Forgot to add, the SFL’s should hammer that at every opportunity.
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Probably depends on where the MJO is. BoM, as you might expect, has recently rejigged their website to make it…
I saw him speak. That was an excellent, common sensical and logical diatribe. Impressive.
Men are hard wired to want to have sex with as many women as possible for as long as they…
Former NSW Liberal politician David Elliot, tonight on Bolt, commenting on Slug’s weasel words today over legislating against Jew hatred…………
🙂 red face.
It was BOINC – Milky Way running flat out that was causing the issues.
As you were.
What Is the ‘Iron Beam?’ Israel’s Never-Before-Used Defense System: Report (20 Nov)
had a quite a few led lights going on a fade on and off blink like a capacitor has blown lately, was wondering the same thing.
Regarding Wilko’s insistence that she is not a cheap tabloid journo.
The Perject alumni includes Lehmo, Peter Helliar, Tommy Little and Dave Hughes.
It doesn’t scream heavyweight intellectual content to me.
And prior to that she played second banana to Karl Stefanovic.
That concludes the prosecution case, Yer ‘Onner.
Your taxes at work. Daily Telegraph:
The cancellation of a popular ABC panel show marks the latest costly move by the public broadcaster as redundancies top $20m.
The ABC announced on Tuesday that it would be axing The Drum after almost 15 years on the air, with the last show on Friday.
ABC News director Justin Stevens made the announcement in an email to staff and said the cancellation was a “difficult decision”.
The move is expected to result in job loses at a time when the public broadcaster’s redundancies have skyrocketed.
ABC’s annual report reveals it spent a whopping $21.3m on the separation and redundancy of staff during the 2023 financial year.
Comparatively, the embattled public broadcaster spent only $6.9mn on redundancies during the 2022 financial year.
While employee expenses, excluding superannuation benefits, rose generally from 2022 to 2023, redundancies grew significantly.
Salaries increased to $423m in 2023 compared with the $397m reported by the ABC five years prior.
The broadcaster in June announced it was axing up to 120 jobs and abolishing all state-based Sunday night bulletins.
The cancellation of The Drum also represents a wider pivot to digital content, where Mr Stevens said The Drum funding would go.
Last month, the ABC drew controversy after advertising a six-moth Sydney-based contract for a new digital content creator.
With a salary ranging from $93-114,000 a year, the role did not require media experience. Instead, applicants needed a social following.
Eligible applicants for the Creator Program were expected to have at least 10,000 followers on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube.
Alternatively, eligible candidates could have had a vertical video with more than 100,000 views to be considered “competitive”.
“We are after exciting content makers who have a passion for storytelling, arts, culture, music, science, sports and more,” the ABC said.
A clip posted to the ABC TikTok stated: “You’ll even have the chance to pitch to our TV and audio commissioning teams.”
The loss of the The Drum nonetheless represents an end of era for the broadcasters and the veteran staff who had been at the helm.
In the email, Mr Stevens said The Drum, which first aired in 2010, had been groundbreaking in its “championing diversity on air”
“(The Drum) lead the way in finding new voices and inspiring other ABC teams to follow suit,” Mr Stevens said.
“It did this at a time when it was relatively uncommon to see diverse talent in our news programming.
“So much of the program’s pioneering work has now become an expectation for all our teams.”
Co-hosts Julia Baird and Ellen Fanning will remain with the ABC in new roles, along with Dan Bourchier, who will join News Channel.
Baird, whose new role will include news writing as well as podcasting and video, said it had been an “honour” hosting the program.
“The Drum has been an incredibly rewarding opportunity,” Baird said.
“It’s allowed me to do what I love most – talking to fascinating, smart people about what’s going on in the world.”
The ABC are throwing the middle finger at ordinary Australia like confetti. Useless people.
Blockquote fail. But you know that
Reading “Grant – Soldier of Destiny ” – his landing in Confederate Mississippi on April 30th, 1863, after the Union fleet had run the Confederate guns at Vicksburg, was the largest amphibious campaign in United States history, until D-Day in June 1944. (Page 204.)
Via someone’s (sorry, cannot find it again) link above to the NY Times:
Really?
Serious question, because I’ve not read of ‘proportionality’ being explicitly defined, as I’m sure it would were the above bolded statement true. Unless, of course, the Times means ‘morality as defined by ourselves to suit our purposes.’
Am I missing something, or is the media trying to redefine (by consensus) the ‘legality’ of Israel’s actions?
Daily Mail.
Here in the federal electorate of Higgins, which used to be the bluest of blue ribbon Liberal seats, the useless, clueless and sopping wet SFL Katie Allen lost to the liars in 2022. Good riddance I thought. It was the first time the liars had ever held the seat and I suspect they only got there because the teals didn’t run. I had tried to discuss my concerns over energy policy both with Allen and her replacement on several occasions to no avail. Both of them are doctors and totally marinated in the ruinables kool aid.
Imagine my disgust yesterday when I saw a SFL campaign stand outside a shopping centre with signs proclaiming that Allen is still the candidate for the next election. Talk about an unflushable turd. Albo and the liars might be on the nose but a vote for Allen is a total waste. I and many others really don’t know who to vote for. A friend has taken to writing “No suitable candidate!” on the ballot paper and that will be the most attractive choice for many of us.
It would be great to see the current bunch of incompetents defeated at the next election but with candidates like Allen there’s no hope for the SFLs. They really are that stupid.
In the long term data yes. There’re some signals for the 11 year solar cycle, but they’re temporary. However the activity of the Sun goes through some long cycles. We’re at the peak of the latest 210 year de Vries cycle for example. And several reports suggest that the Sun has been at its most active for about 9,000 years.
The problem is if you have two datasets rising at the same time – CO2 and temperature, it’s easy to want to say there is a relationship. The wider data say no that’s not the case, but there’s also a correlation with climate scientist’s bank balances with the loudness of their CO2 screeching.
I like the Bruegel reference.
