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All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
Tongue. Eeeew
A journey in numbers FOUR months away… TWENTY-THREE countries: Mauritius, South Africa, Namibia, Cape Verde, Las Palmas, Greece, Tunisia, Malta,…
LOL The Netflix streaming service is one of the worst offenders. What used to be about as popular and “loved…
Calli,
when you said earlier about one of the main reasons for muslim men being so blood thirsty is the sows that raise them.
This is how it starts.
You monsters.
Have you no compassion? The kale and quinoa deficit in Gaza is critical!
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Today Catholics celebrate that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of sin. Mary, by virtue of the prevenient grace of her Son’s Redemption, was free of original sin from the first moment of her conception. She was without sin throughout her life.
Gospel Acclamation – Luke 1:28
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you;
blessed are you among women.
So-called friends
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan greeted Putin as his ‘dear friend’ even though he is subject to an international arrest warrant
TELEGRAPH VIEW
In a rare overseas foray, Vladimir Putin has travelled to Abu Dhabi and Riyadh to discuss oil production with the Emiratis and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The Russian president is seeking Arab help to circumvent the sanctions imposed by Nato countries.
Despite a pledge by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to cut output, prices have continued to fall. Controlling oil supply and pushing up prices matter to the Kremlin as it seeks to fill up its coffers to fund its war with Ukraine. Russia’s defence budget was recently increased to one third of GDP at a time when Ukraine is receiving less aid from the West.
Helping Russia prosecute its war must be considered an unfriendly act by the UK which has been supporting Ukraine.
Yet Abu Dhabi’s president Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan greeted Putin as his “dear friend” even though he is subject to an international arrest warrant on charges of war crimes. He was even honoured with a fly-past.
The UAE is behind an attempted takeover of the Telegraph newspapers which is currently subject to an inquiry by Ofcom, the media regulator, and the Competition and Markets Authority.
The Government has not, however, sought to question this sale on national security grounds.
As Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former Tory leader, wrote in this newspaper, the inquiry should also look at the wider risks of allowing a foreign state to take over a British newspaper.
The Government has shied away from this approach in order not to offend a supposedly friendly nation.
But by welcoming Putin, Abu Dhabi has forfeited that description and made such an inquiry essential.
All reports are pointing to Hamas being in a state of crisis, losing the war more rapidly than expected. According to Ehud Ya’ari of Channel 12, there is a growing push inside Hamas to offer the release of the hostages in exchange for another pause.
ISRAEL’S VIRTUES
by Faydra Shapiro
12 . 7 . 23
Libs and Labor should put the Greens last over antisemitism
Australia’s elites in big business, the media, and our cultural institutions have for too long humoured the Greens.
It’s time for that to stop.
John Roskam – Columnist
Just a few months ago when Julian Leeser was campaigning for the Indigenous Voice to parliament and against Peter Dutton, the Canberra press gallery couldn’t get enough of the Liberal backbencher.
After he resigned from the Coalition frontbench to support the Voice, Leeser was featured in dozens of news stories on the ABC and the Labor Party couldn’t stop talking about him.
On the day of his resignation Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said, “Julian Leeser has shown strength today in putting his principles ahead of politics”.
In the end while his involvement in the Yes campaign was relatively inconsequential, his leaving the shadow cabinet was not.
Leeser’s departure gave Dutton the opportunity to appoint Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as the Coalition’s spokesperson on the referendum – and the rest is history.
A few months on, now that Leeser is no longer useful to the left they’ve forgotten about him.
And because he’s not attacking his own side the media ignore him. Which is a pity because what Leeser said to a conference at the Robert Menzies Institute a fortnight ago deserves a lot more attention than it’s so far received.
Of course the ABC has made no mention of his comments. Part of the explanation for this might be that Leeser punctured a number of comfortable certitudes of the left.
He spoke about antisemitism.
“It doesn’t appear to be an accident that the epicentres of antisemitic rhetoric and action appears to be in areas where there is political jostling between Labor and the Greens.
The inner suburbs of our major cities.
We have seen from October 7 that the Greens are treating the horrors of the war on Israel as an opportunity to whip up antisemitic hate.
The Greens behaviour online and in parliament since 7 October on these matters has been nothing less than disgraceful.
In doing so, they join a long list of opportunists who have targeted Jewish people since time began.”
No sooner had Leeser said that than Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi circulated on social media a photo of her at a “student protest for Palestine” in front of a placard with the words “Keep the world clean” with a drawing of an Israeli flag in a rubbish bin.
Faruqi subsequently deleted the photo.
Leeser continued, “…antisemitism is now a full-blown feature of the extremists-Greens political ideology.
It represents a danger to Jewish Australians and all Australians who value freedom. It’s why I believe that from here on, the major parties of Australia must preference the Greens last.
I am calling on the Liberal Party, the National Party and the Labor Party to put the Greens last in every seat at the next election.”
That’s unlikely to happen – but it should.
Preferencing the Greens last will be easier for the Coalition, but it will mean nonetheless them handing a huge campaign advantage to the ALP.
With guaranteed Coalition preferences Labor won’t need to devote the same level of resources as in the past to Labor-Greens contests.
At last year’s Victorian state election the Liberals preferences the Greens ahead of Labor in a number of seats.
As Antony Green pointed out in 2010 it was Liberal preferences that elected Greens leader Adam Bandt to the seat of Melbourne.
For a myriad of reasons it would be impossible for the ALP to ever preference the Coalition ahead of the Greens.
But that shouldn’t stop thoughtful Australians asking thoughtful Labor MPs why a Greens MP in parliament is preferable to a Liberal being elected.
The leaders of this country’s Jewish community should also ponder the consequences of Labor’s support for the Greens.
The Australian Jewish community has traditionally leaned left, and it must ask itself to what extent its support for the Labor Party has indirectly encouraged and enabled the Greens.
Jews across the world are now seeing what side the left is taking at this “civilisational moment”.
Just as the Liberal and Labor parties have done, Australia’s elites in big business, the media, universities, and our cultural institutions have for too long humoured the Greens.
With the Greens now showing their true colours it’s time for that to stop.
Roger:
And will make that a great career choice given how loose she is with the truth.
Happy Hannukkah!
Watching the questioning of the Uni presidents that refused to acknowledge the Jew hatred in the student protests, then seeing from a lot of the links and comments here, that of course, diversity hires. Especially Claudine Gay. A twofer.
If minority women etc (cripes, I hate that term) were employed on their merit alone, we would have the likes of Kemi Badenoch. This awesome woman takes no prisoners and never backs down from a fight.
I would add the brilliant Esther Krakue to the list.
Slowly but shirly;
New data from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) provides further evidence that COVID-19 shots are linked to multiple heart issues.
Lieutenant Ted Macie uploaded a social media post citing a letter confirming that 2021 saw drastic spikes in various diagnoses for serious medical issues over the previous five-year average.
These medical issues included hypertension (2,181%), neurological disorders (1,048%), multiple sclerosis (680%), Guillain-Barre syndrome (551%), breast cancer (487%), female infertility (472%), pulmonary embolism (468%), migraines (452%), ovarian dysfunction (437%), testicular cancer (369%), and tachycardia (302%).
Pentagon data shows heart failure spiked nearly 1,000% among pilots in 2022
https://www.confidentialdaily.com/posts/more-damning-covid-evidence/?ref=the-weekly-dose-of-common-sense-newsletter
The AFR View
The $92b disability services question is still unanswered
The NDIS minister failed to drive home the real political message: as harsh as it may sound, expectations of what the NDIS can do, and for whom, have to be wound back.
The review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme had two basic tasks.
The first was to explain how a scheme that began with the generous intention of delivering personalised, life-changing support for a relatively small pool of people with a permanent and severe disability has grown into a budget monster that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese now says has to be saved from collapse.
The second task was to provide a set of credible recommendations to deliver on NDIS Minister Bill Shorten’s plan to reduce annual growth in the cost to taxpayers to 8 per cent, down from the current 14 per cent that, unless checked, would lift its annual cost to $92 billion within a decade.
As with the royal commission on robo-debt, taxpayers deserve to be reassured that the political class has learned the lesson from the morphing of the NDIS into perhaps the most out-of-control social services program ever.
Yet the reviewers, NDIS architect Professor Bruce Bonyhady – who once claimed the scheme would largely pay for itself by helping the disabled find work – and former public servant Lisa Paul, have failed to tackle the fundamental question directly.
Why did a scheme which was supposedly focused on those with severe disabilities become a much broader and open-ended social entitlement program for those with less severe conditions?
How did nearly one in eight boys aged between five and seven come to receive funding from a scheme designed for severe and permanent disability?
Nevertheless, the basic story of what has happened can be pieced together from the proposed reset and redesign of the NDIS rules to better police who is eligible for how much funding.
‘Buying’ NDIS reform
The review recommends that eligibility for NDIS funding be based on a clearer and more robust definition of “substantially reduced functional capacity”.
That would abolish the automatic access to the scheme based on a medical diagnosis by doctors, which apparently explains the unbudgeted explosion in the number of children with mild autism and other early developmental disorders accessing the scheme.
The review also recommends legislating a clearer and more consistent definition of the “reasonable and necessary” supports that the NDIS will fund, backed up by new individualised plans in consultation with an expert employee of the National Disability Insurance Agency.
This appears to be the in-house version of the proposed independent assessments that the Morrison government was forced to abandon after Mr Shorten launched a Mediscare-style political campaign against them.
The $92 billion question is whether the proposed changes will actually rein in the spending in line with what is already plugged into the budget’s medium-term projections.
That calculation needs to factor in the additional costs of politically “buying” NDIS reform as the Albanese government takes back with one hand and gives out again with the other.
The one in five Australian children reportedly suffering mild autism and other “foundational” conditions, who are to be excluded from the NDIS from now, are instead to be cared for by a new $10 billion joint federal-state funded scheme announced by the national cabinet on Wednesday.
That is on top of the $25 billion extended GST top-up payments and increased public hospital funding that state governments extracted from the federal government to get them to agree to sign off on changes to the NDIS.
The GST top-up entrenches the dog’s breakfast of federal-state financial relations just as personal income tax eats up a record high amount of Australians’ household income.
The NDIS was established a decade ago amid the China-based resources boom that over-inflated political expectations of what governments could provide, especially for worthy causes such as severe disability and children’s education.
Mr Shorten’s political focus at yesterday’s National Press Club appearance was on cracking down on waste, fraud, and business models of “millionaire” NDIS service providers.
