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OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 12:01 pm

Well done Phillip Thompson OAM MP – Lest We Forget.
Tuesday, 06 February 2024

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As One of The Comments Points Out

All the blokes look fighting fit but the fat bird?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 6, 2024 12:07 pm

Has anyone else read it?

I enjoyed it Cohenite, but it was very bleak. Like a Time Team episode mixed with old style Dr Who. I’ve only read Doomsday Book once and I doubt I’ll reread it.

SF plus archaeology is a pretty good genre. Greg Benford’s Artifact was fun. And then of course there are the Indiana Jones movies and the Stargate series, which all are pretty entertaining.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 12:08 pm

Re:Bishop

Do people recall Abbott stuck in the opposition treasury slot and she was so fcking useless he had to remove her? She was that bad.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 12:08 pm

Sydney Muslim cleric proudly celebrating the slaughter of Jews. Never again is now.

Tuesday, 06 February 2024

Dear @AusFedPolice

these men in Sydney are praising the murder of Jews and celebrating “a day of happiness” because Hamas shot 260 civilians at a music festival. This is illegal incitement to violence and fascist anti-democratic activity not compatible with Australian values

From The Comments

– Totally incompatible with civilised, peaceful, law abiding society and should be banished, should that society want to remain civilised, peaceful and law abiding

– You have to ask yourself this”Why is this man(?) still in this country and FREE to walk among us?”And why have there been”NO”arrests except the people who have stood up for the Jews?OUR politicians on both sides of the isle have done NOTHING to rectify this INJUSTICE.
Why is this so?

– Ah, Haldon Street Lakemba.
A targeted strafing run on that meeting wouldn’t have gone astray.

– Ah, Haldon Street Lakemba.
A targeted strafing run on that meeting wouldn’t have gone astray.

Crooked, rotten and corrupt.

It’s OK to tokenly criminalise the anti-Semitic swastika and the Nazi salute, but apparently it is perfectly OK to celebrate mass-murder, terrorism and pack-rapes and to then reward the terrorists with $42.5 Million of Australian taxpayers hard-earned cash, and all the A.F.P. does about it is to roll over and keep snoring.

If the funding and promotion of terrorist activity is still illegal in this country, why are the A.F.P. not arresting and charging all those responsible?

They obviously do not lack evidence of crime – maybe, being Woke Public Serpents, they just lack the guts to do what they are employed to do?

Maybe they just need some less crim-friendly political Leadership?

A dead fish always rots from the Head!

– New South Wales police got any doubt about what he is saying there?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 12:10 pm
Barking Toad
Barking Toad
February 6, 2024 12:12 pm

My choice of knickers are Chantelle full briefs

As we’re discussing cottontails and bonds briefs may I share an opinion.

The briefs are too constrictive, causing a problem for “larger lads” (not me) so I eventually opted for boxer shorts. The breeze around the sack is comforting.

The downside, however, is the morning after.

The results of a fair drink and the late night chillie pizza when you surreptitiously try to quietly open your lunch in the early morning work lift.

Let’s just say the boxers never catch the follow through.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 6, 2024 12:17 pm

feelthebern
Feb 6, 2024 3:15 AM

The problem with being a post colonial kleptocracy is the grift is formalised.
At least in a lot of third world countries the briber hits up the bribee directly.

Years ago I was working for a US company and we had to run through their Ethics Training, which seemed to be for the sole purpose of protecting the US directors rather than actually improving ethical standards.
It got interesting when the US presenter gave the hypothetical case study of the maintenance guy in an Asian country who wanted a small back-hander in addition to his employer’s fixed quote to get a job done quickly.
A particularly vexatious and troublesome student on the course put his hand up and asked how that was different to tipping in the US.
The presenter tied herself in all manner of sailor’s knots trying to split that atom.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 12:26 pm

Danny Wallis: Serial Block buyer slams Victoria, advises other investors to look interstate

Danny Wallis is a successful IT entrepreneur who is best known for his auction antics as a serial home buyer on TV’s The Block.

He currently owns 30+ properties in Victoria.

Victoria investment rating – 0/10

Where he would invest – In commercial property, but not in Victoria.

Why he wouldn’t invest in Victoria

The government has made it really tough to invest in residential property in Victoria.

Significant control for tenants means I’ve got one now who has painted their bedroom black — which is very difficult to change back.

I understand the need for tenants to have rights and to want to live in a house that’s decent, but there’s got to be a fairer way for the landlord too.

They have swung the pendulum too far away.

Then the land tax changes came in and just made it impossible, I have properties where I’m getting less rent than land tax.

I’ve got an Albert Park residence where the $25,000-a-year rental return barely covered half of the $49,000 I had to pay in government fees for it in the past financial year.

Homeowners and homebuyers to be hit hard by ‘complex’ changes

Instead of residential investments, I’ll be focusing on commercial assets in the future — with better returns on offer, longer leases and tenants taking responsibility for repairs and Government Land Taxes, ie. Tenant gets hit with the increase.

I’m getting good returns on petrol stations in Queensland and shops in Sydney.

But the Victorian government has just gotten way, way too greedy.

They are going to get a real problem in a couple of years time when they realise we are losing rental properties at a fast rate.

And I’m not a struggling mum and dad investor, buying one or two for their super.

It must be a nightmare for them.

Boambee John
Boambee John
February 6, 2024 12:26 pm

Winston

Ground based silos are targetable. And unless you’re thinking of “Dense Pack” configurations,

Way back in the 1980s, the US was considering a silo “dense pack” configuration for their new ICBM.

A cartoonist drew a silo dense pack, and Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor in December 1941, also labelled Dense Pack.

The idea dense pack went nowhere,

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 6, 2024 12:27 pm

In Sydney for a few days.

What general area Rossini?
I’m always keen to give local cafe tips to out of towners.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 12:28 pm

Let’s just say the boxers never catch the follow through.

Kick it out and stride on, deny, deny, deny.

/Milage may vary after a curry and Guinness night though.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 6, 2024 12:31 pm

Crikey I’m a mess today.
Interrupted sleep is a killer.
How do people raise kids? Months/years of interrupted sleep.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 6, 2024 12:37 pm

In the last 3 years, the Queen dead, Prince Phillip dead, Kate in hospital for *2 weeks* after abdominal surgery and not seen since, and now, the King has cancer?

Looks like the British Royals weren’t in the placebo group!

Let’s temper this conspiratorial frenzy with a few facts shall we?
Queen Elizabeth died aged 96.
Prince Phillip was run out three months short of his century.
And it looks like King Charles might have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 75.
Really earth shattering “died suddenly” stats there.
Probably a bridge too far even for the Daily Expose.

johanna
johanna
February 6, 2024 12:38 pm

Cassie of Sydney
Feb 6, 2024 10:58 AM

There’s nothing sexy about G-strings, they’re ugly and they’re about cultivating a ‘porn’ look

Do you ever read what you have just written?

I share your dislike of the things on comfort grounds, but the rants, probably therapeutic, are getting simultaneously repetitive and at the fringes, very angry.

I have not a particle of sympathy for the radical transgender movement. None.

But, when I lived adjacent to Kings Cross in the 1980s, I met and got to know a couple of trannies. They were meek and quiet, nice people, I wouldn’t have hesitated to let them mind my nieces and nephews.

At that time I asked my GP about his trannie clients. This was before it became fashionable.

He said ‘I sometimes ask them (they were all male to female) what they like about being a woman. They say things like sitting at home and knitting.’

The current wave is obviously very different, culturally driven.

Prior to it becoming fashionable, there were always men, usually working as drag queens and/or prostitutes, who wanted to be women. There were expensive operations available in South America and later, Thailand, that they saved up for. I’m talking up to the 70s and early 80s.

Then, air travel became cheaper, networks of ‘gender unsure’ people built up as the internet expanded, and the social movements celebrating gender anything took off.

The current dog and pony show has nothing to do with the tiny,tiny minority of people who are truly best off living as the other sex. Good luck to them.

But this behemoth of cultural, medical and political pressure along the lines that we are all one gender or innumerable multiples) (what else can it mean) is serious shit.

As a woman, I don’t want blokes, wearing a frock or not, in my changerooms and toilets.

I certainly don’t want them in domestic violence shelters or women’s prisons, as has happened in Scotland.

Why does nobody ask the politicians responsible how they explain this shit?

shatterzzz
February 6, 2024 12:45 pm

”I fly into space to do what I love, not to set records. I’ve dreamt of and aspired to become a cosmonaut since I was a child. That interest – the opportunity to fly into space, to live and work in orbit – motivates me to continue flying,” he told TASS.

If your into NASA space flights just finished a novel that you’ll enjoy ..
The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield …
Not only a good murder mystery but lotza technical/interesting stuff about the NASA space programme .. written by an ex astronaut ….
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57007683-the-apollo-murders

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 12:48 pm

Queen Elizabeth died aged 96.
Prince Phillip was run out three months short of his century.
And it looks like King Charles might have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 75.

Its the curse of Dads Army all over again…

British actor Ian Lavender, the last surviving principal from Dad’s Army, has died.

Buccaneer
Buccaneer
February 6, 2024 12:50 pm

All new cars will cost more.

Push back here.

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 12:50 pm

Some more about the fine man who died on the fairway here. He had experienced some heart trouble, he knew the symptoms having been treated before.

So he tried to get an appointment to see someone, anyone. Nothing*. So he continued as best he could and then the big one hit.

In my opinion, he died through medical neglect. In every waiting room there is a sign “please tell the staff if you experience irregular heart beat, chest pains or shortness of breath”. Not worth the paper it’s typed on.

* anecdotally, for one specialist, after the reminder to have a checkup – next appointment in June. Great.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 12:54 pm

calli
Feb 6, 2024 12:50 PM
Some more about the fine man who died on the fairway here. He had experienced some heart trouble, he knew the symptoms having been treated before.

So he tried to get an appointment to see someone, anyone. Nothing*. So he continued as best he could and then the big one hit.

calli,

where was he?

I had & have no problems getting an appointment with my Cardiologist

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 12:57 pm

Here at the Bay, Ozzie. I suppose it’s easier in Sydney.

Just scrolled back. Amazing so many people are seeing a cluster conspiracy in the deaths and illnesses in the royal family. Even the nonagenarians.

That’s the interwebs for you.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
February 6, 2024 12:59 pm

Buccaneer.

I clicked on the ‘Push back here’ link. There was no option to scrap the proposal altogether. All three options simply relate to the pace at which this madness is implemented.

Black Ball
Black Ball
February 6, 2024 1:01 pm

Tony Burke on the big issues. Daily Telegraph:

Aussie workers could be one step closer to not having to answer their bosses outside of work hours as Labor edges closer to a deal on its contentious industrial relations laws.

It would allow workers to tell their bosses to stop making unreasonable contact outside of work hours – but that wouldn’t include messaging people for shifts and other “completely reasonable” issues.

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke explained one option being considered would open the door to employers being fined if they continued to contact workers outside of hours after being ordered to stop by the workplace umpire.

But he was also open to a compromise to ensure workers would not be penalised if they ignored communication outside of work hours.

“One of the ways, instead of the fines, of doing it is simply having an absolute ban on there being a penalty on the worker for disengaging,” Mr Burke said.

“So if a worker disconnects, if they decide they are not going to have their phone with them, if they decide they’re not going to be checking their emails, then absolutely no penalty can be brought against them.

“And that sort of protection would give you way of doing it without fines on the employer.”

It’s understood the compromise has the support of the Greens.

The second tranche of the legislation include changes to make it easier for casual workers to convert to permanent roles, create tougher standards for pay and conditions in the gig economy.

Mr Burke said he was hopeful it would pass this week but was coy on if he had yet to win over the crossbench.

“Nothing’s resolved until everything is resolved, so at the moment, we don’t have a majority in the Senate,” he said.

“I’m hopeful, the conversations have been really constructive, but you know, there’s no negotiation with David Pocock and Jacqui Lambie, that’s an easy one.”

Well no there be no negotiation because those 2 are in bed with you Mr Burqa.

Alamak!
February 6, 2024 1:07 pm

However, car companies must sell enough low- or zero-emissions vehicles – or buy emissions “credits” from other car makers which have met the targets – to offset the biggest polluters in their model line-ups and avoid paying fines.

Govt (Federal, State, Local) will step up to the plate and buy all the shitty EV not able to be sold elsewhere. Watch the prices of second hand diesel and/or Ute vehicles to see what will be the “totally unforseeen” side effects of the policy.

The thing that really, really grates in this policy announcement and so many others is that we are being lied to on the reasons for and actual versus stated goals. We know that, they know that …

Dot
Dot
February 6, 2024 1:11 pm

That was the most important day of that cow’s life, for the Bison, it was a Tuesday.

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 1:14 pm

Currently, as I write, there is a biological male in a women’s prison in Victoria. He is in prison for sex offences.

Do I read what I write? Yes, I do.

One male in a female only prison is one too many. Just like one rape or one assault against a woman is one too many.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:15 pm

Buccaneer
Feb 6, 2024 12:50 PM
All new cars will cost more.

Push back here.