I can imagine a painting recalling the Elder’s Icarus, where filling up the foreground we have blue haired freaks with mutilated and re-mutilated genitals leading trains of children away, fat politicians lounging on piles of nondescript citizens circled by rings of journalists turned inwards and bowing down with streams of newspapers issuing from their anuses*, and bald-pated men in white coats reading from a book covered in alchemical symbols waving burst thermometers – and in the distance, unseen but clear for all to see, western civilisation crumbles and sinks into the sea.
I think some Hieronymus Bosch might have crept in there.
* See! That is why I do not slavishly use the pop-pluralisation of Latin that would have people render the plural of ‘anus’ as ‘ani’. The case above would have to be ablative, and the ablative singular would be ‘ano’ and plural ‘anis’. I doubt many self-styled clever clogs would have hit that.
One store I frequent have started charging me a fee if I use my debit card.
The first time they didn’t even forewarn me about the change in policy.
As a result, I now try to ensure I have enough cash on hand when I go there.
What the RBA boss is suggesting is a lose-lose situation for the customer.
Simon Birmingham dropped his balls? Daily Telegraph:
Start with putting the ‘protest’ leaders in the clink for a while because it is in support of actual genocide of Jewish people.
The old tradition of Labor for the wukkas and the Liberals for the toffs is still playing in some families, Tinta. But what a false tune it is these days.
Don’t forget to keep us all updated on your snapped Achilles tendon; I haven’t said here yet but will say now how impressed Hairy and I were a few weeks ago when we visited to see the panache with which you scooted around on that fine invention, your fancy new ‘knee scooter’. For any foot and some knee injuries it is so much more efficient and effective than rotten old crutches.
ML – Yes I probably was thinking of Bosch more than Bruegel, but I worked off of Dull Gret. You could have a lot of fun asking a shrink to analyse the painting.
Before the weekend thread finishes, and for latecomers, here it is again. It was briefly mentioned on Sky’s Late Debate this week. Wonder if Outsider’s have it, will watch tonight to see; been out till just now.
A very fine piece of satire indeed about Hamas. From Israeli TV.
Biting and truthful.
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny.
Aeronautical scientists had known for a long time where new Cessna 172s come from, but now for the first time the Cessna 172 mating dance has been photographed!
Isn’t nature amazing.
Hahaha. The ABC is spending $20 million+ on redundancies axing The Drum, boasting about the program’s ground-breaking “diversity”:
A couple of white chicks with all the compulsory quasi-religious animist beliefs (climate change, challenging the patriarchy via chicks with dicks, etc, etc).
I wonder how many years it will be before governments of every stripe can’t sell the idea of a billion dollars a year in funding when the ABC has no audience.
Mother Lode, takes me back to my first Latin class in 1954 at Penrith Highschool. On the board, the terms:
genitive = of
dative = to or for
ablative = by, with or from
I loved Latin. It all seemed to perfectly set out and logical.
Until it wasn’t. lol
Mossad is already briefing the hit teams…
Thought he was a corpulent ex divinity student.
Totally justified.
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Steve Inman:
Woman Uses A Brick To Defend Herself
I used to have that as a screen wallpaper at work. While everyone else had pictures of family, or bridges, or freeway interchanges that looked like they had been designed by Celtic Irish monks with waaay too much free time, I had Dull Gret.
I tried telling them it was my family, but I think most people thought it more likely a transport hub.
Mother Lode
Dec 17, 2023 1:38 PM
Luigi found the place furthest from Canbra but still in Australia to hide away.
The Margaret River region has some lovely reds apparently. However, if he really wanted to get away from it then he should have tried Christmas Island which is even further away from Canbrrrrrr. Very festive I hear.
Dave Hughes sounds like he should be on the NDIS with me. About as funny as herpes, even in Melbourne.
I personally was too well brought up, and have been to dietarily and hygienically fastidious, to have much use of the dative for my anus.
Accusative too, as it happens.
I am very disturbed by people who think they might need a locative though.
Not worthy of a Quentin Dumpster long goodbye. Off to Frank Elly Ultimo Purgatory.
Steve trickler
Dec 17, 2023 3:26 PM
Totally justified.
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Steve Inman:
Woman Uses A Brick To Defend Herself
It’s always good to have a house brick handy around the house. LOL.
That lady would make a damnfine Kitteh!
That cop has talent. COP that!
I love those sound effects.
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Steve Inman:
Cop Uses Jiu Jitsu to Arrest A Violent Thief
The Hamas big guys have mostly fled Qatar now, maybe to Turkey.
Dozen madda.
Anywhere in the world, you can always expect the MOSSAD.
I think in the US they are already in the process of banning Assault Bricks.
In NSW they are trawling for ‘reports’ and ‘studies’ representing ‘growing calls’ and ‘mounting pressure’ to requiring no one uses a brick without getting consent at each stage. The endgame is to create a new class of legislation to use against men because, as everyone knows, guys always think with their brick.
Golly gosh, some mad downticker objects to that satire of Hamas big guys.
Come on down, Lucifer, and tell us why.
Thought he was a corpulent ex divinity student.
sorry Frank- Gore started studying law but never finished. Just a wannabe lawyer.
“We are after exciting content makers who have a passion for storytelling,
Just get someone from any of the ABC News services as they can only do the storytelling instead of reporting any News.
More Western society is rooted manifestations:
Tristan Tate: J6 Protesters Should Have Just Had Anal Sex in Capitol Instead of Marching Around Waving Flags – Apparently That’s Perfectly Acceptable
Victor Reacts: Disgusting New Trend — Another School Board Official Sworn In on LGBTQ Books, Not the Bible (VIDEO)
Claims it wasnt reported on ABC Australia, but was on the US news.
Anyone confirm?
Another “dog that didnt bark in the night-time” from our ABCcess?
https://twitter.com/Theblackfemini3/status/1736150745056235682
Apologies, news item is Pallis being fast forwarded to Australia.
Anywhere in the world, you can always expect the MOSSAD.
Whereas, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj8n4MfhjUc
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Dec 17, 2023 3:11 PM
Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny.
Mossad is already briefing the hit teams…
Everybody keep an eye on your emails in case you get one saying your visa to QATAR has been approved…….