The minister in charge of reining in the NDIS failed to drive home what needed to be the real political message.
As harsh as it may sound, expectations of what the NDIS can do, and for whom, have to be wound back.
Isn’t it mandatory to work at SBS.
Miners to wage war against Labor after secret IR deal
David Marin-Guzman and Tom McIlroy
Big business will wage a mining-tax style campaign against the “economic vandals” in the Albanese government after it passed the most controversial part of its industrial relations shake-up, in a bid to pile on pressure before the next election.
BHP president Geraldine Slattery slammed Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke’s deal with the Greens and crossbench to rush through “same job, same pay” laws for labour hire workers as “extremely disappointing”, while the Minerals Council of Australia called it “a declaration of war” on business.
The secret deal, announced on Thursday morning, splits the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill into two parts.
The first tranche, which targets labour hire arrangements used by BHP and Qantas and criminalises wage theft, passed both houses of parliament on Thursday afternoon.
Another bill with gig economy changes, casual conversion rights and minimum conditions for truck drivers will be voted on early next year.
The move upends a $24 million MCA campaign against the labour hire reforms, similar to the mining tax campaign that unseated former prime minister Kevin Rudd and that argued the laws would create huge complexity for business and threaten projects and jobs.
The changes will require employers with collective agreements to pay labour hire at least the same as the direct workforce.
BHP had claimed this would lift its costs by $1.3 billion a year. Qantas, which has used in-house labour hire to circumvent legacy union conditions, said it would be made less competitive.
Ms Slattery said the laws made Australia “an even more expensive and less competitive place to do business, making it harder to attract the global capital needed to develop vital new resources projects”.
“We are now compelled to assess the impact this policy will have across our operations, offices and labour strategy in Australia,” she said.
“Alongside employers and businesses from sectors right across the Australian economy, BHP will remain steadfast in our opposition to this retrograde and damaging policy, and we will continue to urge the parliament to repeal Same Job, Same Pay.”
MCA chief executive Tania Constable said the Albanese government had “declared war” on the resources sector and the laws would render some mining projects unviable.
“Australia is already teetering on the edge of a recession, as economic growth grinds to a halt,” she said. “This reckless bill looms as the tipping point. It is an act of economic vandalism.”
She said the industry would not let the government get away with its deal and not stop its campaign “about a government that are economic vandals”.
‘Right to disconnect’ coming
“They are a government that does not care about workers. They are a government that does not care about business. We need to make sure that all Australians get that message.”
Mr Burke lashed the miners’ campaign, saying “if you had a choice between spending money on ads or paying your workers properly, the message is pay your workers”.
“At no point did that business campaign in fact defend the underpayment of workers through the labour hire loophole,” he said.
“At no point did they own up to the issue that this legislation would deal with.”
Senators Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock supported the split, despite the laws still before a Senate inquiry.
The first tranche of the bill passed on Thursday includes four measures the senators argued urgently needed to pass, including better support for first responders with post-traumatic stress disorder from January 1.
The other measures include discrimination protections for workers subject to domestic violence, expanded asbestos regulation to include silica dust, and closing a loophole where large businesses that go insolvent are covered by small business exemptions that avoid redundancy pay.
Senator Pocock’s office is understood to have approached Labor last week about passing the four measures along with wage theft and industrial manslaughter.
Labor returned with an offer to do so with the labour hire laws and a deal was finalised in the past few days.
In return for the senators’ support, the government has agreed to introduce guidelines on independent medical assessments for workers.
The government will also boost funding for the Fair Work Ombudsman’s small business advisory service and initiate a review of the Comcare scheme to improve outcomes for injured workers.
Labor is working with the crossbench to deliver another agreed amendment to provide workers with a right to disconnect from unreasonable contact from their employer outside work hours.
Senator Pocock said on Thursday “it’s clear that things like minimum standards for gig workers are necessary, but we need to ensure we get the details of these big changes right”.
“Bringing forward changes that will better support first responders with PTSD will be life changing and I thank the government for working with the crossbench to split the bill to get this done this year,” he said.
Parliament cannot pass the rest of the legislation, now called Closing Loopholes 2, until February at the earliest.
Mr Burke said: “I’m even more optimistic about those remaining provisions because of the goodwill that we’re showing today.”
Greens leader Adam Bandt said: “The Greens were hoping to see more rights for casual and gig workers before Christmas, as well as a right to disconnect, but we’ll support this pared-back bill in the meantime and fight for more next year.”
Deal ‘vindicates’ position: AREEA
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox said the last-minute deal retained “deep flaws” in the labour hire laws.
“Employers will now inevitably need to decide between navigating costly litigation before the Fair Work Commission in order to argue why they shouldn’t be caught by the new laws or simply reassess their willingness to offer job opportunities,” he said.
Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black said the sudden deal “shows the government no longer wants to engage with the business community”.
However, the government has approved some labour hire amendments negotiated with the Australian Resources and Energy Employers Association, including a clearer exclusion for service contractors and limits on leave backpay to avoid distorting companies’ balance sheets.
AREEA chief executive Steve Knott, who took a practical approach after assessing early on that the crossbench would pass the laws, said the deal “vindicates AREEA’s decision to carve out key amendments for service contractors and retrospective labour hire leave liability laws”.
But Ms Constable said the crossbench deal “circumvents proper process and bypasses scrutiny”.
“Pre-election notions of transparency and a better way of doing politics are now dead and buried,” she said.
She said the labour hire law “threatens to bring down the shutters on project extensions and expansions”.
“And while nations clamour for access to critical minerals to build the clean energy technology required for net zero, this weakens Australia’s international competitiveness, pushing customers to other markets.
“For the resources states of Western Australia and Queensland, this bill represents a devastating blow that will reverberate throughout their economies and put a ceiling on growth.”
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar said the “dishonourable deal” would affect more than the mining sector.
“A range of vital industries rely on labour hire including healthcare, construction, manufacturing and hospitality,” he said.
“These expenses will be ultimately passed on to consumers amid a cost-of-living crisis.”
Labour hire orders will not take effect until November, although unions and workers can make applications invoking the laws after royal assent.
The wage theft provisions will take effect in 2025 or as soon as Mr Burke introduces a yet-to-be-finalised small business code, which would include different considerations for prosecuting small business underpayments.
Council of Small Business Organisations Australia chief executive Luke Achterstraat said he was concerned the government did not care about adding further complexity to small business.
“The Senate needs to be a House of Review, not a bad House of Cards spinoff show,” he said.
Miners, Qantas ‘can afford changes’
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said companies “that will be crying loudest about these changes are some of Australia’s biggest and most profitable”.
“Mining companies such as Gina Rinehart’s or Qantas, whose CEOs are receiving huge bonuses, they don’t feel the hardships many Australians are feeling right now,” she said.
“They can well afford these changes, but they fought against them as they don’t want to see their mega profits take the smallest of hits.”
The Coalition accused Labor and the crossbench of a dirty deal done in the shadow of the Christmas break.
”Labor does not have the right priorities. This is a desperate ploy by an embattled government to distract Australians from the rolling train wreck that is the released detainees’ crisis,” opposition spokeswoman Michaelia Cash said.
“In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, the government’s new labour hire laws will substantially increase the burden and costs imposed on businesses using legitimate labour hire arrangements to meet demand surges or remedy staff shortages. These costs will be ultimately passed on to consumers.”
She said the Coalition would continue to fight against other aspects of the plan, including on casual employment.
“All this bill is doing is fulfilling the unions’ agenda. Labor is paying back their union paymasters,” Senator Cash said.
The Armageddon fire danger will be starting any time now.
I’ve just turned off the windscreen wipers.
rosie
Dec 8, 2023 8:44 AM
shejaija battalion
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1732811560601465134
rosie,
There is definitely NO Malnutrition in Gaza looking at those Fat Slob Islamic Palestinian Prisioners
when she’s had enough of scoffing Nutella Pizzas
It’s clear you or Dot have not read the two books by the journalists and by extension the pertinent trial evidence. Or read the Brereton report Link
You clearly don’t know what “Black Ops” are.
If other soldiers saw it was wrong it was clearly against the ROE.
I thought this blog was against killing innocent civilians.
I assume you’re taking the piss.
The other ranks canteen did a roaring trade that night..
Gilas,
The third option to your two could relate to their employment conditions.
BL may have required some sort of behavioural trigger to sack, while it was just a matter of not renewing the BH contract. Worth the HR effort to be rid of a poor performer or to avoid the usual “position redundant” wriggling vs no point making the HR trouble if you know the individual is going anyway.
I’m ashamed of Harvard, a university I loved
University administrators and academics have allowed a cult of anti-Jewish activism to flourish under the banner of anti-colonialism.
Aaron Patrick – Senior correspondent
For a Harvard University professor, it might have been a straightforward question.
“Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules on bullying and harassment?” asked Elise Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman at hearings in Washington on Tuesday.
Claudine Gay, the university’s new president, didn’t have a definitive answer. “It depends on the context,” she said. “Antisemitic rhetoric, when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation – that is actionable conduct and we do take action.”
You don’t need a PhD to understand that advocating mass murder is wrong.
Gay’s reticence to take a moral stance was called out by Bill Ackman, an American hedge fund manager who has long donated to liberal groups, including Human Rights Watch.
“The president’s answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership,” he wrote on X.
As a fellow Harvard graduate, I agree.
Attending the Boston campus was a life highlight.
I learnt a lot and met interesting people. Harvard’s then president, Lawrence Summers, helped me prepare a presentation on the 1997 Asian economic crisis. He had been the deputy secretary of the US Treasury at the time.
Out of affection for the institution, I served on the council of the Harvard Club of Australia for several years. I helped promote its work in Australia, including a scholarship program for public servants. I still host student singers when they tour through Sydney.
Last month I was asked to help organise the 20th-anniversary reunion of my class. I declined because of campus antisemitism.
I’m not Jewish, but am horrified by the hostility towards Jews in Australia and elsewhere.
Some Australian Jews are afraid to wear yarmulkes in public. Security guards man school gates in Sydney and Melbourne. Jewish leaders have hired bodyguards.
Last month Gay wrote to all Harvard alumni: “Antisemitism has no place at Harvard.”
Strong words, which are not supported by evidence.
Harvard was ranked last out of 248 US universities for free speech this year by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
After the October 7 attack by Hamas, more than 30 Harvard student groups declared Israel “entirely responsible”.
