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The left faces a reckoning as Israel divides Democrats
Early days, but thanks to The Guardian website (and Rosie for the link!):
Electorate / State / Yes (%) / No (%) / Votes counted (%)
O’Connor / WA / 8.7 / 91.3 / 0.1
Durack / WA / 12 / 88 / 0.2
Germany and Luxembourg
European elections: Ashes, ashes, the Greens fall down
“the racism of LOW EXPECTATIONS should go”- Jacinta.
Awesome.
Let the cattle leave a footprint more than 6 inches deep.
Oh, Jeezus, Albo tearing up on Sky. “I was so proud standing next to all those beautiful Aboriginal women at Uluru …” (paraphrase)
“But this is not the end …” (paraphrase)
When I picked up the chef’s knife I was using by the blade, Dearly Beloved changed channels.
Tomorrow, someone is going to have to explain all this to the CHILDREN !
IIRC it was 3 & 1/4 inches depth, & applied to all livestock.
Fewer jobs must be more agonizing tonight than making the call on unleashing the IDF into northern Gaza, knowing the impact it will have on the fate of so many Israeli hostages.
Good riddance…
Well a good response to Albo’s queef.
Enjoying a cab sav after smashing bowls. Again 🙂
Last week, after visiting a western suburbs Sydney electorate, Tony Abbott was harassed by very white YES spruikers as he was leaving a function, these “YES” spruikers chased him, verbally abused him, and shouted at him, ‘Tone, you’re always on the wrong side of history”.
Well, given tonight’s result, it isn’t “Tone” who’s on the wrong side of history.
I’m sorry, but it really is time that the activists were made to eat their shit.
As a sandwich, without bread!
11 days on pre poll 10 hours on booth today, 1 hour scrutineer, worth every minute.
Abused mostly by YES volunteers and a little by the public.
The vast majority were friendly and great to talk to. (both sides)
And the Australian public NEVER get it wrong!
NT big majority for NO, what happened to 80% aboriginal support?
Just ticked over to 60% for NO nationally, absolutely crushing.
Ok My Teal Electorate Mackellar with “Stupid Zali Steggall of NO Brains”
showing YES 50.47% – NO 49.53%
Given – https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumDivisionResults-29581-132.htm
seems to show Absent – Provisional – Declaration Pre-Poll not showing any numbers and my wife voted NO Pre-Poll
I take heart from Postal Vote Figures of YES 35.34% vs NO 66.64%
that in the end `Mackellat may end up with greater NO Vote – Sucks to Zali Steggall
Albo said thusly:
After taking the nation down a rabbit hole.
Only Place in Australia – Territory to Vote YES – Public Servants on Australian Taxpayers Gravy Train/Teat in ACT
YES 62.25% – NO 37.75%
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumStateResults-29581-ACT.htm
60.11% NO – https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumNationalResults-29581.htm
Albo ensuring his goosiness will endure forever.
Absolute embarrassing. I was disappointed he didn’t cry.
He let Linda have a 60 second go before getting on for another dribble.
Still smiling after the referendum result.
And especially the Tassie result.
“Experts” said it would be a “Yes” State.
Punters said GAGF. 60% NO. Beautiful.
Chris Kenny must be suffering early onset dementia. Or he’s on ferking meth. Incoherent on Sky. Credlin gave him a good slapping.
Hi monty!
You piece of excretion. Absolute phucking moron.
On this site you gloated about ‘little wins’ in regards to the Trump.
Yet conspicuous in your absence.
Which means I can dance on your grave. Like Hamas would
Week In Pictures.
Corfu – a book called ‘Adriatic’ which I am reading, by Robert Kaplan, says it well:
On our tour today we came across the main strands of the above.
Most particularly, our attention was taken by the statue of an Austrian general, who in 1716 used the two old great forts, connected by tunnels, to maintain an Ottoman seige said to be 50,000 strong against 8,000 Corfuoits. No-one was more pleased than the Venetians. The Ottomans were constantly making attacks but this was the big one, and Corfu repelled it, assisted by a major storm sent by their patron Saint Spyridon. Every August 11th Corfu still celebrates his victory. They are not too keen on the Ottomans around here.
We were also impressed to see both the British and the French recognised as contributory and well-intentioned colonisers. The old Royal Palace where Prince Phillip was born was created in Regency style in the early C19th by a much loved British Governor, for his wife’s ‘get away’ from the main palace in town (that one in town bearing plentiful bullet holes in it from WW2). His statue, wearing a Roman toga to signify wisdom and dignitas, is a tribute to his work in infrastructure development and social welfare. The homesick Napoleonic French built a very fine replica of a Parisian promenade that Corfu delights in today. Not all colonisers were bad; what a relief. Sadly, this wise fellow only enjoyed four more years in the delightfully mild climate, entrancing landscapes and cosmopolitan atmosphere of Corfu. He was so successful he was posted on to India. The rewards of high office, says Hairy sarcastically, betting the man didn’t come home waving a piece of paper and saying to his wife ‘good news, darling’.
