Mashri is trying to get people to move their super out of funds that invest in Israel ie any business linked to Jews.
I hope he has much success.
I wonder if superannuation is halal, dividends might be okay but I can’t see interest bearing accounts as kosher for muslims.

But presumably, in the event, you would expect the locals to defend you.

That’s wierd! .. what does it mean? .. cos I ain’t spent a few bob getting a piece of paper I’m somehow not worthy/different/whatever ..!
bit of paper ain’t gonna change my accent .. but I have contributed 4 Oz kids and 8 Oz grandees to the mix …!

How to eat? Remove from foil base without scalding fingers, pump full of tomato sauce through the roof vent and chomp.

It all sounded so good until you got to the tomato sauce horror bit – full of sugar too. Yuk. Brown sauce (HP) would be better IMHO.

Mak Siccar on the subject of pies.
Just to illustrate that not all dieticians are Vegan SS, I confessed pies to the dietician I visited.
I just got the moderation speech.
“Yeah, as long as you aren’t eating them every day, there’s nothing wrong with the occasional pie. You have to enjoy food after all.”

Hairy has been pressing Tolstoy’s War and Peace on me ever since we met. I’m still resisting, can’t say why really. Except it’s not a speedy read.

I read it one summer holiday when I was c. 20.

Almost couldn’t put it down.

That was certainly the clear expectation when I arrived on these shores 40+ years ago. Dissatisfied foreigners and (especially) Whinging Poms were expected to settle or go home.

And yet Wodney is still here, whining like a Doodlebug.

My take on the Referendum result, unfortunately, is that Australian politicians believe they can, to a very substantial extent, obfuscate and safely ignore the substance of popular will.

And totally ignore the Australian Constitution that Australia as a Nation is founded upon. What utter Crooks.

Sancho Panzer
Dec 30, 2023 1:37 PM

And in the sour tone of Mrs Stencho Pantyhose’s gob………

Sure

On classic literature from other lands, this just about sums it up.

But…but…Tolstoy is nothing like Dostoevsky.

The literary critic and polymath George Steiner* wrote a whole book on the topic.

* One of the most deeply impressive men I’ve ever had the privilege of hearing speak.

Johnny Rotten
Dec 30, 2023 1:50 PM

What utter Crooks.

Irony meter flicking 103/100. Never seen it run so high.

Anyway, TopEnder, I suppose at least we had a go.

I knew a bloke, a Scot, who came out in the 70’s.

He was planning to retire back in Scotland so he never took out Australian citizenship.

That is until he was close to retirement age and he realised that he was not bound to what had essentially become a mental habit. He decided he was going to stay here.

After the ceremony the project office threw him a morning tea celebration – and watched him wrangle with a Tim Tam to drink a cup of milk through it.

Mad scotch drinker but.

If my liver should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign cemetary
That is for ever Scotland.

I knew a bloke, a Scot, who came out in the 70’s.

Brave.

Daily Mail.
Australia’s most popular politicians – ranked

Some of those rankings are predictable eg

Penny Wong – a big rating – but she rates highly with the Left/Wokes/Women per se/Chinese Australians – so that is a big demographic

The high rankings of some of the rest seem, to me, to be defined by their perceived genuine beliefs – whether these are approved or not eg Hanson, Lambie, Joyce & Bandt. I was surprised, however, that Price didn’t rate too high. Surprised by hihi ranking of Morrison – but then, as I have said before, he once represented the values of Middle Australia.

Penny Wong – a big rating – but she rates highly with the Left/Wokes/Women per se/Chinese Australians – so that is a big demographic

ALP wisdom is that she’s in the senate because she could never win a seat in the Reps.

will

Dec 30, 2023 2:17 PM

watched him wrangle with a Tim Tam to drink a cup of milk through it.

A Tim Tam wrangler! Mad skilz

Mand mah tea!!!

First arrest in 2 years.

NY AG James
@NewYorkStateAG
My office just took down a car theft ring responsible for stealing and selling vehicles across New York City.

This kind of theft can be devastating, and with the assistance of @NYPDnews
and our partners in law enforcement, we’re taking action to keep New Yorkers safe.

