tcanned.
To be fair, Lidia does have her basilisk gaze directed at Aboriginal Corporations.
Roger – I have to agree that while Dutton wants to work”constructively” with Labor he is doomed. Why doesn’t he have the intelligence to see this doesn’t work? I think he is obsessed with the nebulous “middle ground”.
Thus revealing their ignorance.
While the uneducated left consider “Uncle Tom” to be a slur implying a black subservient to whites, the Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ upon whom they mistakenly base that slur actually let himself be whipped to death rather than reveal where two escaped black slave women were hiding.
Another meme born in racist ignorance and prolonged by the left.
Further to “preferred PM”, people have short memories, Tony Abbott, even in the immediate lead up to September 2013, was never “preferred PM”. Even when Gillard was tanking politically, she remained preferred PM over Abbott.
I think Labor party strategists and hard heads will be very worried if the Voice goes down, because like after any good party, or any big wave, or any big tsunami, it’s the wash up, it’s the aftermath that counts. And this will be a big problem for Labor, because people are hurting economically, people are becoming angrier, they can see right through this Sleazy vanity project, and this referendum has divided the country. There were rumours earlier this year that Sleazy and other Labor hot heads were convinced that they were going to win more seats at the next federal election from the Liberals, nabbing such seats as Andrew Hastie’s in WA, and other Liberal marginal or semi marginal seats. This hubris was despite the warnings of Labor strategists who advised Sleazy and others that the high water mark had already been reached. I think Sleazy thought the referendum would be easy-peasy, because since winning in May of last year, he’s brimmed with hubris. Clearly, he either isn’t being advised well or he has a tin ear.
I don’t think Dutton is popular, but nor is Sleazy.
As for what will happen on 14 October, I dunno. I lean towards NO getting over the line, but I don’t trust polls.
We have driven the ute to town to hear Jacinta & pick up some straw for the chook pen & mower parts. Wonder who and how many will turn up in this old coal mining town.
Inevitable.
Hard to find minorities willing to live and work in the UK badlands.
If they won’t go, the only solution to the £200k bonus issue is to retreat to more inclusive surroundings.
Cassie I felt in my bones that the Libs would be smashed at the last Fed election. Similarly I feel that this will be a one term Labor government. They have gone hard and fast at their usual idiotic fantasies, & the populace will once more say “you are kidding…”
Has Kamahl performed the ultimate troll?
Wonderful stuff. Always did have a lot of respect for the guy.
I was in NE Victoria yesterday (crops are looking good). I had the misfortune of my radio getting stuck on their ABC. Bang! Climate crisis were the first two words i heard.
If all public broadcasters fell in the forest, would anyone hear climate change?
BREAKING: House of Commons speaker apologizes for honoring 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi, claims idea was entirely his
I would accept even a smaller crumb like a $million or so.
From the land of fruits and nuts, an idea bound to wash up on our shores soon.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/california-oks-plan-to-allow-insurance-companies-to-use-climate-crisis-to-inflate-rates/
Spillage, anyone?
The corporate state in all its ugliness
He’s certainly made it clear what he thinks of conservatives.
Conventional political wisdom was once that, given compulsory preferential voting, Australian elections were won by appealing to the swinging middle rather than the committed (the “rusted ons” of Labor, later becoming “the people whose vote didn’t matter” in Liberal parlance). Hence the development of the uniparty of modern times and, by way of reaction, the rise of small parties & independents, which suggests that the paradigm is shifting and rather rapidly as the politically committed abandon their loyalties (both major parties languished in the low to mid-30s in terms of primary vote at the last election and Shorten arguably lost in 2019 because he neglected the working class vote in regional Queensland).
Another problem with this trend for the Libs in particular is that they rely on “the people whose vote doesn’t matter” to hand out HTV cards.
Dr. John Campbell
Excess deaths in 2023 confirmed
Russell Brand | Public response has been ‘FRIGHTENING’ says barrister
As you shouldn’t.
Single polls are risky, the trend however is telling us that, depending on how the ‘don’t knows’ break (are they Shy Torries, or lo-info) – the result will either be a solid No, or a close-run Yes or No.
In either of these cases, the end result is going to be politically messy for Australian government.
Already here, as you will discover with your next home and contents bill.
Globally, reinsurers have been hiking rates for some time due to weather events allegedly caused by climate change.
Domestic insurers have been absorbing those hikes but crunch time is now upon us.
I was wondering if Trudy was wearing his costume to the ceremony.