And if you’re sick of modern history and Corfu, just grab your copy of the Odyssey and read about Ulysses coming to Corfu trying to get home to Ithaca and being assisted by the King and Queen here, who knew him for a kinsman and gave him a boat and supplies. Then whip on a few hundred years later BC and you can turn to Thycydides’ Peloponnesian War and read more about the Athenian navy gathering here after Corfu had allied with Athens against Corfu’s overlords in Corinth.
If you are bored with all of that rub for good luck the much-rubbed nose of the bronze bust of either Gerald or Lawrence Durrell, memorialised in a park near the old palace, who both wrote about Corfu. Gerald called it ‘the garden of the gods’. So it is, too.
With all these right wing victories let’s all, ummm, hope that the Right doesn’t use the left’s tactics against them.
It would be such a shame if all leftist leaders were indicted on nonsense charges or even just made to follow their own policies (ie be banned from owning property or use electricity).
Who had the Argies beating Wales?
Meanwhile in other news, Argentina 29 v Wales 17.
In Un Zud, Labor has been punted and the Conservatives are in.
Now off to watch Awl Blicks v Ireland at the local boozer with Brother in Law, wearing a Waratahs jersey.
Hamas targeting schools & taking hostages was the key to their plans.
‘Top secret’ Hamas documents show that terrorists intentionally targeted elementary schools and a youth center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/top-secret-hamas-documents-show-terrorists-intentionally-targeted-elem-rcna120310
More footage is coming through of the explosions that killed Pali’s driving south out of Gaza.
IED’s not air strikes.
Hamas detonated IED’s to stop people heading south.
I would say unbelievable but there is nothing I would put past these Hamas sub-humans.
The English ref is off to a good start, living in his own heroic fantasy.
I bet he doesn’t allow one change of possession by a competition in the ruck.
New Zealand steal the ball in the ruck and get a ridiculous and undeserved 50 m penalty goal!
Backs should not be refs.
Good to see Bolt sowing the seeds for Elbow to go.
Pretty sure NZ came around the side on that ruck. No penalty, then try!
About bloody time.
3 – 13
“I don’t think the water boys should be talking to the ref”
No shit!
Bundee Aki is in near the posts!
Sexton converts!
10 – 13
😐 10 – 18
15 – 18!
What a try!
The Sexton!
17 -18!
My wife’s comment on Toytown voting 60% yes. “This is what I have to contend with every day. Not a clue, think they know what the rest of Australia thinks”.
Aha, just reading further into Kaplan’s book on the Adriatic, never believe what tour guides tell you, as they tend to muddle things up, especially dates and numbers; or sometimes mea culpa, perhaps the tourist taking in the scenery isn’t really listening. Whatever, a correction. It was in 1571 that Don Juan of Austria (he of the statue) came to Corfu with three hundred ships, 50,000 foot soldiers and 4,500 horses, stopping the Ottomans coming in and then chasing them to the Gulf of Lepanto in the Ionian Sea, defeating them soundly with the loss of 8000 Christian soldiers at sea on October 7th. So, this General is the hero of Lepanto, against the tide of Islam, which if sucessful would have exposed Venice and Sicily to Ottoman attack. Venice, of course, provided many of the ships and men. They called Corfu their ‘Adriatic door’.
Still remembered, especially the saintly help of St. Spyrodon of much earlier fame.
Kaplan also point to the ‘supernatural effect of the Greek landscape upon a visitor coming for the firt time from the West’. He quotes Lawrence Durrell on this, who see the landscape as an ‘enormous eye’, a lens for viewing through.
That is pure Corfu. We did this trip because I very much wanted to see Corfu, as something of a Durrell fan (both of Lawrence and Gerard). It hasn’t disappointed. Hairy had been before, when he was nineteen and at Cambridge, hitching down to visit Greek friends. On which rock did you sleep this time? I ask rather cynically, and he doesn’t disappoint either. He indicates with a vague gesture along the waterfront to a roadway: over there, just down on the little edge beneath that road there.
Anyone else got a hangover? 😀
Not surprising as they only start counting them today.
GreyRanga, the difference in the poll results just over the border is enlightening. Canberra voted 61% Yes and Queanbeyan voted 57% No.
Micheal Cheika will have a big smile on his face. An Aussie making it to the semi-finals.
No joke, this is real. Child abduction is racist.
California recently passed a new law creating an Ebony Alert, a notification system that will keep the public informed about missing Black children and young people in an effort to address the disparity in missing persons cases
whoops quotes.
Please excuse plurals and other letters lost to faint keystrokes etc, and also Odysseus is the correct spelling in my earlier piece.
Hairy was watching this when at a crucial phase of it the picture froze; he was pronto on the phone to the comms people here to get him (and everyone else) back up soonest, which they did. They assure us now the continuing internet issues are ‘fixed’.
He’s now watching the All Blacks after we’ve had another degustation dinner with sommelier chosen wine. I close my ears and read. Can’t say life’s hard, and we toasted the great NO win with some very good wine, supposedly matched to what we were eating.
Why not wear a cocktail dress?
Less embarassing.
It’s a NO Sunday and the feeling is good.
Looking forward to Outsiders comments on the great Luigi.