Buccaneer,

thanks – Buccaneer

https://edm.infrastructure.gov.au/survey.php?sid=32730&name=have-your-say–new-vehicle-efficiency-standard–individual-submi

Submitted with Comment as to why Voting against Government Proposal

“Here to Help You”, I am from the Government Canberra Public Servants (Service???) & Federal Politicians live in an Isolated Glass House Cocoon, inured to the trials and tribulations of ordinary Australians – this disconnect was shown in the Voice Referendum with the ACT Voting YES 62%, whilst the rest of Australia Voted NO 60% – Federal Government and Canberra Public Servants have shown total disregard for Australians, and this proposal further reinforces that disregard

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 1:17 pm

And a thank you to the Queanbeyan resident for confirming what I write. I am glad she agrees.

Pogria
Pogria
February 6, 2024 1:20 pm

The handover of land to Abos in the expensive areas of Sydney has begun.
After a few more of these, I wonder how high the percentage of “Yes”, voters there will be in these areas. Lol.

Dot
Dot
February 6, 2024 1:21 pm

The story about this autistic kid with the entrapment enjoying AFP gets worse and worse.

“You’ll make a good sniper or suicide bomber”
“Don’t give up”

I’m not allowed to say that – and rightly so.

Hey, whatever happened to the “best interests of the child” – whereas 6’5″ “teens” (race redacted, one picture had their necks and heads made from a red substance like old bunsen burner tubes to match their shirts) murder and spill the blood of grandmothers freely onto their 6-year-old granddaughters in QLD.

Eventually, you come to the conclusion that most controlled ops/use of an agent provocateur should be banned at the Commonwealth constitution level: “Mr Big” style invitations to bragging are a little different though.

You compare the two cases and you can’t take law enforcement seriously at this point.

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 1:22 pm

Postcard.
Bonifacio is on a long deep narrow harbour, just big enough for the four times a day ferry to Sardinia.
I am staying in a building at the top of the harbour, only room for a single row of buildings on each side of the water, on Quai Jerome, four flights of stairs up from the quai side but ‘ground level’ at the rear of the building.
The narrow road that runs behind my building takes you to the haute ville, citadel and ferry terminal, the few gaps in the cliff behind the road have car parking and garages and if you missed out on those gaps, you just built yourself a car
hole in the limestone cliff face.
I can’t help wondering what the land title documents for them look like.

Crossie
Crossie
February 6, 2024 1:28 pm

OldOzzie
Feb 6, 2024 11:06 AM
The fight over car emissions is only just starting

Chris Bowen says the fuel emissions standards will make driving cheaper and give consumers more choice. Car companies disagree.

US carmakers are suspending or downgrading production of EVs so where does Bowen think they will be coming from? China? Why not? Everything else this horrid idiot is inflicting on us is already coming from China. We make nothing so China is profiting from our destruction. The CCP bigwigs must be laughing their heads off at the pretty boy.

dopey
dopey
February 6, 2024 1:30 pm

Charles’s battle with cancer will be very public. Very helpful of the media to point this out. So unfortunate for Charles.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 1:31 pm

Anyones pay gone up 20%+ in the last 5 years?
https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html

A basket of goods and services valued at $ 100
in calendar year
2017, would in calendar year 2023 cost $ 120.91
https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html

Remembering just how much (rent!) is excluded from CPI figures.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:32 pm

Alamak!
Feb 6, 2024 1:07 PM
However, car companies must sell enough low- or zero-emissions vehicles – or buy emissions “credits” from other car makers which have met the targets – to offset the biggest polluters in their model line-ups and avoid paying fines.

Govt (Federal, State, Local) will step up to the plate and buy all the shitty EV not able to be sold elsewhere. Watch the prices of second hand diesel and/or Ute vehicles to see what will be the “totally unforseeen” side effects of the policy.

The thing that really, really grates in this policy announcement and so many others is that we are being lied to on the reasons for and actual versus stated goals. We know that, they know that …

Alamak!,

Watch Paul Murray Live for the Full 23 Mins 28 Secs

Petrol hike to set Aussies back ‘$1,500 a year’

On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray Live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses petrol price increases, the cost-of-living crisis, media parrots Labor, and more.

Sky News host Paul Murray says the cost of petrol has increased to around “$1,500 a year” and highlights the tax cuts which are supposedly going to be “amazing” for Australians.

“Today was the day when petrol prices, they went up,” Mr Murray said.

“The total cost now when it comes to the amount of tax that you have to pay on your petrol is now going to be $1,500 a year.

“But … don’t tell anyone because apparently tax cuts are going to be amazing, they’ll fix everything.”

He covers the increase in Fuek Tax which will negate Tax Cuts, Labor Party New Fuel Efficiency, New versions of Fuel which will cost more, Luxury Car Tax on Hybrid Vehicles, New Taxation on Trucks in Australia – Small Truckie – extra $40,000 per year to his costs

Then Victoria Labor Premier slugging Trucks picking up containers at Melbourne Port a Container Tax of $250 per Container – at least 1 million trucks per year up to 3 containers per truck

as Paul Murray Says Decisions made by people who have no idea of how the real world actually works – and they think you are stupid enough to be distracted by a potential saving of $1000, if you buy a new car 4 years from now and the media helps them spread their Spin”

MatrixTransform
February 6, 2024 1:33 pm

Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, told a media conference today the estimated penalty for car makers which fail to meet the targets would be $100 per gram-per-kilometre under the government’s proposal.

Bowen is now the Climate Pope running a govt approved ICE indulgences scheme

Crossie
Crossie
February 6, 2024 1:39 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
Feb 6, 2024 11:06 AM
I suspect the fires in Chile have more than a little to do with the vast number of eucalypts that have been planted in the country.
Wherever this practice has been pushed we now see lots of bushfires: Greece, Portugal and now Chile.

California also has a sizeable eucalyptus infestation and that makes their fires much worse than they were prior to the introduction of it.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:43 pm

If anyone could post from The Australian – Thanks

LEHRMANN SAGA

Drumgold fails in bid to scrap Sofronoff evidence

The evidence from Walter Sofronoff KC explains why he engaged with the media throughout an inquiry into Shane Drumgold’s conduct while prosecuting Bruce Lehrmann’s rape case.

Also Surprise, Surprise

COURTS

Media ban for hearing over grandmother’s murder

A Queensland court has denied media access to a 16-year-old’s first appearance before a judge after being charged with the alleged murder of a grandmother at an Ipswich shopping centre.

By MACKENZIE SCOTT

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 6, 2024 1:47 pm

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price makes a rock star return to the spotlight: Senator gives fiery speech at rally outside Parliament House – as she reveals her NEW agenda

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has made a triumphant return to Canberra with a fiery speech at a farmers’ rally against the government’s renewables push.

The Country Liberals Senator was greeted by hundreds of cheering fans as she took to the stage out the front of Parliament House in a show of support to those who had gathered.

‘You are the custodians of our land. You know better than anybody the importance of taking care of our country,’ she told the farmers.

‘We should be listening to you. But where is our prime minister and where is Mr (Climate and Energy minister Chris) Bowen? They should have been here. They should have consulted you.’

Ms Nampijinpa Price said it is ‘high time the inner city starts listening to the regions’ and praised the regions for being ‘the heart of this country, which keeps this country thriving’.

Hundreds of angry farmers descended on Canberra on Tuesday to mark the first parliamentary sitting day of the year and protest ‘a race to reckless renewables’.

This includes the Albanese government’s proposed 82 per cent renewables target by 2030, propped up by a major wind farm push, both across the country and offshore.

The Federal government’s climate change agenda has picked up pace of late after Mr Bowen attended the COP28 conference in Dubai where Australia backed a promise to triple renewables energy capacity worldwide by 2030.

The gathered crowd held placards and signs demanding an end to the focus on renewables, and urging Mr Bowen to acknowledge their concerns about the future of the environment.

More – Daily Mail

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:47 pm

NSW Labor Party Premier Chris Minns at Work

Horrified homeowners are told to ‘lock your gates’ after secret Aboriginal land claim is granted on leafy reserve behind their properties that they’ve taken care of for decades

. A community reserve has been made Aboriginal land
. Residents fear they will now be locked out

A leafy reserve in Sydney’s east that homeowners have considered their own ‘hidden gem’ and maintained for 30 years has been declared Aboriginal land.

Blindsided neighbours in the sleepy suburb of Little Bay are worried they will be locked out of the 3453sqm block behind their houses after a secret claim saw it signed over to Indigenous owners.

The Crown land was zoned for public recreation, and residents that back onto it have put up a child’s swing, gather there for a drink every Christmas, and one keeps bee hives there.

And although the powerful local La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council who won the land claim say it’s for recreation, the leafy pocket with water views across to Cronulla could be slated for development.

The tranquility of the neighbourhood – where houses in the same street sell for up to $4 million – was ruptured on January 20 when two men wearing Aboriginal Council T-shirts turned up to inspect the land.

Walking through the plot, one of the men startled residents by saying that the ‘land had been granted to the Aboriginal Land council the day before’ and telling locals who had access to it they would now have to ‘lock your gates’.

Most of the 13 houses on Grose and Reservoir streets and Marconi Place which back on to the pocket of land have doors or gates which open onto it, and the reserve is taken care of by residents who say ‘the council does nothing’.

La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council CEO Chris Ingrey, whose headquarters is a few minutes’ drive from the reserve, confirmed his organisation was bidding for ‘the Grose Street land among many’ land claims on ‘unused Crown land’.

However, the NSW Aboriginal Land Rights Act (ALRA) Registrar told Daily Mail Australia that the NSW Labor Minister for Crown Lands had already determined an Aboriginal Land Claim over the plot on January 19.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 1:48 pm

Dot

Feb 5, 2024 10:34 PM
Has anyone here read Herman Kahn’s On Thermonuclear War?

Yes. While recuperating. Full of opioids but it still made sense.

The copy I read was a borrow from the library – I’ve just bought the Kindle version $70+ but worth rereading with the mad mullahs about to get their hands on one.
That’s going to put some of his theories to the test.

P
P
February 6, 2024 1:50 pm

Charles’s battle with cancer will be very public. Very helpful of the media to point this out. So unfortunate for Charles.

At the end of this CNN article
British royal family tree: Number 1 to 24 in line to throne.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:50 pm

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price makes a rock star return to the spotlight: Senator gives fiery speech at rally outside Parliament House – as she reveals her NEW agenda

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has made a triumphant return to Canberra with a fiery speech at a farmers’ rally against the government’s renewables push.

The Country Liberals Senator was greeted by hundreds of cheering fans as she took to the stage out the front of Parliament House in a show of support to those who had gathered.

‘You are the custodians of our land. You know better than anybody the importance of taking care of our country,’ she told the farmers.

‘We should be listening to you.

But where is our prime minister and where is Mr (Climate and Energy minister Chris) Bowen? They should have been here. They should have consulted you.’

Ms Nampijinpa Price said it is ‘high time the inner city starts listening to the regions’ and praised the regions for being ‘the heart of this country, which keeps this country thriving’.

Makka
Makka
February 6, 2024 1:51 pm

Why does nobody ask the politicians responsible how they explain this shit?

The SFL Opposition is far too cowardly to become embroiled in such a sensible question. The media, being Marxist leftards, support the LGBTQI freak show so for them what’s to explain?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 1:54 pm

Snap Top Ender!

Crossie
Crossie
February 6, 2024 1:54 pm

The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield …
Not only a good murder mystery but lotza technical/interesting stuff about the NASA space programme .. written by an ex astronaut ….

Is he this guy?

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 1:56 pm

Winston Smith
Feb 6, 2024 8:54 AM

Eyrie:
Divers in Singapore attaching timed limpet mines is all you need. Tanker blows up halfway to Oz.
It looks like we may have to insert Digger into Singapore for a reprise.
8 1

I think Digger may have been the Downticker…
🙂

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 2:00 pm

Indolent

Feb 6, 2024 8:59 AM
This is “border security” like every communist country is a “people’s republic”.

Texas Stripped of Powers in Border Security Bill

The Obama/Biden Administration keeps pushing for conflict.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:01 pm

The Bleeding Obvious!

‘Focus on core issues’: Council Watch surveys find Victorians want local councils to focus on essential services

An overwhelming majority of Victorians want their local councils to “focus on core issues”, with two surveys finding ratepayers are opposed to time and money being spent on symbolic cultural issues.

An overwhelming majority of Victorian ratepayers are against local councils spending time and money on symbolic cultural issues, new surveys have revealed.

Two survey’s conducted late last year by Council Watch show there was widespread public support for councils focusing on local services such as roads, rubbish, and local parks, but almost no support for LGBTQIA+ issues, Indigenous reconciliation, and climate change.

“What thousands of Victorians told us is that councils need to urgently focus on core services,” said Council Watch president Dean Hurlston.

A survey of 1669 people – conducted between November 2023 and January 2024 – found just two per cent of respondents wanted their local council to spend money on LGBTQIA+ issues, three per cent on Indigenous reconciliation, five per cent on equality/diversity, and eight per cent on climate change plans and action.

In contrast, 86 per cent of respondents said their local council’s budget should include funding for roads.