In the US, Australia and elsewhere, university administrators and academics have allowed a cult of anti-Jewish activism to flourish under the banner of anti-colonialism.
Fearful of students, they ignore calls for the destruction of Israel and its inhabitants.
Notwithstanding the Jewish state’s often brutal treatment of Palestinians, how can a wish for its end be anything other than antisemitic? Even elements of the left acknowledge this.
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Jenna Price wrote this week: “People don’t hate Jews because of Israel, they hate Israel because of the Jews.”
Until Harvard decides that Jews are worth protecting, rhetorically and physically, it cannot consider itself a great university. It is just a shop for academic mercenaries.
The ABC’s fact check division, hard at work pushing the Narrative again:
Checkmate: Is there really a new ‘genetic vaccine’ being given to Aussie kids?
Considering the lies these people have peddled for the last 4 years or so, I don’t know why you’d believe a word they say now.
I was never an anti-vaxxer. But I sure as hell am now. No child of mine is ever getting another vaccine and neither am I*.
It’s not only the mountain of deception that the vaccine industry is built on that Covid threw into such sharp relief – I’m concerned they may start adulterating other vaccines to quieten the appalling safety signals screaming from the Covid experimental gene therapies. Oh no, you’re just imagining things, they’ll say. Vaccines have always had this rate of adverse incidents. Still safe and effective!
*I’d make an exception for something like rabies, if administering it was necessary in some unusual situation
From the horse’s mouth:
“…security assessments that you have to undertake for cohorts like this can take months at a time. So, to grant more than 800 visas in just six weeks would be an extraordinary level of efficiency”.
Then ASIO Director-General Duncan Lewis, Senate Estimates, 2019.
Penny Wong is pro-Palestinian to the point of endangering Australian lives.
Tintarella di Luna
Dec 8, 2023 5:59 AM
In today’s OZ a bit long — Janet Albrechtsen & Stephen Rice — lay out the Stinking Shitshow: Just goes to show how potato-nosed barge-arsed dimwits can be the ruin of a nation, particularly when used by political hyenas:
Brittany Higgins bombshell: $2.4m payout based entirely on her own evidence
Brittleknee’s mistake about the feds admitting liability, which is never done in deeds of settlement, may be just an indication that she’s conniving but dumb. That reflects more on the feds than her and that is the real interest now: how the liars used her to win the election while the gutless LNP were either crying or resigning because of the wimmineses issue which brittleknees personified.
My expectations of Dreyfus surviving the Brittany saga are much lower following the release of the Deed of Settlement. Plenty of Question Time material there for 2024. Should be a happy NewYear for the Lieborals.
Her belief that “Israel are the baddies in this fight” was a bit too much for me to take, especially when she dug in & doubled down on it.
Gallagher and the Mean Girls role has largely escaped scrutiny to date. Plenty of other material to be getting on with.
She would also know what the “without admission of liability” means.
But she chose, under oath, to smear Cash, Reynolds and Morrison by claiming there had been an admission of liability.
An attempt to pretend that the Commonwealth had done an exhaustive investigation and found evidence of negligence or worse.
Ironic the miners are now complaining about a war on mining. The big miners failed so long ago to stand up to the government (possibly in return for a percieved advantage
of strangling the juniors).
Gez, we here (ACT region) have also been threatened with Climatageddon ‘heatwaves’ this week. It’s been briefly in the low 30’s, with intermittent showers, including last night.
At least the last panic report I read didn’t include admonishments to stay out of the sun at midday and drink plenty of water.
I suspect that the Great Unwashed, of whom I am one, are increasingly immune to this crap. One of the housemaids here is a keen weather watcher, left school at 15 but is far from stupid. Her contempt for the BOM and climate hysteria is on a par with mine. We enjoy regular bitch sessions on the subject. 🙂
I have overheard travelling tradies on the subj. as well, and especially those whose families come from outside big cities are of the view that the BoM and ‘experts’ don’t know what they are talking about.
Despite the frantic efforts of alarmists, and the insertion of ‘climate change’ into every story, the punters are unexcited/hostile, as every leadership candidate with the guts to call it out has demonstrated.
Well, she’s certainly eaten a lot of cheese lately (government or otherwise). Like, a *lot*. Starting to resemble the late Bert Newton. Didn’t someone tell her Jenny Craig has gone bankrupt and there’s no paid celebrity weight loss ad campaign coming her way?
And heaven help us all if she tries to ‘reclaim’ that white dress again.
Very disappointed McKenzie is off on the COP freedom destroying junket. Which other LNP traitors are going?
One of Cronkite’s cute owls.
No Knickers Higgins
seeker of truth said… (In Comments)
O/T The Deed of Settlement and Release between the Commonwealth of Australia and Brittany Higgins has now been posted on the Federal Court website dealing with the Lehrmann defamation case. Here is the link – 62 Page PDF
https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/114062/Exhibit-59-Deed-of-Settlement-and-Release_Redacted.pdf
It is full of lies that AG Dreyfuss didn’t bother to contest, like –
“The claimant, by reason of her injuries and disabilities was unable to continue in her employment and resigned on or about 8 February 2021.”
She claimed for “hurt, distress and humiliation” because of the behaviour of Linda Rynolds, Fiona Brown, the staff of Linda Reynolds, Michaela Cash and her staff and so on (including security staff and cleaners).
She claimed that There was “a toxic and harmful culture and work environment”.
She claimed for domestic assistance for a year from February 2021 to February 2022 provided by her family and friends (sounds like that they were to get a cut of the settlement).
She also claimed for future domestic assistance of $200,000 to be provided by her family (I’d say that David Sharaz would now be considered “family”).
She claimed that Lehrmann bought her numerous rounds of drinks which has now been proven a lie because of evidence at the defamation hearing.
It is so full of untruths like Bruce had his staff pass to get through security at the Parliamentary offices, like it was Brittany’s taxi to take her home after 88mph but Bruce without invitation or agreement invited himself along and told the driver to drop them off at Parliament without her consent. She claimed that the security guards should have rendered assistance when the first one found her in a state of undress and when the other called out to her to see if she was ok. When she exited Parliament House in the morning about 9am, two security guards didn’t speak to her or render assistance and they should have.
That will do for now, There is lots of BS in it. I feel sorry for Fiona Brown. Her mental health has suffered badly because of the false accusations made against her and has been forced into early retirement because of it.
She was a career public servant.
She’s the one that should be compensated for millions of dollars.
Last night’s memo bulletin from ALP HQ has been received by the drones:
Social media this morning is full of the message that Britney’s payout was done by the Liberal party, & the incoming ALP govt was left with the irreversible administrative formality of actioning the payout.
Sort of like they were clerks or something, paying the dole & stuff that was due on the day after the election.
There are no words.
Paul Fletcher, Maria Kovacic, Andrew Bragg, Dean Smith, as well as state reps including Matt Kean.
Truly shocking state of affairs if true.
https://twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1732852570975338746
A gender inquiry now might prevent a Royal Commission later
By Monica Doumit – December 8, 2023
John – it was the gliberals who established the ICAC in NSW, with its first high profile victim being the gliberal imbecile who set it up.
Private jets, third world servants, wagyu beef treats and out of control flatulence all round.
Thanks, taxpayers!
BHP president Geraldine Slattery slammed Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke’s deal with the Greens and crossbench to rush through “same job, same pay” laws for labour hire workers as “extremely disappointing”, while the Minerals Council of Australia called it “a declaration of war” on business.”
What did they think would happen? I note that these same businesses and business groups such as the Minerals Council have been cosying up, or the better word should be ‘sucking‘ up to the Sleazy government since the election (and actually they were very tepid in their warnings about Labor prior to the election). And remember that BHP was one of the biggest spruikers of the YES vote, and even more outrageously, the company coughed up over $2 million dollars of shareholder dosh to the Yes campaign prior to the referendum on 14 October. I’m sorry but I struggle to scrape up any sympathy for the likes of BHP and Qantas, both companies have spent close to a decade taking up and ramming woke gunk down people’s throats, woke gunk any sensible organisation/company/corporation should have steered well clear of, be it over SSM, climate change and more recently, the referendum vote.
The other night I attended (along with Lizzie, Hairy and Rabzy) an IPA event, and I’m very glad I did. I renewed my membership a few months ago whilst at CPAC. Whilst no organisation is perfect, we must support conservative and right of centre think tanks such as the CIS and IPA, along with companies/organisations and corporations that aren’t woke or at least try to offer a semblance of critical thinking and unpartisan opinion, think media outlets such Sky News Oz, News Corporation etc. But what is interesting is that once upon a time the IPA received donations from established and well known Australian companies and company groups. But not anymore, the IPA now derives its money from ordinary people such as myself. Those large companies that once donated to the IPA are now fully captured by woke progressives, and they regard the IPA as “far-right”. I think it was the Guardian, only a few months ago, that sneeringly reported how the IPA no longer receives money from large established companies.
But it’s the IPA that is having the last laugh, not BHP, not Qantas and not the many other large Oz companies and corporates that went woke and have played footsie with Labor and the Greens, thinking that dancing with the devil will save their bums. Except it hasn’t and it never does. and these new IR laws prove it. BHP et al would have been better placed donating that $2 million to the IPA rather than to Sleazy’s referendum folly. This IR legislation will strangle business and productivity, and the economy will suffer. BHP, Qantas, Santos, the Australian Business Council, the Minerals Council and all the rest of them are being bitten on the bum big time, and it serves them right!
Nothing is happening with brite-Knees of newsworthiness, according to their ABCcess.
The cone of silence has descended.
You realise I threw that chunk of berley out to see what bit?
Senator erupts over $2.4m compo payout
A Liberal frontbencher was never asked for her version of events before the government paid $2.4 million to Brittany Higgins.
Samantha Maiden
Liberal frontbencher Michaelia Cash has confirmed she was never asked for her version of events before the Albanese Government paid out $2.4 billion to Brittany Higgins warning there are now “serious questions” on the compo deal.
The deed outlining the agreement was released on Thursday by the Federal Court following Ms Higgins’ evidence in the defamation trial.
It confirms that Ms Higgins legal team raised a range of potential legal claims including sexual harassment and victimisation during her employment.
It accuses Senator Cash of breaching the duty of care owed to the claimant and knowing about the allegation for years, a claim she has repeatedly denied.
Both Senator Cash and her then chief of staff Daniel Try have denied, under oath during the criminal trial, Ms Higgins’ version of events — insisting they only found out shortly before the story broke.
