I wondered what happened to the Net Nanny apps.
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Naaa yes. Plastic ran with the numbers and you did also, with no qualification.I would have thought saying, How far…
Trump’s appointments to lead his government will be like Uber arriving to the horror of the taxi industry It will…
That’s a bit rich, he’d be happy to blow you for a table spoon of lard.
Leave the dog alone, stop trying to pretend you’re my friend.
Ivermectin – The drug that never seems to go away!
‘Lights out for Britain’ | Nigel Farage BLASTS UK’s reliance on wind and solar
Recommended reading – his personal life was a bit of a train smash, but he knew his trade.
“Their Master Plan With BlackRock Revealed” – Whitney Webb Bitcoin Prediction
Just watched Dunkirk on Foxtel starring Kenneth Branagh — an antidote to the cultural cancer that’s kiillng England and Australia via the importation of Third World savages who hate our culture.
Our free market has been so successful in protecting us from penury that our children now assume our wealth will never end even when all the free market rules are being broken.
I’m now hoping for an economic depression to shake us out of our stupor.
Flouting the block quote limit very high on the page there, Zulu…..
It’d probably see Labor printing money, Tom.
With Josh “I believe in small government” Frydenberg nodding sagely from the sideline.
Another Canadian in Starship Troopers is Sgt Smokey Smith VC.
Ernest Smith
Sounds like a fine fellow!
Back in the 1950s, q prominent Rugby League player for Queensland was a railway engine driver.
It was claimed that, when doing the Toowoomba run, he would set the throttle at the base of the range, and jog up to the top alongside the engine, ready to jump back on board if necessary.
Woohoo! Even more inflation.
Argentina style inflation eventually.
I doubt any train could handle the gradient of the toowoomba range
well the Westlander does it twice a week
Along the route surveyed and built in 1865-1867.
Just one example of how we are living off the capital stock founded by the pioneers.
What is your point here?
You might find, unfortunately, that Palestinian Christians are on the same page as Palestinian Muslims where it comes to Israel.
The Rubin Report
Teacher Risks Career to Teach Critical Thinking at College | Warren Smith
The first 3 minutes is the clip of the teacher debunking a student’s view of J.K. Rowling and then an interview with him by Dave Rubin.
Bern I see Derrick Henry headed to the Baltimore Ravens. Puts them in a position to challenge for a Superbowl.
Saquon Barkley off to the Philadelphia Eagles as well, should see them represent the NFC
Toowoomba has a beautiful railway station.
I was very surprised that passenger trains didn’t still run to Brisbane on a daily basis..
I doubt that Rosie, but if they are then they aren’t Christians. The New Testament is abundantly clear on the regard that we are to show to our Jewish brothers and sisters.
Anyone who supports the muslim genocidists in any way at all deserves only contempt and disgust. It is very revealing how the left have behaved in our country in this respect.
Someone on Sinc’s Cat once characterised daylight saving as “clock bothering” which is an apt description.
Cite you the Kalgoorlie Pipeline, here in the Wild West.
Love how the head of Blackrock is someone named Fink.
JC, I have had a secret love of a mining & resources since 1970s, when as a cadet I did time on the subs table with the finance chief sub, who was a quietly wealthy old gentleman journo who took a shine to the young maree and took her under his wing (professionally).
I had my moment in the 90s tech boom, being a contrary sort of girl, I went punting in the opposite direction and made my husband a happy man in the 2000s when miners and explorers took off. I like the sector, but have been winding back for a few months. Just had that feeling.
PS, I have never sold the boring old banks that I have held since year zero.
The worst thing about WA not having daylight savings was having to get down to the tote at 9am.
The Inland Rail shouldn’t go anywhere near Poowoomba. It should hit the the Inglewood Line, then standard gauge that line through Warwick , relay the Maryvale branch, tunnel under Cunninghams Gap, relay the the Mt Edwards Branch, then across to the existing standard gauge near Bromelton.
Where the Miata shines. Don’t forget the AGM.
Reports that the US are only going to build 1 Virginia class sub next year. We are never going to get one. AUKUS is a dead letter.
Toowoomba has a beautiful railway station.
I was very surprised that passenger trains didn’t still run to Brisbane on a daily basis..
yes it’s strange until you see that the railway meanders all over the place. I know QR used to promote bus/rail service with McCafertys. Train to Helidon then bus to woomba.
People like Chanum Torres are the problem. Not me, I don’t care how much you suck lemons when you reply to me.
That rule of law thing again. These activists shutting down open debate aren’t much different to the “gas the jews” ferals.