Mark Dice:
Shameless Plug Alert!
Khawaja 68 off 174 balls. Bill Lawry looks on approvingly.
From mole’s post.
400 hundred doctors in Melbourne signed up to give free health care for the Palestinian arrivals.
Can’t get a doctor in the bush for big pay and yet they would rather preen for Pallies than practice for us.
Pricks!
Just look at the doctors that have gone into politics (I mean actually stood for parliament). Exhibit A- Monique Ryan.
400 hundred doctors in Melbourne signed up to give free health care for the Palestinian arrivals.
I’m guessing the majority are musso quacks .. if the mosque imam sez, “freebie” then freebie it is …..
I know from living in Fairfield, NSW (musso enclave) that when a towel-head wants the “rorters” rather than the dole they go to the mosque and are directed to a musso quack who does the necessary paperwork .. which is why 98% of Fairfield “rorters” are far healthier than yer average ‘rorter” recipient ………….
This is stretching the “women are clueless naïfs who need a chaperone for their silly silly heads” to the extreme.
Lucky no blokes every get “entrapped” by ladies like this.
Im only going to cut a couple of bis out of this, the whole article is a masterpiece of mongdom.
‘Host clubs’ in Tokyo force women into sex work to pay off huge debts
A ‘vicious’ multibillion-yen system is pushing vulnerable young women who rack up extortionate bills into prostitution</em
Yuko’s 24-year-old daughter thought she had found the ideal partner when she matched with a man on a dating app three years ago. They were around the same age and both at university, where he was studying medicine.
The “match”, though, was the beginning of a nightmare that saw the young woman rack up debts of millions of yen at host clubs – money that she is paying back by dropping out of university and working in Japan’s commercial sex industry.
…
A pimp, she met a pimp, and now shes working for him.
….
Modelled on the hostess bars that came before them, host clubs offer women a place to drink expensive champagne and chat and flirt with young men hired for their looks and conversational ability. Sex is not on the menu, but it is not unusual for hosts and their customers to meet privately.
Hidemori Gen, who runs a drop-in centre in Kabukich?, has seen a dramatic rise in women who have been forced into sex work to pay their host club tabs.
…
In debt to a pimp/brothel. not a great plan.
….
Police in Tokyo say the proliferation of women soliciting on the street – once a rarity in Japan’s otherwise legal sex industry – is linked to the rise of ripoff host clubs. Between January and September, they arrested 80 women, aged between 20 and 46, near the park on suspicion of breaking anti-prostitution laws, compared with 51 arrests in the whole of 2022.
About 70% of the suspects were in their 20s, many unemployed or working in the f?zoku sector – establishments that offer everything from massages to oral sex. About 40% of the women said they were making money to visit host clubs or “concept cafes”.
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Prostitutes making money to visit their pimps..
…
“The clubs make so much money from this system they have no reason to change their ways,” said Yuko, whose daughter works at “soaplands” – expensive bathhouses where women provide soapy massages and sexual services – in Tokyo and other parts of the country, sometimes spending weeks away from home.
And she is still with the host to whom she owes money. “It’s not even a relationship,” said Yuko. “It’s a form of abuse. My daughter will never be able to repay her debts. I wonder if she will ever come home. But it’s not just her. So many women have been deceived.”
..
Its a pimp/ prossie relationship. Many such cases.
The Cruikshank has.
format fail…
Italics spill in aisle 8.
@ Bruce of Newcastle
..as to Old Mate Hieronymus … just gave us a Bird with five brush strokes… yup there is One and so much else besides . We at this point in time think we know it all …
Nobody expects the MOSSAD!
🙂
CI has some great fishing, it’s on my bucket list, Although i don’t see the luigi the fanged as a fisherman TBH, as burley sure. NADT
Tex is Oz’s Iggy Pop.
Golly I wish I had some photoshop-fu to change the red garments and broad brimmed hats into shawls and yarmulkes. Plus some of those nice curly sideburns!
I can picture it now.
If Hamas is allowed to survive, their web of terror will threaten us all
It’s not just Jews who are in grave danger when terror groups like Hamas grow in strength and number
ZOE STRIMPEL
Not long after the Hamas onslaught of October 7th when Israel was preparing the way for its ground invasion in Gaza with heavy air bombardment, the world was gearing up.
Not only for the ongoing mass rallies, poster and vandalism campaigns demonising and mocking Israel and Jews and praising Hamas either explicitly or in so many words, but with the more respectable arguments about how this is all a highly localised problem caused by “the occupation” of Palestinian land and general Israeli aggression.
I spoke to friends in Israel on the phone and they were uniformly horrified – and upset – by the coverage of events in the Anglosphere.
The stinging injustice of rampant anti-Israel bias and spiteful misrepresentation of the facts in outlets like the BBC, Sky and CBS appalled them.
But they were also shocked at the small-mindedness, the fundamental misunderstanding of the reality and the history by Western reporters and commentators.
“What they don’t seem to get is that Hamas isn’t just our problem,” said my friend Daniela, who lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and three children. “Say they destroy us. What then? They’ll set about destroying you.”
“Hamas is your problem too” has since been repeated by Netanyahu and taken up outside Israel too.
In Massachusetts last week visiting my parents, I saw billboards on the highway outside Boston with the same message.
But such an argument has carried little traction in a world dominated by media cultures that prefer to blame Israel for absolutely everything, even Hamas savagery; that legitimise by whatever means possible the harming and killing of Jews, and that exclude Jews from the rights and respect scrupulously policed where other minorities, such as trans people, are concerned.
As the ongoing scandal at elite US universities makes clear, the Diversity and Inclusion regime works to protect and excuse terrible behaviour from certain minorities and to foster a culture of menace towards the most harmed minority in Western history.
The wilful stupidity of the consensus that Hamas is Israel’s problem – which means Israel’s fault – and nothing to do with a sweeping and committed anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism was highlighted last week, when news emerged of a major Hamas plot to kill Jews in Europe.
News that went widely unreported all day by many of the world’s most prominent news outlets.
It was an extraordinary story.