However, no reference was made to these denials in the settlement deed that consists only of Ms Higgins’ version of events in a legal claim and a compensation agreement.
Senator Cash told Canberra radio on Friday that she was barred from attending the mediation if she wanted to retain taxpayer-funded legal advice from the Commonwealth and was never asked for her version of disputed events.
“Let me be very, very clear. It is now up to the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to explain why his government paid out $2.4 million while relying only on one side of the story,’’ she said.
“I was directed by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus not to participate in the mediation.
“Not only was I or any of my staff not allowed to participate in the mediation, we were never asked for our version of events.
“And my understanding is that the settlement was made after one day of mediation
“That is highly unusual when you are stepping on the basis of one person’s versions of the day. The Commonwealth did not admit liability.
“It’s a $2.4 million payout. And I was directed by the Attorney-General of Australia not to participate in the mediation.
There are serious questions for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to explain to the Australian people and why his government denied me and Linda the right to defend ourselves.”
Mr Lehrmann launched proceedings in the Federal Court this year against Network 10 and journalist Lisa Wilkinson over Ms Higgins’ The Project interview in February 2021 in which she alleged she was sexually assaulted by her former colleague.
Mr Lehrmann has consistently denied the allegations and has told the court he had no sexual contact with Ms Higgins in Senator Linda Reynolds’ office in the early hours of March 23, 2019.
His criminal trial in the ACT Supreme Court last year was aborted due to juror misconduct and a re-trial was abandoned. No findings have been made against him.
Ms Higgins had hopes to enter politics herself according to documents outlining her $2.445 million compo deal.
For the first time, the documents reveal that the total amount paid by taxpayers was $2.445 million – not the $2.3 million Ms Higgins mentioned in Court.
Ms Higgins gave evidence that after taxes and legal fees were paid she received closer to $1.9 million net.
“The claimant was successful and progressing in her career,” the document states.
“The claimant had a reasonable expectation of being promoted regularly and to eventually pursue her own political career, before suffering from the injuries and disabilities.”
It states she will need fortnightly psychiatric appointments at an estimated rate of $285 a session and requests compensation for friends and family who have to provide domestic support.
The new documents make clear that the payout was based entirely on her evidence of disputed claims that Liberal frontbenchers Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash and her chief of staff Fiona Brown handled the matter poorly.
Ms Brown is expected to give evidence and contest these accounts.
She has previously told the ACT Supreme Court she strongly urged her to report the matter to police and later took her to speak to the AFP.
The document claims that Ms Higgins was dissuaded from going to police – an idea strongly rejected by Ms Brown and Senators Cash and Reynolds who will not be giving evidence.
The documents prepared by Ms Higgins legal team also states that after the alleged rape that Scott Morrison’s political fixer Yaron Finkelstein was a regular presence in the office to deal with the fallout.
News.com.au understands that Mr Finkelstein was not in the office after the alleged rape and was also not aware of the allegation until years later.
Ms Higgins told news.com.au in January, 2021, that it was Mr Morrison’s chief of staff John Kunkel who was in the office, not Mr Finkelstein.
Mr Kunkel also denies ever knowing anything about the rape and maintains he was called in to deal with Mr Lehrmann’s dismissal, but was not aware of a sex assault claim.
The IPA’s financials are also looking very healthy, despite the corporates ceasing their donations – and subsequently trying (very unsuccessfully) to curry favour with the albansleazey goat rodeo.
BTW, Brianna McKee’s presentation at the IPA shindig the other evening was top drawer.
Penn loses $100 million donation over antisemitism hearing
New Industrial laws.
Phone message.
They won’t report this either:
Old Gazan woman tells reporter all aid goes to Hamas.
Much angst on ABC RN AM this morning about Israel not letting aid through.
Bridge for sale!
They want to be in the in-crowd. Davos and Bilderbergers. Look at BHP ululating about fossil fuels and selling all their coal assets. Immediately screwed by Albo, haha. And Twiggy, who is screeching today that we’re all going to diieee because of humidity. They’ve screwed him too.
Forrest issues a global warning to prevent ‘lethal humidity’ (Paywallian)
No Twiggy that isn’t happening. Do please take a Bex and have a nice lie down. Your real enemy is the one in Canberra, not a harmless gas.
The obsession with ‘light rail’ has already done untold damage to Canberra (e.g. destroying the magnificent nature strip of alternating Australian and European trees at the entrance) and is a suppurating sore on public funds. Nevertheless, obstinate politicians insist on making things worse in pursuit of brownie points at international suckfests:
For those who don’t know Canberra, taking it to Commonwealth Park is like taking a light rail extension to the western edge of Centennial Park or to some remote border of the Tan. It’s a dead end.
Every example I have found of these fashionable projects all over the Western world has been characterised by massive cost blowouts and permanent drains on public funds to keep them going. Then there’s the damage to or destruction of unfortunate businesses who find themselves in the pathway, the despoiling of genuine heritage buildings and landmarks, and the seizure of public parklands.
Ian Rankin mentioned in a couple of his books the mess their vanity project made of Edinburgh, and the pain went on for years. It will never make money.
Sydneysiders know all about their version of the debacle, at massive cost to taxpayers and businesses.
Why won’t anyone say that this Emperor has no clothes?
Alamak!
Dec 7, 2023 8:38 PM
the tragic downfalle of a fayre maiden and gallant staffyr because fatal flawes & scheming overlordes in a tyme of grate peril
Fabulous, more please. This could be the morality tale of our times. Ask J Leak to illustrate it.
Tom. I rarely comment on the cartoons, in fact I only ever look at Leak.
Today, Leak Jnr surpassed anything his dad ever did.
Hamas sitting around eating what they had stolen from aid agencies isn’t indicative of the food situation is in gaza.
I’m sure the tens of thousands who had to walk south with whatever they could carry in their hands are doing mightily.
There is certainly some evidence that the general populuation are now not so delighted with their govenment.
And the IDF has now taken Palestine Square in northern Gaza, where the bodies of dead Israelis were paraded to the joy of the crowds.
Hamas alsi did a fine job of starving the hostages with those freed losing on average ten to fifteen percent of their body weight.
The scum even took one of the three year old twins away from her family for the first couple of weeks.
Blind Freddy could have told you that, if you separate a “news” organisation from its audience through guaranteed government funding that does not depend on the size of the audience (circulation/ratings), you create an organisation that thinks nothing violating its government charter and lying to satisfy an extremist ideological agenda.
Both Gary Sturgess and Greiner had not read enough of the US Founding Fathers. They really believed that an impartial anti-corruption body could exist for more than a short period, which every example ever has proved not to be the case.
It’s ‘quis custodiet custodies’ all over again, and as usual.
Jerbs for maaaaaates!
“Salvatore, Iron Publican
Dec 8, 2023 9:58 AM
Pogria Dec 8, 2023 9:29 AM
I would add the brilliant Esther Krakue to the list.
Her belief that “Israel are the baddies in this fight” was a bit too much for me to take, especially when she dug in & doubled down on it.”
Salvatore,
I missed that part. I take it all back. She can blow Hamarse.
Judging by the waistlines and the man-boobs of the Hamas ‘men’ rounded up in their undies by the IDF yesterday, they’ve eaten most of it.
Part of an Oz article on the selective response to the atrocities of October 7th.
Endiburgh trams started returning a profit within two years of opening, didn’t make a profit in 2020 or 21 for obvious reasons.
2.8 million annual ridership as of 21/22.
Obviously not a glorified country town like Canberra though.
cohenite
I suspect that the Mean Girrrrls told Knickerless not to worry, it’s just a standard deed, without mentioning “standard” conditions like not admitting liability.
Knickerless fvcked up, she trusted the Mean Girrrls.
What is that…$3m per metre!?
To complement the terrible new threat of gerbil broiling, no doubt. Mad as cut snakes, these people are.
In a previous age, people like Forrest and Guterres would have been standing around on street corners clad in sandwich boards declaiming the the end of the world was nigh.
Instead they now infest the highest levels of government, corporates, the bureaucrazy, supranational bodies (e.g. the UN) and the braindead lamestream meeja.
It’s a bizarre global collectivist insanity, harking back to the darkest ages of animism and superstition. They’ll be burning witches at the stake and throwing virgins into volcanoes next.
Lunacy. Sheer bloody lunacy.
Dare I say it?
Looks very like a new Stolen Generation being made, this one a genuine one.
My maternal grandmother was at the opening of the old Parliament House in 1927.
From her recollection it really was built in a sheep paddock.
The IDF should rename itself the Jenny Craig Weight Loss Program.
Oops…paternal grandmother.
Cassie
I no longer have sympathy for “Big Business”. Let them pay a higher rate of Company Tax, bear the burden of IR changes and every other Liars stupidity. No relief when/íf the government changes, save all the relief for small and medium enterprises and independent contractors.
They have made their beds …
Katzenjammer
It’s pretty predictable – they think they’ll be released in a months time when the second round of Hamas invasion and hostage taking takes place?
rosie
Yes, but what COURSE is she doing?
Ford just parrots the ignorant progressive party line.
What irks me is that she continues to get lucrative gigs doing writer’s workshops etc.
I noticed she was running one for cancer survivors at Peter Mac recently.
Perhaps some of the very generous Jewish donors to cancer research should tell Peter Mac
“Never again”.
Many Australian Jews are descendants of holocaust survivors, who were very clearly not white enough for the Nazis but are now pure white* in the eyes of pure white clemmy.
*not that that is a sin.
And it’s funny how Israelis like Lior Raz (of Algerian and Iraqi descent) could serve in the Duvdevan without being found out.
Why would that be darling Clementine?
Now there’s a teaser, two hours ago from @gaza_report.
Another ceasefire in the offing?
Among those detained is journalist Diaa Kahlout, who works for London-based The New Arab. His sister told Euro-Med Monitor that Mr Kahlout was forced to leave his disabled seven-year-old child “on her own” and was taken at gunpoint before he was stripped and “beaten severely”.
The news outlet also confirmed Mr Kahout’s brothers and relatives were arrested, forced to disrobe and subjected to humiliating searches. They were then taken to an undisclosed location.
It called on “the international community, journalists’ rights defenders and watchdogs, and human rights bodies to denounce this ongoing assault”.”
Firstly….”was stripped and “beaten severely”. Good, and I hope the beating was savage. And I dunno, being forced to disrobe to show off one’s man boobs sure beats being gangraped, bludgeoned, beaten, murdered, slaughtered and decapitated. It sure beats having a gun shoved up your vagina.