Too busy tweeting about how she’s going to take down Trump.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

Dec 30, 2023 2:00 PM

My mother never renounced her British citizenship, even though we said she could become a dual citizen, she clung to the idea of being British.

Mme Zulu, for her own reasons, has never taken Australian citizenship, and travels on a Dutch passport.

In 2000, we went to the Netherlands, in her case, for the first time since she left as a child in 1954.

She had her passport stamped at Scipol, and was wished a hearty “Welcome home, M’Frau.”

My passport was held at arms length, and I was asked if I was South African…..

Why on earth would they ask that?

Yech. That’s the most depressing thing I’ve heard all year.

Don’t take it too seriously, Bruce.

The pollsters most likely designed the poll for the result.

Morison’s position looks about right though.

Roger

Dec 30, 2023 2:30 PM

Yech. That’s the most depressing thing I’ve heard all year.

Don’t take it too seriously, Bruce.

The pollsters most likely designed the poll for the result.

Exactly.
J’ism school vacation students having a larf.

Morison’s position looks about right though.

Where did Bob Menzies rate?

I have never quite understood how the bombing or ground campaign assisted the hostages. Seems to me the only way that could be achieved was and is a negotiated swap.

These are not the conditions that led to Israel surrendering over a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captured IDF soldier, Gilad Shalit.

Everyone must understand that the events of 7 October changed everything for Israel. Understandably, the relatives and loved ones of the current hostages desperately want them saved. But, like others here, I also think that the IDF and senior figures in the government and intelligence services are fairly certain that most, if not all, of the remaining hostages are dead.

Why on earth would they ask that?

A rather pronounced Australian accent. I’ve been taken for South African more then once, in Europe.

Vicki
Dec 30, 2023 2:32 PM
On fox watch again. Droppings show that he is patrolling the chicken run once more, even though we have installed an electric wire at fox nose height.

Get some Alpacas if you have the room. Great for foxing a fox.

Noel Pearson breaks silence on Indigenous voice referendum on stage with Stan Grant at Woodford

By paige taylor
Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief
2:42PM December 30, 2023
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Noel Pearson, the reforming leader who campaigned for an Indigenous voice for a decade, has broken his three-month long silence on the failed referendum.

In his first public comments since Australians voted against enshrining a national Indigenous advisory body to government in the constitution, one audience member told The Australian that Mr Pearson has lamented that Indigenous affairs are in a worse state than before the October 14 vote.

Another audience member, ex-News Corp and AAP photographer David Kapernick, said on social media that Mr Pearson accused Anthony Albanese of “running away” from indigenous affairs.

“Noel Pearson and Stan Grant at Woodford Folk festival discussing what to do now after referendum. Not impressed with Albanese … says he’s running away and will do nothing,” Mr Kapernick tweeted.

Mr Pearson was in conversation with journalist Stan Grant at Woodford Folk Festival of culture, music and arts north of Brisbane on Saturday.

The Cape York leader made his comments after Anthony Albanese excluded the referendum defeat from his wrap of the events of 2023 then described the referendum defeat as no loss to him.

The Prime Minister’s Christmas Day remark that the voice defeat “wasn’t a loss to me” was met with shock and disgust by some Indigenous proponents of the voice.

At the Exodus Foundation in Sydney’s inner west where he helped serve Christmas Day lunch to the poor, Mr Albanese was asked during a 2GB interview about his year and “some big losses” such as the defeat of the voice at the ballot box last October.

“Oh, no, no, no, no, very important to call that out. I am not Indigenous so it wasn’t a loss to me,” the Labor leader said.

“That stays exactly the same the way it is. I do think that it was disappointing for First Nations people but they’re used to you know, getting the, they’re used to hardship. It’s been the case for 200 years, and they are resilient and we will continue to do what we can to provide for closing the gap.

“But it’s one of the things about this debate, it was never about politicians, it was actually about the most disadvantaged people in our society.”

One figure in the Yes ­campaign criticised Mr Albanese for claiming no sense of personal loss after championing the referendum, ­including in his election-night victory speech in May last year.