The other issues with majority support for funding were footpaths (67 per cent), the removal of dumped rubbish (64 per cent) and parks and gardens (63 per cent).

Weed removal and maintenance (58 per cent), street and footpath cleaning (57 per cent), and Aged Care – in home support (56 per cent) as well as Planning (46 per cent), sports/reactional facilities (39 per cent), and Kids playgrounds (29 per cent) were among the issues that received support from a significant minority of respondents.

Just four per cent of respondents said equality/diversity/LGBTQIA+ was an essential local council service. Arts and culture was viewed as an essential service by 12 per cent of respondents, while 13 per cent said environment and climate change was an essential service.

Among the other survey findings were the fact 80 per cent of respondents rated their council as either terrible or poor, while 61 per cent said they found it harder to pay their rates bills this year.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 2:06 pm

lotocoti
Feb 6, 2024 9:15 AM

It should be remembered the launch vehicle, just like a struck golf ball
or a thrown brick, is subject to the laws of Sir Isaac Newton.

Not in Australia, mate!
It’s subject to the Laws of Australia!
Next from Canberra: Pi is equal to 24.
Think about it….

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 6, 2024 2:06 pm

Regarding death of Queen and Prince Phillip might be Vax related.

A bit like when somebody aged 104 dies and they say it was Covid.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:09 pm

Hidden union costs slammed as stiffling construction industry in Queensland as developers continue to crumble

Construction costs are set to blow out even further with the hidden union costs exposed in south-east Queensland.

The hefty cost of union construction in southeast Queensland is set to rise with a major player in the government’s “tier one projects” to lift wages by 17 percent and introduces new allowances to compensate workers who wear PPE and use their mobile phones at work.

The increase has alarmed Meriton boss and billionaire developer, Harry Triguboff, who’s called elements of the agreement, “rubbish”, “crazy” and the state government “weak” for allowing it to happen.

The confidential enterprise agreement shows the Electrical Trades Union will lift wages seven percent this year and a further ten percent over the following two years.

In practice, the 2024 rise elevates the weekly wage of a top tier electrician to almost $3,000, or more than $82 an hour before tax.

Sky News also discovered a suite of lucrative allowances in the award that “compensate” workers in curious ways, adding hundreds, potentially thousands of dollars extra to a worker’s weekly salary.

For the first time the agreement includes a new $1.70 per hour charge for workers who wear protective equipment, “for the … disability (of) wearing respirators and disposable suits”.

There’s also a new and additional $1.70 an hour “asbestos allowance” and a new $100 per week “technology Allowance” reimbursing tradies or apprentices who are asked and agree to use their mobile phones or tablets on the job.

Rest breaks will also be extended from 10 to 12 hours.

The windfall for workers comes on top of other far larger levees including a “Site Allowance,” “Daily Travel Allowance” and a “Multi-Storey Allowance.”

The Site Allowance pays workers a pro rata hourly subsidy that ramps up in line with the cost of the overall project.

Best explained, it means a worker on a smaller site where the total construction value is $50m to $100m is given an extra $2.50 an hour.

It increases to $6 for a $500m to $600m site.

And $11 an hour on a $1b site like the Gabba rebuild or the Cross River Rail, adding nearly $400 to a top electrician’s pay for the same skillset.

“Rubbish. It’s Rubbish,” said Meriton Boss, Harry Triguboff.

“The Government is very weak in Queensland because they need the Olympic games and they need the infrastructure.”

A similarly lucrative “Multi-Storey Allowance” pays workers depending on the height level they work on their shift.

Workers on the lower levels are paid roughly an extra $1.50 per hour, while a worker on level 61 and over are paid an additional $4.40 an hour.

“He works his eight hours and goes home,” said Mr Triguboff, disagreeing with the need for the rate.

Often referred to as ‘Highrise Harry’ for the prevalence of his company’s high rise units and serviced apartments across the country, Mr Triguboff said he made a point of not using unions where possible.

“From my experience, the unions in Sydney are ok (but) the unions in Queensland are hard,” he said believing they had been influenced by Victoria.

“Many builders lose all their money in Queensland,” he said, adding that with his businesses returning to develop two sites in Brisbane’s CBD, that he hoped the unions, “would listen to common sense.”

ETU workers are also paid a combined $90 a day in two travel allowances to assist in getting to and from work sites.

“The Travel Allowance includes reimbursement for all costs, expenses and inconveniences occurred,” in dealing with congested construction sites.

The Meriton boss was bemused though with rules around the cessation of work in rain and high humidity, labelling the practice “crazy.”

If there is continuous rain, temperatures above 35 degrees, or temperature above 29 degrees with 75 per cent humidity, work is to cease and move to somewhere more suitable.

The agreement also states, “An Employee required to work in the rain will be paid double the rates.” Furthermore, “If an employee’s clothes become wet as a result of working in the rain the employee will, be allowed to go home for the remainder of the day without loss of pay.”

The clause raises questions with workers provided clothes, boots, safety gear and wet weather equipment to deal with dust, heat and inclement weather.

Former LNP Premier, Campbell Newman believed union Labor was costing taxpayers and buyers more than they should have to pay.

Any of the top developers in Brisbane will tell you that high profile sites, sites with cranes … they will be union controlled and they will be more expensive to build. A lot more. 20 per cent to 30 per cent.” he said.

Queensland Premier, Steve Miles declined to be interviewed for the story, issuing an unapologetic statement.

“I won’t apologise for expecting safe work environments on our major infrastructure projects and fair pay for Queensland workers,” said Mr Miles.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 2:12 pm

calli

Feb 6, 2024 9:33 AM
In other news….it’s finally…finally…raining here. I can hear the parched ground slurping.

Have another look Calli – is it the ground or are you standing in really fresh … stuff?

Makka
Makka
February 6, 2024 2:13 pm

A survey of 1669 people – conducted between November 2023 and January 2024 – found just two per cent of respondents wanted their local council to spend money on LGBTQIA+ issues, three per cent on Indigenous reconciliation, five per cent on equality/diversity, and eight per cent on climate change plans and action.

Was Council Salaries or Council Officials on the list to spend money? I bet not.

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 2:13 pm

Makka
Feb 6, 2024 1:51 PM
Why does nobody ask the politicians responsible how they explain this shit?

The SFL Opposition is far too cowardly to become embroiled in such a sensible question. The media, being Marxist leftards, support the LGBTQI freak show so for them what’s to explain?

Correct, although some in the Liberals have asked questions, only to be smacked down by their own side. Conservatives such as Senator Alex Antic and Moira Deeming in Victoria have asked tough questions, as has Pauline Hanson, Mark Latham, Malcolm Roberts and a few others.

Many in the Liberal left are completely on board with the freak show. I remember how they treated Katherine Deves prior to the May 2022 election. Forget about the left, Deves was subjected to a pile on from the likes of Zimmerman, Kean, Sharma and Martin.

The Oz has reported this morning that in South Australia conservative Labor MPs are prepared to back a parliamentary inquiry into gender dys­phoria ‘amid a surge in transitioning cases in South Australia’.

From The Oz…

Australia’s first ever parliamentary inquiry into gender dys­phoria will be put to a vote in South Australia on Wednesday, with several conservative Labor MPs prepared to back the plan amid a surge in transitioning cases in South Australia.

The inquiry will examine all facets of treatment and support for young people with gender dysphoria, the model by which their condition is assessed, and the process by which puberty blockers and hormones can be administered, and operations approved.

It will also consider the rights of parents and guardians in the assessment and treatment of young people and the role of government in providing education and health services for gender dysphoria.

We can only hope.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 2:21 pm

Makka

Feb 6, 2024 10:00 AM
We always knew who to avoid.

100%. They often managed to find a reason to be in the boys change rooms after sports or after a school footy game. And that’s at public schools. None of my mates got touched up but there were favorites. Who I suspected then and later in life as being queer or leaning that way.

Multiple upticks.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:25 pm

What the Australian Media have conveniently forgotten re Labor PM Albosleezy So Called Tax Cuts!

The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset (LMITO) is Over – What Does it Mean for You?

We all enjoy an extra boost in our tax refund, most recently from the low and middle income tax offset (LMITO) that helped boost refunds for millions of Aussie workers.

The government introduced LMITO in the 2018-19 tax year and increased in value in 2021-22 with an additional “cost of living tax offset”.

Unfortunately, the end has come for LMITO. The offset will no longer be available from the 2022-23 tax year (1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023), and for the upcoming 2023-24 tax return.

Don’t worry, this won’t affect your paycheck each month, but if you previously benefitted from this tax offset, the end of LMITO ultimately means you will pay more tax overall, and you’re likely to receive a smaller tax refund at tax time.

So, let’s dig into what the end of LMITO will mean for you.

What is the Low and Middle Income Tax Offset?

The low and middle income tax offset is a reduction of your tax payable and it was sort of a gift from the Australian Government. It was introduced as part of the federal budget for 2018-19, aiming to provide some relief to low and middle income earners by reducing the amount of tax they pay each year.

This also helped to balance a tax bracket creep problem that has been growing in Australia, forcing workers into higher tax even when their standard of living didn’t improve.

It’s important to note that the tax offset did not affect any HELP/HECS debt.

Who got LMITO and how much did it ‘pay’?

Between the 2018-19 and 2021-22 financial years, if you were an Australian resident for tax purposes and received an income of less than $126,000 per year, you could claim the LMITO for those years.

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t receive the amount of the LMITO offset directly as a lump sum or even a cash payment.

Because it is an offset, it can only reduce the amount of tax you need to have paid at the end of the financial year.

If you didn’t pay tax, you’re not entitled to the offset. But if you did pay tax, the offset probably boosted your tax refund, by quite a lot, during recent years.

Taxable Income Offset

$0 – $37,000 $255
$37,001 – $48,000 $255 + 7.5 cents for every dollar over $37,000, up to $1,080 maximum
$48,001 – $90,000 $1,080
$90,001 – $126,000 $1,080 – 3 cents for every dollar above $90,000

During the 2021-22 income year, taxpayers who earned under $126,000 were entitled to an additional $420 tax offset.

This was on top of what is outlined in our table above.

Example of how LMITO affects a normal Australian worker

From 1 July 2021 – 30 June 2022, Chantel’s income was $62,000. Throughout the year her employer deducted $10,617 in tax from her pay, and sent that money to the ATO.

Given that Chantel’s taxable income falls between $48,000 and $90,000, she is eligible to the $1,080 and $420 offsets.

This brings her tax payable down to $9,117. But, remember that she paid $10,617. The difference of $1500 boosted Chantel’s tax refund way up.

How will the end of LMITO affect my tax refund?

If you complete a tax return for a year prior to 2023, you don’t need to do anything.
The LMITO is and was applied in your Etax return automatically, reducing your tax payable, and increasing your tax refund. However…

Is the tax offset scrapped for 2023?

For the 2022-23 income year (1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023), the low and middle income tax offset is no longer available.

This means that your tax payable will be calculated at the full amount, without any reduction applied.

Therefore, millions of Australians who received the offset and got bigger tax refunds in 2020, 2021 and 2022 will now pay more tax than they have in previous years.

In a nutshell: The end of the tax offset called LMITO means many Australian workers will get smaller tax refunds in 2023. And there’s nothing we can do about that.

At the same time, the upcoming income tax rate changes provide tax breaks for Australia’s highest income earners. That’s known as Stage 3 Tax Cuts.

What about the Low Income Tax Offset (LITO)? Is LITO the same as LMITO?

The LITO is a tax offset available to Australian residents who earn less than $66,667 per year.

The offset reduces the amount of tax payable by a maximum of $700 for individuals who earn less than $37,500 per year.

For taxpayers earning between $37,501 and $45,000 per year, the offset reduces depending on your income. A minimum offset of $255 is available to those earning between $45,001 and $66,667.

The good news for low income earners is that the low income tax offset (LITO) will continue. There have been no announced changes to this offset.

It’s important to note, the offset can only reduce tax payable to nil – any excess offset is not refundable.

Plus, instead of paying the LITO as a refund, it may be used to reduce any outstanding debt you might have with the ATO.

Makka
Makka
February 6, 2024 2:25 pm

Among the other survey findings were the fact 80 per cent of respondents rated their council as either terrible or poor,

Council voting should be made compulsory. These grubs hide under rocks, voting themselves fatter salaries, more mates into their fat arse bureaucracy, imposing and funding LGBTQI freak shows, funding the indig industry and doing SFA for ratepayers. Force people to take a good look at how they are being royally ripped off.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 2:29 pm

Here you go, OldOzzie.

Shane Drumgold fails in bid to scrap ‘irrelevant’ evidence of Walter Sofronoff

By ellie dudley
Legal Affairs Correspondent
Updated 12:23PM February 6, 2024, First published at 9:44AM February 6, 2024

Former ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold has failed in a bid to strike out evidence from Walter Sofronoff KC explaining why he engaged with the media throughout an inquiry into Mr Drumgold’s conduct while prosecuting Bruce Lehrmann’s rape case, with a Supreme Court judge ruling that the evidence could go some way to clarifying how contact with the press could have been “necessary or convenient for the fair and prompt conduct of the inquiry.”