Jacinta Price was very impressive last night, speaking without notes and answering questions with concise answers. Contrast that with ‘Aunty Gucci’ who read off a prepared speech and wouldn’t answer questions. Peter Dutton needs to prepare Jacinta for bigger things, she needs to broaden her portfolio experience. However, the way she handled the abuse she received and responded in a good way shows she has the right stuff.
Brilliant try and kick from NZ, set up from a ripper long pass.
It’s nice they can score like this from absurd ruck penalties – you steal the ball (somehow, legally without an offside and you take it backwards) and you get a penalty.
The Sexton 🙁
I have been impressed by Price for a long time. I can only hope she is not relied on solely to improve things for aboriginals. She will need to delegate, and expect results. Chasing the evaporating money is one task, but getting actual work done on the ground is essential. Albo will start by funding the accommodation boarding school school in Alice Springs and claim the halo for doing so.
wearing a Waratahs jersey.
BDSM bars have the rugby on?
Must be a Tory thing.
*Doing what all good sides do, tracking the ball*
Until you get scored against out wide.
From Daniel Wild at the IPA. Second part of a very long letter to members:
Penalty try for Ireland and a yellow card for the trans Tasman gits!
24 – 25!
New NZ PM offers Tex Relief.
No it isn’t.
Not if you are going to have to concede that you are a dinosaur and a dickhead with a teensy weensy waaaacist streak.
F-ck off.
The Victorian First Peoples Assembly will respond to The Voice referendum result soon.
That’s about the weakest penalty I’ve ever seen.
24 – 28
The “Healing Process” will mean not asking “Where did the money go, Noel?”.
Babylon Bee:
Emperor Hirohito calls for ceasefire after bombing of Pearl Harbour.
Subjecting myself to these NZ commentators won’t happen again.
Make yourself feel better by reading the Guardian commentary regarding the defeat of the referendum.
It would have been nice if they ran the ball like that 20 minutes ago.
Incredibly racist to ignore Lingiari, Mabo, Wyatt, McCarthy, Price, Nicholls, etc.
Ignoring Lidia Thorpe, a lot of Aboriginal Australians voted against this! Likely a majority of them! Not 80% in favour!
The Victorian First Peoples Assembly will respond to The Voice referendum result soon.
Yes I see Aboriginal flags will be flown at half mast. According to something just now on the tv.
Really?
“A great nation like ours can and must do better for the First Australians,” the prime minister said.
Well, Arrogant Albo, get off yer’ fat backside and do your job along with Linda “Gucci” Burney.
Accountability is the way forward so get on with it and find out where all those many, many billions of Taxpayer funded Australian Dollars are going.
Then you and the Feral Laybore Guv’ment can start to fix things.
NOW !!!!!
And that’s The Voice. Are you listening?
The Yes campaign simply never credited people inclining to No with reasons other than racism.
That was the stick – they were going to call you racist, and reasonable people actually dislike being called that.
The carrot, such as it was were vague emotive platitudes.
Ray Martin was being deliberately dishonest with his claim that if you don’t know you should read up – the problem was that the government was not releasing details.
A curmudgeonly has-been. Who is the dickhead and dinosaur now?
Keep the grieving industry rolling , so much for a call of unity by that worthless Elbow.
Ignoring Lidia Thorpe, a lot of Aboriginal Australians voted against this! Likely a majority of them! Not 80% in favour!
I think you are on the money. No black fella here voted yes.
I’m just waiting to here what Shaquille O’Neal thinks of Australia disobeying him.
*hear !
The Dinosaury Dickheads won. LOL. Wonder how Martin is coping.
I saw the start of that interview of Warren Mundine by Pat Karvelas.
Her first question was whether he regretted that he and his colleagues had run a dishonest campaign.
Spiteful bint.
I’m a very happy dickhead and dinosaur.
The Yes campaign simply never credited people inclining to No with reasons other than racism.”
Correct.
Louis Litt:
IIRC the person who adopted the abortion-survivor child was in fact a Christian nurse present at the barbarity.
Quite a lot of us dickheads and dinos about and smiling today. A majority of the country, in fact.
Will our supremely arrogant yes voting betters learn anything from this? Unlikely, a concrete mind is difficult to penetrate.
Clare Armstrong reporting:
I’m a very happy dickhead and dinosaur.
Thinking about doubling up after last night’s shenanigans. Not too early? 🙂
Heard it directly from Aunty Gucci’s lipsticked mouth on the livestream last night.
Looking ridiculous does not seem to be on her radar.
Linda Burney saying the no vote won because of misinformation. FMD
Inspirational
TheRealBiffBifford
@TBifford
This is why Poland is not afraid of Islamic jihad within its own country.
“Not one illegal immigrant in Poland. Ever”
Albo fails to understand that the majority of Australians ARE united, just not with him. Oh I have many short pithy emails to send to numerous pollies while I watch Outsiders this morning, first, bacon and eggs.
An audit can fix this up.
We are all racists now.
At least I know I’m in good company.
Dutton needs her in indig affairs until at least after the next election, to straighten the mess out.
If Luigi and Aunty Gucci think that labeling voters gullible and prone to believing lies is a winning strategy, fill your boots and keep it up until the next election.
PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
HUGE NEWS
The left-wing government in New Zealand that had draconian lockdowns and introduced a climate FART TAX to punish farmers have LOST the election.
Voters just elected a new right-wing government.
This is a MASSIVE win for farmers and freedom
Lara Logan
@laralogan
Liz Cheney, the people you stand with made up a conspiracy called Russia collusion that broke the law & cost the American people millions. You did nothing to hold anyone accountable. You participated in putting innocent, decent Americans behind bars for exercising their 1st amendment rights on January 6th & you have aligned yourself with the most dishonest, self-serving worthless traitors in congress. Do you understand how much millions of Americans despise you? Obviously not.
FTFY -> Linda Burney saying the no vote won because of missing information
So has the abuse of the electorate started yet? You know the usual gaggle of dons and germalists calling us racist, redneck, uneducated etc etc. Cassie is right in saying that the hope for and goodness in this country is in the outer suburbs and the regions. Proud to live in a tradie electorate in vicco with a big no majority.
Last night was the real statement from the heart, a statement from the heart of ordinary Australians….
NO.
Toodeloo Uluru!
Voting for more bureaucracy and a bigger gravy train.
LOL. He “Fights Torries”, but invokes the memory of Churchill.
A drop in the ocean.
Ex-Barclays bank chief insisted he had no relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but emails told a different story and he’s now been fined $2.2m
2022 saw the highest rate of recorded antisemitic incidents in the US. American Jews fear the Israel-Hamas conflict could make things worse
As for Canbra, the numbers say it all. Not fit to govern this great nation. Tenth rate Marxist incompetent mediocrities.
Where’s our pervert apologist? Note his silence?
All week he’s been silent on massacred Jewish babies, children, men and women.
Last night he was silent on the referendum result. I remember how he defecated here the night the Liberals lost Aston in April. Actually, that Aston result allowed Dutton to regroup and take charge.
They gave our all – not just money but other resources and powers entrusted to them to work for all of us, not just 40%.
And people are still struggling to make ends meet.
I think some people had hoped that once they got this Voice thing out of their system they might start trying to help.
Me? I think they should continue helping – getting themselves (through ineptitude and transparent political play) thrown out.
I have posted this on the vote thread but think it could be added here as well.
Has anybody considered that the high NO vote in NT and other electorates with large numbers of aboriginal voters may actually have been a vote against the Head Men who own and control everything in traditional aboriginal communities? Could it have been a vote for democracy and against authoritarianism?
Has anybody considered that the high NO vote in NT and other electorates with large numbers of aboriginal voters may actually have been a vote against the Head Men who own and control everything in traditional aboriginal communities? Could it have been a vote for democracy and against authoritarianism?
Entirely correct Crossie.
Humility is not a Marrickville trait.
It is obvious that he is going to ignore the result.
Australia is just a big inner city Party branch eh Albo. And you know how to deal with those Torries, don’t ya Mate?
God, he is awful. Slapper in pants.
Indeed. The one jurisdiction which sits like a great fat spider that devours untold of our money and sprays out unending streams of web to ensnare and bind the rest of us.
To them the Voice was appealing. Spending, laws, regulations, lawyers, court cases – very much their vision for Australia.
Now I will put here Tim Blair’s round up of all things referendum.
Part one
LOL
With less testosterone.
Deux Ash Gardner hardest hit
Crossie, I was just looking at the zoomable map on the Guardian site and noted to the missus the same inverse proportion
I may have mentioned here before that my BiL is Koorie … and the kids.
My sister’s complaint about the rivers of money?
she says, “Oh, we aren’t the type of Koorie that sees any of that”
Trois
Reeks of cope.
Our seat of Mallee voted 78 percent no. That’s a reaming of the highest order.
‘DAMAGE HE HAS DONE’: Growing calls for Albo to resign as Prime Minister
The immediate impact to Anthony Albanese’s political future has become a major talking point after Australia resoundingly voted No.
Anthony Albanese’s political opponents are calling for the PM to resign over the Voice referendum failure for the “damage he has done”.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt suggested the Prime Minister “should go” for subjecting Australia to the “poison” of the referendum during a fiery clash over the fallout of the Yes wipe out.
“I just wonder now how he can continue as Prime Minister.
He’s put us through this nightmare and wasted nearly $400 million of taxpayers money, putting Australians at each other’s throats.
“And unfortunately the poison from all this will survive.”
In The Australian, columnist Simon Benson wrote the consequences for Albanese are “unknown”.
“Failure of the referendum doesn’t necessarily go to fatality of leadership,” Benson wrote.
“But the question is whether there is a residual effect that goes to a broader issue of political competence and judgment.
“Is what has been exposed by the Voice reveal something endemic about how Albanese deals with the big issues?”
– The PM is ‘damaged by this’ – ABC – Speers said on ABC News Breakfast.
– Racism ‘part of the story’ – ABC – Indigenous ABC journalist and presenter Dan Bourchier
– Indigenous ‘disunity’ a factor – ABC – Patricia Karvelas
– Gina Rinehart celebrates
– The world reacts
– ‘Reconciliation is dead’ – Marcia Langton – NO Voters are Stupid & Racist
Anthony Mundine unleashes
Indigenous former footballer Anthony Mundine, an outspoken opponent of the Voice, has unleashed in an extraordinary rant on social media.
