I’d prefer fresh flake over barramundi any day.

As for the abomination that they call smoked salmon … desshpiccable!

Quite like smoked salmon, as in a bento box on rice, with soy sauce. Or a smoked salmon and gherkin sanga, with a bit of Tobasco for zest. I find fresh salmon a little too oily and heavy, but grilled with salt and pepper it’s not bad.

Then there’s how Mitt Romney eats salmon.

Mitt Romney roasted for bizarre way he eats salmon (15 Sep)

‘He didn’t especially like salmon, but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal’

A very weird guy!

Net zero groceries.

Premier Chris Minns announces net zero freight policy on the Central Coast (Ncl local news, 3 Oct)

Transport was the focus for the New South Wales Premier – headed to the Central Coast today.

It came with a nod to a Berkeley Vale company leading the charge on electric vehicles… and a sweetener for freight companies to take up the technology.

If you see horses and carts delivering to Coles stores you will know why.

I have eaten wild caught barra, air freighted up to Goroka from the coast.

If fish was a steak, and a very good one, that was it. It came with crayfish, prawns and crabs. An exchange for broccoli, lettuce and beans, grown in the Highlands but hen’s teeth on the coast.

A worthy exchange!

Victoria’s Vacant Residential Land Tax

So if you go travelling for 7 months you’ll be hit with 1% tax on the value of your house.

Sounds fair.

Pretty sure cheap Barra is Basa.

Day 1 of pre-poll – and the Yes side has been spotted being tricky at pre-poll sites – the colour of their signage is just like the AECs – what a coincidence.

https://www.aec.gov.au/media/2023/10-03.htm

Media advice: Purple campaign signage

Use of the colour purple on campaign signage has been the subject of a previous court judgement. This 2019 matter is summarised in a fact sheet on the AEC website.

https://www.aec.gov.au/FAQs/files/21-1579-factsheet-purple-signage-02.pdf

If you read this factsheet (linked) you can blame the SFLs for this one – the precedent was set in 2019, where the Liberal campaign in Chisolm (Victardia) had purple signs with Chinese writing – but the court (of disputed returns) ultimately decided that there was no statute or rule that said the use of the colour was illegal, however deceptive it might be.

Pretty sure cheap Barra is Basa.

Yes. That’s what I suspect those “whiting” bites are. One hundred percent Belt and Road quality via the shaky isles.

Voted early, but not often today.
No.

It should be no with a smack on the end of elbows snout with a rolled up newspaper after I rub his nose in the mess he’s made.

Another observation from many local pre poll locations is that for every ‘No’ volunteer, there are about twenty ‘Yes’ volunteers.

It clearly states that America is undergoing a revolution. I just don’t see how it can be stopped.

Very 1917ish imo- the connivence of demonrat mayors in trashing their own cities. The Lubyanka stile imprisonment of dissenters. It just disgusts me with old poo poo pants- a life long cheat and parasite a successor to George Washington FMD.

When’s Piggy going to be speared ?

Got a good recipe?

Let me elaborate as to my post made at 7:09 PM.

1. From Jun 2016 to Jun 2018 for the variable mortgage rates moving up (not much though, especially for owner occupiers).

2. The actual data isn’t easy to obtain if you’re only looking at charts.

This wasn’t easy to find.

https://www.housingdata.gov.au/visualisation/financial-market/housing-loan-interest-rates

You can see over that period that variable rates went up.

“”The” mortgage rate” reported on by popular sites like trading economics is actually a 3 year fixed rate.

“Arnold Schwarzenegger uses Conan The Barbarian sword to open the first box of copies of his new book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life”

I wonder if one of his “Tools” was used when he porked the middle-aged house keeper. LOL!!!

johanna
Oct 3, 2023 6:12 PM
Re fish:

Barramundi is over-rated.

Discuss.

Definitely not over-rated if it comes from the north of WA, wild caught. Same for the oysters up there. The very best of both that I’ve ever tasted came from a place up there.