Mr Drumgold objected to parts of an affidavit sworn by Mr Sofronoff in which he says he informed a solicitor that he planned to make himself available to journalists throughout the inquiry to answer questions, and that “his interest was to ensure the accurate coverage of the work of the inquiry so far as he was able to do so.”

The affidavit also reveals that The Australian’s columnist Janet Albrechtsen contacted Mr Sofronoff after having received the inquiry’s final report from him under embargo, to alert him to the fact that she and a colleague had obtained the report from another source and planned on publishing the following day.

Mr Drumgold launched legal action against the Sofronoff inquiry and the ACT government last year, challenging findings in the report that he engaged in serious malpractice and grossly ­unethical conduct in Mr Lehrmann’s trial, which led to his termination as the DPP.

After Mr Sofronoff’s report was given to The Australian and the ABC under embargo, Mr Drumgold said he had been denied procedural fairness, alleging that Mr ­Sofronoff failed to comply with s. 17 of the ACT Inquiries Act, which provides that board members must not provide inquiry documents to others or communicate inquiry information ­except under provisions provided by the act.

As part of these proceedings, Mr Drumgold is seeking a declaration that the report and decisions are invalid. Mr Sofronoff denies the allegations against him.

With the matter set to be heard over three days next week, Mr Drumgold had made attempts to have parts of Mr Sofronoff’s sworn affidavit deemed inadmissable. However Justice Stephen Kaye has rejected all of Mr Drumgold’s objections bar one, and upheld the bulk of Mr Sofronoff’s affidavit on the basis of relevance.

“I am not persuaded, at this point, that the contents of paragraphs 10 to 45 of the affidavit of Sofronoff are irrelevant. At the least, they give some content to the reason, given by Sofronoff, as to why, in the course of the inquiry in the present case, he actively engaged with the media and provided documents and other material to them,” Justice Kaye wrote in the judgement.

“In essence, they provide some background to the explanation given by Sofronoff as to why he considered that his conduct, in providing the documentation and information to the media, constituted an exercise by him of a function under the Act (for the purposes of s. 17) and as to why he considered it necessary to engage in that manner with the media for the ‘fair and prompt conduct of the inquiry’.”

Mr Drumgold objected to parts of the affidavit that explained how Mr Sofronoff “recognised that the subject matter of the inquiry concerned public confidence in the criminal justice system” and he was of the view “that appropriate engagement with the media would be essential to the performance of the inquiry’s functions.”

He objected to one paragraph, on the basis that it is “vague and meaningless”, in which Mr Sofronoff explained why it was important for journalists to understand “the real issues of the inquiry.”

“The paragraph is relevant, because it provides some explanation as to why Sofronoff considered it necessary to provide some detailed information to the media as to the proceedings before the inquiry. As such, evidence is not sought to be adduced as opinion evidence,” Justice Kaye wrote in the Judgement. “The passage in question is clear, and is not ‘vague and meaningless’, as contended by the plaintiff.”

Justice Kaye also upheld a paragraph explaining how The Australian came to publish the report prior to it being made public by government, however said the relevance of the paragraph “is, at best, marginal”.

“In paragraph 87, it is stated that, on 3 August 2023, The Australian newspaper published a story, dealing with the content of the report of the Inquiry, which the government had not then published,” the Judgement reads.

“It is then deposed that, on the previous evening, Ms Albrechtsen had contacted Sofronoff to inform him that she and her colleague had obtained a copy of the report from another source and that, using that source, they would publish a story the following day. That section of the affidavit is objected to by the plaintiff on the basis that it contains inadmissable hearsay.

“In response, the first defendant has stated that the evidence is sought to be adduced for a non-hearsay purpose. The relevance of the evidence on that basis is, at most, marginal.

“With some reservation, I would uphold its admissibility, on the basis that it may explain why Sofronoff did not, apparently, take any steps in relation to the publication by The Australian newspaper of the report before it had been published by the government.”

Justice Kaye struck off one paragraph of the affidavit on the basis that it was irrelevant and “argumentative”, but did not explain what the paragraph contained.

The ACT Supreme Court last Wednesday heard Mr Drumgold’s lawyer Dan O’Gorman SC wished to submit evidence of text messages, phone calls and emails between Mr Sofronoff and Ms Albrechtsen, which he claimed spoke to the “unreasonableness” of their relationship while the inquiry was being conducted.

“We say that the apprehended bias arises in this way – that in the months leading up to and during the inquiry, Ms Albrechtsen was writing numerous articles which were critical of Mr Drumgold,” Mr O’Gorman told the court.

He continued: “A comparison is made of communications Mr Sofronoff had with Ms Albrechtsen in particular and with other journalists. For example, we point out that Mr Sofronoff made 65 telephone calls between Feb 9 and July 31, and we outline how 55 were with The Australian and 10 with all other journalists.”

“There was a total of 9 hours and 57 minutes (of phone calls) – 7 hours and 33 minutes with The Australian, therefore other journalists, one hour and 34 minutes,” he said.

“During the actual public hearings, Mr Sofronoff made 10 calls to The Australian (journalists), eight to Ms Albrechtsen.”

Mr O’Gorman last Wednesday also said he would seek to cross-examine Mr Sofronoff when the matter is heard. However Justice Kaye seemed extremely hesitant to permit the cross-examination.

“I’d be very loathe to give leave to cross examination unless it’s relevant,” he said at the time. “It’s not a fishing expedition, this is not an inquiry.”

The matter will be heard on February 13, and is expected to last for three days.

P
P
February 6, 2024 2:30 pm

Oatlands memorial shows new life blossoms forth from tragedy
By Monica Doumit – February 5, 2024

I can’t imagine how much preparation went into the blessing and opening of the memorial garden at Oatlands over the weekend. From the family’s four-year battle to be allowed to have a memorial built, to the design and construction, the invitations to dignitaries and close family and friends, the selection of readings, prayers and music, the setup of chairs and marquees to ensure the February sun wasn’t too oppressive, the podium and sound equipment, the speeches, the doves and balloons and flowers—it was clear that a lot of time and effort had gone into making the day just right.

The efforts were all overshadowed, however, by Selina Abdallah, nearly two-years-old. She joyfully occupied herself throughout the 90-minute-long event by playing and dancing through the memorial garden.

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During the addresses from her mum and dad, from the prime minister and premier, and the former prime minister, Selina happily played amidst the newly-constructed memorial as if it had been built as a new playground just for her. Those gathered can be forgiven for not listening as intently as they otherwise might have as their attention was diverted from the dignitaries to Miss Almost-Two in a white cotton dress, delighting in her surroundings. Her play was so captivating that Premier Chris Minns playfully joked that those in attendance would remember the afternoon for a very long time “because Selina showed so much joy running around at the front of this assembly and destroying the beautiful flowers.”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 2:30 pm

Bolding fail, sorry!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
February 6, 2024 2:36 pm

I wonder what our medicos here think of the ‘enlarged’ prostate and ‘some other’ cancer. Surely Charles at his age would have already have colonoscopies?

As Barry pointed out, King Chuck 3 is an avid disciple of quackery, particularly naturopathy.
It is highly likely that he has been treating his bleeding bowel with dandelion tea for 12-18 months.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:36 pm

Thanks Zulu – appreciated

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:38 pm

RBA leaves cash rate at 4.35pc, keeps tightening bias

The number: The Reserve Bank of Australia left the cash rate on hold at 4.35 per cent, but downgraded its own forecasts for inflation and growth, while upgrading its jobless rate projection.

What was said: The RBA has maintained its tightening bias, saying “further increase in interest rates cannot be ruled out”, according to the statement.

Why it matters: It is the central bank’s first policy meeting this year under the new format of a two-day board meeting and media conference and the release of economic forecasts.

What has changed: Inflation slowed faster than expected in the December quarter, prompting traders to bet that the first interest rate cut will happen by September of this year. Markets are expecting the US Federal Reserve to start easing its monetary policy by May.

What’s next: RBA governor Michele Bullock will hold a media conference at 3.30p

Crossie
Crossie
February 6, 2024 2:39 pm

The Oz has reported this morning that in South Australia conservative Labor MPs are prepared to back a parliamentary inquiry into gender dys­phoria ‘amid a surge in transitioning cases in South Australia’.

Conservative Labor MPs? Perfect definition of oxymoron. If these people were conservative they would not be in Labor.

P
P
February 6, 2024 2:41 pm

‘Some other form of cancer’ has been noted.

Could be a blood cancer such as Leukemia.

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 2:50 pm

As Barry pointed out, King Chuck 3 is an avid disciple of quackery, particularly naturopathy.
It is highly likely that he has been treating his bleeding bowel with dandelion tea for 12-18 months.

Bowel cancer, if detected early, is treatable and I’m pretty sure most survive.

However, I knew someone who refused mainstream treatments and treated her bowel cancer with a mix of naturopathy and homeopathy.

She died.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 2:55 pm

Wife coming back from Tennis noticed Roseville School Buses parked out Manly Aquatic Centre

I was surprised – Why Manly? – Forgot North Sydney still out of action and not alot of choice North Shore

https://www.northshoremums.com.au/pools-and-aquatic-centres-sydney-north-shore/

Crossie
Crossie
February 6, 2024 3:05 pm

However, I knew someone who refused mainstream treatments and treated her bowel cancer with a mix of naturopathy and homeopathy.

She died.

My uncle was into natural therapies and treated his bowel cancer that way, he also died. I had bowel cancer at the same time, had surgery and chemo and am still here twelve years later. I wasn’t successful in talking my uncle to follow up his surgery with chemo, his excuse was that it was too rough for him at his age.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 3:05 pm

TheFrolickingMoll:
Feb 6, 2024 10:26 AM

Check out this bit of legal wizardry.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/05/uk-professor-suffered-discrimination-due-to-anti-zionist-beliefs-tribunal-rules
Miller said he was “very proud that we have managed to establish that anti-Zionist views qualify as a protected belief under the UK Equality Act. This was the most important reason for taking the case and I hope it will become a touchstone precedent in all the future battles that we face with the racist and genocidal ideology of Zionism and the movement to which it is attached.”

Now try to get anti Islamic comments past the censor.

Dot
Dot
February 6, 2024 3:09 pm

Let’s not shit on herbal medicine too much and remember where most of our drugs, let alone cancer drugs come from – the plant kingdom.

Modern chemistry and pharmacology is refined alchemy and herbalism with applied knowledge from physics, maths, stats and biology.

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/14/19/4645

Taraxasterol Inhibits Tumor Growth by Inducing Apoptosis and Modulating the Tumor Microenvironment in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (2022)

Taraxasterol (TAX) demonstrates strong pharmacological activity in some diseases. In this study, we demonstrate that TAX induces S-phase cell cycle arrest, prevents cell migration by interfering EMT, and induces cancer cell apoptosis. In addition, TAX administration downregulated the proportion of Treg cells and upregulated CD107a + NK cells in TME. Our in vitro and in vivo findings indicate that TAX could serve as a potential natural drug for lung cancer therapy.

Likely not the correct cancer, cell aetiology or concentration with no delivery mechanism…

All in all these days we use codeine and aspirin, not opium and willow bark, as they are more potent.

P
P
February 6, 2024 3:11 pm

King George VI died on 6th February, 1952.
I remember it well because I had not long commenced High School.

I think it strange to announce King Charles has cancer on this date.

Dot
Dot
February 6, 2024 3:12 pm

I’d be taking everything humanly possible and fasting with vitamin D supplementation. I’d sign up for experimental therapies too, plus other ones if I had the wherewithal, such as oncolytic viruses.

Tom
Tom
February 6, 2024 3:18 pm

The hefty cost of union construction in southeast Queensland is set to rise with a major player in the government’s “tier one projects” to lift wages by 17 percent and introduces new allowances to compensate workers who wear PPE and use their mobile phones at work.

Australia already has the world’s highest wages.

Now our trade union government — backed by wall-to-wall trade union state governments — are in the process of making Australia an even more expensive country to do anything useful like building stuff.

And the trade union government doesn’t represent anyone, least of all the Australian working class, as unions now have fewer than 10% of the private workforce as members.

The only people the trade union government represents are the trade union leaderships, which are swimming in cash from Paul Keating’s compulsory superannuation racket.

PS: I’ve been watching parliament Question Time with the sound down — a great big up yours to middle Australia from the trade union government’s smug, rich fat cats.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 3:22 pm

PM not in negotiations on treaty promise
Rhiannon Down
Rhiannon Down

Anthony Albanese says the federal government is “certainly not in any negotiations on treaty” but various state governments were, in response to a question on whether Labor was fulfilling its promise to “deliver treaty and truth-telling”.

The Prime Minister said the referendum to enshrine an Indigenous voice at a referendum “was not successful and I respect that outcome” but refused to say what his government was doing.

“Indeed, ‘treaty’ implies two sides negotiating and coming to an agreement, that’s what occurs,” he said.

“Various state governments are undertaking that work. I note that the Liberal Party in various states has changed its position, but in New South Wales I think that process is continuing but it’s occurring at the state level.”

Any attempt by the States to enter into a Treaty with their own citizens isn’t worth the paper it’s written on..