Mundine took to Instagram to celebrate the defeat of the referendum, which he bizarrely claimed would have “enslaved humanity”.
“I’m just disappointed that a lot of people … that I thought that sold out, got paid to push this yes campaign that divided friends and family,” Mundine said in an Instagram story.
“I want Australia to walk as one, white and black … no matter what you are.
But this was nothing about that.”
From the Comments
– Just imagine what that money could have meant to everyone, housing, medical, education, you name. A complete and utter waste and for what!?
– Yes voters, spitting the dummy and running home to mommy!
– Albo is to blame for the loss.
This was an expensive failure.
He should be made accountable for wasting tax payers money. If he was the head of a Public company who just wasted that amount of money on a proposal that was not only doomed to fail but also restulted in more division within the company, he would be voted out in a heartbeat. This is no different.
– Why only a week? Silence from you moralizers sounds fantastic
– Albo and Burney must resign over this racism and threat to our democracy.
– can we now focus on the cost of living problems which the labour gov promised life would be easier under Albo, the diversion is over.
Gotta feel for the gucci gnome .. waking up this morning and realising that tomorrow she’s expected to, actually, do some bloody work as the, $ 400 grand a year, 251 minister …… and she hasn’t got a clue where to start …!
Burney virtually unsighted as the campaign proceeded. Not a vote of confidence.
Outsiders played the video of the Israeli flag burner’s self-immolation and then cut to Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie who was still laughing about it.
Grayndler 74 percent yes.
Wentworth 62 percent yes
McMahon 63 percent no.
Sydney 71 percent yes.
According to AEC via Tim Blair
No.
Perhaps he realises what sit down money does and earnt his money, unlike Noosa Noel.
Curtin remained true to its Teal roots. Maybe they will ask the guy who does the hedges why? Canberra shows why it remains Australia’s greatest ever mistake and purely administrative capitals are ALWAYS a bad idea.
Holy red cow I may need some context over here.
We should have had a rotating capital or a confederation.
What a waste of nice, idyllic farmland.
Que?
Exiting NZ PM Chris Hipkins thanks new partner Toni in concession speech
Shortly after NZ elected a new Prime Minister, one small detail in Chris Hipkins’ concession speech set tongues wagging across the nation.
A love scandal has rocked New Zealand’s general election on Saturday night as the country took to Google to find out: Who is Toni?
In former PM Christopher Hipkins’ concession speech he thanked his children and then thanked his new partner Toni, whose existence had been kept quiet during the campaign.
During Covid, Hipkins’ relationship with his wife of 15 years broke down, not long after they got married in 2020.
Since then, NZ thought their PM was single. However, that quick thank you had Kiwis racing to Google.
The search term Toni skyrocketed on Saturday night with hundreds of people trying to find out exactly who Toni is.
The search for Tony also went through the roof, with Kiwis apparently wondering if their PM had found love with a man.
Watson 58 percent no.
Albo and Burke should really resign for courting the Islamic vote.
PK gets it. Albo won’t be the only one with problems after Saturday night.
Toni Pearen? She was very cute but is married and retired!
My electorate of Hunter was 71% no and next door Shortland 60% no.
Just to illustrate what that means Hunter has been held for Labor since 1910 and Shortland has always been Labor.
Increasingly politics is becoming woke progressives versus the rest.
Canberra bureaucrats were always going to vote for more bureaucracy.
Dot, there’s a video doing the rounds of a group of pro-Hamas demonstrators burning an Israeli flag and the wind turns the flames onto the bloke holding the flag, who is last seen exiting stage right with his pants literally on fire.
As Rowan Dean said, it proves God has a sense of humour.
on the cusp
Isaacs, Vic
yeah: 50.75
nah: 49.25
Yep, Left v Right won’t give you the answer but it’s still a useful starting point. Asset rich, middle class voters aren’t always what they seem.
Anger, tears, blame – and a thundering message to Australia: How the Yes campaign reacted to crushing Voice defeat – with Aboriginal elders warning: ‘We now know where we stand in our own country’
. Yes campaigners were overcome with emotion on Saturday
. The Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum failed in every state
. Key figures slammed the No campaign as ‘lying to the public’
Comments Very Unkind to the Idiots above
The nursing agency that my wife works for just told her that in the NT the gov has changed the conditions of employment and nurses there will no longer get overtime, all hours will be paid at the normal rate, no matter how many they do. The gov says this is due to finances and they have to save money. Labor is in power in the NT, and they’re cutting wages, things must be getting pretty bad there.
Kennedy 81 no – 19 Yes
Herbert (My normal residence) 75 No – 25 yes
Maranoa a whipping 84 no – 16 yes
What the hell happened in WA? Thought they would have had some electorates in the 80’s.
Good morning, on this stunning post-Referendum Sunday!!
Like a few Cats, I spent 10 hours, as the sole NOer, at the polling booth yesterday.
Thankfully just 1 hour scrutineering in one of 48 booths in the division of Blaxland.