Indolent
Anyone ‘happy’ to see the films taken needs to be locked up.
Had he said “willing to see because I refuse to not be a witness to these atrocities” then he’d be correct.
Roger
Dec 8, 2023 11:24 AM
Obviously not a glorified country town like Canberra though.
My maternal grandmother was at the opening of the old Parliament House in 1927.
From her recollection it really was built in a sheep paddock.
Roger,
as a 9 year old visiting Canberra War Memorial with same age mate on weekend solo trip (Parents were brave in those days – Accomodation arranged by Parents) walking across to Parliament House we did have to go through some sheep paddocks
https://www.flickr.com/photos/canberrahouse/with/6502961807
I suspect that the prisoners will be subject to a lot of DNA comparisons and photo matching. Many will find themselves facing war crimes trials for rape, mutilation, murder and kidnapping.
Watch the luvvvies shriek then!
Anzac Parade viewed from Australian War Memorial [3]
Looking down Anzac Parade towards Old Parliament House.
This photo was probably taken before 1958, as the Campbell duplexes are underway and the suburb was mostly complete by 1959. It’s prior to the construction of Kings Avenue Bridge, which was opened in March 1962.
An almost identical view, also taken before 1960, can be seen here.
Speaking of glorified country towns I was stirred to check how many passengers our battery trams here in Ncl carry. Somewhat surprised that Transport NSW has very good data.
Number of trips by Line for Light Rail mode
Click on the “Light Rail” tab and there it is in all its glory. The grey line bumping along the bottom of the graph. About 70,000 trips per month. So about 800,000 per annum. Even at say five bucks a trip (which would be huge for a 2.7 km long route) that’s only four million in revenue per annum.
The sucker must be bleeding red ink like crazy. Which of course is why we ditched our tram system in the first half of the 20thC. Someone had invented this thing called a “car”.
This got a mention about the time Candace Owens outed herself as an anti-Israel airhead.
Esther had been on a similar track. She doubled down for a while, however she hasn’t tweeted on Gaza or the middle east for more than a month.
The blowback must have been robust. Esther will have done a quick calculation on her prospects if she persisted with: IDF = bad.
A sample of her published opinion:
Lovely pics, BJ; bookmarked for later.
Canberra hasn’t aged well.
That’s a theory I’m not familiar with, re mohammed was a title given to Jesus Christ.
Still think there was such a man, there are so many parallels with the revelations received by one John Smith.
Post
@ImtiazMadmood
Muslims believe in fiction created by the Abbasids.
1. Mecca didn’t exist in the 7th Century (at best a hamlet)
A. No archeological evidence
B. No historical evidence
C. No or very little water
2. Mecca (only mentioned once in the Quran) wasn’t on any historical map until 900.
The Quran talks about a fertile place, which is not Mecca.
A. A stream
B. Fruits
C. Olive trees
D. Fields etc.
None of which Mecca had in the 7th, 8th, 9th 10th, to the late 20th centuries when Saudi started to have water desalination plants built.
3. Medina was an insignificant little place.
4. The term ‘Mohammad’ (Praised One) was first found on a Christian coin in 661 referring to Jesus, the coin had Christian symbols.
5. The term Mohammad was used by Arab Christians for Jesus until the mid-8th century.
6. The Mohammad that Muslims think of was an Abbasid invention in the late 8th century or early 9th century.
Lone wolf.
Acted alone. Motivation unclear. Not representative of the broader community.
P
Dec 8, 2023 10:31 AM
About six weeks ago, South Australian Senator Alex Antic tabled a bill that would prohibit puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery being prescribed to, or performed on, minors except in the most exceptional of circumstances.
Child abuse. South Australian Senator Alex Antic will be vindicated.
Give it a few years when the minors are older, realise it was a big mistake because their life is major disaster with psychological problems as it didn’t turn out like they were led to believe it would.
Cue the litigation against whoever allowed them to go through with ‘puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender reassignment surgery‘ shit.
Taxpayers as per usual will be footing the bill for the stupidity that was allowed to happen.
Figures:
Had a young woman like that working for me once. Manipulative, sly, and a liar. But jeez she was good at it.
Her parents wouldn’t talk to her because of her obvious mental disabilities. Refused to have anything to do with her. The girl moved from hospital to hospital but was adept at covering her tracks. I had to almost admire the tactics she would use to send the workplace into a frenzy because she loved doing it. It was a game to her.
But, but, Bruce. Trams are so convenient for the very important inner city people, donchya know. Imagine if they had to walk to locations within 2.7km like they demand people in the suburbs do to places within 5 to 10km. And you can’t tell them to carry groceries for one or two for a couple of days like they tell families of 4 or 5 to do with groceries for a week.
And don’t even get me started on going to restaurants, sporting and arts venues. How can you say they need to walk to a venue within 2.7km they go to once or twice a year when all they are asking is that families take their kids to sports (and dance, etc.) every week in the same way 10 to 20 or even up to 50km away.
Esther Krakue a week or so after the above copied tweet:
She was all in on “Israel should just suck it up”
Her total dropping of the topic says she hasn’t changed her mind, just that she’d prefer the payola of TV gigs & opinion columns to continue.
She’ll pounce back onto sometime in the years to come, whenever an opportunity presents itself to have a snipe.
She is reaching the point where she is existing purely on the merits of her commentary & opinion.
A Colgate-worthy white toothy smile & a few basic conservative home truths & motherhood statements won’t carry her forever.
For Esther is starting to thicken up, her face is beginning to look less girly, her dugs are becoming more akin to twin watermelons.
Esther has to find & find fast, an affluent to wealthy conservative bloke, one who won’t ditch her (ruling out rock stars, rappers, & quite a few high profile men)
Zatara
There will be a second round of this as Hamas reruns the “capture a hostage routine” to get back their men from Israel.
Salvatore,
Esther hadn’t been doing the usual interviews on Sky, and there is only so much online stuff I can read, but, I should have realised something was changing when I noticed her awful new hairstyle. Once they receive stylists, publicists and advisors, they are lost.
Stolen yes, but given UNRWA’s track record of supplying sustenance and propaganda bites to Hamas it’s more likely the theft was from Gazan “civilians”.
IIRC that bloke is the one who tweeted “With or without baking powder?” in response to the Israeli release of info on the baby put into the kitchen oven.
However he died, it won’t have been with the degree of torment he deserved.
I received this email regarding the forthcoming Govt Inquiry in Covid.
https://www.pmc.gov.au/covid-19-response-inquiry/consultation
Everything you need to know about the useless f*ck!ng liberals is in this paragraph
Vicplod might be finding a tiny spine under all that fascist splodge.
Police force group of Extinction Rebellion protesters off Melbourne’s West Gate Freeway after they hold brief blockade (Sky News, 8 Dec)
Deport the lot of them to Dubai, where they can feast on wagyu beef and fly around in private jets like their fellow climate tragics.
For a Doctor she shall be.
As an aside, what a joke. Being awarded a two year Dr of Jurisprudence with no undergrad law degree.
Let’s have a look at how Britnah applies her academic quals in practice:-
Commerce – can’t tell the difference between $2.3m and $2.5m.
Communication – Puts a different story on public record every time she opens her puffy gob.
Law (part complete) – doesn’t know what “without admission of liability” means.
Marvellous display of nepotism over in the West yesterday as Hannah Beazley goes into Cabinet in her first term. Beazley took over the WA electorate of Victoria Park from Ben Wyatt after 4 unsuccessful attempts at State and Cth level. Not surprising with a threadbare CV once you get past the first line. Wyatt has moved on and now sits on the boards of Rio Tinto and the Weagles.
Maaaate.
Brit’s LinkedIn page says she’s doing ‘doctor of law’ at Bond University.
Says everything about contemporary degrees from Aussie universities.
Tintarella di Luna
Dec 8, 2023 9:42 AM
Tinta – we have them in Queensland, and we add pineapple. In fact I have 6 pineapple plants growing in my backyard in case the pineapple crop fails.
Yes, I know they take two years to grow, but I’m making sure.
Test – replace Jews with Aboriginals and Israel with Australia.
She’d lose her job in a heartbeat.
Cassia @10:38
100% spot on. Big business full on trying to change the Constitution using shareholders money, going totally woke, and supporting deindustrialisation through “net zero”. Unlike the campaign against Swannies mining tax, the big end of town won’t be getting much support from joe blow average this time around. PS, time for a Christmas donation to IPA!
Happy Hanukkah from the Donald:
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1732929075155763443
Gilas re BH’s counselling vs BL’s sacking.
Lerhman was already on a warning specifically for security breaches, so goneski.
Hoggins was maybe given a pass because lady bits, but probably because she was viewed as a junior partner in the escapade.
Look, good management doesn’t involve throwing around warnings like confetti. Sometimes you make the call that a bit of a stern talking to off the record is enough.
Brown may have misjudged that one.
Juris doctors (in the American/Bond sense) are not doctors.
At Bond, it is classified as a Masters Degree by coursework.
I agree Zatara no-one gets a job with Unwra without hamas say so.
Birds are racist.
Why dozens of North American bird species are getting new names: Every name tells a story (Phys.org, 7 Dec)
He’s safe though, since his name is Jared not William.
From the web site:
What sets Bond’s Juris Doctor program apart is that the practical “lawyering” skills—legal writing and reasoning, oral communication, advocacy, dispute resolution, negotiation, research, legal ethics, and professionalism—are embedded throughout the program.
I’m guessing Ms Higgins hasn’t completed the practical stuff yet. Or passed with a supporting letter from her doctor.
BBC Viewers Greeted by Far-Left News Reporter Making Faces and Flipping Off the Camera Seconds Before Going Live
Cardinal rule of public speaking – The microphone is always hot and someone is always video taping. Forget that at your peril.
Yet Again the Brains of Intelligent Irsaelis Vs In-Bred Palestininan Gazan Hamas Barbarian Islamic/Muslim Arab Camel Traders
See from 5 Mins 30 Secs on the above today’s Raptor YouTube update
Note the the Ultilisation of Land on the Israeli Side of the Border vs the In-Bred Palestinian Gazan Side
Thanks for the info Roger re lieboral rubbish off on the COP junket. Is McKenzie the only Nat? I’m disgusted with her tbh.
The JD is the equivalent of an LLB.
Prereq is an undergraduate degree in something other than law.