John H.
John H.
February 6, 2024 3:28 pm

Dot
Feb 6, 2024 3:12 PM
I’d be taking everything humanly possible and fasting with vitamin D supplementation. I’d sign up for experimental therapies too, plus other ones if I had the wherewithal, such as oncolytic viruses.

On my old blog I reference animal studies which point to the value of fasting.
Not sure about D, might promote PD 1 and CTLA 4 too much.
Oncolytic viruses? Some early promising work with measles.
I’d crash the antioxidants, avoid anything that promotes NAD or GSH, and consider boosting iron to induce oxidative stress.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 3:28 pm

Old Ozzie:

How else can anyone explain the descent of our city downtowns into dank medieval cesspits, our notion of male and female transformed into the sexual circus right out of Petronius’s Satyricon, our race relations into a mixture of Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and our universities into Soviet-like “People’s Universities of Correct Thought?


“We have to blow up your Australia before we can create our Paradise.”
I feel another T shirt coming on…

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 6, 2024 3:28 pm

We are actually being primed for a war with China.
Or anyone.
It’s the way they’ll cancel the 2024 election.

Indolent
Indolent
February 6, 2024 3:29 pm

Maybe even he realises it’s a step too far.

Mitch McConnell Turns Against Border Bill

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 6, 2024 3:29 pm

How did the anti-ruinables protest in Canberra go?
Did someone show up with a sign telling Dutton to “Ditch the Tax Cuts”?

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 6, 2024 3:34 pm

Reserve Bank will have a two halfday meeting from now on.
This means two chickens will lose their entrails in the service of the nation.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 6, 2024 3:37 pm

The UK hasn’t had a proper conservative government since Thatcher.
They are about to join the US and shaft Israel by supporting a Pali state.

cohenite
February 6, 2024 3:40 pm

Bungonia Bee
Feb 6, 2024 3:29 PM
How did the anti-ruinables protest in Canberra go?
Did someone show up with a sign telling Dutton to “Ditch the Tax Cuts”?

A fizzer.

The sheeple are still too comfortable.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 3:48 pm

How Albo’s government is going to get more of your money as taxes are hiked on petrol, beer and spirits in line with automatic indexation

. Excise on beer, spirits and fuel rises this week
. Some groups and politicians called for freeze on the tax

Lysander
Lysander
February 6, 2024 4:00 pm

Who is going to get that Wong chap’s job?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 4:01 pm

As cliche as it sounds, things are turning dire for Ukraine—at least for this current phase of things. Zelensky finally openly confessed his intention to purge not only Zaluzhny and his assistants, but a lot of other staff in what is essentially a ‘great reset’ of the Ukrainian leadership:

Immediately after that, Ukrainian Deputy Yevhen Shevchenko reported that, according to his information, Zaluzhny has already internally accepted the position of ambassador to the UK:

As the above article states, if this is true, it means Zaluzhny would effectively be ‘shipped out to the farm’ to be placed under close watch in the UK, and as far away from Ukraine as possible to keep Zelensky protected.

There’s no word on how true any of this is, but rumor had it that the US had already earmarked Budanov for Zaluzhny’s position, which is why Budanov was flown on his high-profile tour of Washington DC late last year: it is said the planners and controllers—i.e. Nuland and co.—were likely using the opportunity to introduce Budanov around town to all the new shot-callers he’ll soon be taking orders from.

Likewise it was to put his face front and center in the beltway and sell him as the next replacement.

What’s most eye-opening about these events is that Avdeevka happens to be suddenly crumbling, just in time for these reversals. It suggests the non-coincidental nature of the proceedings; i.e. Zelensky may suddenly be pulling the plug on Avdeevka to time its fall with the crescendo of anti-Zaluzhny machinations in order to throw him under the bus by blaming Avdeevka’s fall on him, and using that as the final impetus to announce his dismissal.

Ex-Aidar deputy commander Mosiychuk very bluntly underscores this very reasoning:

What is uncertain, however, is what exactly the purge is supposed to accomplish for Zelensky.

The fact is, Biden’s Ukrainian aid is still held up and seems no closer to fruition.

Yesterday, the administration announced the new revised bill and it was met with immediate furor by House Republicans:

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 4:10 pm

Sancho Panzer
Feb 6, 2024 2:36 PM

I wonder what our medicos here think of the ‘enlarged’ prostate and ‘some other’ cancer. Surely Charles at his age would have already have colonoscopies?

Without wasting time reading the MSM “reports” likely overloaded with ignorant guesses of Charles’ situation I’ll provide my own guesses, based on my knowledge of current oncological practice:

Charles was presumably undergoing a radical prostatectomy. A procedure reserved for the removal of diffuse prostatic cancer with a high anaplastic index ie. poor cellular differentiation and likely unresponsiveness to hormone-blocking therapy.
This procedure requires open surgical access, not the limited access of a trans-urethral prostatectomy (TURP), which is used for more focal tumours of lesser oncogenicity.
This was likely to be through the abdominal wall and into the peritoneal cavity, including dissection and removal of draining lymph nodes.
The only cancers that might be found incidentally during such a procedure would be urothelial or colorectal ones.
Given their relative incidence in males, I would think a colorectal cancer metastatic to the peritoneal cavity (miliary secondaries) ie. Stage IV, would be the most likely incidental “find”.
These metastases would not be visible on colonoscopy, nor palpable on digital rectal examination
Incurable, but treatable disease with a median survival of 18-24 months, depending on tumour histology, oncogene typing and patient fitness.

Here endeth the educated guesswork.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 4:10 pm

Resident interlecshural Lizzie, big shot at Sydney Uni (she says) but can’t even spell a commonly used expression.

The vision of you and the unfortunate beta ‘pouring’ over maps belongs in a cheap zombie movie. Both of you melting and dripping over the table.

The correct spelling and usage is ‘poring.’

You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are, Perky Tits.

Moo! ?

What a silly woman with her interlechuralism. Poring/pouring, easily typed.

Just as of the stop off to Galapagos, Calli, as you correct me, is Ecuador, with the problems there, not in Peru. My inattention was because we were thinking of stopping off at Peru on the way, and that of course is not on the cards now the Galapagos trip is cancelled.

BTW, how’s it going with your son’s ten grand ‘electricity bill.’ ?

After doing your Instagram thing here, because everyone here cares deeply about about every detail of your life (not!) you have gone quiet about an embarrassing story that everyone here could see through. As usual, not a lot of self reflection.

Not only patently stupid, self-entitled and hopelessly wrong, but capable of displaying this to all, showing that she is without any knowledge of drug issues and how they can cloud what may, or may not, be legitimate demands for help in a crisis. I haven’t ‘gone quiet’ on anything. Simply, there is no more yet to report. I suspect the debt is accrued, and is likely real, or somewhere near that near that amount, possibly exaggerated. However, the demands for funds are also likely to be demands either for other things or for some legitimation re ‘independence’ which is chimeric at best. As I said, time will tell. He currently seems to be in a state of psychosis. Alone, and probably frightened. Nothing I can do about that – yet.

One thing caught my eye.

Somebody asked what would happen when she dropped off the twig,

Like all enablers, she will leave him plenty of money so that he doesn’t have to change.

Go on, Lizzie. Tell us you’re leaving him nothing. Add to the list of lies.

5 10

There is no ‘list of lies’ that you are constantly and most unfairly harping on about. I will say here now as a point of interest, no doubt, for others in similar situations, that Hairy and I have had long discussion with our solicitor about our Wills and how to ensure fair treatment for all four children, two of them not his, but in our household during some of their growing-up until age 18. We are also both acutely aware of his current needs, as well as the needs of three other children and six grandchildren. This woman who has spent her life without entailing herself with such worries has the gall to pontificate on these matters as an expert? What a fool. And a vicious one too.

Thoroughly deserves the appellation of Queanbeyan Cow.
Although it was not one I invented, and I do rather think of it as an insult to these lovely animals.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 4:12 pm

OldOzzie
Feb 6, 2024 11:14 AM:

Will new RBA era clarify or confuse monetary message?

It can only confuse. Our Labor government is lurching from crisis to intervention to new crisis to new intervention to another crisis…
They are stuck in a crisis/intervention doom loop and cannot understand why it continues to happen.
It shouldn’t happen, should it? Because they are all the smartest person the room – any room they happen to be in, and Canberra is the centre of all Wisdom.
Australia desperately needs recall legislation.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 4:18 pm

Australian Labor Party & their Labor State Henchpeople continue on their way to increase tax on Australians

Pressure mounts on Labor Allan govt to drop Victoria’s ‘health tax’ amid reports patients face 30 per cent increase in GP fees

There are growing calls for the Allan government to pull the pin on a “health tax” in the state amid patients facing higher fees to see a GP.

Bryant Hevesi – Digital Reporter

The Allan government is facing renewed pressure to drop a controversial “health tax” amid claims patients are set to be hit with massive fee increases to see a GP.

There are also warnings dozens of GP clinics would be forced to close under changes to payroll tax which stem from a ruling by the State Revenue Office Victoria.

General practices already pay the tax for their employees, which includes receptionists, nurses and GPs in training.

But independent GPs working in medical centres have not been required to pay the tax as they were not classified as employees, with the ruling changing that interpretation.

A survey of more than 300 clinics by HotDoc, published in the Herald Sun on Tuesday, found 95 per cent planned to charge patients higher fees due to the change.

There are reports that would mean the average patient fee of $40.10 would rise by 30 per cent to more than $52.

The data also showed 16.5 per cent of clinics would have to shut due to the payroll tax liability. Concerns have previously been aired about a retrospective bill being imposed.

The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Australian GP Alliance and Primary Care Business Council have spent months campaigning against the “tax grab”.

RACGP Victoria chair Anita Munoz said there was “increasing concern about the lack of traction that we’re getting in this discussion with the government”.

“We know that practices that receive respective tax bills are more likely than not to close as a result of that because they’re unable to absorb those costs,” she said.

“We also know that going forward, if practices have to collect this tax on behalf of the SRO then that will mean an increase in fees that are applied to each of the medical services.”

The opposition has also slammed the government over the payroll tax changes, claiming the move will worsen the state’s “health crisis”.

“This is an insidious tax that will end bulk billing in Victoria and drive patients to already overrun emergency departments,” shadow health minister Georgie Crozier said.

“Labor’s Health Tax is a desperate cash grab from a government that simply cannot manage money.

“The Labor Allan government must drop this punitive tax that will only worsen Victoria’s health crisis.”

Labor Premier Jacinta Allan told reporters she had “nothing to announce” on Tuesday when quizzed on a potential change in position but said the government will meet with GPs.

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 4:19 pm

P
Feb 6, 2024 2:41 PM

‘Some other form of cancer’ has been noted.

Could be a blood cancer such as Leukemia.

Most probably not.
Haematological catastrophies would have been well detected in pre-op testing and would have been an absolute contraindication to further treatment.

Top Ender
Top Ender
February 6, 2024 4:21 pm

ABC cancels controversial drag queen story hour for kids after ‘hateful response’

Controversial plans for the national broadcaster to host a drag queen story hour for children as young as three have been shelved.

DAILYTELEGRAPH.COM.AU03:49

The ABC has backflipped on a controversial decision to organise a Drag Queen Story event for children as young as three in a Sydney suburban library after questions were raised about its “appropriateness” and “gender indoctrination”.

The national broadcaster had made the call-out on social media for children aged from three to five years to attend a four-hour event at Rockdale Library, in Sydney’s south, on February 22 as part of Mardi Gras.

However the ABC said it had a “hateful and offensive response” to its plans and it was “considering how we can safely host it”.

The head of the ABC Queer and Mardi Gras presenter Monique Schafter posted in a “Rainbow Families Community” Facebook group that: “The ABC is filming a drag story time event for the 2024 Mardi Gras broadcast and is looking for children between ages 3-5 years to take part. If you and your tiny humans are interested in taking part, please email.”

But after a backlash online, and questions raised by gender critical feminists, Christian groups, Liberal Senator Alex Antic and the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), the ABC cancelled the plans.

Bayside Council Mayor Bill Saravinovski said he wasn’t aware of the booking until Monday night when he saw it discussed on social media.

“We had no involvement,” he said. “I found out when the ABC rang sometime this morning, it was their decision.”

The IPA’s Dr Bella d’Abrera said it showed how out-of-touch the broadcaster was with mainstream Australians and their values.

“The ABC’s insidious desire to push radical gender theory on Australian children, this time those under 5 years of age, is deeply concerning and highly inappropriate.”

Senator Alex Antic asked when was the last time the ABC put their energies into covering an event “sympathetic to the views of mainstream Australia”.

“Australians need to understand that the ABC is heavily geared towards the promotion of the minority views of left-wing political persuasions to the utter exclusion of everyday Australians”.

The ABC’s callout for children aged three to five to take part in a drag queen story time reading at Rockdale Library that will be filmed for their Mardi Gras broadcast.
The ABC’s callout for children aged three to five to take part in a drag queen story time reading at Rockdale Library that will be filmed for their Mardi Gras broadcast.
Australian Christian Voice’s Greg Bonder said “children aged 3-5 should not be subjected to LGBTIQA+ ideology”.

