Note the use of the word “victim” as a synonym for “complainant”.Par for the course I’m afraid. Both prejudicial and…
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Heh. That was amusing. Thanks.
Moved out of Perth, nearly twenty five years ago..
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Why aren’t these people labelled as ‘alleged’ victims?
When a Polish destroyer charged the Bismarck.
Merry Christmas Cats.
From the resident hound, the Dorpers and the (newly anointed) broad brimmed Akubra wearer, and country gentleman, Pedro the Loafer..
Bah humbug for the merry season with tinsel and snow men.
Christmas time is here, by golly
Disapproval would be folly
Deck the halls with hunks of holly
Fill the cup and don’t say when
Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens
Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens
Even though the prospect sickens
Brother, here we go again
On Christmas Day you can’t get sore
Your fellow man you must adore
There’s time to rob him all the more
The other three hundred and sixty-four
Relations, sparing no expense, ‘ll
Send some useless old utensil
Or a matching pen and pencil
(“Just the thing I need, how nice!”)
It doesn’t matter how sincere it is
Nor how heart felt the spirit
Sentiment will not endear it
What’s important is the price
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings
Advertising wondrous things
God rest ye merry merchants
May ye make the Yuletide pay
Angels we have heard on high
Tell us to go out and – buy!
So let the raucous sleigh-bells jingle
Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle
Driving his reindeer across the sky
Don’t stand underneath when they fly by
Johannes Leak. Brilliant.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
David Pope.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom.
The mad downticker is up early.
Rafiki
He already lost his job in disgrace so I doubt his career prospects were on his mind – just staying out of jail.
And whist he might be ignorant enough to overlook the possibility of forensic evidence his lawyer wouldn’t have. He would have made it very clear to Bruce that his “no sex happened” approach was suicide if it did indeed happen.
I agree with the rest of what you wrote.
“It may be argued old mate was such an idiot he basically acted like the dumbest criminal evah, despite the carefully crafted narrative of Higgins being gainsaid by the security guard in the civil trial, a plot to hatch a sex scandal beforehand (and stolen designer jacket) and Higgins’ reluctance to volunteer any biological evidence on her own without consulting with Sharaz (which evidently, she destroyed otherwise) let alone her reluctance to hand over communications and digital evidence such as two scrubbed phones and her evasiveness and deceit over medical appointments, per the Moller memo & not reporting anything before workshopping it with Wilkinson & Sharaz, constructing a non existent conspiracy and shopping stories to the media before the police.”
Brucie intended to give Britnah a good seeing to but she konked out on the couch before he could sample the goods.
The rest is arse saving woven around a very mundane event in a truly weird work place.
Leaks cartoon as Tom says is outstanding.
Albo would be wishing there is a gulag he could fill.
TAIPAN CHOPPERS PULLED APART TO BE BURIED AS
LANDFILL
CHARLES MIRANDA
Defence is reportedly dismantling its maligned grounded fleet of Army MRH-90 Taipan helicopters worth $900m and burying components on a defence site as landfill.
According to respected military industry trade magazine the Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (APDR) the decision was taken “in secret” to destroy the Army’s 45 multi-role helicopters rather than sell them.
This was despite the 10-tonne carbon fibre aircraft being worth at least $20m each on the secondhand market, where they remain in operation in 14 other countries.
The APDR claims some of the more expensive components, such as the gear boxes, are being offered gratis to New Zealand.
But all 45 of the helicopters are currently being disassembled by technicians, possibly in Townsville, which will take several months, and next year buried in a large defence site somewhere.
Defence Minister Richard Marles has been approached for comment as has the Defence Department which confirmed it was preparing a response.
Mr Marles would not expand on the issue but on Friday said: “We are looking at all the options available for maximising the value which sits within the Taipan fleet”.
The decision to destroy rather than sell was apparently made in September, around the time they were earmarked for service retirement, following the crash of one in July during the Talisman Sabre exercise off the coast of Queensland which killed four defence personnel.
The fleet was grounded after the crash, the latest in a series of incidents, and was scrapped from service 14 years ahead of schedule.
That crash followed a Taipan ditching earlier in the year in seas off Jervis Bay.
There is some speculation that both incidents involved human operator error rather than mechanical and were linked.
Defence has consistently not commented on the causes.
I do vollunteer work in the Imaging Section at the Australian Army Flying Museum workshop at Oakey. We have more than enough work scanning and restoring photos to keep us occupied full time for the next fifty years, but at one to two days a week, it will take us ‘a bit longer.’
On cleanup day (13 Dec) at the museum workshop at Oakey prior to shutting down over Christmas and New Year, I took the $4,000 museum camera and wandered down to the hangar to take some pics of the museum’s two demilitarised and decomissioned MRH90s.
I got to the hangar thinking I’ll be there by myself, take photos, get inside the aircraft and take more pics. But no, there were two women and a bloke being briefed on the MRH90 by an Australian Aerospace pilot who trained ADF pilots on the type and our Worshop Manager, an ex Blackhawk loadie who is now a WO1 reservist.
I found out afterwards that one of the women was the Inspector General and two of her underlings who were taking notes and pics as part of the investigation into the last MRH90 accident and fatalities.
It is a bit of a read, but I will put this here is interested (eye watering for the Aussie Pesos involed) :
Multi-Role Helicopter Program
PUBLISHED
Wednesday 25 June 2014
Curses.
Forgot to say
TAIPAN CHOPPERS PULLED APART TO BE BURIED AS
LANDFILL
CHARLES MIRANDA
is in today’s Tele.
Well we do tend to follow the US about a decade behind.
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Gay sex in the Senate and Admirals having orgies. No wonder the US is such a mess.
Sick headline from the ABC:
I don’t think there’s any doubt whatever about Hamas committing war crimes. Oh and when you click on the article Hamas magically vanishes and the headline morphs to:
A few token mentions of Hamas bad, but predictably most of it is directed at Israel. The whole slaughter and rape of Israeli civilians comes in briefly at the very end of the section on the rules of war.
(Reproduced in full)
Cassie of Sydney
We need to have a very close look at the sympathies of the people we have working in ASIO.
They seem to be working at cross purposes to the Nations interests.
JohnH,
the link you posted to the Piorun was brilliant. What a great find. The narrator alone is worth listening to. He really knows how to tell the story in a way that grabs you and holds you.
I hope the Poles remember their crazy-brave spirit in these dark times for Poland. Still, Poland does have a habit of self inflicted wounds.
Today’s Tele:
8000 HAMAS FIGHTERS KILLED
Gaza: The Israel Defence Force claims it has killed 8000 Hamas terrorists since it launched its offensive in retaliation to the October 7 attacks.
IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said more than 2000 terrorists had been eliminated since the temporary ceasefire ended on December 1, with the IDF having no plans of slowing down their attacks.
“We have increased the number of troops fighting in east Khan Younis, and we are fighting there with determination, with five infantry brigades, and combat engineers, with an emphasis on the underground fighting,” Rear Admiral Hagari said.
It comes as the IDF revealed it had demolished a major Hamas tunnel network under Gaza City’s Palestine Square it claimed was connected to the homes, office and hideouts of senior Hamas officials, including Yahya Sinwar and Muhmmad Deif.