Arrived early, introduced myself to the AEC Officer-in-charge, set up and planted myself on the best access point, at the time…
YESsers eventually arrived, with chair, boxes and corflutes displaying the usual lies of their campaign.
More exhausting than envisaged, handing out the HTVs in a large access area with multiple entries and a wide “6-metre” exclusion zone (more like 20 metres), while keeping an eye on the YESsers (5 of them, at one stage) who eventually repositioned themselves around, to try to neutralize my message on the approaching voter, while maximizing theirs.
By early afternoon, they placed one closer to the voters’ queues, where they could ask the voter if they had any questions. A luxury that I didn’t have.
Several low-or-no information voters did, and I’m sure that it decided their vote.
Even thought of notifying the AEC Officer about potential encroachment into the exclusion area, but my placement was also potentially dodgy, so stayed schtum, quietly seething instead.
On a day of low activity at this booth, when compared to prior elections, I still ran out of the HTV cards I was given. Thank you, NO organizers!
Improvisation and invention, with what was left, then kicked in.
Many thumb-ups and winks from supporters of NO. Many dirty looks and even a “You are racist!” from the brainwashed.
But it was a beautiful day, civility reigned supreme, even from the YES spruikers.
Scrutineering was quick and easy, the AEC staff pleasant and professional, even though they knew I was a NOer.
ALL was done from, and to, pen and paper. Not a laptop anywhere.
Here, YES won by a small margin (51% to 47%), so, an anxious train ride home.
But what a fantastic result in the end!
As usual, the Cat picked it like a nose.
96.4% indigenous Cherbourg:
Yes – 142
No – 101
GFY – 1
2022-2023 Porsche Taycan electric car recalled due to fire risk
The high-performance Porsche Taycan electric car is being recalled in Australia because the batteries could catch fire due to a manufacturing fault.
Risk of a fire has triggered a recall of the Porsche Taycan electric car in Australia.
The 231 affected vehicles are stamped Model Years 2022-2023. All variants are impacted by the recall.
“Due to a manufacturing issue, there is a possibility of insufficient sealing between the high voltage battery casing and battery cover,” the recall notice says.
“This could lead to moisture entering the high voltage battery … If a sufficient amount of moisture enters the high-voltage battery arcing can occur, which increases the risk of fire causing injury or death to vehicle occupants, other road users or bystanders.
Good work Gilas. As I said to my (Solmalian) support worker, always a pleasure to vote without being shot at.
Where’s our pervert apologist? Note his silence?
It’s well noted Cassie. Remember how he came in and gloated about Trump and Labor and whatever else turned him on and said “we’ve had a good couple of days”?
Nowhere to be seen except for his downticks. I guess “his lot” aren’t doing well.
Post Malmo it is fair to say mUnty is quite careful when he makes an appearance.
Burney virtually unsighted as the campaign proceeded. Not a vote of confidence.
You get the feeling Bear that she will be thrown under the bus. Albo will blame everyone except himself
Gilas. Eleventy, you deserve a special mention.
I would not have survived on my own as you did.
Respect Sir. Have a luxurious sleep-in and demand to be pampered.
Grayndler will fall to the Slime next time.
BB – we’ll see. There will be more than a few interesting meetings over Sunday coffees you suspect.
This would be a good opportunity to focus on some of the dodgy practices of the Yes23 campaign while the majority No voters are still stinging from the trickery and abuse levelled at them.
One thing would be to call out corporations that squandered shareholders money on Yes. You would address the corporations but would be talking to the shareholders. It would actually be up to them to call the boards to account.
And not just the money spent. There is the impact on brand which would also have a financial impact. Qantas shareholders know their brand has taken a hit (well, another).
It would also spare us all the free advertising progressive causes get.
Dutton? Who is the shadow minister to bring this up?
Idyllic? It’s scorching and dry in summer and freezing in winter. The original description, “A good sheep station ruined”, still applies. Actual agriculture, not so much.
Still a lot of Polling to be counted – “Polling Place Counts Completed” – a lot of NO
updates for today a few – will keep an eye on my Electorate Mackellar
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumUpdatedByDivision-29581.htm
What influence did the sight of the aboriginal flags in last week’s demonstrations have?
That should be left self regulating. Richard Goyder might wish it wasn’t so.
Does this mean there will be no more “Welcome to Country?”
Bruce of N
AKA the Great Reset, but there are more of the rest than there are woke progressives (should be spelled “regressives”).
You suspect Albo will be the last Liar member (for how long?). Plibbers too in her seat.
Should Anthony Albanese resign following the Voice referendum defeat?
Currently 95% YES
Go Vote!
What influence did the sight of the aboriginal flags in last week’s demonstrations have?
I would think a lot Boambee John. Any undecided voters after seeing that had their mind made up for them.
Definitely. Between share holders and boards.
Last thing I would recommend is further government intervention.
Just that someone with a high profile could, so to speak, fire a starter’s pistol for shareholders.
Jacinta Price was the face of the Voice No campaign. And now – as she stands by Peter Dutton’s side at a victorious press conference – Coalition supporters say SHE should be running the show
. Australians voted No to the Voice
. Peter Dutton and Jacinta Price held a conference
. Voters called for Price to lead the Opposition
After all that he may finally triumph with a YES vote.