The Lieborals main problem is can’t rely on a uniform preference flow from anywhere. They have no choice but to get their primary vote up. No SloMo and Albo might just do it. Long way to go yet.
He’s made a pact with the dripping wets to keep his job. Now delivering on it.
Jacinta has rightfully garnered a lot of positive attention in conservative land. A sensible person saying only sensible things. That every sensible person knows. I don’t know what her position is but I’d love to hear her speak out aggressively against the climate hoax and the damage of wokeism. That might be a catalyst to grow a backbone in the LNP.
Just as inevitable as a British government mandating (by one means or another; sticks and carrots) that corporations devolve jobs from cities to regional areas before the end of the decade as a way of dealing with the inevitable political fallout in their constituencies?
The latest ad promoting the yes vote is typically misleading. Inferring it will allow the indigenous boy to learn his native language was only one of spurious claims. In contrast the ‘no’ ads have a simple and consistent message.
As for what will happen on 14 October, I dunno. I lean towards NO getting over the line, but I don’t trust polls.
The reality of what has/does happen in th eUSA regarding politics and voting is starting to affect everyone .. pre BAT FLU the confidence in the NO vote would be at 100% .. but post BAT FLU most folk are hedging their opinions because we just don’t trust the “free” voting system anymore ..!
Mystery of Ned Kelly’s missing skull finally revealed by Victorian archaeologist Jeremy Smith
The mystery of Ned Kelly’s missing skull has finally been solved.
In a twist befitting a saga that started with an exhumation and continued with a stolen skull and then a lost grave, the archaeologist who eventually found Kelly’s missing remains has revealed that the famous outlaw’s skull was never nicked at all.
“It was actually never stolen,” said Heritage Victoria senior archaeologist Jeremy Smith. “Or was missing.”
The revelation is among many in a new book, Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison.
Mr Smith said new forensic testing revealed Kelly’s skull had been buried in a toolbox with the rest of his remains and not put on display at the Old Melbourne Gaol and subsequently stolen in 1978 as previously thought.
“There were parts of his skull in his burial box,” Mr Smith said.
“People still seem to think about the mystery of the missing Kelly skull, but it’s no mystery at all. We have significant parts of the Kelly skull that have been confirmed with DNA testing.”
In a remarkable story that reveals how a team of archaeologists, historians, scientists, politicians and a backhoe driver dug deep to solve the riddle of what happened to Australia’s most famous outlaw, the book details the full account of how Kelly’s remains were lost after being relocated from the Old Melbourne Gaol to Pentridge Prison in 1929 – then found in 2009 after a seven-year search.
“It really was an Indiana Jones-like project,” Mr Smith said. “Missing skulls and burial grounds, the mystery of Ned Kelly. It was one of those projects that got weirder and weirder.
“I work in a government department so I was always going to my boss with strange requests … It was amazing how it all came together.”
Thought to be buried in a marked plot at Pentridge prison, Edward E. Kelly’s remains were officially declared lost in 2002 when a team of archaeologists tried to exhume his grave.
“Edward Kelly was clearly marked on the document beneath one of the mass graves,” Smith said. “It looked as though the grave he was in included the first of the graves dug up and moved to Pentridge in 1929. But nothing was where it was supposed to be,” he said.
“The area referred to as ‘The Pentridge cemetery’ was supposed to contain the remains of all the people who were judicially executed in Pentridge, but it soon became clear that at Pentridge, X certainly didn’t mark the spot.”
In a seven-year search of the site, Mr Smith and his team located four mass graves containing the remains of 30 executed inmates – but no sign of Kelly.
“I thought it was highly likely trophy collectors had pillaged what was left of his remains in 1929,” he said.
The hunt for Kelly’s remains was reignited when a stolen skull, believed to be the outlaw’s, was returned. “Ultimately it was proved that the skull did not belong to Kelly,” Mr Smith said.
Kelly’s remains were eventually discovered in 2009 after a backhoe operator unearthed a mass grave during redevelopment of the former prison site.
“Kelly ended up being the most complete skeleton we found,” Mr Smith said. “His skeleton was 90 per cent complete.”
And in a new revelation, that box included his skull. “Those fragments have cut marks that show it was sectioned as part of an autopsy following his execution,” Mr Smith said.
“Kelly’s skull ended up in multiple parts and what was left was put in the box … He had been moved three times when we started our project, the third time being during works at Pentridge, so to find him largely intact is a minor miracle.”