Rear Admiral Hagari also warned of increasing military activity in Israel’s north with Hezbollah turning “southern Lebanon into a combat zone and continues to endanger the future of the entire state of Lebanon for Hamas and Iran.”
“We will continue to work to distance Hezbollah from the border,” he said.
The sole remaining hospital in northern Gaza is “now minimally functional”, according to The World Health Organisation. Aid workers who visited Al-Ahli and Al-Shifa hospitals during a rare humanitarian mission to deliver supplies said the system was “on its knees” and the emergencydepartment inside one hospital was facing a “bloodbath”.
“They struggled to describe the immense impact recent attacks have had on these health facilities,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs took part in the mission.
At Al-Ahli, the aid workers found rows of dead bodies lined up outside the hospital, while severely injured civilians writhed in pain on the floor and the pews of the chapel inside of it.
Meanwhile, as the fears mount for fate of more than 100 Israelis still being held hostage by Hamas, the man who was involved in the negotiating the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, said Israel must offer Hamas a “deal on the table they can’t refuse”.
“We should start taking them seriously. They’ve been saying for three weeks that they’re not prepared to hold negotiations until the fighting ends,” Gershon Baskin said.
“The only way to break them is to place a deal on the table that they cannot refuse,” Ms Baskin told Israel’s Channel 12.
“Everyone is talking about how an all-for-all deal is the only way to bring the hostages home. I assume Israel is not prepared to make such a deal.
“Therefore, it must present a different deal, at least one that can free the women, children, elderly and sick people who remain,” Mr Baskin said.
“Israel should present to Hamas a long list of terrorists that it is prepared to release and publicise it to apply pressure on Hamas, with Palestinians in (Israel’s) prisons, in Gaza and in the West Bank leaning on Hamas to make a deal.”
That Justice Lee allowed the Lehrmann trial to be televised provided entertainment and told a lot about the vagaries of fact-finding, case theories, and how generally barristers and judges behave, there is one respect in which televising is to be deprecated.
Shiraz was again lined up for criticism and now ridicule at the hands of the judge and barristers. He could have given evidence (and his failure to do so might be taken by Lee J to count against Ten and Wilkinson), but this failure might not have been his choice.
In the last days of the trial, 3 other non- witnesses suffered from being named and shamed. Fiona Brown was led to declaring that Liberal politicians Reynolds and Hawke engaged in covering their backs rather than focussing on Higgins. They had no opportunity to rebut this reputation damaging allegation. And it appears to be irrelevant to the facts in dispute.
And at the end both Chrysanthou and Lee J put Lehrmann’s at-the-time girlfriend in the picture by speculating that he had cheated on her. She may well be deeply hurt by this.
When a trial is heard in open but in real time not televised, the reputation of a maligned person can be protected. The judge can order that the relevant part if the transcript not be made public, and order all present in court not to reveal what they heard. (This was done by an AAT tribunal after a witness gave evidence that a named Commonwealth Minister had thrown a stapler at her head.)
Generally, televised trials by courts, and moreso by ICAC-type bodies, should not be televised.
We also heard from Lee J that notwithstanding its imperfections, our mode of trial is the best in the world. It’s a constant refrain, made however in ignorance of how some European systems operate without juries, with trained judges, and judicial control over police investigation. The role of the jury must in particular be questioned, for reasons obvious to laypeople.
This is from the old thread last night.
Funny, my chemist did the same thing with my prescription. Maybe if the doctors were allowed to prescribe the antivirals during the wave of infections two years ago they wouldn’t be left over and there wouldn’t have been so many deaths. But then again, those were required to excuse the lockdowns.
Ya gotta believe the old saying .. SCUM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP ..
Terrorists getting, the usual, preferential treatment …… pay no taxes, contribute nuttin’ but .. HEY! .. let’s give ’em the services the “mugs” have to qualify for …….!
Next up it’ll be Luigi giving ’em “lounge around” money from “his” OPM largesse ……..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/victoria-to-offer-free-healthcare-to-those-who-have-fled-israel-gaza-war/ar-AA1lTZkx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8119626ed7d44270abdb7773b837fd3c&ei=41
The revival of an ancient calumny
Melanie Phillips – Dec 22, 2023
In response to the genocidal Hamas agenda, churches have turned on its Jewish victims
Brucie intended to give Britnah a good seeing to but she konked out on the couch before he could sample the goods.
The rest is arse saving woven around a very mundane event in a truly weird work place
That pretty much sums up my opinion too. Pretty sure the visit to PH had the intention of “hide the sausage”.
Ole Bruce either had the droop or she was too legless to spread ’em so he got the shits and went home to face the music of the girlfriend’s repeated phone calls.
She might have been juiced up, ditched the frock, had a Chrissie Amphlett moment then flaked.
Then came the embarrassment of sunrise and guilt “what the fark have I done!”
Desperate to save her job the lightbulb sexual assualt thought then developed into the #metoo rope idea.
Then off we go.
Human Rights Watch alleges Israel is breaching the rules of war in Gaza
When does “terrorist” eradication become “war” with, I assume, Geneva Convention style “rules” for one side only …….!
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/human-rights-watch-alleges-israel-is-breaching-the-rules-of-war-in-gaza-what-are-they/ar-AA1lUNEW?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=8119626ed7d44270abdb7773b837fd3c&ei=51
Vikki Campion in today’s Saturday Tele:
Higgins test for NACC
VIKKI CAMPION
23 Dec 2023
For all the attention Brittany Higgins has copped over her $2.445m payment, she didn’t write the cheque herself.
So far, questions have been asked only of the person who received the money, not the person who authorised it.
Meanwhile the National Anti- Corruption Commission kicked off with 180 staff and $33.2m in July, and has more than $300m and another 100 staff on the way.
It was billed as a “national anticorruption commission with teeth”, but we are about to find out whether it has ferocious incisors or dentures in a glass beside the bed.
Its purview is to investigate the conduct of any person that adversely affects a public official’s honest or impartial exercise of powers or performance of official duties; conduct of a public official that involves a breach of public trust; conduct of a public official that involves abuse of office; and conduct of a public official involving the misuse of documents or information they have gained in their capacity as a public official; it’s like this sordid saga was made to order for the NACC.
What matters in Lehrmann’s defamation case is not three competing egos, but the debunking of myths, only surfacing because of the staffers’ separate addictions to proving their victimhood.
Higgins received $1.48m for lost earning capacity, being unable to work again for 40 years.
While having this apparent impairment, she has been able to address rallies, deliver speeches outside the courtroom, to the National Press Club televised on ABC, keep a high-profile social media presence, be awarded a $300,000 book deal, an ANU fellowship and UN trips to Geneva.
Thanks to the Federal Court this week, we know the CCTV was never denied to police as part of some cover-up conspiracy that was, Justice Lee said, a “complete red herring”.
The office was cleaned, not because of a rape allegation that did not eventuate until days later, but because a naked staffer was sleeping on the minister’s couch.
The Prime Minister’s Office was not ruthlessly vilifying Higgins.
Phone calls played to the court – recorded by Higgins to back up her case of sinister play – instead showed her minister boss Michaelia Cash and chief of staff genuinely trying to help.
They were supporting her if she went to police.
She wasn’t unfairly dismissed, or sacked, she quit.
The money wasn’t for lack of process, it wasn’t for alleged rape, but $400,000 for hurt, distress and humiliation suffered by Higgins.