“It is morally wrong for the ABC to be promoting Drag Queen indoctrination,” he said.

Women’s Rights Network Australia co-founder Kit Kowalski said “many women shared the complaints that they sent through to the ABC after hearing about this event – their concerns were set out in even tones, requesting that the ABC listen to the community on this issue”.

“The ABC is going being it’s remit to reflect the national character by actively organising controversial events where males dressed in a sexualised caricature of women read books to children,” she said.

In response to questions about the event, the ABC issued a statement:

“The ABC condemns the hateful and offensive response we have received from some individuals in response to the callout for this event.

“The event will no longer be held at the Rockdale Library and the ABC is considering how we can safely host it.

“The ABC invited families from within the LGBTQIA+ community to participate in a Drag Queen Story Time event which would be filmed as part of our Mardi Gras coverage.

“These events are designed for families and are regularly held in public spaces.

“The ABC is the official host broadcaster for the 2024 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. As part of this partnership the ABC showcases the diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community, aligning with its Charter obligation to reflect all Australians.”

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 4:21 pm

Re pouring/poring, as you can see reading the above, when I type quickly mistakes are easily made. I don’t proof read if the phone is ringing, as it was then, I simply press submit, and errors can be seen in a quick composition. For obvious reasons too, I like to respond to calls quickly right now. I don’t have the leisure to sit in a motel room pondering over how to get ridiculous over obvious typos, as some do.

Lysander
Lysander
February 6, 2024 4:23 pm

So there’s some MAJOR new film out proving the indigens were displaced by rising seas due to climate change some 10,000 years ago. The claim is made that they lost 30% of their land due to this.

My scepticism has me feeling that this is the start of the foundational work to enable them to claim “songlines” underwater.

The most interesting thing about it is that it’ll p!ss the climate crazies off as the Left has to admit (substantial) climate change occurred 10,000 years ago. 😛

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 4:26 pm

If Johanna wishes to check my literacy rather than my typing I suggest she looks at my publications in Quadrant, where I have demanded very little time and attention from the excellent proof-readers and typesetters there. What I submit remains essentially unchanged.

Now what publications of yours can we find to check your excellence, Johanna?

Oh, that’s right, there aren’t any.

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 4:29 pm

“Re pouring/poring, as you can see reading the above, when I type quickly mistakes are easily made.”

Indeed Lizzie, everyone here makes mistakes, we often type quickly and furiously. And when I write ‘everyone’ I mean everyone, including the bitter and twisted Queanbeyan resident.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 4:29 pm

Gilas
Feb 6, 2024 4:10 PM
Sancho Panzer
Feb 6, 2024 2:36 PM

I wonder what our medicos here think of the ‘enlarged’ prostate and ‘some other’ cancer. Surely Charles at his age would have already have colonoscopies?

Without wasting time reading the MSM “reports” likely overloaded with ignorant guesses of Charles’ situation I’ll provide my own guesses, based on my knowledge of current oncological practice:

Charles was presumably undergoing a radical prostatectomy. A procedure reserved for the removal of diffuse prostatic cancer with a high anaplastic index ie. poor cellular differentiation and likely unresponsiveness to hormone-blocking therapy.

Here endeth the educated guesswork.

Gilas,

you sound like someone to have around when I have my next Parotidectomy and my next Craniectomy

Arky
February 6, 2024 4:31 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Feb 6, 2024 4:21 PM

..
When it’s not raining it’s pooring.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 4:32 pm

Boambee John
Feb 6, 2024 12:26 PM

Winston
Ground based silos are targetable. And unless you’re thinking of “Dense Pack” configurations,

Way back in the 1980s, the US was considering a silo “dense pack” configuration for their new ICBM.
A cartoonist drew a silo dense pack, and Battleship Row in Pearl Harbor in December 1941, also labelled Dense Pack.
The idea dense pack went nowhere,

Yep. It was an interesting idea, until someone realised that because it limited the attacker to just one bomb to fit the distance and time frame, that bomb was going to be YUUUGE* and detonated at near ground level.
*IIRC, there was talk of 25Mt or bigger if the Russians could get it off the ground.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 4:32 pm

Gilas
Feb 6, 2024 4:19 PM
P
Feb 6, 2024 2:41 PM

‘Some other form of cancer’ has been noted.

Could be a blood cancer such as Leukemia.

Most probably not.

Haematological catastrophies would have been well detected in pre-op testing and would have been an absolute contraindication to further treatment.

Gilas,

let me add as for CLL still going after 25 years since diagnosis

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 4:36 pm

ShitWeasels called.
They are threatening defamation writs if anyone compares them to the Australia Institute.
https://twitter.com/TheAusInstitute/status/1754708713250931186

Australia Institute
@TheAusInstitute
If we want to cut emissions, we need to disincentivise big cars ?

“If we were serious about reducing Aus’ transport emissions we would remove the GST from bikes & public transport & provide dedicated car parks for small cars in our cities.”

cohenite
February 6, 2024 4:37 pm

Gilas
Feb 6, 2024 4:10 PM
Sancho Panzer
Feb 6, 2024 2:36 PM

I wonder what our medicos here think of the ‘enlarged’ prostate and ‘some other’ cancer. Surely Charles at his age would have already have colonoscopies?

Without wasting time reading the MSM “reports” likely overloaded with ignorant guesses of Charles’ situation I’ll provide my own guesses, based on my knowledge of current oncological practice:

I almost feel sorry for chuck; he’s spent his entire life being brow beaten by Phil and waiting for Madge to cark it and then 5 minutes into his reign he’s riddled with the big C. So much for leading the alternative lifestyle.

H B Bear
H B Bear
February 6, 2024 4:39 pm

Lol. The RBA will have as much cred as BOM and the ABS.

Don’t forget Fair Work Australia and Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The long march through the institutions is all but complete.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 4:43 pm

I almost feel sorry for chuck;

I’m always reminded of Edward V11 – all those years in his mother’s shadow, who was also over 70 when he ascended the throne.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 4:47 pm

Incurable, but treatable disease with a median survival of 18-24 months, depending on tumour histology, oncogene typing and patient fitness.

Gilas, I don’t want to sound like a Debbie Downer, but what’s “treatable” about survival rate of 18-24 months? Sounds more like incurable than treatable. 🙂

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 4:47 pm

My scepticism has me feeling that this is the start of the foundational work to enable them to claim “songlines” underwater.

We already signed the treaty putting that in place.
Luigi the munificent (with other peoples money) rests for no man.

https://www.un.org/depts/los/general_assembly/contributions_2010/UNESCO.pdf
This includes ancient shipwrecks, like the Mary Rose wreck in Portsmouth, UK, the remains of the Armada of Philipp II of Spain or the ships of Christopher Columbus, as well as submerged sites and buildings such as the Pharos of Alexandria, human traces in submerged caves or sunken prehistoric landscapes and villages.

That was underpinning the Santos bullshit earlier this year.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 4:49 pm

Richard Alston
Malcolm’s maladies: trust, hubris and very bad judgement

4:29PM February 6, 2024
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Watching the second episode of the ABC docuseries Nemesis, this one on Malcolm Turnbull, the striking impression is the subject’s solipsistic self-absorption.

There is no doubt Turnbull is capable of instant eloquence, but this should not be mistaken for intelligence, for which he is often credited.

What matters is not the natural inheritance of an ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills but, much more importantly, the judgment to make considered decisions and come to sensible conclusions.

As Liberal Party federal president at the time of his accession to the prime ministership and beyond, I had a ringside seat. Turnbull’s problem was that he didn’t trust anyone, presumably because he thought they were his intellectual inferiors.

The successful politician listens to those who can add value. I remember asking him why there had been a long delay in prosecuting an issue. He explained that although he had read all the departmental submissions and spoken to a number of experts, he hadn’t had time to do his own research.

Politics is often defined as the art of compromise, but to Turnbull this was anathema – it was his way or the highway. This was because he regarded opposing arguments as inherently wrong; he saw his task as being to impose his vision on the unwashed. Convinced of the moral rectitude of his progressive instincts, he treated dissenters with disdain.

He had no conception that the political world is roughly divided into liberals and conservatives, and each needs to negotiate with the other, or at least treat them with respect. There is no evidence of him having any understanding of, or interest in, political history, international statesmanship or empathy with ordinary Australians.

Instead he was entirely comfortable as a classic member of the elites, a Sydney urbanist with very progressive instincts, freighted with adamantine ambition and self-belief.

He had no regard for party politics, which he saw as an impediment to good policy. He was a LINO, a Liberal in name only. In the lead-up to the 2016 election he seriously contemplated bypassing the Liberal Party federal secretariat and running the campaign from his office, which had very few political operatives.

Against all advice and political history, he insisted on an eight-week campaign.

Despite the fact he had very little to sell, his chosen slogans, such as “jobs and growth”, were totally unpersuasive but, when they went nowhere, he doubled down with the further inanity, “stick to the plan”, which he had never properly explained to anyone, let alone the voters.

As a result of running a campaign of the most appalling ineptitude Turnbull lost 14 seats and was extremely fortunate to survive with a majority of one – a singularly unstable situation that he later acknowledged but which led to no change of direction or improvement in people handling.

On the night of the election he stayed bunkered up in his Point Piper mansion for hours, despite several phone calls from me saying key donors were very unhappy with his non-appearance.

When he finally put in a late-night showing he refused to apologise for his campaign or to express sorrow for all those colleagues who had lost their seats. Instead he chose to deliver a rant about the iniquities of his opponents, especially about their dishonest “Mediscare” campaign, despite his not laying a glove on them when it counted.

When I tackled him about whether he could have done things better during the campaign, his response was typical: “I was up at 30,000 feet during the campaign so don’t blame me, blame those on the ground.”

He instinctively wanted to take the politics out of politics. Despite me advising him of much party membership dissatisfaction, he refused to use the Liberal logo, insisting his personal brand was a more powerful magnet.

Instead the punters were asked to vote for the Turnbull Coalition team. This was entirely consistent with his hubris in having placards around his electorate for years proclaiming “Turnbull for Wentworth” – no mention of Liberal.

He famously announced that he wanted a public debate about tax reform and told me he wasn’t going to fall for the old trick and rule anything in or out. Inevitably, this started the hares running in all directions, he lost control of the project and eventually ruled everything out.

I was in Parliament House when he rolled Tony Abbott. What struck me in the frantic number-crunching was that Turnbull had very few heavyweight supporters. The ones who escorted him down the corridors of powers were mostly inexperienced wannabes, lusting for promotion.

One of the notable moments in the ABC program was when Warren Entsch finally signed up to be the 43rd, and crucial, signatory to a petition of no confidence, effectively saying “this one’s for Brendan Nelson”, who had been defenestrated by Turnbull in the most vicious political act of treason that I have ever encountered, but which the program left untouched.

Another poignant moment was when he said he had refused to put Abbott into cabinet because he couldn’t be trusted, blithely ignoring the fact that Abbott had had no hesitation in “keeping his enemy closer”, when he made Turnbull his minister for communications.

Turnbull was clearly skewered on his own petard when he reached 38 losing Newspolls, having cited Abbott’s loss of a mere 30 as totally unacceptable.

He was never backwards in throwing around gratuitous insults: Abbott was “unspeakable”; Dutton was a “thug”; Morrison “said so many things that were obviously untrue”. Asked for one word about Morrison, he said: “duplicitous.”

The irony of it all is that he demanded total loyalty from others, when he had spent almost his entire parliamentary career undermining anyone he perceived as a threat. When it was apparent he had lost majority support he showed no insights into his predicament, simply musing that he wondered if his opponents knew what they were doing.

As the good Liberal he clearly wasn’t, he couldn’t go quietly into the night and instead declared war on his former colleagues, spending every waking moment for the next few years doing his best to ensure the Liberals didn’t win the next election.

Unfortunately for him the public basically ignored his troublemaking antics and the Morrison “miracle” prevailed.

It remains an extraordinary fact that despite having nothing in common with Liberal brand he refuses to hand in his ticket.

While he would like to pretend that he is high principled, his performance on the Indigenous voice to parliament amply demonstrated his political fluidity. At the outset he fulminated against the idea, describing it as a “third chamber” but as the debate entered real time expediency took over and he suddenly supported the Yes case.

The ultimate takeaway from the ABC program was that while others made many mistakes, with Turnbull it was always someone else’s fault. Humility is one Christian virtue he never understood, unlike John Howard who did, and history will judge them accordingly.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 4:50 pm

That was my query up there re King Charles, under Sancho’s name, Gilas, and I’m glad you’ve responded. You echo my basic intuition, gleaned from what I learned when Hairy was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

King Charles seems to have been admitted for a radical prostatectomy, which requires (mostly) open surgery. It can be done via a Da Vinci remote procedure, aiming to protect the penile nerves, although many surgeons think this firstly, can still take the nerves, and secondly, can miss cancerous tissue, and the opt for full radical surgery.