Another called on Labor to commission a review of the ­“referendum debacle” and the ­Albanese government’s role in it.

“Blacks did the work for seven years and Labor killed it,” one said.

milei puts his backside where his mouth is.

A Free Gaza – Once –

https://twitter.com/i/status/1716283585978859677

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/12/brilliant-free-gaza.html

Eiland calls for Israel to recognise Hamas as the effective government of the Gaza Strip and cease any attempt to topple Hamas or facilitate restoration of Palestinian Authority rule in Gaza.

He got that wrong.

Get some Alpacas if you have the room. Great for foxing a fox.

JR – as well as disliking Alpacas, They would have to be patrolling within the homestead precincts – and that is a very big “no” as we have extensive grounds surrounding the house.

Cattle don’t particularly like foxes, either. My daughter has a small Japanese Spitz, which looks for all the world like a white fox. Our cows – especially the Angus – chase her if she enters the paddock. Being the city wuss that she is, she runs for cover – with my daughter screaming!

I have also seen the cows chase feral pigs that (rarely) appear on the property in daylight hours. Unfortunately, the pigs do their damage during the night.

Winston – let us have a regular update on how Elsie is settling in. It’s a great story.

Eiland calls for Israel to recognise Hamas as the effective government of the Gaza Strip and cease any attempt to topple Hamas or facilitate restoration of Palestinian Authority rule in Gaza.

Excellent call.
Mia Shem is revealing nothing publicly about the hostages she left behind her.
There are some who are apparently Sinwar insurance but as we know Hamas refused another ceasefire offer a few days ago, maybe he is clinging to the hope that Israel will bow to international pressure.

I’ve been taken for a South African, in Australia, by Australians. Though this is not common, it does happen.
Been told plenty of times that I’ve a “foreign” accent. Mostly this is by F.o.B. “Australians”.

Confected like any fraud.

I went through Driller’s syns page on google and looked up unusual syns for blowhard.

“blatherskite” is pretty good. There’s “gascon”, and “bohunk” and “drawcansir”. All syns for blowhard.

Damon
Dec 30, 2023 12:32 PM
Vicki, it was obvious from the time that three Wuhan lab technical assistants came down wirh Covid that it was a lab leak. That was in 2010.

—–

Fort Detrick, USA was the origin. The Wuhan story is for MSM consuming sheep.

Roger:
I distinctly remember coconut head saying he would never speak again in public if the YES vote didn’t come in.

Nice 180.

Wuhan lab was as plain as the nose on your face from the get go.
We of the cat called it in February/ March 2020.

I hate cooking with a passion.

Cook with apathetic indifference then.

rosie
Dec 30, 2023 3:51 PM

I made a plum pudding also,

Nice. Right now wifey is making a great Italian dessert and my all-time favorite for a special day today. A pavlova. If it ends in a vowel, it has to be Italian, right?

Mmmyes cretin alert:

Labor made a lot of promises to the Australian public as it campaigned to win the hearts and return to power after a decade in the political wilderness.

Anthony Albanese sought to characterise his opponent as “all promise and no delivery”. But just over 18 months into the gig, how is he and Labor tracking?

NCA NewsWire undertook a deep dive into some of the election promises Labor made to see just how they’re doing.

Broken promises

Mr Albanese pledged his government would roll out 50 GP-led Urgent Care Clinics to take the pressure off hospital emergency departments.

At the time, Labor said the clinics would be existing GP and community health centres and be open at least 8am to 10pm seven days a week.

Health Minister Mark Butler vowed in April 2022 that all 50 clinics would be up in running in the next financial year.

Some $358m was allocated to the roll out over five years in the federal budget, and an additional eight clinics were added to the target.

While all 58 clinics are now open, the government missed its own self-imposed deadline and hence can be considered a broken promise.

The government says all of the UCC will be open by the end of 2023.

The Pacific Engagement Visa is another example of a missed deadline. At the election, Labor promised to establish a new visa category to allow up to 3000 Pacific Island and Timor-Leste residents to permanently migrate to Australia each year.