Purple People Misleader?
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/yes23-selling-purple-merchandise-ahead-of-voice-referendum-despite-australian-electoral-commission-warning-against-use-of-the-colour-after-2019-court-decision/news-story/b05f68ef032ddacb456d68d3e45b6940

The Australian Electoral Commission has said it does “not own purple”, as the Yes23 camp continue to sell Voice to Parliament merchandise with that shade after hours earlier being told to remove signage that could “potentially mislead” voters.

The photo is rather illustrative.

Email from Senator Babett today says:

Following the 2019 Federal Election, the Court of Disputed Returns examined the use of purple campaign signage similar to the brand style of the AEC in the Divisions of Chisholm and Kooyong. The court found the signs were likely to mislead or deceive a voter in relation to the casting of a vote, contravening Section 329 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (the Electoral Act).

The AEC didn’t have to “own” the colour in 2019 for the material to be ruled misleading.
What else? Sue in court for voters being misled after the referendum is over??
Perhaps the AEC was told to be “colour blind” and took it too far.
The AEC now has worse optics than five dollar sunglasses.

It’s true, I hate races.

I much prefer field events, combat sports and team sports.

I can come at sailing and long distance running.

I live in a Vic expat colony. They are scurring around like victims in a Sci Fy horror movie dodging phantoms who are sucking their life blood.
Good!

get fuked

Victorians are getting it in the neck. I don’t care, except for one aspect. Their fuc*king around with ‘giggle’ socialism for decades has not only destroyed them, it is now destroying the rest of Australia.
Like arrogant Swedes, Vics played the schoolyard ‘look at us, look at us, we are so tolerant and progressive” game.
They even destroyed sport.
Now that shallow stupidity has killed them.
But it will kill my grandkids futrure as well.
I live in a Vic expat colony. They are scurring around like victims in a Sci Fy horror movie dodging phantoms who are sucking their life blood.
Good!

You sound like a spiteful geriatric woman in a tizz

“
Dot
Oct 3, 2023 7:57 PM
Take it easy Pogria, he married a Kennedy.

At least one child of his is free from the curse.”

Oh great! Cheese and cornichons all over the screen. Thanks Dot. heh.

I have asked Sharan Burrow to come around to be your therapy dog Miltonof.

Nobody is yet asking why Noel Pearson, the great peacemaker, why he’s been banned – by his own ‘people’ – from communities like Mapoon in FNWQ.

Or why Aurukun and surrounds have failed to benefit one single iota from the $550,000,000 Pearson got out of various Governments of the day, ostensibly for the purpose of making residents’ lives better.

Perhaps they would have been nice questions for Mr Mitchell to ask.

Like arrogant Swedes, Vics played the schoolyard ‘look at us, look at us, we are so tolerant and progressive” game

Previous attempts of this by certain (adopted) Quenthlanders, who simultaneously praised their (adopted) State as a Last Holdout led to immense hilarity when it turned out that the yappers’ own States were as bad – if not worse – than the one they were bagging.

Immense, immense, Biblical-scale hilarity.

Happy to engage in Round 2. There are millions of Victorians extremely unhappy with the current and previous states of affairs.

I have asked Sharan Burrow to come around to be your therapy dog Miltonof.

last time I checked Sally McManus came from Carlingford in Sydney.

Salvatore, Iron Publi

can
Oct 3, 2023 8:23 PM
The YES campaign uploaded this just over 2 hours ago.

Authorised by Dean Parkin, Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition Ltd, Sydney

Voting law reform, NOW.

Is the yes campaign saying that the advice tendered in Canberra over at least the past 40 yeas=rs was useless? If so, why do they have many of those who tendered that advice (Pearson, Dodsons, and the rest of the urban “professional” aborigines) as their spokesthings?

Have they really thought that ad through?

I’d add, that all the problems causing inflation can be slated to government distorting markets in one way or another.

Often times, but not always. How about demand and supply shocks for instance.

Perhaps I should have prefaced this with at the moment. As currently the shocks and failures seem to be all supply side and all the result of government intervention in one way or another.

More on Pearson – this time from the Guardian:

The upheaval around a single primary school in Aurukun, Cape York, has evidently been a bewildering experience for Noel Pearson.

What began with an evacuation of teachers over safety concerns in the outside community escalated to the Queensland government contemplating a full takeover of the largest of Pearson’s “lighthouse schools”.