The press release said he was admitted due to investigate and treat an ‘enlarged’ prostate gland ‘without cancer’, probably due to problems with urination, although they now say histological samples show some cancer – unsurprising in a male of his age. This is treatable with radical prostatectomy rather than focal theraplies if the lesions are Glesson 7 or above and multiple. If he went in for a radical then my guess is the cancer is large and they knew about it already. It may be as Gilas says that another cancer altogther is also present, bowel being most likely, or these others noted may be prostate secondaries.

If there is a large set of lesions throughout the prostate causing swelling then the cancer cells may have ‘escaped’ from the capsule of the prostate and secondaries could already be multiple and hard to treat. Treatments have improved a lot since Hairy’s father age 75 was ‘opened up’ and found to have secondaries everywhere; he lasted another two years before dying. I hope King Charles is luckier, if this is what he has. The husband of one of my good friends in Tassie died of metastatic prostate cancer two years after Hairy was diagnosed and treated very successfully indeed (yes!) with brachytherapy; he’s just had his ten year OK last week. Hairy and I held my friend’s husband’s hand during his last days. All various trials had failed to help him. It is a bad cancer if not found early.

Charles is certain to get the latest and definitive medical attention. He could recover well, so let’s wish him all the best.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 4:55 pm

When it’s not raining it’s pooring.

Very good, Arky.

We now have to all be very careful with our prostates vs prostrates. 🙂

cohenite
February 6, 2024 4:55 pm

It remains an extraordinary fact that despite having nothing in common with Liberal brand he refuses to hand in his ticket.

The only extraordinary fact is that the gutless libs don’t drag the bastard out the door and expel him.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 4:57 pm

Alamak!

Feb 6, 2024 1:07 PM
However, car companies must sell enough low- or zero-emissions vehicles – or buy emissions “credits” from other car makers which have met the targets – to offset the biggest polluters in their model line-ups and avoid paying fines.

What will happen?
I’ll tell you what will happen.
Exactly the same thing that is happening in the US and China. Car dealer lots crammed full of cars no one will buy and the dealers screaming at the manufacturers to take this shit off our hands!
In China it’s even worse – empty lots full of EVs that are unsellable and are rotting away. God help them if/when one of them has a battery fire.
…and I notice the bought and paid for China boosters are telling us it’s all a lie.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 4:58 pm
Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 5:05 pm

Pogria
Feb 6, 2024 1:20 PM
The handover of land to Abos in the expensive areas of Sydney has begun.
After a few more of these, I wonder how high the percentage of “Yes”, voters there will be in these areas. Lol.

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Digger
Digger
February 6, 2024 5:06 pm

I think Digger may have been the Downticker…

Nah, I’m an upticker, but I have dived at the Sambawang navy docks in the ’70’s when a pickaxe was needed to break through the slime and trash floating on the surface…

Not a pleasant experience.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 5:06 pm

The only extraordinary fact is that the gutless libs don’t drag the bastard out the door and expel him.

I’d have had him horsewhipped, into the bargain.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 5:07 pm

I almost feel sorry for chuck; he’s spent his entire life being brow beaten by Phil and waiting for Madge to cark it and then 5 minutes into his reign he’s riddled with the big C. So much for leading the alternative lifestyle.

Fred the 3rd laughs at your definition of “a reign cut short by cancer”…

This is an interesting case where cancer may have massively changed the course of history.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-III-king-of-Prussia-and-emperor-of-Germany
Frederick III, (born Oct. 18, 1831, Potsdam, Prussia—died June 15, 1888, Potsdam), king of Prussia and German emperor for 99 days in 1888, during which time he was a voiceless invalid, dying of throat cancer. Although influenced by liberal, constitutional, and middle-class ideas, he retained a strong sense of the Hohenzollern royal and imperial dignity.

Apparently he was all primed to be a considerable reformer.
No Cancer – No Kaiser Bill and his fleet to compete with England.
No competing Fleet – England has no great reason to ally with france
etc, etc.

Even more skullduggerish – the refused surgery initially on advice from the UK’s leading cancer specialist and against advice from German docs.
Accusations were made that the UK doc had deliberately given bad advice.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:08 pm

Well that’s nice news

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What does this mean for me?

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From 1 Mar?ch we will be moving you to 2024 Platinum. Your pack includes sports, movies, drama and entertainment.

On your first bill from 1 Mar?ch 2024 your subscription price for 2024 Platinum will be $104 per month.*

Currently $116 per month – Thanks Foxtel, I will stay with you!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
February 6, 2024 5:08 pm

If employers can’t call workers outside of work hours can a Union leader call his members ?

So Union calls a sudden down tools or strike but employer might not be able to organise his staff to respond.

Labor are doing everything they can to make life difficult for employer’s.

Arky
February 6, 2024 5:08 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Feb 6, 2024 4:55 PM

..
You’re trying to confuse me on porpoise.

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 5:08 pm

The Galapagos are really worth it if you can get there and have flexible travel plans. If you are self-guiding and keeping an eye on the trouble in Ecuador.

You might be able to manage either Quito or Guayaquil airports as a transit only. The islands themselves will be peaceful.

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 5:09 pm

the Israeli bank written to the UN Palestinian refugee agency saying it was seriously concerned that money from the account was reaching terrorist groups

link

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 5:11 pm

OldOzzie
Feb 6, 2024 4:29 PM

you sound like someone to have around when I have my next Parotidectomy and my next Craniectomy

Happy to provide educated perspectives on cancer treatments, but God forbid you should ever need such invasions!

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 5:12 pm

Makka
Feb 6, 2024 2:25 PM

Among the other survey findings were the fact 80 per cent of respondents rated their council as either terrible or poor,

Council voting should be made compulsory.

It is compulsory with a fine for not voting.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 5:13 pm

gutless libs don’t drag the bastard out the door and expel him.

Turnbull being expelled, near future, colourised.
2:55 in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7j-FDYuWpU

cohenite
February 6, 2024 5:14 pm

John H. Avatar
John H.
Feb 6, 2024 5:00 PM
What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care

Dr Youn seems like a gay chap.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
February 6, 2024 5:14 pm

It seems the protest was dead on arrival at Parliament House today. Typical.
The news networks, if they cover it at all, will write it off.
In other news, Ian Lavender, the youngest member of the cast of Dad’s Army, has died.
It was a brilliantly written and acted series, best of British!
I have the 26 DVD set to explore at my leisure – or at least whatever is left for me!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 5:19 pm

Gilas,

you sound like someone to have around when I have my next Parotidectomy and my next Craniectomy

I’ve met Gilas. He is a very qualified specialist oncologist. He has more or less said as much here alread. Same as people who know me don’t doubt my academic CV.

The Cats I have met IRL have been a very interesting and often highly qualified lot across a range of fields and experiences. We see that too from what we glean here.
This place is worth preserving just for that. It’s unusual, informative, and can be fun.

Winston Smith
February 6, 2024 5:20 pm

Winston Smith

Feb 6, 2024 2:06 PM
lotocoti
Feb 6, 2024 9:15 AM
It should be remembered the launch vehicle, just like a struck golf ball
or a thrown brick, is subject to the laws of Sir Isaac Newton.

Not in Australia, mate!
It’s subject to the Laws of Australia!
Next from Canberra:
Pi is equal to 24.
Think about it….

OK. I’ll explain it:
4 and 20 blackbirds baked in a Pi….
Jeez you’re a tough crowd.

feelthebern
feelthebern
February 6, 2024 5:21 pm

That Miles retard in Queensland is a disgrace.
The LNP should be running ads of him laughing today when asked about law & order with reference to the grandma murder by the African chap.

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 5:22 pm

Please don’t say too much about others here, Lizzie. Gilas hasn’t said so in so many words. Please respect his privacy.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
February 6, 2024 5:24 pm

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/he-is-just-pathetic.html

Doesn’t the Constitution of the United States provide for the removal of driveling idiots like this?

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 5:26 pm

OldOzzie
Feb 6, 2024 4:32 PM

let me add as for CLL still going after 25 years since diagnosis

Yes, quite.
I wouldn’t classify CLL or low grade non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas as haematological catastrophes. Targeted therapies such as rituximab have turned these low-morbidity cancers into chronic diseases.
Still, these would have been detected well prior to the Royal surgery.. which is not what is being reported.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 5:26 pm

You might be able to manage either Quito or Guayaquil airports as a transit only. The islands themselves will be peaceful.

Thanks for the encouragement, but we’ve given it away for this trip, Calli. Even Galapagos is under a curfew right now. We looked at the flight times and can’t avoid an overnite in an airport hotel right in town. Too risky. Turned to other plans, after having ‘melted’ (lol, pouring indeed, no aircon in there) over the map of Chile the other night.

Hopefully we can pick up a cruise sometime that includes the Galapagos.
Something to look forward too.

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 5:28 pm

Did I mention I’m staying in a large modern two bedroom apartment with all the conveniences*, a stunning harbour view and all for $90 au a night?
The building is 18th or 19th with riverstone walls and the original side windows blocked up, all now painted whiter than white.

Except proper coffee cups and cereal bowls.

Eyrie
Eyrie
February 6, 2024 5:28 pm

Council voting should be made compulsory.

Has not helped in Queensland.

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 5:30 pm

A family member died, very very recently, of bowel cancer.
Didn’t have surgery, I dont know the reason for that, just chemo, survived four years from diagnosis.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 6, 2024 5:32 pm

However, I knew someone who refused mainstream treatments and treated her bowel cancer with a mix of naturopathy and homeopathy.

She died.

If you believe something that isn’t true, the universe will, quite dispassionately, kill you stone dead. That’s what ‘True’ means.

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 5:38 pm

JC
Feb 6, 2024 4:47 PM

I don’t want to sound like a Debbie Downer, but what’s “treatable” about survival rate of 18-24 months? Sounds more like incurable than treatable.

Stage IV cancer is, by definition, incurable in all but a few, very specific tumour types.
Prior to the last 20-30 years, median survival in colorectal cancers was 6 months or less, with excruciating symptoms and terrible quality-of-life (QOL).
Stuff you’d only wholeheartedly wish on your worst enemies.

A cure is strictly defined as being disease-free (on imaging or pathology) for a minimum of 5-years.
Treatment is simply the multi-modal intervention which produces measurably better survival and QOL results than no-treatment at all.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:38 pm

Gilas
Feb 6, 2024 5:11 PM
OldOzzie
Feb 6, 2024 4:29 PM

you sound like someone to have around when I have my next Parotidectomy and my next Craniectomy

Happy to provide educated perspectives on cancer treatments, but God forbid you should ever need such invasions!

Heh – Parotidectomy – 13 1/2 hours 2018 reconstructed my face with skin from right thigh and stomach – 5 days in ICU, 5 days recovery ward – off to China 3 weeks later

Craniectomy – 9 1/2 hours – skin from left thigh to cover titanium mesh replacing rotten bone cut from head, muscle from below left shoulder blade, micro-surgery into side of face to facilitate blood flow over new skin over titanium mesh – 1 night in ICU, 5 Days recovery in Severe Burns Unit

Diogenes
Diogenes
February 6, 2024 5:39 pm

In China it’s even worse – empty lots full of EVs that are unsellable and are rotting away. God help them if/when one of them has a battery fire.

Posted footage of same the other day for the “pictures or it didn’t happen” crowd

Disappears down a YouTube rabbit hole…
Found it …
https://youtu.be/1SEfwoqKRU8?feature=shared

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 5:39 pm

Hint for travellers, while some drugs are cheap here some are not.
Paracetamol is only available in pharmacies and over the counter you may only buy in packets of 8 though apparently you can get multiple packets at a time, at €2.90 a pop.
I thought I’d packed both ibuprofen and panadol but no, not really.
Though now I feel much better probably end up taking the French ones home as a souvenir.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:40 pm

Rosie
Feb 6, 2024 5:28 PM
Did I mention I’m staying in a large modern two bedroom apartment with all the conveniences*, a stunning harbour view and all for $90 au a night?

Rosie,

AirBnb?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:42 pm
JMH
JMH
February 6, 2024 5:45 pm

calli
Feb 6, 2024 5:22 PM

Please don’t say too much about others here, Lizzie. Gilas hasn’t said so in so many words. Please respect his privacy.

But she won’t respect the privacy of others, will she? She loves to grandstand, as we know. The last thing I would want is this “Lizzie” creature knowing who I was IRL.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 5:46 pm

In China it’s even worse – empty lots full of EVs that are unsellable and are rotting away.

Hey Turtlehead, how do you have empty lots full of EVs?

alwaysright
alwaysright
February 6, 2024 5:49 pm

You’re trying to confuse me on porpoise.

Squided it.
I’m floundering as to what to write next.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 5:49 pm

Council voting should be made compulsory.

In WA its a lost cause, councils now have CEO’s running them with the actual elected councillors just whipping boys for whatever the CEO puts in front of them to approve.

Eg: During my long running attempt to get the shop approved I asked at a council meeting if the councillors knew just how many approvals were scuppered every day by the planners.
They were unamused to find out only those vetted by the planning department were even mentioned to them, they were kept as uniformed as possible.
Even questions from their constituents had to be addressed to the CEO who would the “get the information” and give it to them, it was against regulations for them to ask staff about issues directly.