Five people were arrested in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands on Thursday after police foiled a plot that was, in the words of the Danish prime minister, “as serious as it gets”. German prosecutors said the group had orders to bring weapons from a cache in Europe to Berlin with the express intent of attacking Jewish institutions.
Meanwhile, the Community Security Trust, the UK’s Jewish security advisory and analysis service, said that while there is no evidence yet that the plot has a British dimension, the implications were – obviously – sinister for Jews in Britain.
Contrary to what the Hamas-apologists claim, this has never just been about Israel.
Anti-Jewish fervour has always been central to the terror-based Palestinian “resistance struggle”.
Even if you choose to ignore the Holocaust-celebrating placards at post October 7 pro-Palestine protests, it is commonplace in such circles to refer to “Jew” interchangeably with “Zionist” – often as a kind of vermin who should be eradicated.
The news last week of Hamas expanding its operations to target Jews outside of Israel was only interesting in that it signalled a new global reach.
And that makes it interesting – and worrying. The underreporting of this expansion by newspapers – the Telegraph excluded – beggars belief.
Crucially, it’s not just Jews who are in grave danger when groups like Hamas grow in strength and number.
Anyone and everyone in the West are also targets, as Al-Qaeda showed on 9/11, the assorted jihadists who carried out 7/7, and the many dozens of Islamic terror attacks on the West since have shown. Israel is always the canary in the coal mine and the rest of the world ignores its perils and pain at its own risk.
The techniques of modern terrorism evolved from Palestinian attacks on Israel, from whence spread suicide bombing of civilians (begun in earnest on a bus in the Israeli city of Afua in 1994); axe and knife attacks in broad daylight on the street, and hitting civilians with cars or trucks.
All of these techniques have characterised Islamist terror attacks in Europe, the UK since and the US. Unchecked, they will evolve further.
Groups bent on destroying the West by murdering large numbers and keeping us in a state of fear learn much from the Palestinian “struggle”. Hamas may be only one of a large gang of jihadi terrorist groups now operating here, but their butchery in Israel, and wily fighting since, in tunnels and behind civilian shields, plus their advanced use of technology, will be closely studied – and copied.
Allowing Hamas to win will be terrible for Israel. But it will also be terrible for the world, as we will be forced to confront when the next plot isn’t foiled.
Or the Inquisition
https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/#introduction
@ Everyone … ABC ?
Tex: “I’m a Luddite”
“Back in the day I was stroogling to comprehend self defrosting fridges and pop up toasters, I tells ya”
Her time on the stand made Stefanovic look like he got a rough deal, imagine having to work with someone with that little self awareness every day.
Especially the ALPBC, Bolto.
Oh…great. Thanks Johnny Rotten for having a word banned. Try laying off the abuse.
And… I’ll try again.
There is an interesting correlation to the downticking, but you need to be able to spot it.
Boys close the gap on girls as single-sex schools outperform co-ed
Boys schools have achieved more top-tier marks in the HSC than at any time in the past five years, steadily catching up to their all-girls counterparts and recording higher student success rates across all sectors.
@Carpe Jugulum
you once stuck the boot into me … since you were in charge .. and since you are clever .. and arseless chaps and such .. a fine joke doesn’t outlive the party ..And You did Great humour .. and you must know when to wave good night to a dawn …
Not just get proper nasty like you did a lot longer ago …
Adolph Eichmann certainly didn’t, neither did one Ali Hassan Salameh – the {‘Red Prince” and chief planner for “Black September”,) but it took Mossad five goes to get him.
Drunken nights, nauseous seaplane ride: Influencers given $90,000 visit to Australia
A drunken night out with Danish backpackers, a meme about the southern hemisphere Christmas being sad, nausea after a seaplane ride: this is how the national tourism agency is trying to sell Australia as a holiday destination to Generation Z.
Tourism Australia has spent a total of around $90,000 hosting three social media influencers this month: US-based performer Chris Olsen (who has 13.9 million followers across his TikTok and Instagram accounts), UK-based performer Maddie Grace Jepson (1.7 million followers), and UK-based trainspotter Francis Bourgeois (5.3 million followers).
Have the Houthis declared war on the US? Good to know.
We know what Ronald Reagan’s response would be. The present incumbent will just roll over in his filth and fart.
@Carpe Jugulum
Dignity Sir !!
*It had to be snuck in, FFS … 😡
@ calli
1 … Yes they have …for all the good it might do them …
2. … Not quite sure why bodily fluids seem persuasive ?
Anyone seen this.
I appears it might be one of those rare unicorns.
An Australian film worth watching (if you like horror)
Talk to me
https://youtu.be/aLAKJu9aJys
Bourgeois by name, Bourgeois by nature.
Grate work, Tourism Veneztraliastan, you tax hoovering imbeciles.
Boys’ schools have achieved more top-tier marks in the HSC than at any time in the past five years
more focused on real/useful subjects?
In the early morning hours of December 16 (Sanna time) the US Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS CARNEY (DDG 64), operating in the Red Sea, successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
How many manned launch sites were destroyed?
After the rally and coffee with friends, I went into the office in the CBD to do some stuff. That was where I posted my earlier comment. This time of year is incredibly busy so spending two hours in the office has given me a head start this week. I begin my on Friday and it’s gonna be busy!
I left the office just after 3pm to walk to David Jones. I saw scum wearing kaffiyes. I then realised that there was another f*cking festival of Jew hatred in Sydney’s Hyde Park. I felt sick, every f*cking week, for ten weeks now, there has been a Jew hating festival in Sydney’s CBD. I then saw Nazi Palestinian flags everywhere. I walked into Westfield, and down to Peter Sheppard, where I bought a pair of very nice shoes, anything to distract me from the evil outside. These “festivals’ of Jew hatred are impacting business, it’s supposed to be Christmas but no, no, no, Palestinian and leftist Nazis have priority!
There is something seriously wrong with this city, this state, this country. Genocidal Jew hatred runs amok, but don’t worry Cassie, our NSWaffen Police and state government are “monitoring” the situation.