Most people, if they are humiliated and shunned, avoid the public spotlight. She made herself the centre of it, from The Project all the way to business class in matching white outfits with her mother and fiance.
It was $1.48m to cover lost earning capacity, but she got a book deal immediately.
Surely those responsible for the assessment of the claim would ask the question of what income was coming her way? Those funds, which presumably paid for her fiance’s Burberry coats, business class tickets to Europe, holidays to the Maldives and a French country home, raise questions about public trust in our institutions.
Lehrmann might have shown himself to be a deluded liar in these proceedings, but the evidence around him has exposed the question, was this a payment by the current government for services rendered to impugn the former? Was the government party to weaponising untested and unproven
allegations? Higgins’ early draft of her book presents situations that no one has ever corroborated, and even she has stepped away from.
According to the draft, a wound on her leg was seeping blood.
Photographs of the bruise, on appearances more synonymous with falling up the stairs, did not appear at any stage to be an open wound.
Is this the information that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher used as the basis for her claim? What was driving them to make such a massive payout? Now that they are aware of contradictory information, we have not heard one utterance from them that they were misled or misinformed, which may suggest the facts had little to do with the number on the cheque.
The chasm between the Fiona Brown and Higgins accounts is damning. Especially when Brown deliberately refused the order of the then Special Minister of State and her minister so that Higgins had the autonomy to choose to go to police herself.
If the NACC properly investigates the case, it will be forced to investigate the same minister who birthed it into life, who also signed off on the unprecedented $2.445m payment after a few hours of mediation.
Pork barrelling was put deliberately within the NACC’s remit, allowing investigation of unwarranted payment of taxpayers’ money for the predominant purpose of soliciting votes.
Evidence put to Justice Lee opens so many questions. Why were Ms Brown and other staffers named in the deed denied the opportunity to provide the alternative version in a mediation where they were accused of victimising Higgins, when the evidence provided to the court shows they championed on her behalf? Which minister directed that this mediation occur without an investigation or corroboration? And importantly, why? Since so much importance is placed on education within the NACC, what will be put in place to ensure that people in the future making claims of being unable to work again will not be given incentives to lie? As a regular person, the government can’t wait to take money if you make an honest mistake.
If, as a working parent, you fail to correctly predict how much money you will earn (easy to do for casual workers and sole traders), the government forces you to pay back every cent of miscalculated childcare subsidy. If you underestimate your earnings, you have to pay the extra tax. The taxpayer has paid you money you are not entitled to.
So what is the difference here? This is not magic money; it’s taxpayers’ money.
The NACC has no time to dither.
It’s been in operation for six months, will have 260 staff over the next two years, and $328.8m of federal funds on the way.
You can’t make a first impression twice. How the NACC approaches this issue will determine how people view it from this point forward.
Here’s the thing. Will Ch 10 sue Wilkinson?
I’m sorry, when did she say this?
Gershon Baskin – quoted in Beertruk’s Tele post.
The great predictor.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-714946
There is never a legally valid impediment to inform the police or DPP about a serious indictable offence.
The reportage on this saga has been woeful.
Gotta laff at all the furore over Knickerless conning the “mug” taxpayers out of $3 million when you take into account how much OPM gummint ministers get to give away with no accountability .. Then, of course, these same ministers are all on $350K + freebies a year for doing “jobs” without any qualifications involved ……..
we is talking $billions wasted yet the excitement is all over $3 million ………! FFS! ..
And a fairly good chance that Mlle ‘Iggins went along for the ride.
The Albanese government wants to destroy free speech with this bill
FRIGHTENING TRUTH: Airborne mRNA Vaccines are being created that can be delivered straight into the Lungs without the need for Injection
The line run by the two defence lawyers that sex must have happened otherwise why were they there relies on the defamation part being the sex. Even if there was sex, the key evidence of the video throws serious doubt on it being non consensual and proves a total lie that Lehrmann plied her with too much alcohol, guided her into the office and brutally raped her. He left her for dead, she had to gather her shoes and run after him. Hardly a hopelessly drunk person being herded into a situation where she could be brutally assaulted.
Combined with all the other behaviour of destroying evidence, delaying going to the police, wiping phones, going to the then opposition to peddle the story, going to the media in front of the police, it sure looks more like Lehrmann is the victim here.
I’m quite astonished at youth culture as demonstrated in the video I have seen of Higgins and Lehrmann at the pub. He never touched her, she touched his arm once. Going into Parliament, he was also entirely distant. Unless there was some verbal interaction, I saw nothing to outwardly show that they were interested in each other in a flirty kind of way. So to think that once they were in a room together they would proceed to throw their clothes off and dance seems to me to be quite improbable. We didn’t do it that way in my youth, there was lots of getting to know you first. How times change.
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Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel enables aid to Gazan civilians. Hamas blocks it.
Hillary Clinton uses meeting with hostage families to slam Netanyahu: Report
Oh Dot, that made me laugh!
I’m still keen to understand how and when chubby Dave came into Britnah’s orbit – has it been outlined anywhere?
100% accurate. The hypocrisy is beyond belief.
Meme
Oops. Unintended consequences. From Gateway Pundit
“Send Them All Back…Trump, Get in Here and Clean This Mess Up!” – Chicago Activist Mugged by Reality EXPLODES on Corrupt Chicago City Council for Coddling Illegals and Seemingly Endorses Trump
Interesting quote from A Bug’s Life.
Biden dined, telephoned, emailed Hunter’s cash cronies
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Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
People used to be suspicious of debt. Now the whole economy is based on it. Stephanie Pomboy knows that’s about to come crashing down.
Facebook, Instagram’s encrypted tech let ‘millions of pedophiles target kids’: Ex-Meta workers
Electric Cars Expected to Cause Christmas Chaos on Roads
Barking Toad
Dec 23, 2023 7:51 AM
Ole Bruce either had the droop or she was too legless to spread ’em so he got the shits and went home to face the music of the girlfriend’s repeated phone calls.
Quite.
Not being a lawyer, I don’t know what Whybrow might know but isn’t going to say at the trial ie. how deep the rules of legal privilege are, and how they might be used to obfuscate facts under oath.
For.. does anyone seriously believe that he hadn’t probed Brucie about what the fat moron actually did in PH over those 40-odd minutes?
Demanding the actual truth?
Brucie’s story is so obtuse and unbelievable that it beggars belief that Whybrow would have accepted it, as presented before Lee, as a prima facie reasonable representation of fact.
Then proceeding to represent the oaf as an, albeit imperfect, paragon of damaged virtue.
Whybrow provided no hints at his closing submission, sticking to defending the obviously improbable and most-likely-patently false.
I suspect Lee just played along, but will punish this clear insult to anyone’s intelligence.
Dithering? Dithering???
The NACC has been out of the blocks like Usain Bolt.
And then there’s the 2000+ referrals that had to be triaged (1790 binned because they were obvious bullshit).
Miss Higgins case needs to proceed through the pending triage, active triage, and assessment stages, before being considered for preliminary investigation – and thereafter, if necessary, investigation.
Festina lente is the motto: with absolute confidentiality. Anything else “may compromise operational activities or unfairly impact reputations.”
Even though there may not yet have been an actual determination of corruption, we’re getting plenty for our $32 million worth of Top Men.