BB – a lot of goodwill to aboriginal people has been lost. Thomas Mayo is not Charlie Perkins.
WTC vaporised by a Directed Electoral Weapon?
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a humble magnificent human being. She will not fall for the calls for her to be leader — she is not ready, she is only 42 and has time on her side. Peter Dutton and David Littleproud let her shine, to be the beacon but I do not yet want her to be in any leadership position. I want her to oversee the accountability for the 30-40billion spent over decades making not the slightest difference to the outcomes for our aboriginal brothers and sisters in remote and regional communities. God bless Jacinta.
Australia has said NO loud and clear to the Voice, writes JACINTA NAMPIJINPA PRICE. Now we must turn last night’s result into a a great opportunity
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price shares message to Australia
One together, not two divided.
That’s the message you have sent loud and clear.
Australians have used their democratic voice to choose unity over division.
We have affirmed a nation where we tackle our problems together.
Side by side, as one. Not separated in our Constitution. Not divided by race.
This has been a long and bruising campaign and I heard over and over again from Australians that they just wanted this over and done with.
They’re sick of the division, they’re sick of feeling guilty, sick of being lectured to.
Finally, they’ve been able to have their say through our democratic process and they’ve said ‘no’.
No to those who want to treat Aboriginal people differently.
No to those who want to treat Aboriginal disadvantage as something that’s permanent.
No to those who profit from casting Indigenous Australians as victims, powerless, incapable of being helped without special treatment.
It’s important to understand, though, that the No to those things turns tonight’s result into a ‘yes’.
Not a vacuous ‘yes’ to silly ideas about ‘making history’.
But a ‘yes’ to practical solutions that bring us together as a united people.
A ‘yes’ to politicians from the Prime Minister on down – including me – doing our jobs and making sure the money being spent to help is actually going where it needs to go.
‘Yes’ to a new approach to tackling Indigenous disadvantage where we are about making sure kids go to school and adults go to work.
Where we focus on keeping women and children safe.
And where we understand that Aboriginal people are Australians – human beings – who want exactly the kinds of things we want for all Australians.
I understand many Australians will be disappointed with the result.
But this is an opportunity.
Because I mean it when I say it’s our chance to be united and practical.
And I’m looking forward to working with all Australians in a future where we tackle problems together, not divided any more but united as one together.
“What influence did the sight of the aboriginal flags in last week’s demonstrations have?”
I don’t think it went unnoticed.
If you want to fire a gun try asset advisors, shareholder services firms and superannuation fund trustees. Plenty of targets there to be getting on with.
Daily Tele.
Thomas Mayo is not Charlie Perkins.
Correct, whether you liked him or not, Charlie Perkins experienced real racism.
I would also add that Australians, as evident by the votes yesterday, saw right through the far-left Marxist Langtons, Mayos, Stewarts and others. They knew the Voice was subversive.
The Voice had nothing to do with “healing”, it was “harming”.
Yesterday we chose the Jacinta Price road. I’m so proud of my fellow Australians.
Charlie Perkins had at least direct Aboriginal heritage — if I am not mistaken Thomas Mayo’s claims to aboriginal heritage has apparently been called into question – don’t know is this claim is true
Speaking of Thomas Mayo
What an arsehole.
Me too Cassie. It wouldn’t take much to get this great country moving in the right direction. It’s the political media class that prevents this.
Far too kind.
. The enemy of the people is the media, particularly the ABfnC
Expect we haven’t heard the last of that.
Outsiders showing clips of the local Hamas operative from their ABC.
Wearing his lapel badge of entwined Aboriginal and Pali flags.
I don’t think Jacinta should be PM.
Not yet anyway.
She performed admirably on the issue of the referendum. She showed strength and character throughout against some very vile attacks. And, as a bonus, she was likeable.
But so far she has shone on an area with which she is intimately familiar. She should be rotated through some other portfolios to gain experience and then we can see how she performs.
I hope they don’t treat her like she belongs in Indigenous affairs merely because she is indigenous.
I would love to see the ABC squirm if she became Foreign Minister, travelling abroad as the first Aboriginal representative of Australia. All of us.
The ABC should, according to how they present themselves, be stoked. But they will never be able to forgive her for her political complexion.
They will be convinced that accolade legitimately belongs to one of their mob, Labor or Green, with 1/16 blood and who will cavort around the globe telling everyone how racist and disgraceful Australia is.
I believe tv was one of the worst inventions of the 20th century. Not called the idiot box for nothing.
Coming to Australia Under Labor/Greens AlboSleezy & Blackout Bowen
New York Refuses To Give More Money For Offshore Wind Projects As Cheap “Green” Myth Implodes
The New York state authorities have rejected a request by Orsted, BP, and Equinor for raising the price of electricity in future power purchase contracts featuring offshore wind energy.
Offshore wind developers have been pressured by rising raw material and component costs, and higher borrowing costs, which has cast doubt over the viability of many projects. Indeed, Reuters reported that some projects planned for the waters off the coast of New York may need to be reconsidered in light of the authorities’ decision.