Golly gosh, some mad downticker objects to that satire of Hamas big guys.
Come on down, Lucifer, and tell us why
It’s one of monty or his lot who support the decapitation of kiddies. Yes monty, your lot.
The worst Defence Minister ever but maaaaate:
A top diplomat who cancelled Australia Day celebrations in London “because of the cost” is living in a mansion that has just undergone a taxpayer funded $670,000 renovation.
But Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK, Stephen Smith, has held just 30 events at Stoke Lodge in 2023, the official ambassador’s residence.
The manor is worth at least $100 million and is just a 10-minute walk from Kensington Palace and the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
Deputy High Commissioner Elisabeth Bowes, High Commissioner Stephen Smith, Hannah Bretherton, head of public diplomacy, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and partner Josie Haydon at Australia House in London. Picture: LinkedIn
His predecessor, George Brandis, held as many as 150 events a year at the home, which boasts a generous garden and is in the same street where Winston Churchill lived.
Herald-Sun
The flashy details you missed in Lisa Wilkinson’s power suit parade – and a nod to her proudest moment – as body language expert reveals how she’s REALLY feeling about the defamation trial
. Lisa Wilkinson is testifying at Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial
. The TV star is being sued over Brittany Higgins interview
Replicating Pants Suit Clinton
But for many observers, Wilkinson, and her parade of pantsuits and luxury accessories, was the star of the show, with the court’s Iivestream on YouTube peaking when the star was in the box at about 19,500 viewers.
Wilkinson’s personal barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC was always alongside her – shod in smart pairs of upmarket shoes by the Italian designer label Ferragamo – with the media-savvy pair smiling and looking upbeat as they mounted the steps at Queen’s Square.
Don’t know.
err, Cats – this will seem somewhat self indulgent, but last night at various times I did think of that monstrous outrage at the Bataclan in 2015.
Not to mention the self righteous reaction of the (surviving) hipsters afterwards – “But, we’re like totally with them, man…”
“Why would they attack us?”
Yes, well, why would they, indeed.
You obscenely decadent Western vegetables …
I know how y’all thought of the Bucha Massacre at the time … … any subsequent reflections?
Sounds like somewhere a Tory would live?
Let’s have some Cherry Cola, Cats!
Rock ‘n’ Roll! 🙂
Also the time the Russian “Air Assets” light up the Humanitarian Convoy fleeing Damascus… (hand wring) … you dont even have to have light a bunger as a 10 year old to know it was complete propaganda… the holes in those trucks were rust ..and being parked up … but we were supposed to be swayed by this nonsence.
Tyres on fire and BBC grave Voices …
Yes Rabz and the appeasement continues. Tony Burke most prominent.
I am not here to be combatative or nasty … just looking for the counterfactual .. Surely the Truth … elusive as it seems to be .. serves Us all better?
I mean who on earth sez they are proud of local councils putting up the Palli flag fer phuck sake after that atrocity?
My neighborhood is al pro pro Palli …and I wont go along with anything Truth hidden.. or , worse , bolstered up .. Hey Guys give me something to work with?
@Black Ball … well they do … this is the Real Polotic … we can pretend otherwise …but it just IS .. I wont fold …
@Black Ball .. full respect ..
Common sense. Would the Zionists in the 30s have accepted a British offer which excluded European Jews from emigrating to Israel? What makes you think this is a starter re Palestinians who might themselves have lived in those parts around 50 years ago?
The Swiftette V Miss Maggie Dodgers
The latter. Every Single Time … 🙂
Stephen Smith what’s wrong with Australia in 2 words.
Smith was born in Narrogin, Western Australia, and was educated at CBC Highgate, the University of Western Australia and the University of London, where he earned a master’s degree in law. He was a solicitor, lecturer and tutor before entering politics. He was Principal Private Secretary to the Western Australian Attorney-General, Joe Berinson 1983–87 and State Secretary of the Western Australian Labor Party 1987–90.[1] From 1990 to 1993 he was an adviser to Paul Keating, first when Keating was Treasurer, then when Keating was Prime Minister. He was instrumental in securing caucus support for Keating to defeat Bob Hawke for the Labor Party leadership in 1991 and thereby allowing Keating to ascend to the prime ministership.[2]
Old Mate down at the shops asked me how can you justify 20 k dead in Gaza … ?
Well I dont ..
But the Cat Nasties have already said I am some kinda Terrorist .. wearing a kaffir ? What ever that might be … ?
well this is how normal people learn what is what … and the way you people have treated me gives me something to go back to my Community with ..
Which is why leftards want single-sex boys (but not girls) schools abolished.
Rabz, that has been on my mind also these past few days. It starts slowly, in dibs and drabs, and then becomes an avalanche.
Cassie, my daughter expressed her fear a few days ago. She’s as tough as old boots but, in her words, Mum I’ve been getting fearful every time I hear a siren. Something in me makes me look around worrying about something horrible about to happen.
This is not normal. Sirens are part of inner city life.
I hate what Sydney has become. And I blame the State Government, the City of Sydney council and the NSW police. They disgust me.
I dont know .. I wasnt there ..I do know that we are being lied to relentlessly ..
Alls I can say, for sure is that it is beyond horrific . May the Almighty have Mercy ..
I wonder what Indians think of the warm, deep velvety walls of the Ben Stokes Lodge.
I hate what Sydney has become.
mainly due to aggressive multicultural policies from Canbra which no one voted for. What’s wrong with Australia? Exhibit two- canbra.
Do they have more male teachers?
@Black Ball … “decapitation of kiddies’” …due respect mate but it needs to be True for it to be horrified by … In War time everyone lies …
Evidence ?
So Shake your Rumpah … 🙂
I know, milton.
But the states also have agency over this. It’s all trickle down depravity and expediency.
It’s clear to me that we have reached the dreaded and oft cited demographic tipping point. Perhaps it’s our warm climate and kindly, open ways that have sped its growth.
How many before Hamas says that’s enough. We’re famous now. We made international headlines.
As a general statement, it’s fair. Proportionality is an element within the principle of double effect which is the basis for determining the morality or legality of acts that may harm a third party.