Oz
calli,
another suggestion for Venice – Coffe or Brunch – as Illy Cafe reasonable price
https://www.illy.com/it-it/negozi-bar-illy/illy-caffe-venezia
Just before San Marco Giardinetti Wharf after we got off Ferry at San Marco (Vallaresso) Ferry Wharf and walked up over little bridge
Right next to Ferry Wharf and great views over activity in Harbour
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The new illy Caffè opens in the Royal Gardens of Venice
Venice, December 17th 2019 – the new illy Caffè opens today in Venice, inside the historic Giardini Reali near San Marco. The Royal Gardens were commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in the early nineteenth century, and are now once again open to the city after a major restoration project.
The illy Caffè is located inside the historical Coffee Pavilion, a neoclassical construction designed by the architect Lorenzo Santi between 1816 and 1817 and used for the Cafehaus in the park during the Habsburg period.
The project to restore this remarkable historical location has taken several years, and has been promoted and undertaken by the Venice Gardens Foundation in collaboration with Assicurazioni Generali. illycaffè is delighted to participate in the project, and returning the pavilion to its original function is an ideal role for the company.
The redevelopment of the circular space inside the greenhouse was entrusted to the Locatelli Partners studio, who have reinterpreted the typical stylistic features of historic greenhouses, emphasizing the elegance of the luminous space, flooded with light from the tall windows all around, and the openings onto the garden. The new illy Caffè covers an area of 250 square meters. Guests are welcomed in the centre at a large circular counter with brass details, and these materials, together with the unmistakable illy red, are also carried over into the tables and the spectacular 4-circle chandelier constructed with blown glass rings, a celebration of the Venetian tradition of glass-making.
Open every day from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, the illy Caffè offers a rich and varied range of products, ideal for any time of the day. Start the day with the aroma of the unique illy blend and delicious confectionery, enjoy a fresh and original lunch break, or relax with a selection of aperitifs and cocktails in the evening. Inside the store there is also an area for the sale of products and accessories from the world of illy: from the illy Arabica Selection range, to Iperespresso machines and the iconic illy Art Collection cups.
The new illy Caffè is sure to become a favourite meeting point for everyone who loves taste and beauty, in one of the most beloved historical sites in Venice, just a few steps from Piazza San Marco.
I have to agree that while Dutton wants to work”constructively” with Labor he is doomed. Why doesn’t he have the intelligence to see this doesn’t work?
The Liberals are now just Labor Lite .. the only difference being the Libs haven’t got the ballz to “come out” …..
This old geezer is being demonised as a Nazi war criminal; has any evidence been presented or tested in a court of law?
That being said, the lack of historical awareness (or is it historical revisionism in the servic eof ideology?) on the left is typical. From 1942 onwards the Soviet flag used, on occasion, to be raised on the public buildings of allied countries.
Thanks Old Ozzie. I won’t forget.
One of the problems we had after extending the trip a week was re-booking flights. As we only ever travel on FFPs, not an easy task. Miraculously, two BC Air France tickets appeared, so the Beloved snaffled them up.
Even more miraculous, when he cancelled the existing tickets, the points were reimbursed to the account within 48 hours. Something at Qantas has changed – he usually had to wait a month and sometimes make a phone call. I can’t imagine what the change was. 😀
Similarly I feel that this will be a one term Labor government.
Should be but given Dudzy’s performance(s) we could be looking at an even the peanut is a better bet that Dudzy .. the anyone but peanut syndrome that propelled Bradbury in reverse ……..!
He has pushed the nuclear energy option into public view, generating lively discussion on all sides of politics. Who would have thought that possible a year ago?
The other significant turnaround this year is Jacinta’s claim that we don’t need a Voice, we need accountability (for all the billions spent on indigenous affairs). Kudos to her for having the courage to raise this contentious issue.
Apart from his political missteps Dutton just doesn’t engage visually. What people look like does matter in politics otherwise Albo wouldn’t have lost all that weight and got dental work. Let’s face it, Dutton is more expressionless than Mr Potato Head who at least can move his eyebrows and this puts off a lot of people who want to see emotions that mirror their own. Dutton is not bright enough in the way of rhetoric or policy to override that disadvantage. Since there is nobody better on the Libs’ side I don’t know how things will shake out.
Didn’t he serve with the Waffen S.S?
Unfortunately, yes.
Once government starts into social engineering, or ‘managing’ markets, or backing ‘winners’ there is an inevitable cascade of contradictions and unintended consequences – which ripple out into utter absurdity.
It is an Iron Law.
At the moment it’s ever-present everywhere.
Not really. He was being hailed as a hero of Ukraine due to his service in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician).
He was volunteered to serve in a pretty unsavory outfit. The Speaker and Canadian Parliament are braindead lemmings.