It was to begin in July 2023 and visa places would be allocated by a ballot or lottery process.

But the self-imposed time frame came and passed after negotiations stalled with the Senate. It ultimately passed the parliament in October, with the ballot set to commence in 2024.

Another mandate was the requirement to have a registered nurse onside 24/7 which was a key recommendation of the Aged Care Royal Commission.

Labor received some heat earlier in the year after it could not say when its self-imposed deadline of July 1 would be met.

The legislation to enforce the promise passed parliament in October 2022. A recent audit office report found the early implementation of the 24/7 RN and mandatory care minutes was “largely effective”.

As of September, 88 per cent of residential aged care homes reported a registered nurse on duty 24/7, compared with government estimates ranging from 46 per cent to 80 per cent in 2020 to 2022.

Small facilities in rural and remote areas that have struggled to find RN’s have been given exemptions.

In progress or questionable

During the election campaign, Mr Albanese and his frontbench team made a big song and dance about getting real wages moving again.

The government has already claimed a win here, as wages grew by 4 per cent in the 12 months to September, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

But the claim is slightly misleading. It fails to consider the impact of inflation, which continues to outstrip the growth in earnings hitting 5.3 per cent in September, according to seasonally adjusted figures.

It implies a real wages cut of 1.3 per cent, meaning people on average can buy less with their pay packets, despite wages growth hitting a 14-year high.

However, the government did put in a submission to the Fair Work Commission in both 2022 and 2023 backing an increase for the lowest paid workers (even though it didn’t specify a percentage).

Over two years after first promising to criminalise wage theft, the Albanese government flagged its intention to slap employers caught underpaying workers with jail time.

But the legislation is just one thread of the government’s contentious omnibus industrial relations reforms, the Closing Loopholes Bill.

Other parts of the bill include a crackdown on labour hire, introducing minimum pay and conditions for gig economy workers and an enhanced pathway to permanency for casual workers.

Failing to secure support from the Coalition means the government will have to convince the Greens and two crossbenchers to come on board to vote for the bill in the Senate.

That’s while also fighting a battle to convince business groups to support it.

So far the bill has been delayed for consideration until February 2024 when a senate committee hands back its report into the proposal.

Housing was also a key pillar of the government’s election strategy.

In Mr Albanese’s 2021 budget reply speech, he announced Labor, if elected, would establish a $10bn off budget fund to build 30,000 social and affordable homes over five years.

The bill finally passed the parliament in September after being twice held up after the Greens agreed to vote for it in favour of securing an extra $3bn for public and community housing.

The promise will be considered in progress until it meets its own benchmarks of houses built.

Mr Albanese waited to unveil his Help to Buy scheme until Labor’s official campaign launch last year.

The policy, he said, would provide help to Australians on low and middle incomes to buy houses by giving eligible applicants a commonwealth equity contribution of up to 40 per cent of the purchase price of a new home, or 30 per cent for an existing home.

It was set to cost $329m and would be introduced alongside the continuation of the first home guarantee scheme.

It wasn’t until Labor’s National Conference in August that the Prime Minister confirmed it would come into effect during 2024.

But given state and federal legislation is needed to enact the scheme and a Greens party that has vowed to use the proposal to push for more action for renters to convince, there is still work to do.

On the environment, the government succeeded in its promise to legislate Australia’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, as well as its 2030 goal of 43 per cent reduction.

But whether we will meet that target is up in the air.

The annual climate change statement presented in Parliament in late November suggested Australia will be on track to cut greenhouse emissions by 42 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 – a whisker behind the official target.

Labor has long been committed to the three components of the Uluru Statement of the Heart: Voice, Treaty and Truth.

But after the failure of the Voice referendum in October the fate of its promised Makaratta Commission is uncertain.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has said the government did not want to be rushed into a decision.

The government’s first budget set aside $5.8m to start setting up a commission to oversee treaty-making and truth-telling. Only $607,000 of that funding has been spent, according to officials.

Labor went to the election with a number of promises around aged care. Most broadly, it said it would “raise the standard of aged care” by mandating an average of 215 minutes of care per day, as per the royal commission.