@ Black Ball .. not saying it didnt happen …but we dont know.. Respect ..
Write to the Elders of Zion to request a special gift wrapped video tape.
Noo Yoikers of the Hebrew Persuasion … 🙂
dates for terrorists
Kerry O’Keefe is wondering why only a small crowd has turned up in Perth to support the Australian cricket team.
Perhaps, Kerry, it has to do with the fact that Australian cricket’s millionaires are arrogant arseholes who look down on ordinary people and don’t think like them.
Kerry O’Keefe is a very funny fellah but, like the cricketers he admires, he lives in the upper echelon of Australian society and has no idea how real people with mortgages and the usual problems exist.
Serious question – has this proportionality thingumy been canvassed or discussed for numerous other conflicts? They say the first casualty of war is the truth. The first catch-phrase of every war involving is Israel is proportionality.
Dover, serious question.
How would you apply the “proportionality” rule when examining what happened on Oct 7. All of it.
Is there a point when the crime becomes so disgraceful, so contrary to any sense of morality, that the response is difficult to gauge in a tit for tat way?
Great conversation here. Good to hear these blokes just be honest.
You’ll see nothing like this on the MSM.
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@Katzenjammer ..
not my perview … I am no party to this conflict … But I did ask the locals such a question .. The local Pallis cant speak on behalf of Hamas … Just beacuse I am not screaming to “murder all Pallis” .. as would endear me to this discussion .. or else I wear a kaffir (what ever that is) and want to murder all Jews … which I dont but got told I did …
Gosh why should I have any opinions at all when you guys give me so much more interesting ones ?
Yes.
Good grief! Snap Katz!
I sense a disturbance in the Force.
But the states also have agency over this. It’s all trickle down depravity and expediency.
Agree-most of the political class jumped on board with muliticulti in the 70s & 80s- Wran, Greiner, Cain etc etc
It’s clear to me that we have reached the dreaded and oft cited demographic tipping point. Perhaps it’s our warm climate and kindly, open ways that have sped its growth. Hope not
err, Cats – poor ol’ Bolto is copping a flogging here – he is not the Boid, FFS.
He may be just as tiresome, but it’s all a bit wrong.
So, Kiss them for Me. 🙂
It’s like looking back at World War II and saying Jews were a Germany problem. It was just another local conflict.
Perhaps, Kerry, it has to do with the fact that Australian cricket’s millionaires are arrogant arseholes who look down on ordinary people and don’t think like them.
We were long term members of the SCG. But when the members stands had pokies installed and the grounds during test match intervals became carnival-like, we discontinued our membership. Further, we have never been fans of the short game, which now seemed to preoccupy the administration.
But I also think that the small Perth crowd is due to the massive changes in test cricket which has been inevitably affected by the short game – note, eg, the arrival of the “Bazball” in pommie cricket. Of course, not a lot is expected of the Pakkies, & this may be reflected in smaller crowds.
And the fans” disenchantment with our current array of past cheats, prima donnas etc? Well, that may be a factor as well. A pity, as the sublime long game will be the one most affected by these trends.
I do not.
It is still the beloved place of my birthplace, regardless. 🙂
Knock, knock.
Who’s there.
Followed by something worse than a punch line.
D’Overlord:
Is this in a domestic, civil sense, or warfare between nations?
I find Sydney neurotic and congested which is why I left.
True that.
But I’m not prepared to look away from the decline.
There’s plenty of reports on the internet from those who viewed first hand evidence recorded by Hamas. You can have an opinion. but stating there’s no evidence suggests you’re questioning it all, but with a pretence of disinterest. If you really want to know do some searches.
Serious question – has this proportionality thingumy been canvassed or discussed for numerous other conflicts?
Yes.
No doubt. But, as has been raised on this blog many times recently, it was not seriously canvassed when the end of WWII was heralded by the bombing of Dresden, & – the final solution – the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. And, if it was, it wasn’t considered of any relevance by those millions amongst the allied nations who had lost family & friends in that war.
@ Rabz .. THX Mate I may be tiresome and boring … but as we age, dont we all tip that way lest we are carelfull … even if we are … careful I mean .. boring I mean …
Get us all in the end Brother …
A little Siouxsie can give us a well deserved kick in the guts …
Still love regional NSW though
“WHAAM” 🙂
What has been decided for Russia and Ukraine. Have either of them reached the approved limit yet? Azerbaijan and Armenia – were they both within an approved limit? I can’t recall the numbers they were allotted.
Sydney is quite beautiful. Opera Bar on a Sunday is a good time to spend time.
Melbourne is a shell. Disgusting place and soulless.
Couple of the girls I knew at Uni went hostessing in Japan afterwards. They thought it was time to come home when naked Japanese men started appearing at the door on days off. Don’t think there was anything much to it back in the day.
Used to be the other way around BB. But yeah I generally stay away from the Melb CBD now. But places like Flagstaff and Carlton Gardens still capture the former majesty.
Someone get smitten?
Recognise that throwback of a page when refreshing from the days of Sinc’s blog…
We saw a lot of that just after 9/11.
People like Bandana Man apologising for whatever we might have done to drive the weird beards to do this.
Others were supremely confident that, if they were on one of the planes, they could have talked the nut-jobs down.
“I pressed the fire control …
… and ahead of me rockets blazed through the sky”
When did the West get so inexcusably soft, FFS?
As has been noted before – My ol’ mans’ generation would have swept the mohammadens aside like swatting a fly.
We have let them down.
Inexcusably so.
Common practice. I can’t turn up in London and claim citizenship based on the wife of my Polish convict ancestor residing there until the 1850s. I can’t claim Polish citizenship after my family ceaed to exist there three generations ago. Israel made it’s own citizenship rules as an exception to normal international practice for well known reasons. No other country has taken it up as a precedent. It’s an exception.
Evidence ?
Piss off you incoherent grub.
The crowds each day of the test would have filled up the WACA. Looks empty because Optus Stadium is four times bigger. Your theory will be tested on Boxing Day.