“Sunrise Wind’s viability and therefore ability to be constructed are extremely challenged without this adjustment,” Orsted told Reuters.
Sunrise Wind is an offshore project with a planned capacity of 924 MW that could supply electricity to 600,000 households. According to Orsted, it would also involve several hundred million dollars in investments in the state and 800 jobs.
“These projects must be financially sustainable to proceed,” the president of Equinor Renewables Americas told Reuters, referring to the offshore wind projects the Norwegian energy major is leading in the U.S.
Per Reuters, Equinor is involved in three projects with BP—the 816 MW Empire Wind 1 and the 1.26 GW Empire Wind 2, as well as the Beacon Wind farm, with a projected capacity of 1.23 GW.
Indeed, rising costs have compromised the financial sustainability of many wind power projects and earlier this year led to the cancellation of a large-scale one off the coast of the UK.
Swedish Vattenfall, which led the Norfolk Boreas project, said it would quit it after it saw costs rise by 40%, which made the project unviable.
To tackle the rising cost problem, wind developers have turned to governments, asking for additional tax incentives and higher electricity prices, busting the myth of cheap wind power.
The New York Public Service Commission said that if they had agreed to do what the wind developers wanted, that would have added 6.7% to New Yorkers’ electricity bills, which are already among the highest in the State.
Rowen doing a good job of ripping their ABC for their pro-Hamas propaganda.
Australia can never be democratic as long as the ABC marxist presidium exists.
It has gone beyond annoyance for me. Action is needed.
Quick run through the www as I have a slow morning.
Most publications from ME to Europe the Americas and Asia have lumped the 2 stories of NZ’s change in Government and the referendum defeat side by side. Some outlets only mentioning NZ.
It’s over, there is no or never was any reputational risk. The rest of the world doesn’t give a siht and if NZ didn’t have such a dramatic change in Government I reckon some of the outlets wouldn’t have even bothered covering.
“Dark Emu Exposed” came to the same conclusions.
Good TV is great. Bad TV is awful. FTA is just going through its candlestick makers phase, which doesn’t help.
A coastie definitely wrote that.
The thing is, crops need seasons to work properly!
Despite global boiling enthusiasts’ claims, they still operate like clockwork at Canberry.
Sounds great. Overtime in the US (as I recall) used to mean MORE HOURS WORKED, and you got paid at the regular contracted rate. If only.
He was knocked out of Who Wants to be The 12th Imam.
Does anyone think what occurred in Israel and then the Sydney Opera house have any impact on the vote with the undecideds? I suspect it did, as it showed what can occur when people are divided in some way.
I have some nicely cooked crow for the MSM to eat.
Albo is now drowning in his own pool of tears.
WOW, JUST WOW.
https://tippinsights.com/bidenflation-climbs-to-17-0-hurting-americans/
Look at the table of CPI and their calculated inflation rates, and the differences.
Yes, JC.
I put up the vid a few days ago. Yes, there is a God! Funny as, seeing the moron dropping the flag and bolting.
Here again
https://www.facebook.com/CalvaryStudioMinistry/videos/video-prayer-for-peace-man-catch-fire-while-burning-israel-flag/3762400870537107/
Freaking moron.
Warren Mundine not happy with the journalists.
It certainly didn’t help Yes.
People instinctively shy away from change during uncertain times.
But I believe the cost of living had already focused minds on the merits of the proposal with the result that the referendum was always going to be lost.
One Labor luminary & pollster, Kon Samaras (VIC ALP), publicly said during the campaign that Albanese made a critical mistake with his timing – it was a project for a second term Labor government that had weathered the economic crisis and was pitching the idea to a more optimistic public.
With good reason. PK needs to keep an eye over her shoulder. Lucky she works at the ALPBC. Ita has her back.
You’d have thought 2019 would have been a sufficient dose of reality for Labor.
‘Born to rule’ runs deeply within their veins.
OldOzzie
Oct 15, 2023 9:54 AM
Thanks OldOzzie.
This woman, Jacinta Price, is destined for big things and not just in the Indigenous space. But Dutton has to get her and the LNP into power first. It starts with plain speaking, just like her. I want to hear Dutton call out the climate scam that is ruining the country and what he intends to do about wasteful Govt spending. Just plain speaking not long winded slogans full of bs.
One thing Dutton has to understand is that the conservatives voters of Australia liked what they heard from Price. Because she showed backbone and conviction in plain speaking- devoid of feelz and bs. The LNP has to learn from that or they remain fkd.
I’m tempted to think that possibly, the Voice was never meant to succeed.
Albo and the Yessers did absolutely everything they could to patronise, mock, insult and abuse Australians.
Indigenous affairs has always been considered a poisoned chalice. With the failure of the Voice, Labor is now free from any responsibility to achieve anything for indigenous people.
Labor from now on – “Terrible poverty and disadvantage of aboriginals? Don’t blame us, we made a heroic effort to fix everything. Blame the evil racist Liberals who stopped us from succeeding.”
Also a massive bonus for the trot, huge amount of division, distrust, friction and hatred in the community.
Rockdoctor at10:10
There never is. The Bunyip Aristocracy pumping up their own tyres as usual.
1) We did
2) You’re welcome