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells signed the mandatory minimum, which must also include 44 minutes of care from a registered nurse from October 2024, into law in October.

This promise will be considered delivered should providers meet the benchmark by the 2024 deadline.

If you’ve watched question time in the past year, you will be no stranger to the Coalition’s ribbing over a promise to cut power bills by $275.

The opposition has repeatedly claimed the government has not delivered on its promise. But the pledge was made as part of Labor’s Powering Australia policy.

Labor said the plan, which was independently modelled by RepuTex, would cut power bills and reduce emissions by boosting renewable energy

But the $275 would not come into play until 2025: “It will cut power bills for families and businesses by $275 a year for homes by 2025, compared to today.”

Another promise which will surely cause the government a headache over the next year will be to not tinker with the contentious stage three tax cuts.

The tax cuts passed parliament back in 2019 but won’t come into effect until July 1.

There’s more but whatever Albo sez, take it to the bank nothing will happen.

Fort Detrick, USA was the origin. The Wuhan story is for MSM consuming sheep.

I guess you agree with the the theory of Kathrine Watt that US Defence was involved in the development of bioweapons & that this was coordinated with research of the Sth Carolina University & Peter Daznak’s EcoHealth Alliance together with the team at Wuhan lab. All of this was, according to the theory, known & countenanced by Anthony Fauci.

https://bailiwicknewsarchives.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/2023.04.12-trialsite-interview-transcript-re-truncale-order-jackson-case.pdf

This is all one step too far for me, although there are very well qualified people in this country (in the medical research field) who think it is true.

While all 58 clinics are now open

Over half of those are not open for the hours the govt promised.

88 per cent of residential aged care homes reported a registered nurse on duty 24/7,

Quite a few have closed down as there is no way they can get enough nurses.

The government has already claimed a win here, as wages grew by 4 per cent in

Mine haven’t

23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online

a reminder of how muslims treat captive women and girls

They can smell a guy’s bowels?!

Well, if they like the smell of a man’s Cologne, they should be understanding if a guy likes staring at a woman’s Brest.

What is wring with people?
for Sydneysiders

NationalWABanksia Hill

Judge refuses to send 17-year-old to ‘horrendous’ Perth prison
Emma Young
By Emma Young
December 30, 2023 — 7.16am

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A 17-year-old Perth boy has been released from custody for Christmas despite a serious crime spree, as the judge did not trust Perth’s “barbaric dungeon where children are deprived and dehumanised” to rehabilitate him.

The boy, who has anxiety, PTSD, FASD, ADHD, and substantially affected executive function and memory, has been in and out of Banksia Hill youth prison for the past two years.

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He had spent Christmas 2021 and 2022 in prison, with lengthy stints in the Unit 18 wing of the adult Casuarina Prison, which has controversially been serving as an ad-hoc yet endless extension to Banksia Hill.

The boy faced serious charges accumulated over this time including 14 of stealing motor vehicles, 17 aggravated burglaries, two high-speed chases, and two of assaulting prison guards inside Banksia Hill (punching one and spitting at another). He pleaded guilty to all charges.

On December 20 Perth Children’s Court president Hylton Quail sentenced the youth to a 10-month conditional release order.

He will live with his mother and his four younger siblings, soon to be five, in a recently acquired state housing property, with a 7pm to 7am curfew unless he is with his mother.

He has also been disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence for four cumulative nine-month periods.

Judge Quail said this offending would ordinarily have got a three-year sentence, backdated for time already served, but this was not appropriate now.
The boy’s incarceration

Judge Quail said he was not sending the youth back to prison “because of the continuing failure of the Department [of Justice] to comply with the law” regarding holding youths in solitary confinement in Unit 18.

He said it seemed inevitable the boy would be sent back to this unit and this would only increase his danger to the community.

“With boys as cognitively impaired, traumatised and damaged as [this], there will be setbacks in custody and in the community,” he said.

“The answer is not to further brutalise and alienate them, but to follow the model of care that the Department claims to be implementing but in Unit 18 is clearly not.