We should watch sexual harassment accusers too. There’s a good chance a “conservative” one will pop up in the ALP soon, let that egg rot away, it will hatch with a stench.
A lot of Woomba familiarity going on here.
As Mike Moore from Frontline would say:
‘Hmmm…. disturbing trend.’
Oh right sure. Being rude, dishonest, condescending etc isn’t insulting. Don’t insult the entire commenter audience here at the blog with claims that you never made an insult.
No, demonstrably right. You could have looked up the data re; trade and manufacturing, but you were lazy. You got schooled. You were totally wrong about manufacturing “dying”, “we make nothing”, it’s complete bullshit. Your idea that I reckoned I would 3D print a car off at home from a laptop is incredibly unhinged and you’d have to be a complete sociopath to believe this utter nonsense.
Ask away, I’m sure you’ll lie.
Given you are completely wrong about trade EXCEPT for TCF and PMV segments, then you should probably think a long time before you ask, because it’s going to be really stupid.
Looks like. In theory we could stump up cash outside of the US budget, but the vibes aren’t good. And they’d have drydock capacity. Bowen’s hysterical antinuke screeching suggests to me, though, that this outcome is exactly what Albo wants. He just needed to confect an excuse.
I didn’t invent the term “additive manufacturing” (don’t blame me) and if those sintering methods were around before 3D printing, the idea I’d claim I would 3D print a car off at home is even more silly (since I mentioned sintering anyway at the time).
Oh, the Philippines drug policy under Duterte was an astonishing success. 35,000 people killed by the policy forces.
Policy – police.
Huh?
Look Boambee, if my ideas are reasonable but don’t go far enough and the current political leaders don’t have the nerve to enact them, what’s the alternative?
1. Win an election against all odds.
2. Secession (LOL, I wish, but where would like-minded people go).
3. For no reason at all, you have total power tomorrow.
4. The only real alternative is to get smaller parties like PHON or the Libertarian Party in power.
Here’s some bad news there.
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Maybe Rinehart would finance it?
Big money to be taken out of politics in radical electoral overhaul
And
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/big-money-to-be-taken-out-of-politics-in-radical-electoral-overhaul-20240308-p5faxq.html
So it will be illegal for Rinhart to finance a genuine challenger to the uni-party.
&*$# this whole ^%$# straight to the worst hell humans are capable of.
Once more to really rub salt into the wound.
more taxpayer funding, tied to how many votes a party won, is expected to flow to party headquarters
RIP Australia
Hands up here who thought the AUKUS submarine deal would ever be delivered? Just another Albanese queef for the adoring media fanbois. That includes Sarah Ferguson.
Its a fragrant little flower at the far far end of the Labor garden. Might not see much water this term or next. Shame if it died, but.
If we thought we’d never get a Virginia class sub why did we stiff the French?
There are three ‘we” used in that sentence. I think the venn diagram shows little overlaps between them.
Horrid white colonizers.
In 1907, a British sailor is seen unshackling an enslaved man who had been chained for three years.
The photo was taken by Joseph Chidwick, a crew member of the HMS Sphinx. The man in the photos had managed to escape a slave-trading outpost off Oman’s coast upon learning of the Royal Navy’s presence nearby.
Umm, we didn’t “stiff the French”, as we paid around $1 billion to get out of the contract.
Ok a little scenario for Dutton to run on.
Public sentiment is shifting to nuclear power.
Rip the AUKUS deal to shreds. Use this money to pay for the reactors. The contracts to get the submarines is a nightmare which benefits no one, are useless and be better spent elsewhere.
Farmer Gez did you get to the hamlet of Tragowel to vent your spleen to good ‘Dr’ Webster last week?
General Mike Flynn
@GenFlynn
The sheer # of attacks by the media and these horrible people (including
@Liz_Cheney) that sat on this corrupt, un-select, J6 committee that my family have received for my taking of the 5th amendment during testimony in front of is still out of control. Now competent Americans will understand why I used this right. Our founders were visionaries because they knew tyranny in government would usurp law abiding citizens whenever possible.
Release the J6 political prisoners now.
Toowoomba familiarity not by preference, and hopefully, all in the past.
I see a potential saving. Hun:
Amazing how in this whole article, Pesutto is relegated to a footnote. FMD grow some balls man.
there’s something fishy about these CHIPS
the DEI parasite begins to kill that which has not even been born yet
The Mystery Of The Uncontrolled Hatred Of Fossil Fuels And Those Who Produce Them
Submarine acquisition….Reminds me of the public campaign to build eight “dreadnought” super-battleships in Britain in 1908:
…the Conservative opposition, the Navy League, and British arms industry advocated for the spending. In popular sentiment, they were joined by King Edward VII, who supported eight more dreadnoughts. A Conservative MP coined what would become a popular slogan: We want eight and we won’t wait!