Plenty.
And a Big First Impression.
Very big.
No lawyers do not probe for the truth, in fact as officers of the court they are very careful to avoid hearing anything from clients that might be different to the evidence they give in court.
The legal system isn’t a search for truth.
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The Great Escape, starring Kathy Hochul
Vigilant Fox: Tucker Carlson Issues Major Warning on What the Establishment Has in Store for Trump
Noice. Yesterday was one of those stinkin hot days with high humidity, at 8pm last night was 28 deg with 90% humid. Storms everywhere but here yesterday arvo, collapse as they came off the ranges.
Around 5am the rumbles started, then the rain about an hour later. Weather stations closing in on 100mm.
Even in El Nino years regular as clockwork, opening electrical storms for the wet season about a week before Christmas…
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Melanie Philips herself regurgitates a lie, soviet propaganda that has been amplified too often
Does she not ask herself why the chief Rabbi of Rome converted to Christianity after world war 2 or what Golda Meir had to say?
It is most unfortunate that Gazan Catholics assumed that the IDF was responsible for the deaths of two Catholic women.
1. At a budgeted cost of $4.013 billion, the Multi?Role Helicopter (MRH90) Program is to acquire 47 helicopters and their support system for the Australian Defence Force (ADF).
Thanks Beertruk, how Canberra Bureaucrats aided by Incompetent Australian Politicians of both sides Labor/Liberals/Greens waste Australian Taxpayers Money
I have downloaded 232 page PDF for Light Christmas reading
https://www.anao.gov.au/sites/default/files/AuditReport_2013-2014_52.pdf
Beertruk
Dec 23, 2023 6:49 AM
TAIPAN CHOPPERS PULLED APART TO BE BURIED AS
LANDFILL
CHARLES MIRANDA
Defence is reportedly dismantling its maligned grounded fleet of Army MRH-90 Taipan helicopters worth $900m and burying components on a defence site as landfill.
According to respected military industry trade magazine the Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (APDR) the decision was taken “in secret” to destroy the Army’s 45 multi-role helicopters rather than sell them.
This was despite the 10-tonne carbon fibre aircraft being worth at least $20m each on the secondhand market, where they remain in operation in 14 other countries.
The APDR claims some of the more expensive components, such as the gear boxes, are being offered gratis to New Zealand.
But all 45 of the helicopters are currently being disassembled by technicians, possibly in Townsville, which will take several months, and next year buried in a large defence site somewhere.
Defence Minister Richard Marles has been approached for comment as has the Defence Department which confirmed it was preparing a response.
Mr Marles would not expand on the issue but on Friday said: “We are looking at all the options available for maximising the value which sits within the Taipan fleet”.
The decision to destroy rather than sell was apparently made in September, around the time they were earmarked for service retirement, following the crash of one in July during the Talisman Sabre exercise off the coast of Queensland which killed four defence personnel.
The fleet was grounded after the crash, the latest in a series of incidents, and was scrapped from service 14 years ahead of schedule.
That crash followed a Taipan ditching earlier in the year in seas off Jervis Bay.
There is some speculation that both incidents involved human operator error rather than mechanical and were linked.
and sadly it isn’t impossible that Gazan Christians aren’t involved with Hamas.
Israel Finally FOUND Main Pro-Iranian Base! H@maz Lost Its Last Street There! – 3 mins ago
Anyone not questioning the role of the jury in delivering justice in a complicated world has never been in a jury room. ‘The jury rarely gets it wrong’ tops out as a support for judges without the forensic inclination of a Lee.
Without knowing Higgins had not been medically examined, scrubbed her phones or washed her dress, Bruce was shooting the moon with a “no sex at all” strategy. The only “evidence” as such was a metadata redacted screenshot of a photo of a bruise which cannot be proven to be contemporaneous. This reeks of photocopying something several times until the original fingerprints & document provenance can no longer be seen or proven.
I think there is a gentleman’s agreement on illicit drug use in Parliament House but also in the professional classes generally in Australia. We’re actually a bit casual towards cocaine. Don’t ask, don’t tell. Remember when the NSW DPP solicitor was charged with cocaine possession? Party on back in the House, dudes! Mind you I have no solid proof and only really suspicion.
I think it was entirely relevant.
Hoggins claimed that Reynolds and others prevented her from making a complaint. Here we have Brown refuting that in the best way possible. Not that they blocked reporting. Not even that they were passively indifferent. But that they were pushing to report with or without Britnah’s consent.
It is utterly preposterous to suggest that politicians would go out on a limb to save the skin of a junior staffer who they had already fired.
The Vatican in WWII hid many Jews as “priests and nuns” and indirectly plotted to kill Hitler when he was eventually viewed as an existential threat to mankind.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/33363/the-astonishing-secret-history-of-the-pope-who-fought-hitler
“Hitler’s Pope!” my foot.
If anyone thinks the Vatican worked with the SS:
The forgotten issue with brittleknees is the craven capitulation of scomo and his feckless band of gonadless idiots. More than anything else the brittleknees saga put paid to scomo’s government of fools. The involvement of Gallagher, Wong and others in making this a political issue has all but been ignored.
It’s illustrative of a Canberra culture of profligacy with the public purse.
And it’s in the news, unlike most of what is wasted.
For example, how much do we pay for SBS to run a news channel that literally nobody watches (i.e. it repeatedly returns ratings of 0.0% of the audience)?
Small beer, perhaps, but you have to start somewhere and SBS is an obvious one.
Btw, I’ll happily volunteer for the razor gang.
Daily Mail.
Which would be illegal (criminal) in itself and untrue.
The following is twisted and deceitful:
What a disgusting litany of bullshit. The last comment is then INGSOC’ed until it “proves” that Reynolds “prevented” Higgins from making a criminal complaint.
Terry McCrann yesterday:
As I have said previously, Chris Bowen is the most destructive dickhead in Parliament. How he rationalises his decisions is beyond any normal thought.
Lattouf has filed an unfair dismissal claim against the ABC with FWC.
A true gentleman, indeed.
Merry Christmas, Pedro.
I recently read that two new coal fired power plants come online in China every week.
Lattouf has filed an unfair dismissal claim against the ABC with FWC.
But of course she has. Unemployable outside of the ABC bubble unless she stars in raunchy porn videos. Reality is slapping her right between the eyes.
This hopeless political hack Burgess, who is actually a geeky techno warrior, has stated our biggest threat isn’t the hundreds of thousands Chinese in our midst, the myriad ME types here following that cursed violent cult and supporting terrorism. No, it’s those terrible throngs of “Far Right” militants rampaging across Australia. As useless as their Govt mates in the BOM.
A bad jury compromises one trial, most often in the lower courts.
A bad judge, hundreds. All the way to the High Court.
Not called in this trial were Sharaz and Gallagher, I’m guessing a Reynolds action would call them both. Neither strikes me a someone who would blink an eye at being an untruthful witness, however, there is enough truth out there already that should have both of them very worried.
There’s plenty of blame to go around; the entire Cabinet signs off on the policies.
Pol Tot “opens up”:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-wants-to-save-world-and-crush-zionism-too
Her ultimate “stock in trade”?