“That Unit 18 continues as a barbaric dungeon where children are deprived and dehumanised is a disgrace, and something as a community we should all be ashamed of.”

He said the boy had had a “horrendous experience” and “endured unlawful solitary confinement” in punishment cells for long periods – one stint of 70 days, one of eight days, one of 12 days, one of six days, many of these representing more than 22 hours a day in a cell.

He said these periods were “cruel and harsh conditions which were arbitrary and unlawfully punitive” and it was “frankly shocking” one of these periods was in the month immediately following a tragic death in the unit, in which the boy faced 23 days of 20 to 23-hour lockdowns in his cell in November leading into December 2023.

Judge Quail said deteriorating behaviour in prison in those conditions was “all but inevitable given his cognitive impairments”.

“Solitary confinement … is very damaging for a boy like [this] with his impairments, history of trauma and diagnoses,” he said.

“I’m not surprised now that [he] did not perform upon his release into the community.”

He said the government’s management of this boy was a “total failure” and represented “continuing unlawful and repeated conduct … bypassing the provisions of the Young Offenders Act in terms of dealing with behavioural matters.”
The boy’s past

His parents separated when he was five. His father, who has spent long stints in prison and is currently in prison, subjected him, his mother and his brother to verbal and physical violence.

Concerns were also raised about neglect, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Several care placements traumatised him by separating him from his mother.

A report noted “early attachment disruption, transient itinerant living situations, exposure to parental drug and alcohol misuse, normalisation of criminal behaviour, domestic disturbances and interpersonal conflict from a very early age.”

An official report into his offending noticed it “tended to be impulsive, opportunistic and lacked planning. There was an increasing and regular access to drugs and negative peers.” It further noted “a high need for acceptance by his peers, which was felt to be a perpetuating factor in [his] risk-taking and criminal behaviours.”
The boy’s future

The judge noted the boy had prospects of connection to a local football team as he was a “pretty handy footballer”, to a job ready program, and to a landscaping and property maintenance course. He had a white card and barista skills and should be able to function well in society if properly supported.

He did not have an intellectual disability, despite his cognitive problems, and was a “smart boy”.

“There is some glimmer of hope in the community,” he said.

When the boy was able to attend school at Banksia Hill, his teacher had described him as receptive, motivated, hardworking, polite, respectful and positive.

Judge Quail questioned the boy’s mother on her plans.

“He’s not innocent … but I would love to have him home. And we would put in place – NDIS has been put in place,” she said.

She promised the judge his old friends didn’t know where they now lived, that she would do her utmost to prevent him seeing them, and would ring the police if he disobeyed.

“I’m scared if I let you out, you’re going to go and do more burglaries, steal a motor vehicle and kill somebody on the road,” the judge said to the young man in court.

“I want to change my life … I keep thinking of time inside. I don’t want to be in – I’m going to turn 18 next year. I don’t want to follow in my Dad’s footsteps,” the boy replied.

Hey Turtlehead, question.

Have you stocked up enough on Bol sauce until March 2025 or are you making a new batch?

I never would have guessed that they meant “cologne,” not “colon.”

I had assumed you got it.

That was why I thought to take it one step further to suggest these women were living the smell of a man’s European city.

Roger
Dec 30, 2023 1:31 PM
Hairy has been pressing Tolstoy’s War and Peace on me ever since we met. I’m still resisting, can’t say why really. Except it’s not a speedy read.
I read it one summer holiday when I was c. 20.
Almost couldn’t put it down.

I read War and Peace when I was home after my first baby was born. It took me three months to finish it and almost that long to read the whole Bible. I set myself these two to read before going back to work.

Johnny Rotten
Dec 30, 2023 1:50 PM
My take on the Referendum result, unfortunately, is that Australian politicians believe they can, to a very substantial extent, obfuscate and safely ignore the substance of popular will.

And totally ignore the Australian Constitution that Australia as a Nation is founded upon. What utter Crooks.

It’s not as bad as it looks, they can’t ignore the constitution no matter how hard they try, they cannot enshrine their imaginings in the constitution. A future government can undo their efforts with a vote in parliament.