This has given rise to a professional CEO class who all know each other, approve each other for new positions and cover up for the last CEO.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 5:51 pm

Here’s Kez, the happy warrior. Happy Hammond. Always happy and a life filled with joy and happiness, especially after the victim is in an acid bath and the severed head’s in the freezer.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 5:52 pm

Good lord, this place. Six people so far don’t wish me well in Chile.

Up yours darlings. It’s G & T time in exactly four minutes.

That’ll drown you out. 🙂

Rosie
Rosie
February 6, 2024 5:52 pm

Yes OO
I’m sure in the high season it’s expensive, but it’s not the high season, and I’m very happy to be here now.
The weather is perfect for me, mostly mid teens and it has yet to rain, though today it looks like it might.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 5:54 pm

Rosie

Still in Corsica?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:54 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 5:54 pm

But she won’t respect the privacy of others, will she? She loves to grandstand, as we know. The last thing I would want is this “Lizzie” creature knowing who I was IRL.

I love you too, JMH.

I specialise in headcases.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 5:55 pm

Hey Turtlehead, how do you have empty lots full of EVs?

Come & watch how I did it.
Perhaps I should have said “disused”. Empty = empty of activity.
Figure of speech. 🙂

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 5:59 pm

JC Feb 6, 2024 5:51 PM
Here’s Kez, the happy warrior. Happy Hammond. Always happy and a life filled with joy and happiness, especially after the victim is in an acid bath and the severed head’s in the freezer.

When I showed you where I keep the heads, I expected you to keep the information confidential.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 5:59 pm
JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:01 pm

Come & watch how I did it.

Why would I do that?

You accumulated 279 comments over 15 years.

This ghosting for the Turtlehead is getting over the top too. It used to be funny, now it’s looking like disturbed behavior.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 6:03 pm

JC Feb 6, 2024 6:01 PM

Come & watch how I did it.

Why would I do that?

Quite obviously to learn.
You don’t seem to know how it is done.
We’re all here to help dispense knowledge 🙂

JMH
JMH
February 6, 2024 6:03 pm

JC
Feb 6, 2024 5:51 PM

Here’s Kez, the happy warrior. Happy Hammond. Always happy and a life filled with joy and happiness, especially after the victim is in an acid bath and the severed head’s in the freezer.

The Stalker has eructated its vomit. Pay no attention, readers. It’s a eunuch.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:04 pm

When I showed you where I keep the heads, I expected you to keep the information confidential.

We’ve noticed you’ve become very popular of late with the huge number self ticking. Who taught you how to do that?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
February 6, 2024 6:06 pm

Rosie
Feb 6, 2024 5:39 PM
Hint for travellers, while some drugs are cheap here some are not.

Paracetamol is only available in pharmacies and over the counter you may only buy in packets of 8 though apparently you can get multiple packets at a time, at €2.90 a pop.

I thought I’d packed both ibuprofen and panadol but no, not really.
Though now I feel much better probably end up taking the French ones home as a souvenir.

Rosie,

ouch – Chemist Waregouse

Panadol Paracetamol Pain Relief Tablets 500mg 100
Product ID: 2485955
Tablets 500mg 100 – $14.49

and

Nurofen Zavance Fast Pain Relief Tablets 256mg Ibuprofen 96 Pack
$18.99

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:08 pm

The Stalker has eructated its vomit. Pay no attention, readers. It’s a eunuch.

Oh yes, Liz’s stalker is now accusing others of stalking.

Kez, I spoke to you the other day- that if you were ever intending of starting up that bullshit, there would be a price to pay.

Now, go see if you’ve locked the freezer door, you possessed clown.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 6:09 pm

We’ve noticed you’ve become very popular of late with the huge number self ticking.

Who is “we”?
Explain how you know what you see is self-ticking? (just so we know you’re not making it up – you do have a record for fabrication)

JMH
JMH
February 6, 2024 6:10 pm

I specialise in headcases.

I doubt it. You wouldn’t know a “head case” if it bit you on the arse because you are too self-absorbed to realise you are the classic example of one!

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 6:10 pm

Kez, I spoke to you the other day

You may speak to me, that does not mean I’m bothered to pay attention.
Deal with that.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
February 6, 2024 6:11 pm

John H.
Feb 6, 2024 5:00 PM

What Studies Say About Transgender, Gender Dysphoria, and Gender Affirming Care

That’s garbage. It was the ‘gender assigned at birth’ that gave the game away.
Promoting ‘studies’ that say what you want them to say is immoral.

Gilas
Gilas
February 6, 2024 6:12 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Feb 6, 2024 4:50 PM

The press release said he was admitted due to investigate and treat an ‘enlarged’ prostate gland ‘without cancer’, probably due to problems with urination

That’s why I don’t read MSM BS.
These days, no one would treat BPH (enlargement restricting urine flow) with a radical prostatectomy.
A radical procedure means that cancer is present, too close to, or involving the capsule and/or surrounding fat, which cannot be removed via a TURP.
Abdominal approach = radical prostatectomy ++/- lymph node dissection.
Of course, a high Gleason score in a well encapsulated small tumour (post biopsy/MRI) might also require a radical P.

This all presumes that the patient is fit enough for the surgery and the subsequent cytotoxic-anti-hormonal treatment

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:12 pm

Who is “we”?

Most people here who have an IQ higher than yours, which you once estimated to be 86.

JMH
JMH
February 6, 2024 6:14 pm

JC
Feb 6, 2024 6:08 PM
The Stalker has eructated its vomit. Pay no attention, readers. It’s a eunuch.

Oh yes, Liz’s stalker is now accusing others of stalking.

Kez, I spoke to you the other day- that if you were ever intending of starting up that bullshit, there would be a price to pay.

Now, go see if you’ve locked the freezer door, you possessed clown.

WTF does this mean? The ghoul has snapped, I guess that’s just another victory to me.

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 6:14 pm

JC Feb 6, 2024 6:12 PM
Most people here who have an IQ higher than yours, which you once estimated to be 86.

Name those people.
Citation required for the second claim – being as you have a poor record for accuracy.

(this could take a while – gone for a cuppa)

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 6:14 pm

It was just a gentle reminder. I don’t want to start WWIII. And I’m not in email contact, otherwise it would have gone down that route.

For the record, I wish everyone here well. It has never been any different.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:15 pm

I doubt it. You wouldn’t know a “head case” if it bit you on the arse because you are too self-absorbed to realise you are the classic example of one!

Well there’s you, Kez. The biggest headcase here.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
February 6, 2024 6:16 pm

Bragging time.

Had a sick chap a couple of nights ago, I couldnt diagnose him (mystery abdominal pain) but told him I thought it could be diverticulosis but hed have to go to get a proper assessment.
Sick again today, took him to hospital while he was still in pain, doc examined – diverticulosis.

Id gloat more, but that would just tempt fate to send me a patient Im completely wrong on.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
February 6, 2024 6:17 pm

Calli country is an interesting place.

Man denies throwing much-loved chicken to alligators (Ncl local news 5 Feb)

A Hunterview man has pleaded NOT guilty over an alleged act of animal cruelty at a Port Stephens wildlife park.

Peter William Smith is accused of throwing a live chicken to an alligator – and while he was excused from appearing in court – his lawyer had plenty to say.

Nice to see some wry humour in the local journalist fraternity. Watch out for alligators in your pond Calli.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:18 pm

Name those people.
Citation required for the second claim – being as you have a poor record for accuracy.

Poor reference for accuracy?

Reference still required for the 10% NAB skim claim on bank deposits in the 90s.

Go!

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
February 6, 2024 6:21 pm

So how is the Butcher’s Bill working out in Gaza ? reflecting well? And all those beheaded babies? Must be a moral justification .. well if they existed.

But the whole point of the exercise .. is to keep the whole planet in sympathy ..well OK Not the ENITIRE planet but Washington at least … where the skeckels are printed..

No where else matters.

Anyways we will see how this current grift works out …

Salvatore, Iron Publican
February 6, 2024 6:21 pm

JC Feb 6, 2024 6:18 PM
Name those people.
Citation required for the second claim – being as you have a poor record for accuracy.
Poor reference for accuracy?

Very poor.
Note the deflection below.
That’s your way of getting onto all fours & crawling backward in front of me – again.
Thank you for conceding.

Reference still required for the 10% NAB skim claim on bank deposits in the 90s.
Go!

Gotcha, shithead.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:21 pm

WTF does this mean? The ghoul has snapped, I guess that’s just another victory to me.

LOL.

Such a sad, possessed clown.

Vicki
February 6, 2024 6:24 pm

Heh – Parotidectomy – 13 1/2 hours 2018 reconstructed my face with skin from right thigh and stomach – 5 days in ICU, 5 days recovery ward – off to China 3 weeks later
Craniectomy – 9 1/2 hours – skin from left thigh to cover titanium mesh replacing rotten bone cut from head, muscle from below left shoulder blade, micro-surgery into side of face to facilitate blood flow over new skin over titanium mesh – 1 night in ICU, 5 Days recovery in Severe Burns Unit

Ozzie – you are miracle man! I recall even your recent excursions into the medical battleground – & they were pretty scary. You are one brave and resilient dude!

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:24 pm

Driller claims a “gotcha” and Kez claims “victory”.

Winner’s circle.

Head collector and faux pub owner.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
February 6, 2024 6:24 pm

Lizzie you need to get wih it, my MiL is 87 and she knows G&T time is 5pm.

calli
calli
February 6, 2024 6:25 pm

I know the park, Bruce. It’s a lovely place to take the kiddies.

I might have to re-think that. And yes, I have seen both alligators and the chook. Poor thing. Next time, he should throw himself in.

Lysander
Lysander
February 6, 2024 6:25 pm

A team of Stanford researchers tasked an unmodified version of OpenAI’s latest large language model to make high-stakes, society-level decisions in a series of wargame simulations — and it didn’t bat an eye before recommending the use of nuclear weapons.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/in-tests-gpt-4-strangely-itchy-to-launch-nuclear-war/ar-BB1hP9kn?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=7671336aa40e45c99ed7b27a8da52bc0&ei=15

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
February 6, 2024 6:28 pm

By way of disambiguation I had an Open Mind at the start of this conflict … I still do .. to the extent that …Hey and what I think means nothing … it is what the rest of the planet thinks that might weigh “this way or that ” ….

But rest yourselves if you ever thought that “minds could be changed ” well congratulate yourselves .

Mine has been ..

miltonf
miltonf
February 6, 2024 6:30 pm

In WA its a lost cause, councils now have CEO’s running them with the actual elected councillors just whipping boys for whatever the CEO puts in front of them to approve.

well someone told me in the 80s Ku-ring-gai Council was run by the staff for the staff

Mark Bolton
Mark Bolton
February 6, 2024 6:33 pm

I know you havent gotten round to the Ad Homs on me (but you will I am sure) ..let alone each other … Cheerfully calling each other “shit heads” over no meaningful controversy ..Ladies and Gentlemen You do yourselves a disservice.

miltonf
miltonf
February 6, 2024 6:34 pm

Tried out our work Hilux (current model) for the second time this afternoon- it really is cramped in the cockpit. Even with the seat right back and the steering wheel right up. Don’t think I’ll buy one def not at $50k +. Anyone here have a similar take?

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 6, 2024 6:35 pm

But the whole point of the exercise .. is to keep the whole planet in sympathy ..well OK Not the ENITIRE planet but Washington at least … where the skeckels are printed..

No where else matters.

Dude, put down the meth pipe and move away from the keyboard before you self harm.

JC
JC
February 6, 2024 6:35 pm

Lysander

It sounds like an updated version of game theory embedded in an AI model.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
February 6, 2024 6:38 pm

Tried out our work Hilux (current model) for the second time this afternoon- it really is cramped in the cockpit.

Drove the twin cab with the 2.5 litre motor in auto, what a spineless lump of shyte.

Cassie of Sydney
February 6, 2024 6:40 pm

I’m sorry but Lizzie does not deserve or warrant the incessant and savage censuring, pillorying and abuse she receives here from one or two posters.

Many people here personally know Lizzie, such as myself, Gilas, Tinta, Dragnet, Rabz, Harlequin, Jupes, Rafe, Megan and others. Lizzie is a generous, kind, sensible and intelligent woman,

I don’t mind some stoushing and disputes but seriously, this attacking of Lizzie for no reason is tedious.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
February 6, 2024 6:44 pm

Gilas, can you email me? A comment of mine seems to be missing, suggesting that I do not think I have in any way doxxed you. I would like to discuss this with you.

When I think of how Johanna actually named Hairy in a comment on the old Cat (I have the screen shot to prove it), whose name she had guessed from a Quadrant comment, I think my mild mention re a professional competence of an unknown commenter was hardly anywhere near an invasion of privacy. Gilas has stated he is educated in oncology. Johanna has also tried to doxx me using the name of my first husband, who has nothing to do with this site. Mealy mouths need to be washed out sometimes.

I am thoroughly sick of the downticking my reasonable and innocuous comments receive here. Far too many to be ignored, and far too constant.

I have been under death threats and threats of violence in my life, and am currently struggling under another, but believe me, none make me feel as bad as some of the hatreds I get here. I have never given way to threats and as downticks are a threat of a sort when they are consistent, I will not give way to them here.

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