GENOCIDE
I read that even prior to the war the Catholic Church had ‘signed’ concordats with Nazi Germany. This has often been held up as proof that the Church was cooperating with the Bazis.
In fact the Church was under no illusion that the Nazis would defecate on the agreements when they wished – but these formal agreements would give the Church some bases to voice grievances and to protest actions – some small control in the face of the coming onslaught.
The Nazis had all the Catholics in Germany as hostages. And the number would increase as Hitler armies marched outwards.
Peer reviewed study finds potential integration of Pfizer Covid vaccine protein spike sequence with human DNA in subjects suffering “long covid.”
Even though there may not yet have been an actual determination of corruption, we’re getting plenty for our $32 million worth of Top Men.
Why do I feel that the NAAC will be more like an RC .. only following thru on the “cases” that can be whitewashing …
1st rule of governance .. neve , ever set up a”body” you can’t control ……..!
How many of those involved in the ROBODEBT “recommendations” have fronted courts ..?
Thanks for the link Rosie – ostensibly happenstance then.
Steeped in the ABC monotone mental milieu, she will have had absolutely no idea that the excrement that flowed out of her mouth was in any way disputed.
How could she be fired for merely stating what is ‘commonly’ held fact?
Not sure if peer reviewed Roger but Tim Blair touches on some comedy gold from Sally McManus earlier this year:
Good Lord.
Bowen is the quintessential ‘out of uni into politics’ parliamentarian. His whole life has been about the mechanics of gaining and retaining political power – with only the shallowest flapping in the Canbra puddle of economic productivity.
Net Zero and all the consequences that go with it is simply an avenue of political advantage for Shitweasel.
Obviously, he personally has zero domain knowledge to guide his thinking. However he and his advisors are buttressed by institutional climateers (BOM and every university), renewables spruikers (CSIRO – plus the public teat corporates), and masters of the universe who think that they can decree market outcomes (AEMO, etc).
And supported in the rear by the selection box of expensive climate insanity going on in the distant western world.
His rationalisation is ‘I have a big cudgel with which to beat the Opposition and parry the Greens and get re-elected on’.
The fact that ‘his’ Australia has pushed aside the warning signs and is headed down a path not travelled by any other developed economy does not figure in his rationalisation.
And while he mounts up parliamentary political points, he will continue to be supported by Handsome Boy’s failing government.
Power outage here in Kerang as we speak. Speak of Bowen, and he shall appear lol. I’m off for a stiff drink
– when Warragamba Dam is near capacity, why doesn’t Syd Water suspend billing and ask people to turn on all their taps to take it down a bit before more rain comes?”
Thinking on Sydney Water after my recent billing problem with them .. a question I’ve never heard asked by the media .. or anyone else..!
“How did the Obeid family get overall control of a gummint (vote-herd) utility whilst “Eddy” was in NSW Parliament”? …….
I recollect that the Obeid’s shunted “Arfur” Sinodinos into the GM’s chair but when asked at an RC “Arfur” couldn’t recall what he did for his $250K salary …..
Haha, The Babylon Bee has found Bluey. Be fun if they read up on blue heelers. Border collies would be nice also, so many many human sheep out there to herd these days.
Meanwhile, we have a Premier in QLD who seems to think that accelerating the “decarbonisation” of our state power grid will stop cyclones/floods in FNQ.
Who Is Sara Biden? Joe’s In-Law Emerges as Central Figure in Foreign Cash Deals
By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigations
Trouble has followed Sara Catherine Jones since she married into the Biden family almost three decades ago.
Not long after her 1995 wedding to Jim Biden, she took a job with one of his brother Joe’s Senate donors, who later accused her of “fraud” and “unjust enrichment,” according to court records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations. In the years since, she and her husband have been accused of reneging on debts and failing to pay their taxes, court and property records show.
Like their nephew, first son Hunter Biden, they have reportedly sold the promise of access to their powerful relative to companies, several of which have gone bankrupt, some of which are tied to foreign countries hostile to the United States.
Now, Sara Jones Biden has emerged as a key figure in the mushrooming Biden foreign influence-peddling scandal.
GOP lawmakers seek to question the 64-year-old licensed attorney as part of their investigation of President Biden for possible impeachable offenses, including bribery.
They are especially interested in subpoenaed bank records that include almost a quarter million dollars in checks Sara Biden wrote to her brother-in-law Joe, conspicuously marking them as “loan repayment.”
Republicans want to ask her about the origin of those loans and whether checks “were funded by Biden influence-peddling schemes with China.”
“The Committees require you to provide details of these payments and other related matters,” the chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees said in a joint letter they sent to her last month demanding she make herself available for a transcribed interview.
In addition, they sent a subpoena to her husband for testimony and information.
Although Hunter and Jim Biden’s questionable business dealings – and their possible blessing from the president – are drawing increasing scrutiny, Sara Biden has drawn little attention until now.
But court records and other documents show she has been a central player in the Biden family business for decades.
They show how her and her husband’s desire for a lifestyle they could not quite afford has repeatedly led them to form relationships with shady figures and enterprises that often ended in lawsuits and even criminal investigations.
Looming over it all is Joe Biden.
The cheating and gaming is going to be epic;
https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1738155954506535302
Been at ED Canberra Hospital since 7 this morning. Intense pain in my knee. Found nothing wrong. Along from me is 2 plod with a prisoner being attended to. One of the plod is an obvious lezzo so fat if the prisoner walked away she could not keep up. How do these blob plods pass physical tests? Are they diversity picks to make up the numbers?
Just waiting for the meeja exclusives of Britnaaah and new Bruce wearing matching clobber in the garden of their French getaway.
Don’t think the pirate’s missus will get a guernsey for this gig.
Modern version of a ball and chain – just attach her to the prisoner with a wire lanyard and he ain’t going anywhere fast.
More likely sitting in front of the fire with matching Christmas sweaters at this time of year (even in the south of France).
Laser Pig is one of the most eccentric, knowledgeable, and interesting military historians on the internet. Unfortunately he doesn’t post much. His “singing” at the end of some videos is hilarious.
Are they diversity picks to make up the numbers?
You’ve answered the question GreyRanga.
Knee pain – gout. Get into some Indocid – but take with a hamburger otherwise rips ya guts out.
You can bet your bottom dollar it’s “predictive”.
Here Are The Lessons The Obamas Don’t Want You Taking Away From ‘Leave The World Behind’
“Climate change” is a deception designed to fool dumb (or very young) people. What if the people pushing it are as dumb as the people they’re trying to deceive?
Queensland’s new Boy Premier certainly looks and sounds like the dumbest muppet to have risen to the top of state politics anywhere in Australia since federation.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
TC Shorts: Julian Assange
The Left has gone insane, full rubber-room level.
A black-centric publication compares gay sex in a Senate chamber to…Anne Frank (22 Dec)
by Andrea Widburg
Here it’s been eye-opening to see all the local Hamas-lovers putting Aboriginal flags on their genocidal marching signs. A tell, and one which says a lot about what would’ve happened if the Voice got up.
When did the Cat become The Kangaroo Court? How long have I been asleep?
The calumniation of Pius XII is the equivalent of a blood libel.
Melanie Philips ought to to be ashamed of herself.