There were a couple of good rooftop bars when I was there. Leave ground level for the tourists. Riverland Bar next to Fed Sq was nice enough if not too crowded, although the Yarra R is no Sydney Harbour.
Anyone and everyone in the West are also targets, as Al-Qaeda showed on 9/11, the assorted jihadists who carried out 7/7, and the many dozens of Islamic terror attacks on the West since have shown. Israel is always the canary in the coal mine and the rest of the world ignores its perils and pain at its own risk.
This is a site which lists muzzie terrorist attacks:
https://markhumphrys.com/islamic.attacks.west.html
Here is another site:
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
The sheer blindness of Western leaders who promote islam is astounding. The left have designated islam as a victim and therefore all it’s evil must be ignored. Islam plays to this victimhood while simultaneously committing atrocities and enclaving.
2024 will be interesting: blackouts are inevitable but so are muzzie attacks with the sheer number of pallis and sundry fuktards being brought in by albo and his fellow quislings. I wonder which will occur first.
@ Katzenjammer ..
I am not saying that I am disinterested. I canvass many commentaries and this is just one … That I chose not to share my views with you people arises from the way I have had horrible and extreme views attributed to me …
Look at it from My Perspective ? ..I have been told I approve of Hamas” loping the heads off babies” ..and was pilloried for it … when I never said such a thing .
But the very fact that you people did that to me is a data point in itself …
Douglas Murray delivers chilling warning for ‘lamentable’ Australian government
… an irredeemable imbecile.
Depends. Deal in reality and not hypotheticals.
You mean non starter?
Let’s double back a little. You’re in the Putin camp or at least a supporter of the invasion.
How was that a “just war” while this one in the opinion you’ve expressed isn’t so much?
Well, thanks for that, Dougee – we Ozzies are perfectly capable of delivering such a warning ourselves, thanks, Squire.
Which we will, next Feral Election.
… not as funny as he thinks he is. Always a problem … but luckily there is an Off button.
Would the Palestine “problem” even exist if not funded by the UN?
Cassie, my daughter expressed her fear a few days ago. She’s as tough as old boots but, in her words, Mum I’ve been getting fearful every time I hear a siren. Something in me makes me look around worrying about something horrible about to happen.
This is not normal. Sirens are part of inner city life.”
She is not alone, it is also how I feel, and many others. I’m also tough, but now I’m feeling very apprehensive, and this apprehensiveness is overwhelming.
I cannot describe to you the contempt and loathing I now feel for the left, for our police, for Sleazy, for Wong, for Minns and his fools, for the STC actors, for the “activist” journalists that now infest our MSM……and on and on it goes.
Please excuse involved people from reacting emotionally. Is there really a need to say that to an intelligent adult.
The internet can answer your question about evidence without anyone here interfering with your very own research.
People like ourselves, we have no place to go …
Any way this is more boring than you people usually are …
Enjoying “Ivanhoe” The Serial … from about 40 some years ago … still about people killing each other for fun … and everyone wind up worse off … Nothing has changed but at least then the Actors could speak nicely ..
There is No Zero Sum Game …
Peace…
On their graves have we rested;
leaned against the headstone
for comfort. Threw off
our shoes
as the soil beneath
settled. Cursed the
lack of ‘modern’
amenities in this place;
why should we visit when
it was clearly not
designed for us?
And created by British perfidity. That was the term in the Mandate period – “perfidity”.
The British tried just that after the Second World Aar.
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Here is a Palace Chook I can heartily approve!
Bless the little rooster and all who worship under him.
Don’t feel obliged to be here.
No, really, it is not compulsory.
@ Katzenjammer ..No … “Please excuse involved people from reacting emotionally.” … That isnt what happened .. Not so gentle and High school debate… you people Blood liable me … as me wanting to to Kill Jews … which I never did … but the folks in this closet found it agreeavble to thier conversation to find it so …
and then pretend you didnt ..
there is a certain resonance with ” He cries out in pain as he strikes you ” I see it and draw no conclusion …
This is what I was here to discover and I did .
The Israelis are making reasonable efforts to minimise collateral damage.
Not good enough for the UN but good enough for me.
Stu with vague terms like proportionality.
Hi Lizzie, thanks I haven’t really commented much about my injury, thanks for asking and sorry about this long update.
I have now graduated from the knee walker to one crutch and the Moonboot at 3 — I must say that I have not been in any pain at all, what with the pain-relief after the surgery which went very well, I was well-looked after at the hospital haven’t had any pain relief since leaving hospital. The surgeon was most pleased with the healing and now it’ll be recovery and rehab.
I confess to being very very apprehensive and anxious because I’ve never had an injury of any kind and while all is going well I’m always afraid I’ll something to stuff up the recovery. Graduated down to No 2 in the Moonboot last weekend with a further graduation down to No 1 on Christmas Eve and a couple of weeks later down to zero and a change of sole but still in the Moonboot for quite some time. I’m going up and down stairs quite well, am starting to get back to doing some normal housework including doing some cooking which I love to do.
A very inconvenient and nasty injury from which it will take a long time to recover – Christmas is very different this year and the worst of it is that I have not been able to spend time with my disabled son, his expectation would be to be at home but sadly it just can’t be. He is handling it well with the support workers doing a social story showing him photos of me in hospital with my Moonboot, and he understands about hospitals having been admitted many times over the years.
Climbing step ladders and the like will be out for quite some time and being vertically challenged as I am, that makes life difficult in the kitchen and there are also no Christmas decorations up at all for the same reason, everything is stored high up in the garage.
Lastly, no matter how old you are, always listen to your Guardian angel.
After the treatment of Jews as different foreigners by fascist antisemitic governments of Europe, the left has taken up the role of defenders of the next wave of different foreigners – Muslims.
In other words, with support and defence from the left, Muslims dine out on the shirt tails of Jews. It’s part of the left’s war against their perception of the far right.
Cairns Airport closed again, Barron R broken banks and inside the precinct. Flights being diverted to Townsville & Darwin by the looks.
Fair bit of footage online of the flooding north of the city. Fark I was there just over a week ago and recognise some of the areas.