Officially, JDs in Australia are master’s degrees.
To become Dr Higgins, Britt will need to complete the JD and then do an LLM and/or a PhD.
Beleib All Wymmyn
Unless they’re Jews or brave old Gazans.
RBA dual mandate tweak could mean higher rates for longer
Michael Read – Economics correspondent
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has axed a controversial proposal requiring the Reserve Bank of Australia to give “equal consideration” to full employment and inflation, as part of a new agreement that may mean interest rates stay higher for longer.
Despite some initial hesitation from the RBA, it has also agreed to publish unattributed board votes on interest rate decisions after each meeting and require board members to give one speech or public engagement each year.
Dr Chalmers on Friday released a new statement on the conduct of monetary policy, traditionally an agreement between the federal government and the central bank on its relationship and considerations for setting interest rates.
The statement gives effect to a number of the non-legislative recommendations contained in the independent review into the RBA, released in April.
The central bank is undergoing a period of significant change, including the appointments of Bank of England official Andrew Hauser as deputy governor and Treasury official Sarah Hunter as chief economist.
After considerable controversy over a recommendation for the RBA to give “equal consideration” to achieving both full employment and low inflation, Dr Chalmers and the RBA settled on a far less specific dual mandate that leaves the central bank with significant discretion.
“The appropriate timeframe for [achieving an inflation rate of 2.5 per cent] depends on economic circumstances and should, where necessary, balance the price stability and full employment objectives of monetary policy,” the agreement states
“The Reserve Bank board can best fulfil [economic prosperity and welfare of
the Australian people] by conducting monetary policy in a way that will best contribute to both price stability and full employment.”
Coalition MPs had warned the “equal consideration” wording would reduce the RBA’s focus on fighting inflation, while former treasurer Peter Costello said the clause would have watered down the inflation target. Mr Costello is chairman of Nine, publisher of The Australian Financial Review.
Former RBA governor Ian Macfarlane, a strong critic of the review, said it was unclear what equal consideration even meant.
But RBA reviewer Renee Fry-McKibbon said it was never the intention that “equal consideration” meant equal weight. She said the recommendation simply recognised that monetary policy also affects growth and the jobs market.
Dr Chalmers said the new agreement would ensure the RBA remained “world-class, with a monetary policy framework fit to meet current and future economic challenges”.
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor said he wanted the government to be “razor focused on inflation and bringing down prices”.
“We remain concerned the government will stack the new monetary policy board with appointees who have had more experience with the Labor Party than with fighting inflation,” he said.
Aiming for 2.5pc inflation
Consistent with the review’s recommendations, the agreement confirms the RBA board should aim to return inflation to the middle of the 2 to 3 per cent target band, or 2.5 per cent.
IFM Investors chief economist Alex Joiner said the new wording made the prospect of a rate cut unlikely until late 2024, given the RBA’s current inflation forecasts do not show it achieving 2.5 per cent inflation at any point in the next couple of years.
The RBA expects annual inflation to fall to 2.9 per cent from 4.9 per cent by December 2025, which is the end of its forecast horizon.
The statement also for the first time defines the RBA’s full employment goal as the “maximum level of employment consistent with low and stable inflation”.
“The Reserve Bank board commits to regularly communicating its assessment of how conditions in the labour market stand relative to sustained full employment, drawing on a range of indicators and recognising that full employment is not directly measurable and changes over time,” it says.
The definition is a blow to the union movement, which wanted Dr Chalmers to enshrine a goal of “zero involuntary unemployment” in the statement, though it was unable to detail what this measure captured in practice.
When inflation is expected to be significantly higher or lower than the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent target band, or unemployment is meant to deviate significantly from full employment, the RBA board will need to communicate how long it expects to take to meet its objectives.
The statement formalises the review’s recommendation that the Treasury secretary serves on the board in an independent capacity, rather than at the direction of the Treasurer.
It also flags a greater co-ordination between the RBA and the Treasury to ensure monetary and fiscal policies are aligned.
“The government recognises the role that sound fiscal management plays in achieving the Reserve Bank board’s objectives,” the statement says.
“In recognition of this, the Reserve Bank and the government (through the Treasury) commit to working together to enhance their understanding of prevailing macroeconomic conditions and the impact that monetary and fiscal policy settings have in influencing these conditions.”
Unconventional policy still an option
Following the RBA’s pandemic-era foray into unconventional monetary policies such as forward guidance, the statement also includes a new section specifying the RBA’s policy toolkit.
While the central bank has faced heavy criticism for its pandemic-era forward guidance and bond purchase program, the agreement acknowledges that interest rates alone may not always be sufficient to achieve the RBA’s goals.
“The Reserve Bank board will communicate a framework to guide the use of additional monetary tools, including the benefits, costs and risks associated with available tools,” the agreement states.
“It will draw on a range of inputs, including international experience, independent expert assessments and lessons from the Reserve Bank’s use of additional monetary tools.”
The central bank has also committed to a formal review of its monetary policy toolkit every five years.
Following the review’s sharp criticism of the RBA’s insular culture, the agreement also requires the central bank to “foster an open and dynamic culture that values constructive debate”.
The RBA has committed to bolstering its research capabilities and invest in its workforce.
While the previous agreements were between the treasurer and the RBA governor, the latest statement has been signed by the RBA board, which was a recommendation of the RBA review.
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Genocide and Jews at Harvard
The double standards and triple speak that have overrun elite academia showed their truest colors yesterday; and the firestorm that has followed may actually matter
ALEX BERENSON
But for decades, our elite institutions and media have treated free speech as increasingly dangerous. They have used their power to put topics off-limits, especially those that expose racial differences.
To take only the most obvious example: Young black men commit violent crime at rates far higher than other Americans. This fact is clear from any crime database, and it lies at the heart of many American social problems (especially in black communities, since most crime is intra-racial).
But merely acknowledging this basic reality at an institution like the New York Times or Harvard University – much less researching or discussing its effects or how it might be prevented – is a one-way ticket to social ostracism and censure, with near-fatal career consequences.
Like most evils, censorship metastasizes. Universities now police even the smallest offenses against minority or self-declared marginalized groups.
Last year, Harvard declared “misgendering” – that is, referring to transgender people by the pronouns of their actual birth gender – as a form of abuse. The year before, Columbia had declared it a fireable offense.
As you probably have heard by now, at a hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Elise Stefanik (R-NY) repeatedly asked the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology if calling for the genocide of Jews violated their free speech codes.
They refused to say it did.
A sculptor has a sense of humour.
It’s only 6 seconds, watch carefully at the end. 😀
Bidenomics Is Killing The American Dream Of Owning A Home
Forward guidance is a completely normal, regular part of CB toolkit i.e. setting market and consumer expectations on broad monetary policy. What is provided as guidance is the tricky bit, which Lowe messed up on.
Wallet Wizard appears to have no great or new ideas on how to improve CB functions in his new model of Capitalism. Give him credit for not going full MMT, tho.
WSJ – DEI Drives Campus Antisemitism
Gerrymandering Jews into an ‘oppressed’ class won’t save universities from a malevolent ideology.
By Heather Mac Donald
Tuesday’s House hearing on campus antisemitism ratcheted up the pressure on American universities: counter the anti-Israel vitriol that exploded in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack or risk losing philanthropic and government support.
The leading approach is sure to fail: doubling down on the ideologies and practices that led to the pro-Hamas fever in the first place.
Bill Ackman, the hedge-fund manager leading a Harvard donor revolt, told CNBC on Nov. 6 that he hadn’t previously read Harvard’s DEI statement.
Though he had assumed DEI was “for all marginalized groups,” once he read the statement, he realized that “the DEI program at Harvard is limited to specific groups and exploits others.”
Instead, Mr. Ackman suggested, DEI should cover all minorities, including Jews and Asians.
Jon Huntsman Jr. halted his contributions to the University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 15 to protest its leaders’ silence in the face of “hate,” which higher ed was “built to obviate.”
An open letter to Penn President Liz Magill initiated by alumnus Marc Rowan called for mandatory antisemitism awareness training across the university.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law has demanded that Penn add modules on antisemitism to the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion trainings.
College leaders are happy to oblige. As Ms. Magill told lawmakers Tuesday, Penn has created an Action Plan to Combat Antisemitism and a University Task Force on Antisemitism. Since antisemitism is “interconnected” to “other forms of hate,” Ms. Magill explained in a Nov. 1 message, Penn is also rolling out a presidential commission on Islamophobia. The university must do better to “reject hate in all its forms,” she said on Nov. 1.
Northwestern University President Michael Schill is establishing a committee to prevent antisemitism and “other forms of hate.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is creating a Standing Together Against Hate council. The University of Maryland, a self-described “proud multicultural community,” launched a task force to eliminate “antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate.” DEI bureaucrats are well-represented on all these commissions and task forces.
But a university has no capacity to eliminate “hate,” nor should that be its mission. In the name of rejecting hate, colleges built their DEI bureaucracies in the first place and allowed bureaucrats and their faculty sympathizers to put certain facts and ideas off-limits.
In the name of rejecting hate, colleges started requiring faculty—even in the hard sciences—to justify their research in the name of “inclusion” and “belonging.”
Protected identity categories have constantly expanded while the haters shrank to an ever smaller subset of white males.
The real issue on campuses isn’t antisemitism but the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum.
Elite schools once disdained Jews because they were seen as outsiders to Western civilization.
Now they are reviled as that civilization’s very embodiment. Students explain that their hatreds come from what they learn in class—that the West is built on white supremacism and oppression.
Israel is cast as the Western settler-colonialist oppressor par excellence.
The Columbia University chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine explained that “our classes regularly discuss the inevitability of resistance as part of the struggle for decolonization.
We study under renowned scholars who denounce the fact that the media requires oppressed peoples to be ‘perfect victims’ ”—that is, not to commit acts of terrorism—“in order to deserve sympathy.”
During a sit-in, a law student at Penn announced: “It was here where I read texts about the history of colonial regimes and the importance of decolonization. . . . I just want the university to try to do part of what it tries to teach us in the classrooms.”
A Harvard student posted on social media: “how have i read frantz fanon in no less than four classes here (writing on the violent algerian decolonial movement!!!) and yet you all side with the colonizer?”
Another Harvard student: “what is WRONG with EVERYONE! This is literally a decolonization struggle before our eyes. like all of those places we learn about and have historicized and sympathize with now—algeria, south africa, haiti, more.”