The government review followed community calls for Pearson’s Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy (CYAAA) to be stripped of the school contract and the scrapping of the centrepiece of the education platform – the rigidly scripted, US-imported, highly controversial literacy and numeracy program called Direct Instruction.

And:

A takeover of Aurukun would have represented the first significant public policy defeat for the Indigenous leader, a rollback of a key plank of his welfare reform agenda, which has spawned its own sizeable private bureaucracy.

Pearson, putting himself in the shoes of Jesus Christ about to face his betrayers by invoking the “gloom of the Garden of Gethsemane”, began launching salvos against an array of critics.

Some of these flew wide of the mark.

Pearson got millions to ‘revolutionise’ schooling:

One school staffer said it was “completely Americanised”, with students learning more about US states and holidays such as Independence Day and Thanksgiving than Australia.

Another said: “The language program is totally out of context, it doesn’t relate to Aurukun. Pictures and stories are about America. The information doesn’t spark motivation.”

And:

What is remarkable about the review is the recurring voices critical of a narrow focus on DI – not from those Pearson has characterised as political enemies of an important education reform – but from within his very own school and the community that wants to reconnect with it.

The actual schools within the actual communities want Pearson and his shit ideas, and his own bureaucracy out.

Anyone have Dover’s contact details? I have an article to publish. A few key aspects of the voice don’t appear to have been adequately addressed in the media or anywhere else.

It’s even worse than you think.

Well, they’ve got the swinging vote now…

Key voice architects say the ­referendum campaign has tapped into “a deep well of historical ­racism” and warn that Indigenous people will need to work “very closely” with politicians in the event of a Yes vote to ensure voice legislation “realises their ambitions for greater control over their lives”.

In an article for world-leading medical journal The Lancet, Marcia Langton and Tom Calma join fellow Indigenous academics Ian Anderson, Yin Paradies and Ray Lovett in cautioning a No vote will have a “profoundly negative effect” on Indigenous Australians who have worked on reconciliation for nearly two decades.

Obviously, in that event, blame needs to be apportioned…

It comes as leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson said a failed referendum would be “a disaster for all of us” and there was no plan B to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, while voice supporter Frank Brennan said the poll had “created a hell of a mess” and sent race relations in Australia backwards.

With less than two weeks until polling day and early voting open across the country, Anthony ­Albanese on Tuesday declared the referendum was “certainly win­nable” and undecided voters he had spoken to thought the question they would be asked on constitutional recognition through a voice was “fair enough”.

But they were really trying to be nice…

Acknowledging that the voice was a compromise position for ­Indigenous leaders after “many conservative politicians would not accept the inclusion of rights in the Australian Constitution”, Professors Anderson, Paradies, Langton, Lovett and Calma say there are early signs the referendum process is causing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people higher levels of racism.

What, exactly, does “causing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people higher levels of racism” mean?

Lots more absolute hilarity at the Oz…

Salvatore, Iron Publican
Oct 3, 2023 10:03 AM
Duncanm: The indigenous bloke who on ABC Q&A last night took on Noel Pearson, is Wesley Aird, Director of the Centre for Indigenous Training, in Brisbane.

cheers.

Beery-
it’s a proton mail address. Looky at the “contact” on the header.

Mother Lode
Oct 3, 2023 10:47 PM

Indigenous Australians as a group have been working on what they are pretending will be reconciliation.

Empty words, like the “Sorry”.

No amount of money will help those in camps around towns with nothing to do or not taking part in education.

I know it has been said many times by others.
Giving out more free money will only worsen their situation by allowing more grog to flow.
Plus 90% of that free money will end up in the pockets of admin fat cats in the cities anyway.

Everything about Noel Pearson is contrived. He’s a ham actor.

His biography should be titled: The Bully in the Pork Pie Hat.

Sadly, he’s just a mendacious grifter – might not have started out that way but that’s where he’s ended up. He was educated by the Baptists, he’s smart and talks a good game, has been courted by both Labor and Liberal to take a seat in Parliament, his hubristic pride and malice is most unbecoming and boy does it show.

it’s a proton mail address. Looky at the “contact” on the header.

Thanks, Wally. Not the first time I was stupid yesterday.