The Real Threat to Your Way of Life
PHON has peaked and when PH goes it goes.
The Libertarian Party goes nowhere slowly. It advocates too much too quickly to be perceived as a viable alternative. The only way that might change is a complete collapse in the country. Even the Greens with their lunatic ideas easily do better than PHON and the LDP.
I don’t understand why people keep voting for the major parties. The Campbell Report, commissioned by the coalition and implemented by Labor, was the last major restructuring of the Australian economy. The shift towards independents and minor parties is pronounced but I had always hoped that rather than those parties becoming dominant it would force behavior change in the major parties. I was dead wrong about that, it hasn’t happened and I don’t think it will ever happen because all the people go through a machine and come out the other end as robots.
good question
Turkey’s first test flight of its home grown 5th gen fighter.
It was a $90B deal. We stiffed them and now we’re getting suckered by the US. We deserve it though. French will be rofl.
I’m very far from an aviationalist or milblogger, but why is the aircraft flying at ~5,000’ with its wheels down?
Very interesting.
Thanks for linking to that.
They often go very slowly on prototypes. They even do taxi runs but the first taxi run of the F16 ended with the aircraft taking off. I don’t know why, perhaps they are stress testing components in a very gradual fashion.
I’m in the Armoury in the Grand Master’s Palace.
Now I know the principle reason for Top Ender’s visit.
Despite all, in considering the Knights were gone in 1798, 7000 items from the Knight’s inventory of between 18,000 and 20,000 items are still held in Malta.
The victory over the Turks, at seemingly impossible odds back in 1565, is still amazing.
The Great Council Hall has scenes from the 1565 seige, painted between 1575 and 1581.
Along the hall outside are suits of armour worn during the seige.
I’m sitting looking at a horseman with a Harbsburg nose. Don’t know who.
The palace was hit by at least three bombs during WWII but a remarkable proportion survived (and the rest repaired)
A lot of the of the artwork Dover puts up is astonishing.
I’d be happy to buy prints.
Couldn’t agree more Steve.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Rip the AUKUS deal to shreds. Use this money to pay for the reactors.
The money is GONE! .. wrapped up in watertight contracts .. trying to get out of it will cost more than getting into it .. look at how much we gave the French without one rivet/bolt being produced …….
Like all those Danistan contracts that never went anywhere except into the other parties bank accounts ..
Gummint contracts are written so as to ensure only gummint (the mug taxpayers payz the bill(s) cos OPM is just play money to the folk who spend it) loses if you try to back out ..
Thanks Tom – The photoshop Cartoons are clever.
I don’t understand why people keep voting for the major parties.
They’re sheeple.
They’re lazy
They’ve had it too good
For M0nty Mark Latham link.
You’ve really got to check out the Irish angry at the English for calling Ireland Eire without the squiggly bits, even the English who hate themselves and the non squiggly writing English trying to be nice are worse and more preachy, I guess humans will argue over if real is blue or green.
It’s funny because the Germans and French never blow up if we write Orleans or Goring.
But German gives you you an alternative. You can replace the umlaut with an e following the vowel that has the umlaut, and the ß with a double s.
Ah good times.
“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”
People vote for the majors because none of the minor parties offer anything different.
One Nation and UAP don’t argue to change the trough, they just argue that the pigs at it should change. The others focus on niche garbage, a characterisation that is especially true of the Libertarian party, who are perfectly happy supporting the extreme collectivists if it means they get to smoke pot.
even the English who hate themselves and the non squiggly writing English trying to be nice are worse and more preachy, I guess humans will argue over if real is blue or green.
Another Blog self opinionated Pompous Windbag. Delusional at best. FFS.
It’s perplexing to see smoking pot is “niche garbage” and “extremism” after the recent kerfuffle over vapes and tobacco excise, let alone the outrageous coercion and hypocritical lack of bodily autonomy (My Body, My Choice!) with the COVID mandates.
PS
Please name all of the times the policies, Limbrick, Quilty, Lleyonhjelm, Spender, Mead or John Humphreys supported “extreme collectivists”, keeping in mind who sued David Lleyonhjelm after tried to argue that women have a right to defend themselves using pepper spray or a handgun.
I’m going to stick up for Pauline too. She has been arguing against Aboriginal separatism for her entire political career. She 100% has my support on this.