It’s not working. More and more PoC are working out that the left is simply making use of their misery for their elitist ends.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1738048169395540375
Blacks in the Bronx;
https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1737965528067498106
As much as I like Luigi the Unbelievable as a great name for PM, “HandsomeBoy” takes the cake.
Interesting that early on he switched factions from right to left because the Right didn’t regard him as a viable candidate.
Yes. Yes they are.
BT I’ve got a knee replacement. The pain came on 0-9 in 15 minutes. They thought a ligament strain but I’d done nothing to cause it. Anyway home now and only nearly died 5 times with wife(worlds worst) driving.
The recruiting guys were able to tick three boxes when signed her up.
Female
Lesbian
Disabled
“How do these blob plods pass physical tests? Are they diversity picks to make up the numbers?”
I mean why would you want to employ a healthy white heterosexual? That is so yesterday and old school.
Rockdoctor:
Around 5am the rumbles started, then the rain about an hour later. Weather stations closing in on 100mm.
D-Town’s closing in on its third month running with less than half of last year’s rain. It is humid – that time of the year when the grass and plants go berko not from the perpendicular wet stuff, but from the water content in the air.
It is moist. Moist, I say!
As I have said previously, Chris Bowen is the most destructive dickhead in Parliament. How he rationalises his decisions is beyond any normal thought.
Yes universities have a lot to answer for. They incubate and cosset this toxic trash.
Stupid blockquotes.
Presently working in the NT , but home for Christmas. I have to say I’m noting the friendliness and easy going nature of the Territorians I’ve met so far. Wonderful bunch. And Nat King Cole’s sublime Christmas tunes filling the house. A very nice Christmas ahead. Enjoy, Cats.
Has the Hamas leader called Albo “handsome boy” yet?
Then we will know he has achieved statesmen like status.
Anyway home now and only nearly died 5 times with wife(worlds worst) driving
On the flight back to D-Town yesterday there was a moment of panic.
Strapped into the seat, cabin doors locked and armed and pushing back, I was advised via the PA that the captain’s name was Emma. Filled with quiet dread, I awaited developments.
Fortunately there was no requirement to indicate nor parallel park during the flight, so I got away with it.
Stupid, stupid blockquotes.
I see Blowjob has been polluting our shores. Speaking at the Menzies Institute with Scummo and Howard in attendance. Still beating the drum for net zero and the youcrane. FMD.
Nick Cater called his speech “Churchillian” simply because he called out antisemitism.
Not forgot by me.
He would have enjoyed a lot of support if he had simply repeated over and over …
“This is a serious claim which is in dispute. It should be dealt with by the criminal justice system without being impeded by outside commentary. And that is especially true of those holding political office to reinforce the principal of separation of powers.”
And, if that didn’t work, call up Bill Shorten and give him 24 hours to back you up or it is on.
Gawd
Many, many loud guffaws this morning, KD — in spite of the Mad Downticker (h/t Beaugy). Ta.
Lee has already made that point.
That such behaviour would not be merely shifty office politics. It would be criminal.
Which elevates the burden of proof on Ten and the Toad. The more serious the allegation the higher the bar to avoid a judgement against them.
Not explicitly, but she said she (Brown) resisted a push from Hawke and Reynolds to report it whether Hoggins approved or not.
Perversely, that sits more readily with Toad’s assertion that she “knows how politics works”.
It is far more likely that politicians would push Lehrmann (who they had already fired) under a bus to clear the air politically than go out on a limb to cover for him.
“Not forgot by me.
He would have enjoyed a lot of support if he had simply repeated over and over …
“This is a serious claim which is in dispute. It should be dealt with by the criminal justice system without being impeded by outside commentary. And that is especially true of those holding political office to reinforce the principal of separation of powers.”
And, if that didn’t work, call up Bill Shorten and give him 24 hours to back you up or it is on.”
I have said exactly this from the beginning. It should have been gloves off by the Coalition, the stench of a political hit job was obvious from the beginning. Instead the inept Scumbag, always eager to fellate his ideological enemies, bumbled, stumbled and crumbled, culminating in the outrageous “apology in parliament”, where Hoggins wore virginal white.
The whole thing was a f*cking joke, and Labor laughed all the way to an election win.
I think Scummo from Marketing was trying to pump up his own wymmens credentials with that pathetically idiotic brainfart. And yes, sealed his own demise.
Certainly will need a few fires going.
Chateau ’Iggins looks quite far from the luxe accommodation the media has been squarking about.
My baby sis and her husband used to live in something similar in the same area. It needed constant heating in winter to keep the damp under control.
My experience of contested leagal matters has thankfully been limited to commercial contractual disputes and incidental contact with Family Law and no exposure to tawdry defamation actions.
Riddle me this.
I would have thought the truth defence rests not on what Lee can extract with pliers under threat of perjury, but what Ten could have known at the time of broadcast (i.e. an unsubstantiated claim with zero corroboration) and more importantly, their non existent efforts to forensically examine the account of their “star witness”. Furthermore, in terms of the cover-up claim, Ten deliberately ignored strong counter-assertions from the Gummint.
Sanchez
The Briginshaw principle which you cite is relevant only insofar as the allegations against Lehrmann (and not Reynolds) are concerned.
All Brown should have said was that Reynolds and Hawke wanted her to go the police. The arse-covering comment was gratuitous. (And one can see why she made it. She was treated very shabbily by Morrison et al. A bit if payback here.)
Unfortunately, the behaviour of Morrison, and then of Gallagher and Wong, was not relevant to whether Lehrmann raped Higgins. Morrison’s response opened the door for the two Mean Girls, as a threadster noted above. All one can hope is that an MP will elevate their bum from the plush seat and under privilege and rip into all these disgraceful bunch. Malcolm Roberts maybe?
Morrison & Co. were on the nose anyway. which I think explains why he fudged the response. One can easily imagine the advisers saying, “The polling shows we have a problem with women*; we need to handle this carefully.”
(And this is why we now have airhead numerology adherent Sussan “Islam is a peaceful religion” Ley as deputy Liberal leader.)
* when they had problems across the board due to their ineptitude and cowardice
PS I think Whybrow has won his chambers buzz-word bingo by managing to weave “the vibe” into his summation.
He loses some points for immediately apologising for using the term, but well done, sir!
A pretty safe assumption given that Lehrmann went uncovered under a rush hour of busses (including one driven by Scummo that reversed over him a few times). Lehrmann was roadkill well before Brinny discovered she’d been a victim.
Three time loser Tim Wilson again being put up by the SFLs for heavily Jewish Federal electorate of Goldstein.
Has made no widely reported public statements on the current conflict.
Talks of being humbled by recent election loss.
Will be humbled again.
Rafiki.
Lee has already clearly delineated this matter into:-
1. The rape allegation; and
2. The cover-up allegation.
The latter has effectively imploded during these proceedings, which explains why Ms Crysanthou went hard on “truth” in her summation.
The cover up allegation was lying mortally wounded in no-man’s land last weekend.
On Monday Brown came out of the trenches and put it out of it’s misery with the bayonet.
Her testimony about Reynolds and Hawke killed the cover-up and “roadblock” allegations stone dead.
Sounds like gout GreyRanga.
Bloody awful.
Three time loser Tim Wilson again being put up by the SFLs for heavily Jewish Federal electorate of Goldstein.
Has made no widely reported public statements on the current conflict.
Talks of being humbled by recent election loss.