Gerrymandering Jews into an “oppressed” class for DEI purposes wouldn’t do anything to prevent this classroom propaganda—which college leaders are at pains not to address.
Since Oct. 7, presidents and faculty have routinely spoken of the “interconnectedness” of antisemitism and Islamophobia. A Nov. 16 lecture at Cornell University by Ross Brann, a professor of Judeo-Islamic studies, was titled “The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism.”
Who is found at that intersection?
White supremacists, former Trump administration officials, evangelical Christians and white opponents of mass immigration from Muslim countries, to judge by Mr. Brann’s PowerPoint slides.
None of these supposed oppressors play a significant role in pro-Hamas campus protests.
The actual protesters—Muslims, Black Lives Matter activists, Queers for Palestine, socialist groups and proponents of the anti-Israel boycott, divest and sanctions movement—went unmentioned in the lecture. (Mr. Brann did briefly mention Louis Farrakhan as an antisemite.)
Mr. Ackman seems to be learning. In a Dec. 3 letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, he described his conversations with faculty, who were willing to speak only confidentially. “The problems at Harvard are clearly not just about Jews and Israel,” Mr. Ackman wrote. Harvard also discriminates against Asians and “straight white males.”
Harvard’s diversity office “is an important culprit in this discrimination on campus as it sees the world in a framework of oppressors and the oppressed, where the oppressor class includes white males, Asians, Jews and other people perceived to be successful and powerful.”
Solving the problems of higher ed requires rejecting this victim ideology wholesale.
“Universities need to abandon the concept that they have a central role in moral education,” Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard president, told me.
Donors and alumni should demand changes in governance and curricula to counterbalance the anti-Western ideology that undergirds the anti-Israel coalition.
Every identity-based bureaucratic sinecure should be eliminated.
Trustees and presidents should be chosen based on their determination to support humanistic learning and academic excellence, not “inclusion.”
Efforts to impose such changes will be fought tooth and nail. On their success hangs a civilization.
Ms. Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of “When Race Trumps Merit.”
Abortion absolutist Clementine is disgusted with child killers? The evil woman dares to point fingers at anybody but her own side when it comes child killing.
‘Risk being arrested?’ Since when was blocking the King’s highways (as they used to say in Ye Olde England) optional?
According to the law, they should be arrested. No ifs or buts.
Of course, then they will be put in front of magistrates whose own offspring are druggies, members of the same group, or sympathisers. Off they go with not even a smack on the wrist, as their convictions are not recorded.
Ghandi had it right.
He said that you have to accept the consequences of your protests, otherwise they are meaningless,
No consequences = meaningless.
John Brumble
Dec 8, 2023 9:49 AM
Gilas,
The third option to your two could relate to their employment conditions.
BL may have required some sort of behavioural trigger to sack, while it was just a matter of not renewing the BH contract. Worth the HR effort to be rid of a poor performer or to avoid the usual “position redundant” wriggling vs no point making the HR trouble if you know the individual is going anyway.
Not sure I quite understand your point, however, a security breach gets at least a written warning, as BL already had received some weeks earlier for something far less serious than what happened THAT night.
If I remember correctly, Hoggins was just a junior media assistant. Highly expendable after this type of infraction.
In fact, it could have been politically dangerous to retain such an idiot in such a sensitive ministerial office.
So it all does NOT make sense, unless Fiona Brown is telling porkies.
Spend some time in Hall’s Creek or Broome.
There’s a great deal of debate in academia and amongst Islamic apologist sites that Dan Gibson was wrong in his mapping that showed Mosques faced Petra instead of Mecca.
That debate will carry on but, that aside, Mecca simply doesn’t fit the Koran’s description of being fertile and in a valley as it was down a major cliff face and not that close to the ocean. The Koran also noted Mecca as a trade centre, yet it is not mentioned in any historical books, nor by any kings or clans or rulers as any “trade hub” and, even geographically, there’s no reason why you’d go to Mecca. Ever.
The Armageddon fire danger will be starting any time now.
I’ve just turned off the windscreen wipers.
In Sydney this morning warnings were issued for extreme heat conditions. The prediction is mid 30s as far as I know! Some “extreme heat”!
The trouble with this obsession with danger – is that it is infectious. I am getting inclined to return to the farm tomorrow. Admittedly the prediction is in the mid 40s for parts of the west. When it gets that high we usually take the cattle down to the creek & the casuarinas.
I love lurking here and only occasionally post things. The Voice had me fired up and rightfully was shot down in flames.
This horseshit above has me fired up again. The morons who signed off on this – and I’d expect it to be greenlit by senior Labor people – should be dragged out of their offices by their heels and strung upside down from the nearest lamp post.
The lack of care for gov’t funds is appalling. I know it has been going on for fifty years or more. We could be so much better run as a country…
Vicki
Dec 8, 2023 1:23 PM
The Armageddon fire danger will be starting any time now.
I’ve just turned off the windscreen wipers.
In Sydney this morning warnings were issued for extreme heat conditions. The prediction is mid 30s as far as I know! Some “extreme heat”!
BOM showing currently 27.3C for Sydney
Seforth on BOM App 23.3C currently
That’s all I could find, milt.
There are a couple of state members from QLD who are LNP but there’s no info on the official site about it.
Silly Moaning Hemorrhoid columnist Jenna Price
She should ne incinerated.
I’ll break it to you gently, Lysander:
The Quran is full of lies.
Boambee John
I mentioned a few days ago that the trials will enrage the Arab world, but it didn’t get picked up. No problem, but the looks on the faces of the criminals will be good to see when they realise rape and murder are capital crimes in Israel.
There will be much tearfulness and grovelling as the price for their barbaric crimes is realised. Not quite the ending they will have hoped for.
I hope the trials are broadcast or whatever they do these days and our governments aren’t in a position to block them which they most certainly will try to do.
Looks very like a new Stolen Generation being made
The stolen Genitailians?
Justice Department Files 9 New Criminal Charges Against Hunter Biden – Tax Evasion – Faces Up to 17 Years in Prison
It appears the Dems have given up on Biden getting re-elected and want to reshape the battlefield before campaign season heats up.
Somewhere Gavin Newsom is smiling.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Dec 8, 2023 1:20 PM
City of Gosnells shoots down 12-year-old girl’s petition calling for ‘racist and derogatory’ street name to be changed
Grace’s petition asked to change name of ‘Blackboy Court’
12-year-old empathetic to suffering of Indigenous people
Spend some time in Hall’s Creek or Broome.
Zulu,
may as well add Fitzroy Crossing, Kununurra, Wyndham, Derby, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Wiluna, Wilcannia, Moree, Bourke, Dubbo etc
Out biking this morning and stopped at Chster Hill shopping centre ..
An UNRWA collection booth doing fair business ………
Knowz their suburbs does the UN .. !
There’s a great deal of debate in academia and amongst Islamic apologist sites that Dan Gibson was wrong in his mapping that showed Mosques faced Petra instead of Mecca.
Petra would certainly be a better bet in terms of the presence of a “trade route “.
Lysander – Gibbon is a good place to read about the early years of Islam, since he wrote in the 18thC and was exquisitely exact in working from the available sources (except the camel shoulder bones…papyrus being in short supply at the time). It’s Ch 50 as I recall.
Penn Uni alumnus withdraws $100m in funding over anti-semitism.
Oops, just checked – shoulder bones of mutton not camels. But finding something you can write on in a desert is a non-trivial problem.
The juris doctor degree is a post grad course designed to turn an undergraduate degree in origami or communications into a ‘professional’ degree. Bond offers the course in three semesters per annum as opposed to the more usual two – which is how Mega Brinny can get it out of the way in two years.
She’d still need to top up on the professional practice qualification etc.
Being a professional doctorate, she is not supposed to use the title ‘doctor’ on graduating. There is a 97.3% chance Dr Higgins will forget this rule.
“She continues to require significant assistance from her family to perform domestic tasks” ..
Given that she appears to have two arms, two legs, can walk & talk, study at uni .. other than help with the mystique of knicker wearing & associated care what does she require “significant assistance” with .. ?
And in case you’ve been chasing a copy .. Vinnies, Chester Hill has 2 H/C of
“It Wasn’t Mean’t To Be Like This” by Lisa Wilkinson available .. tho at $2 each a wee bit pricey .. LOL!
Oops.
I see CL got there first – the Curse of Phone Posting
Most likely goats.
Especially since the super profits tax from the last time Labor were in power.
So is Albonomics. Or is it Chalmernomics?
Put yourself in Britz place:
What would you do if you woke up trashed and naked in your boss’s office?
1) Face the music, apologise and tell the truth (that your were wasted last night, partying and snogging fellow staffers,) thereby risking losing your job?
2) Plead ignorance, thereby risking losing your job?
3) Cry rape?
Peter van Onselen has become a right-wing extremist to outraged Twitterers:
https://twitter.com/vanOnselenP/status/1732666004818567542
rosie @ 11:47
Play stupid games win juicy prizes.
Re the Deed of Shoveling Money at Britnah.
It seems Mark Doofus and the Mean Girls struck upon the brilliant idea that they could pay $2.5 meg in return for a “no acceptance of liability” clause and presumably the standard “here endeth all actions against the Commonwealth” clause.
Except they very cunningly exempted Lehrman, Cash and Reynolds from the liability let-out.
Leaving Britnah free to pursue them.
An interesting precedent I think, which hopefully will be used against the Liars and Greens in future.
I take you point but technically it is impossible. It would be like someone cooking a roast better than their mum.
These very smart people who went to elite universities yet can’t work out when they see an iniquity. As long as you privilege one group over another there is a chance that your group will be on the outer at some stage.
Who knew that the 60s were the high point of our civilisation with its melting pot ambitions and equality for all?
Delta A
Dec 8, 2023 1:59 PM
Delta A:
It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
#1. You may get a bolllocking, but your boss would rather the fact her staff get out of control sometimes doesn’t show up on her shift. Kicking your arse means she has control of it and the miscreant knows they are on a warning.
Dunno myself, Ask Bear.
Bespoke:
Bear would probably look around for his trousers, get off the desk, and ask the boss to pack him another bong.
I’d take my $2.4 mil and vanish.
Invested in ASX big four bank shares that’s chunky dividends forever.
Could sign up for as many degrees as she likes.
Err, I think her lawyers would have run through the key elements of the agreement with her.
She knew.
She just thought she could bluff (lie, perjure) her way through the defamation hearing and the Deed would never surface.