Ending the camps would end a lot of the abuse and violence. They’re subsidised and held up as “sovereignty”.
It’s a big joke to people who want a PSM or an AM.
after he…
It’s incredible to see the Biden surrogates like MSNBC call the J6 protesters, still in gaol and not committed to trial, as “criminals”.
One Nation and UAP don’t argue to change the trough, they just argue that the pigs at it should change.
Fact check: TRUE …
No matter who or which party gets elected nothing the troughers get now is gonna be curtailed .. Last coupla weeks its been Luigi, “towel-head” Burka and now “bend-it” but reality is they are all at it ..
examples are only made when one of ’em getz into the vote-herd bad books and the media sniffs blood .. Then we have the 3 day circus, swiftly forgotten until the next on-the-nose trougher needz attention …….
The real media/public question(s) should be … HOW DID TROUGHING IT REACH THIS LEVEL of SELF ENRICHMENT without us(vote-herd) being aware ……..!
We, supposedly, elect politicians to benefit the country, as a whole, not their bank accounts …… FFS!
Good luck, if PHIN or the Libertarians aren’t prepared to push policies that might have an impact.
Based on your comments, the Libertarians certainly aren’t.
Paywallian:
“Woke Young Liberals” — another violent leftist street mob in the making.
Gee, so no AUKUS subs, ever – who’da thunk it, could anyone have predicted such an outcome, the importance of marginal electorates in SA, etc, etc.
How much has this debacle already cost taxpayers? Anyone who thought this country would ever take delivery of a single one of those subs is as big an idiot as the political and meeja dunderheads who worked themselves into such a lather over “this historic deal”.
At least we’ll now be spared the bum bandit hysterically bloviating about a Chernobyl in every pot, oops, I mean port.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
The Patriot Act … don’t worry, we’re just going after terrorists. We’d never spy on you.
Trump lawfare … Don’t worry, we’re just going after Trump. We’d never turn the DOJ and FBI against law abiding citizens.
TikTok … don’t worry, we’re just going after TikTok. We’d never go after America based social media platforms.
(Farting sound)
How much has this debacle already cost taxpayers? Anyone who thought this country would ever take delivery of a single one of those subs is as big an idiot as the political and meeja dunderheads who worked themselves into such a lather over “this historic deal”.
Proud to say that on Day 1 of this sham I called it for what it was.
I still giggle at the boomer-con hate posted at me “Who’s going to protect our shipping lanes if we don’t have them !”.
This is not a victory lap.
Taxpayers are on the hook for generations.
All so the defence contractors & the related ecosystems can buy that beach house or lake house.
With Luigi and various state premiers getting a lot of media exposure with their pie-in-the-sky social housing schemes there is never any mention of studying how others do it, successfully! .. they do, as troughers are wont to do, take OS junkets to “study” housing abroad but I’ve never come across any of them going to a place where ‘social” housing is a way of life for most ……. Vienna … where 60% of the population live in “social” housing .. I’m guessing Austria ain’t much of an attraction for our troughers, unless they ski …….
Too close to the bone to be funny.
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
John Kerry Praises Haitian Cannibals’ Efforts To Reduce Humanity’s Carbon Footprint
That’s completely untrue and I can prove it.
David Leyonhjelm got shaken down for suggesting women have a right to self defence. Pauline has opposed renewables and Aboriginal separatism. The Libertarian Party like PHON would get rid of all subsidisation of non-assimilation. Repealing s18C? Reaped 18D or the whole damned act too.
I challenge you to find PHON or Libertarian Party policies that don’t align with what you called reasonable positions of mine yesterday. I know what the policies are and I’ve linked to them numerous times.
Australia 1 is a joke, the ACP is gone forever, Bernardi has given up and the LNP are hand in hand with the ALP.
If politics isn’t a solution, the only things left are Epitectus’ philosophy (admittedly wise) or to become a passport bro, trying to marry sweet lady freedom.
What is it?
You will not get a perfect political party and you can’t play God.
Indeed
Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson
The best way to stop the next pandemic is to arrest the people who started the first one.
Repeal other parts of s18 or the whole dang old thing.
Scottish government’s Hate Crime Bill comes into effect next month; Orwell’s totalitarian nightmare has arrived
As aged care will now be means tested, maybe all those entering a facility will receive a model submarine & a plaque saying “Thank you for your financial contribution”.
The new rise of “shaken baby syndrome”
Secret Service Agent Blocked Trump From Going to Capitol on Jan. 6: Driver
James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING INSIDE THE PENTAGON: Associate Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense says, “Why not just have an open border?” “Tear down the wall.”