Will be humbled again.
And a transexual in Fraudenburg’s old seat. What planet are these people on? FMD.
Dr F at 12:05.
Yeah, the heating.
Whatevs.
You’ve missed the most obvious sign that you are living in third world conditions.
That is, the phrase “baguette vending machine”.
I cannot believe the French allow such an abomination to survive.
Please Explain, Christmas Special.
Transylvania. Ha ha!
Milt
I know him. Tim’s actually a decent dude. He’s only lost once from what I recall. He will speak out.
There was a strong feeling that there was Chinese influence in the electorate.
That one is incredible.
Dr Faustus
Dec 23, 2023 12:05 PM
Which one is it, the top one or the one below?
If the top one, then they have been had.
I can’t recall who said this, but was told that the worst area of litigation is construction contracts. One party automatically defaults on the contract as soon as it’s signed.
It All Depends on the Military
QUESTION: Do you think we will enter a civil war?
FD
ANSWER: “I do not think that we will be in civil war, but we do have to understand if any state tries to secede, it could turn to violence based on precedent. Everything will depend on the military. If they turn on the people, then yes. If they support the people, it can be a bloodless event like Yeltsin standing on the tank in 1991.
The computer shows that the nation is deeply divided, and we will see civil unrest post-2024 because this is spinning out of control. The Democrats are not unified, and neither are the Republicans, for that matter. We need reform, and that is what Washington is fighting against. The party is over. They have to realize it is time to clean the garbage in DC. This whole nonsense with Trump is trying to block him to maintain the status quo. It only divides the country.
Our future will be determined by the military, as in just about every situation throughout history.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/it-all-depends-on-the-military/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
I had the same view about the vending machine, but they are genuine local boulangerie baked loaves delivered to the machines each morning.
I imagine that you miss out on the irresistible warm aroma that results in your baguette being half consumed during the walk home from the boulangerie.
What if Sharaz becomes relentlessly self-improving, sets up an LLC in Belgium; buys the village Boulangerie and holidays in Rangoon? Did he invent the question mark? Will he find chesnuts; and if the ground they lay upon is devoid of truffles, are those chesnuts lazy? What if he’s converted to Zoroastrianism by a priest called Vilma?
They don’t want the Teal seats back.
US problems:
Many of these judges around the country (including Colorado)…just like the leaders of the Democrat party around the country…are evil. They are radical communists. They hate America, American exceptionalism, capitalism and God. They’re trying to intentionally divide and destroy this country. They want to create crisis and force a civil war.
Many of these judges around the country (including Colorado)…just like the leaders of the Democrat party around the country…are mentally-ill with “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They see Trump and they cannot help themselves. They act irrational and delusional. They throw “the rule of law” and U.S. Constitution out the window in order to stop Trump.
Many of these judges around the country (including Colorado)…just like the leaders of the Democrat party around the country…are corrupt, compromised and dirty. Just like Joe Biden (and his boss Obama), they are bribed and owned by China, the Chinese Communist Party, the Mexican Drug Cartels, George Soros, Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum, and other assorted powerful globalist interests (like the UN and WHO) who hate America and want to destroy us. They are desperate to cling to power and finish the job of destroying America. Only Trump stands in the way.
Many of these judges around the country (including Colorado)…just like the leaders of the Democrat party around the country…are perverts, pedophiles and sexual deviants. They’ve either visited Jeffrey Epstein’s pervert island, or they’re bribed, blackmailed and owned by people who have. They can’t afford to allow Trump to retake power, or they’ll all hang for their crimes.
Because almost every politician, leader and judge in the Democrat Party is owned by either China, or the Mexican Drug Cartels…they need to keep the border open at all costs. They make billions in bribes, kickbacks and “finders fees” for allowing human trafficking, drug trafficking, fentanyl trafficking, pedophilia and terrorism through the wide-open border. They can’t afford to allow Trump to retake power- he’d kill their gravy train.
Most of all, they’re just scared to death that if Trump wins in 2024, he will indict, arrest and convict them of TREASON for their terrible crimes against America and the American people. They have rigged elections; taken bribes; looted billions in taxpayer money; framed Trump and the January 6ers; and worst of all- aided and abetted a massive foreign invasion of our nation to help the enemies of America. The sentence for treason is either death, or life in prison. Their lives are on the line. They cannot let Trump retake power.
Here are three solutions.
Disqualify Biden and remove him from the ballot in every red state. Two can play this game. It’s time for the GOP to fight fire with fire. But in Biden’s case, his disqualification is for good legal reason- massive corruption and theft, and the intentional destruction of America by opening the border and welcoming a foreign invasion.
Red State DAs and AG’s must indict Biden (and his boss Obama), border czar Kamala Harris, border chief Mayorkas and many others involved in this open border plan to destroy our country. We are the Alamo. We are being invaded by military age males intent on killing Americans- from China…from Hamas…from MS-13. All those responsible for this travesty must be indicted for treason and brought to justice. It’s up to Republican red state DAs and AGs. Two can play this game. Fight fire with fire, or this great nation will soon be lost forever.
It’s time for a massive TRUMP RALLY in Colorado! Let’s make liberal brains explode. Fill 80,000 seat “Mile High” stadium (the home of the NFL’s Denver Broncos) with 80,000 Trump warriors. Show the whole country…the whole Democrat Party…and those four unelected, Colorado, communist, judges with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” that Colorado is “Trump country.” Prove that Trump is loved and adored everywhere- including Colorado. You cannot take the people’s votes away. We will be heard! Shove it right in their faces. This is exactly what these commie traitors are so afraid of. They have no support from the people. This is why they are desperate to disqualify Trump.
My ideas would work- if Republicans had any balls. But they don’t. They are feckless, weak-willed cowards and girlie-men. And at least half or more of the GOP leadership is also bribed by China and the Mexican Drug Cartel.
The SC adjudication of the Colorado BS will tell us whether the US situation can be solved within the existing system or whether a second civil war is required. Interestingly Jesse Watters now believes a violent civil war is what the left want since they control most of the armed establishment.
As I have said previously, Chris Bowen is the most destructive dickhead in Parliament. How he rationalises his decisions is beyond any normal thought.
Meanwhile, we have a Premier in QLD who seems to think that accelerating the “decarbonisation” of our state power grid will stop cyclones/floods in FNQ.
The story of King Canute and the sea tides comes readily to mind.
I would rather Tim Wilson than Zoe Daniel. I think that Tim, like Josh, has something to offer. When in parliament Tim Wilson did some good work on the racket that is industry super funds.
However Katie Allen should not run again in Higgins. Allen doesn’t even have the excuse of losing to a Teal in Higgins, she lost the seat to Labor. She is inept and a lite Green.
I used to think Tim Wilson was ok until he started making a big deal about his homosexuality which should be a private matter. I seem to recall he started bleating about CO2 as well. Odd because when he was at the IPA I heard him talk about the dangers of TLS’s carbon tax.
It would be nice to live in a polity where there wasn’t Uniparty protection for Mike Burgess after yesterday’s revelation that ASIO has given a green light to anti-Semitic street terror.
“Release valve.” FMFD.
He should be sacked.