Because no doubt her lawyers told her just that in the debrief.
I guess they never studied Victim Calculus 101 – Its hard math that depends on many factors.
Bond Uni website calls it a Doctor?
GIlas..
Take two people. One is a full-time employee and one is on a limited contract. They both do something bad. If the second is almost at the end of the contract, you just don’t renew the contract. But you need to start HR action to get rid of the first.
What kind of an internal self destruct button must Bruce have pressed that night to go back and breach security a second time.
I don’t get it. Is he that reckless ? What is swirling around inside, behind those thick rimmed glasses ?
Coupled with an in depth study of that grand hierarchy of victimology, the one that allows you to know whether to be sympathetic or outraged on a per case basis depending on the relative power imbalances. It comes as a branch of post grad phylogenetics.
It’s probably true. Anti-Semitism doesn’t come about because Israel exists. There was plenty of it before Israel joined the UN.
Lots of Arabs want to get rid of Israel because they hate Jews. All Jews.
It seems Mark Doofus and the Mean Girls struck upon the brilliant idea that they could pay $2.5 meg in return for a “no acceptance of liability” clause and presumably the standard “here endeth all actions against the Commonwealth” clause.
They really are awful people.
Note the the Ultilisation of Land on the Israeli Side of the Border vs the In-Bred Palestinian Gazan Side
Yep and on the other border. Many times I have driven up the Jordan Valley on the Jordanian side. Looking across at Israel you see working farms, fruit orchards with sprinkler systems, colours and people in the fields. On the Jordanian side is grey rubble mixed with endless plastic bags blowing along and a few goats. Old men sit on crates stooped over, drinking coffee. I mean, why do anything if Allah has already written it and Paradise is forever.
Israel is the Jews. One Jew in particular – Jacob, son of Isaac and Abraham’s grandson.
Israel is his name. Genesis 32:27.
Ford’s grotesque rantings are psychotic. Left wing (most in other words) germalism is filled with actors with BPD and other psychoses. Consider also deveny. Seriously nasty, disturbed people usually female.
You’re getting confused by the American term for a post-graduate law degree.
Bond University:
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To be a doctor in Australia, you must have a PhD conferred by a university council (which councils exist pursuant to dedicated statutes). Those who have PhDs and call themselves “Dr” do so according to law.
Nobody with a JD is permitted to call themselves “Dr’.
A wymminses, a rape victim (no need to quibble over evidence – that treacherous labyrinth where many an individual wily colonialist male oppressor has been able to evade general social justice), and victim of the white patriarchal zionist colonial Liberal Party, and armed with an A4 Law Degree with parchment texture print coupons for McHappy Meals – she would be a shoo in for A Chief Justice in the ACT.
Unless she is pipped at the post by a Black Indigenous* Palestinian cetacean rape and Liberal Party victim with a law degree written on the back of a beer coaster in crayon.
* We know that there is no correlation between Black and Indigenous – in fact to even suggest as much is one of the most racist things you can say.
When punctuation matters.
Please place an Oxford comma after Isaac! 😀
The twelve tribes of Israel, also known as the Children of Israel, were literally Jacob’s children.
As a doctor*, I find that offensive.
*Essential criteria may vary
Perhaps heartless and less than world’s best practice, but I’d suggest that in a normal workplace, having been found comatose in the bosses’ office, naked and surrounded by Vodka-and-Roses vomit, Brinny would have very little control over the next steps.
Probably the most disturbing thing about the whole shock horror imbroglio is the startled-snail organizational response.
She was First Assistant Ministerial WhatsApp advisor and thus arguably sub-critical to the operation of Australia’s national defense. So, it’s a bit of a mystery why she wasn’t out of the door before the damp spot had dried.
Perhaps that’s just the way they roll in Canbra.
They are that.
I remember blogging several years ago about Ford’s policy of restricting her man-hatred to “white men.” She regards black and brown men as associate women. Or, to use the term preferred in the Old South, as “boys.”
She’s still doing it – as her pro-Hamas, pro-rape statement demonstrates.
Ford has a son – apparently conceived in the traditional manner, which beggars belief. The father is long gone but the boy remains a hostage.
Unanticipated Complications with mRNA Vaccine
The correlation occurs with Blak.
Hunter Biden indicted on federal tax charges
Good. Now bring it to GPs ticket clipping for drugs with no side effects unless you intentionally misuse them.
You should be able to get generic asthma drugs in a supermarket.
Matt Taibbi on the Class Privilege of ‘Anti Disinfo’ Enforcers
I don’t think she thought anything…it’s likely just a reaction to being put under some pressure that had paid off in the past. It’s instinctive.
The whole pattern from seeing Bruce marched out and her being next and therefore losing he “dream job” led to escalating and enhancing what happened. That led to lots of support and people paying attention and being nice while keeping the dream job.
The statements made in the compensation submission were exaggerations all made to enhance her story and accepted in toto by the govt. Fiona Brown will likely be able to refute them so hopefully she will give evidence.
It’s only now in the trial and this case that any pressure has been put on here account.
Why?
UN trolling Gazans with toy food.
Daily Mail.. Sort of puts Brittany in perspective, doesn’t it?
Nobody with a mere MB,BS. Is permitted to call themselves “Dr.” But they do.
Alex Jones was the canary in the coal mine. The first to warn and the first to be cancelled, just like Tommy Robinson in the U.K. It is amazing how many things he was actually right about. This is a long form interview.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 46 The Alex Jones Interview
She was First Assistant Ministerial WhatsApp advisor and thus arguably sub-critical to the operation of Australia’s national defense. So, it’s a bit of a mystery why she wasn’t out of the door before the damp spot had dried.
Perhaps that’s just the way they roll in Canbra.
Your explanation is the most likely course of events, Dr. Faustus.
Jenna Price had something else incorrect. She pointed out that Israel knew about the plans of Hamas a year ago and accused Netanyahu of it. Except a year ago was during the term of Bennett and Lapid. So Hamas started their plans and disgusting strategy of sexualy depraved torture, slaughter and hostage taking of infants and elderly when Netanyahu had been voted out. A week after he regained office in late December last year the protests and divisions against judicial reform began, most likely with intelligence and military heads keeping info from Netanyahu.
She finishes with this as though her hatred of one single Jew grants thousands the right for celebrations around the world for slaughter of Jews.
I find that extremely difficult to believe, rosie. Gaza must be running out of victimisation points to try that one on.
If they’re hungry, try the local Hamas grocery. By the look of the shopkeepers, its oozing high calorie edibles.
Clemydia is the j’ism equivalence of a shock-jock in its original sense – which is also the most coherent one: one who deliberately says what will shock the audience for brazenness and audacity. The more the outrageous, the better.
I would venture the number of people who have read her column will be 10% of the number who have heard her poisonous excretions, and the problem for Fauxfacts is that while her notoriety is proportionate to the number who quote her noxious eruptions, their profitability depends on those who read her in the paper or, rather, the even smaller number who pay for those papers.
I honestly do not think there are any right-wing ‘shock-jocks’. Guys like Alan Jones and even Ray Hadley do not make scandalously shocking pronouncements that make their audiences panic that perhaps they have gone too far. They base all their commentary on staid and widespread conservative ideas.
Conservatives do not crave titillation – they have contentment instead.
Hmm. You’re dead wrong. I can explain to you why you are wrong too.
The trial evidence (what the witnesses said under cross-examination strictly speaking) was laughable.
What was adduced by the witnesses was silly, inconsistent, dishonest and often irrelevant and Channel Nine bankrolled them. They had zero credibility.
Scathing comments were written at the time focusing on the high-level stupidity of the Channel Nine witnesses and accusers. For example: The Canuck soldier who heard something (in a helicopter, on a battlefield) but didn’t see anything. Hanifa and Shahzad were utterly incredible, having X-ray vision, seeing through trees and scrub, despite very poor eyesight.
As for the Brereton Report, IIRC, 11 years into this nonsense and the the AFP have made one set of formal charges against one soldier; awaiting trial, heavily surveilled for a very long time. They had hundreds of investigators and assisting solicitors to come up with these charges.
Ask yourself: if it takes 200+ investigative staff and a Supreme Court judge 11 years to come up with charges against one man; what validity do these charges have and what is the possibility of actually making a successful prosecution? Remember it was claimed the SAS had a terrible culture which contributed to this and war crimes were common. Thousands of men served in the SAS. They can’t even spend 20 million+ a year to prosecute one man and get anywhere, after 11+ years on the case!
Higgins will do the LLM and PhD. She will get an academic sinecure.
This is a marker!
Sorry if posted but barbed wire on a stick rammed up the sphincter or eye of penis will suit.
They are permitted to but, in Australian law, “Dr” is not a “protected title.” It is a courtesy title only. Only “medical practitioner” is a protected title, legally.
In September, “surgeon” was made a protected title in legislation in order to shut out ‘cosmetic’ and ‘aesthetic’ butchers of various kinds.
Can’t help but take joy in viewing the photo taken of those captured by the IDF.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/palestinian-men-stripped-as-they-surrender-to-israel-defence-forces-in-gaza/news-story/cc6a28eb1e40e09f5df7653cb50c721b
The importance of commas was driven home to me when I was teaching in Japan and, in a newspaper quiz in the Daily Mainichi (yes, it is a tautology), readers were asked to read the sentence
whether Jack was a noun, a pronoun, or a verb.
Even now I sometimes awake at night, shivering with cold on sweat soaked sheets, surrounded by darkness and silence that offers no refuge to hide, I remember the answer that got 34%.
They look quite comfortable squatting in their Friday prayer postures with their shoes off like a good Muslim in the Mosque.
I get it but the man boobs are disturbing.
Perhaps young wimmins need an escort (brother, uncle, reliable family member) when forced to enter work locations of known peril and temptation such as Parliament.
“Ray Hadley”
Further to Hadley, a mediocrity if ever there was one, and someone who’s long harboured a grudge against Alan Jones, it’s nice to see Brett Lee, James Packer and Margaret Cunneen speak up for Alan. Brett Lee today has described Jones as a “‘true gentleman”, something Hadley has never been and never will be.
They are permitted to but, in Australian law, “Dr” is not a “protected title.” It is a courtesy title only.
Yep I know academics that scam this all the time. They get a “Doctor of”, not a PhD, then have Dr prefix. Works around the world except when they hit Europe where the certification is actually checked and enforced. Just part of our corrupt education system.