Footage around of Barron Gorge thundering. Kuranda had 510mm yesterday and was nearly at 200mm before the BOM has deep sixed that weather station. Myola feeding the Barron R yesterday 516mm and today at 486mm.
Any spare thought you have please give them to the north tropical coast in the next 24h.
FMD again the pharmaceutical benefits are kicking in.
One of the Greatest Womanages in Human History, peoples.
A li’l tower of strength. 🙂
The Left are arseholes. The end.
I don’t think I’ve ever responded to any of your comments before about ten minutes ago, but I usually notice ideas more than names. Who is “you people”?
Good Folks .. and i am sure you mostly are … dont just scroll on this becuse I didnt write it …
It is well worth imbibing ..
Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling
1897
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart:
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
Far-called, our navies melt away;
On dune and headland sinks the fire:
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law—
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word—
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
Peace ..
Oct 7, or any preceding act, is irrelevant. What is in consideration is whether particular military objective is itself good (and not itself evil), whether all reasonable measures are taken to avoid incidental harm to civilian life, and that any harm to civilian life not be excessive when compared to the military objective itself.
Both.
@ Katzenjammer likely unfair to land that at your door … and No you didnt … my bad..
But Cats … on this discussion board did so .. Quite shocking …
Peace Brother
When the West decided that it could afford to fight wars without the luxury of actually winning them.
So call it 1945.
Re 1, it was; re 2, I will let that go to the keeper.
But why would a purported Palestinian State themselves exclude Palestinians residing abroad let alone accept that as a condition of statehood?
Proportionally the civilian to combatant casualty toll in Gaza is significantly lower than in in any other recent conflict, at around 2 to 1, iirc the nearest is 5 to 1 in Afghanistan.
And despite the dense population of Gaza compared to so many other conflict zones.
Richard Kemp discussed this in the last couple of days.
I’ll see if I can find it.
I was going to say “Nobody expects the Mossad assassination!”
But I needed something else to follow it up with.
Like, do they have nice red uniforms?
Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, most definitely.
They do NOT have a fanatical devotion to the Pope. But Pepe memes are still a possibility.
Thank you Dover.
It isn’t irrelevant to me.
Maybe Bill Maher doesn’t understand an important point. This is not a conflict with displaced persons like others. If Israel exists then the Allah of Islam is not the most superior. Israel’s existence dishonours Allah. The Jewish state is a disgrace for Islam.
The resulting ratio of roughly two Gazan civilian deaths for every one Hamas combatant killed would also compare favorably to other recent urban combat actions by Western armies. The Battle of Mosul against ISIS saw 9,000 to 11,000 civilian deaths, about three to four times the number of combatants killed. Richard Kemp, the retired colonel who commanded British Forces in Afghanistan, recently noted that allied forces there killed between three and five civilians for every one combatant
Re 1, it was; re 2, I will let that go to the keeper.
DB, I think you are obstinately nit-picking. Yes, of course, the decision to use a weapon of mass destruction was raised at the time. But my point was that it was not as divisive an issue as the Gazan destruction is today. There were not mass demonstrations amongst Allied nations, for example.
And the keeper is pleased to accept the second point. It is the bleeding obvious.
rosie
Dec 17, 2023 6:59 PM
Thank you, Rosie. Says it all.
Are you serious? You’re asking me to explain why a hypothetical wasn’t realistic (Palestinians accepting statehood that excludes Palestinians currently outside of those territories from emigrating) by asking with me to deal with reality and not hypothetical?
No, obviously.
Palestinians could decide that if they wanted, but your argument that the practice of one country is a necessary precedent for another doeesn’t hold.
The flaw in this is that Palestinians have made it clear they refuse to accept statehood as something Israel permits. They won’t accept anything unless they have ripped it against the will of Israel. So the idea “accept that as a condition of statehood” is a non starter.
Perhaps not a reasonable comparison, but it’s interesting that ‘proportionality’ didn’t seem to come up too often – in public, anyway – during the Burn, Loot and Murder spree of 2020.
How many of those who actively participated in the above, were actual ‘combatants’ (had ‘standing’)?
Serious? No, I’m kidding. Of course I’m serious because you’re coming up with a hypotheticals about what would have happened if the British refused to concede. We don’t know because it’s dependent on host of things such as the determination on both sides. You’re presenting very theoretical examples that don’t exist in the real world still living with the law of might-makes-right. It seems to escape you.
Thinking about Israels proposed laser defence system.
It would be a nice touch if every time it charged up it caused a brownout in Gazaland.
Ten more outrageously dumb Darwin Award Winners….
Know how there are certain personalised numberplates which you arent allowed to get because they might be offensive….
Try this one for size.
https://twitter.com/AustralianJA/status/1736260671879495928
Of the wrong/right sort.
I’m thinking the ones you’d happily dash yourself upon some rocks to get to.
Sydney is still heavily blessed with them.
As I pointed out to my Pakistani Uber driver last evening – “check out that brunette* bit o’ that, I tells ya!” 🙂
His response (without missing a beat) “this is when the accidents happen”.
*Ample boosage (barely) clad in a bikini top, for goodness’ sake … 🙂
We should welcome innovative solutions.
The passing yesterday of Colin Burgess, AC/DC’s first drummer (before he got fired for being pissed on stage 😀 ) gives an excuse for some Oz music ancient history:
The Masters Apprentices – Elevator Driver (1968)
I never got into TMA, you can hear and see the prog rock influence. I think that style didn’t really take here, we rapidly progressed from prog to Skyhooks and Acca Dacca.
Oh Rabz I am blushing — you are a sweetie.
Oh and yay Goat just got his 500th. And 501st too! Listen to an old music track and history passes you by.
Well done that offie!
“Final solution” – where have I heard that before?
Kerry is no fool.
CA flunkies normally talk up crowds, even taking very tight shots of the Members to exaggerate attendance.
Those with TV rights are totally all-in on talking crowds up.
KOK is on radio.
I think he was concern trolling CA.
EV fire in NZ
From a cool channel dedicated to exposing EV insanity.