This is the bloke who mocked Daniel Duggan – a Marine fighter pilot described by his former CO as “heroic” – as a “top tool” rather than a Top Gun who was guilty (of what, he didn’t say; there are no charges). That comment was defamatory and I hope Duggan is eventually in a position to sue.
My parents live in Goldstein and they reckon he was excellent. His replacement is invisible.
When in parliament Tim Wilson did some good work on the racket that is industry super funds.
For which he def deserves commendation.
Mmmm mangos. We just got ourselves 3 bags worth from tree growing along the Bruce Hwy easement towards Rollingstone. Almost ripe too.
Stinking humid day again, Brisbane Storm Chasers forecast charts all have positive stats for round 2 this afternoon thunderstorm wise. The cloud tops were already starting to tower over Mt Spec out back of Rollingstone.
And a transexual in Fraudenburg’s old seat. What planet are these people on? FMD.
Who is the trannie? Is it pre or post op?
ASIO has given a green light to anti-Semitic street terror.
“Release valve.” FMFD.
What? More proof we’d be better off without canbra.
If only I could get back the time spent arguing about liquidated damages and excusable delay.
OldOzzie
Dec 23, 2023 9:21 AM
There is some speculation that both incidents involved human operator error rather than mechanical and were linked.
Afternoon OldOzzie. Are you able to elaborate on those rather cryptic last 3 words “and were linked”?
Many thanks if you can.
It’s the top one.
Our power couple have stepped into a market bubble driven by British tree changers, who can swap a semi in Basingstoke for a cute cottage in Merdeville and enough change to live on for a few years.
Mmmm mangos. We just got ourselves 3 bags worth from tree growing along the Bruce Hwy easement towards Rollingstone. Almost ripe too.
The joys of Qld
Post Brexit it’s a buyers market as Poms pack up for home in the Old Dart. They are just another foreigner in France now. And as I said yesterday, French locals prefer modern builds, not the old barn conversions.
Longest day of the year – now the days get shorter but no rain until end of March in Adelaide.
Gay Grampian Garage Nasties approve of this message.
He became a climate worrier almost immediately after being elected.
I read somewhere he’s been running his own climate and energy consultancy business since he got turfed out.
He may be a nice guy, but he’s representative of the Liberal Party’s problem.
Big signal to the Mohammedans ; you have the numbers and we are struggling to cope. And to the rest of Australia; suck it up.
A business probably built on contacts he made as a junior minister in that portfolio, btw.
Is there anything better than a couple of slices of paneforte with a coffee before Christmas.
Also, I’d personally rate Australian made Haighs chocolate up there with Swiss and Belgian.
ASIO has given a green light to anti-Semitic street terror.
“Release valve.” FMFD.
1. They are afraid and will only pick what they perceive to be soft targets
2. People in Canbra don’t take their ‘jobs’ seriously. They will be paid regardless of success or failure
I’m sure Tim is a fine fellow. And I’m sure he has made a contribution in the past – the details escape me though.
He’s not going to win Goldstein, though.
And that’s all that matters.
Do you think another Lib would win the seat, or is it too far gone? The centre of suburban Jewish life in Melbourne is in that seat. Surely there’s been a bit of a wake up call, although, to be very frank, it has turned only a few of our Jewish friends. They woke up and then went back to sleep. 🙂
Or else.
As a policy, ASIO no longer refers to ‘Islamic extremism.’
It’s now termed as ‘religiously inspired extremism’.
That’s neat way of placating the likes of QLD Muslim leader Ali Kadri, who a few years ago said on national TV that if authorities kept referring to “Islamic extremism/terror” Muslim leaders would instruct their community members not to offer up their cooperation on security matters.
It means ASIO really believes they mean it when they scream “kill the Jews”.
Sounds like it, GR.
I got my first attack in the 1990s while walking the Kokoda Track.
Excruciating pain. Thought I had broken my leg.
Nek minnit, pain was gone.
How embarrassment.
Noawadays, I take Lengout (colchicine) daily. No more gout.
ABC, ASIO, CSIRO etc etc brought to you by Canbra and nothing good comes out of Canbra.
We had some Jewish friends over the other night for dinner. There were two Jewish couples and two that weren’t. The talk invariably ended with a discussion about anti-sem.
One Jewish dude went off on a rant about how Musk is a terrible anti-Semite. I responded that, at worst, Musk could be seen to have made an error in what he was saying, but he’s no anti-sem for intensely disliking the ADL. I casually asked him if he’s been on top of the news lately and seen the revolting stuff that’s going around, but he was focused on Musk. I suggested that Musk didn’t want him dead because his mother was Jewish. Nothing seems to move people from their views.
You think Hossenfelder, Krauss, and a millions of people much more intelligent than you are dumb? Arrogant much? because a person believes X is true does mean that person is dumb. That is a very stupid way to think about human behavior. You once replied to me that you are a keen observer of human behavior. If comments like these are the results of your observations you are blind.
FIL is a bit of a tosser. Lives in Goldstein electorate (East Brighton, or West Bentleigh as I call it). Reads the Age, but considers himself a “Centrist”. He’d be Teal I reckon.
Chateaux Hoggins doesn’t even rate a Chat, maybe a Ch or a C.
The reverse is true though too. Why can’t these top tier physics guys see through models that have very little predictive power?
Climate change is glacially slow, the West cannot prevent China from building power stations and mitigation has never passed a CBA.
Einstein’s views on economics are arguably as bad as the Greens.
The Libs ought to be using Jacinta Price to go after the Jew haters (Liars party and the Greenscum). I reckon she’d mince them and folks listen to her now. She would be great.
It’s not a buyer’s market if you simply pay the asking, which is probably what the previous schmuck paid for it.
They may not be so lucky come time for them to sell.
Goldstein electors clearly respond to colour and movement, a shiny new teal bauble, going with the latest vibe.
To win you need to be have a bit of razzle, a hint of celebrity, a schtick to arouse the locals.
Tim is too stodgy and conventional. Pooveness won’t be enough.
Barry Humphries might have had a chance.
John H at 1.58pm, there is ZERO proof that CO2 drives global temperature. The “consensus” (a propaganda trick designed as a substitute for proof) was invented by people who hate the human race. End of story.
miltonf, The Federal Highway, Barton Highway, Kings Highway and Monaro Highway. My good self as well when I go down the coast. I’m not really good.
I am impressed with the bravery of this young chap; the quality build of that toy plastic car and the outcome equally so.
Good to see the young chap wear a helmet and take precautions. I reckon they have tried this before and this was not the first attempt.
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Steve Inman:
Back when young men actually played outside
Finished making some jam from the buckets of apricots from our tree. The aroma wafting out the kitchen window was amazing.
However, distracted by reading Paul Kelly’s excellent article in the Inquirer ( a new term “polycrisis “ being used to describe the global madness), I put too much water with the apricots & it has taken forever to get consistency right. Actually, it still isn’t. Never mind, we will be able to use it as dessert accompaniment.
Earlier, I was able to take time to partake coffee at beach with customary mates. Apparently, while we were at the farm some troublemakers had appeared one morning – a combination of Tongans & ME thugs (strange combination?) – & proceeded to “foul-mouth” patrons. Local bottle shop quickly put shutter down, while our cafe proprietor (a tall Greek who has “been around) seized one of them by the ear (literally, apparently!) & threw him out. Police were called & the creeps scattered.
What was this all about????