Wiki:
“Although the Waffen-SS as a whole was declared to be a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials, the Galician Division has not specifically been found guilty of any war crimes by any war tribunal or commission. However, numerous accusations of impropriety have been leveled at the division, and at particular members of the division, from a variety of sources. ”
But, Himmler certainly thought they were the real deal;
In a speech to the soldiers of the 1st Galician division, Heinrich Himmler stated:
“Your homeland has become so much more beautiful since you have lost – on our initiative, I must say – those residents who were so often a dirty blemish on Galicia’s good name, namely the J*ws … I know that if I ordered you to liquidate the Poles … I would be giving you permission to do what you are eager to do anyway.[43]”
“In the winter and spring of 1944, the SS-Galizien participated in the destruction of several Polish villages, including the village of Huta Pieniacka. About five hundred civilians were murdered.[41] “
After checking the polls to confirm that it’s had majority public support for some time now. As with the Voice, as leader of the opposition Dutton has consistently followed public sentiment rather than lead it.
I used to say no one was unelectable. Until Peanut Head.
It’s a bit early in the day, but I think I might have to get stuck into the second flagon of McWilliams Sweet Sherry to manage that thought.
Agree completely with Crossie’s comment on Peter Dutton.
Unfortunately for Dutton, that lack of expression is a great disadvantage – one he cannot override.
Cross posting this from C.L.’s thread on Catholics have had enough of sacralised Laborism: Fr Brennan: Vote Yes despite ‘hell of a mess.’:
Even I got discriminated in London when I came down for a weekend from Manchester.
Surprised the MSM haven’t labelled it a bizarre rant.
Apart from his political missteps Dutton just doesn’t engage visually.”
I’m sorry, but this is both shallow and ridiculous, people seem to have forgotten that neither Howard nor Rudd nor Abbott nor Morrison nor Albanese “engaged visually”.
“Visual” is just as shallow and nonsensical as “preferred PM”.
Look, I don’t think Dutton is doing a bad job. I don’t care about “preferred PM”. Dutton IS chipping away, politics is about the ‘slow’ and the ‘tedious’ but he’s up to the job and he’s doing the job.
Peter Dutton has held a marginal seat called Dickson in QLD for twenty-two years now (a marginal seat he won from Gareth Evans’ squeeze). Labor and the left have tried to throw everything to dislodge him over those same twenty-two years, and they’ve failed every single time. Labor was convinced they were going to get rid of him in 2016, in 2019 and in 2022. They failed and they continue to fail because Peter Dutton, whilst not very “visual”, is actually a very astute and sagacious politician. Dutton can tap into middle Australia far more than Sleazy, who resides and socialises in his inner-city, very Green, vegan electorate.
All Albanese does is “snarl”. Just remember, oppositions don’t win elections, governments lose them.
Just quietly, I suspect that most people under 60 haven’t heard of him before.
In any event, he’s provided a useful lesson to politicians: Beware of the Zinger.
I’m aware of the background Makka; but it’s not evidence of criminal wrongdoing in this fellow’s case. There’s a distinct whiff of hypocrisy about it, since many Nazis were given visas by Western countries after the war.
Another large tumbler of cooking sherry…
Nothing personal, or trouser-related.
Anything north of Watford Gap or west of the Severn gets discriminated against.
It’s in the fine print of the Magna Carta.
Is he being accused of criminal wrongdoing? Or, is being cheered as a died in the wool Nazi, who volunteered for service in the SS the real issue?
I would have thought that it’s the latter. Still , it’s NOT the type of person to be applauded in Parliament. But this is wokeism on steroids when even committed documented real Nazis are ok if they support Ukraine.
The hypocrisy has been reeking since ’45.
Andrew Peacock was much more ‘visually engaging’ than either Bob Hawke or John Howard.
While Jews were often discriminated against, I should add.
Preferred PM is something meaningless for the Rustadons to cling to when things turn to shit.
Like your team finishing ninth in the regular season but pointing to the fact that you won the pre-season warm-up competition.
Yes.
The Dutton nuke proposal is the Coalition equivalent of the Voice Referendum. Check the polling (Do you think your electricity bill is: a) too high; b) too low: or c) about right?), float something that ties Those Opposite into knots, thrash the politics around in the Canbra Bubble Bath and hope something comes out in the froth.
Introducing nuclear power to Australia will require bipartisan support and a boatload of explaining by people other than Top Men. Dropping a thought on the floor of Parliament, with details to come, is not the way a serious debate is raised.