I’m calling it – you’re talking out of your arse.
Gadi Taub
@GadiTaub1
There are two reports out now, about the participation of Palestinian Authority personnel in terror attacks against Jews. Apparently, some are “police” by day, and terrorists by night. @Doranimated and I discuss the latest. Plus: how serious is the rift between Biden and Netanyahu?@tabletmag’s #IsraelUpdate, in cooperation with the
@HudsonInstitute
.
Watch it here:
Good for you champ.
zerohedge
@zerohedge
Why have all new jobs since 2018 gone to foreign-born workers (i.e. immigrants)? Because you can be an illegal immigrant in deportation proceedings (not to mention anyone seeking asylum) and get authorization to work in the US for up to 5 years, no questions asked.
Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – Marianne
Question.
What’s the bigger issue?
Dot posting about 3D printing a decade ago?
Boomer-cons loving the AUKUS news when it was announced that will financially tether future generations to the biggest single grift in Australian history?
Discuss.
Please include proportional response & accountability with your answers.
BLM and the media again make a martyr of a teen who tried to kill a sheriff’s deputy
Total self-delusion
Banning Gain-of-Function Research Would Do Far More Harm Than Good
‘No One Can Believe It’: Boeing Whistleblower’s Lawyers Question His Mysterious Death, Demand Answers From Cops
bern
I was besmirched too. Australian manufacturing isn’t “dying” in fact it boomed after most tariff reforms, the capital accumulation in (all) manufacturing machinery since June 1987 has compounded around 15% per annum. Net of depreciation, the capital base has increased nearly linearly the whole time.
Then you have the stupid comments about printing a car at home, which no one ever said.
What I was wrong about was the speed that additive manufacturing would be uptaken. It likely looks like a Verhulst function and the derivative of that looks somewhat like a bell curve.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav
This TikTok bill language is so broad and poorly drafted that it will absolutely be used to shut down media the U.S. government doesn’t like, just like the Patriot Act was used to spy on innocent Americans who hadn’t done anything wrong.
bern
I can say I got hoodwinked on the Virginia class subs.
I never, ever supported the boomercon acceptance of the price tag, what, 270 bn?
“BUT IT INCLUDES MAINTENANCE!”
…but paying that price is still a very bad idea.
Wealth over Health: Decision to withdraw Rotavirus Vaccine in 1999 & NOT withdraw COVID-19 Vaccines proves Health Authorities are Corrupt & only care about Wealth
You don’t have to apologise Dot.
ScoMo should.
He’s used Australian taxpayers, past, present & emerging to fund a very nice lifestyle for himself in retirement.
So the security checks weren’t thorough, as previously claimed.
In fact, they issued visas before they were even completed.
They lied.
.1 We don’t need subs.
.2 If (big if) we do need subs, we don’t need these subs.
.3 If (BIG IF) we do need these subs, we (taxpayers) should not be making/made the financial commitment that we have/had.
Given AUKUS is DOA what exactly is Scotty from Marketing going to be doing?
Attempting to breathe life back into its corpse?
shatterzzz
On Parliamentary remuneration, the technique was quite simple, though my memory of some of the details might be imperfect.
Parliament, in the baaaad old days, had to vote for an increase in remuneration. The vote got a lot of mostly unfavourable attention both as it was coming up, and after. So, in its collective wisdom, Parliament established the Remuneration Tribunal to determine MPs remuneration “independently”, but made it also responsible for the remuneration of statutory office holders, judges, senior public servants and military officers to dilute any potential criticism.
Then the Tribunal received instructions to take account of “market forces”. (We want to attract the best, don’t we?) So all those covered by the Tribunal are considered against the remuneration of the senior leadership of major private companies (but without the possibility of being sacked summarily for proven incompetence).
And guess who gets to choose the members of the Remuneration Tribunal? They know who butters their bread.
If you get monkeys when you pay peanuts, what do you get if you pay big bananas? Fat gorillas.
We could buy the Jap subs if we decide we still need subs. After ten years the Japs will have the bugs worked out.
(BIG IF) 1. If we don’t need subs.
Given AUKUS is DOA what exactly is Scotty from Marketing going to be doing?
You do know where the funds (in part) for ScoMo’s new employer come from?
I reckon it would be a brick per annum all in.
After a decade, it folds, but ScoMo don’t care.
He got his.
What was the sticker price of the tunnel Dan paid a bill to not build?
One can only imagine what the price to exit a deal with the sticker price of $350bill plus will be.
Vapes, cigarettes? Stupid, personal, half-smart arguments?
And then criticising other parties for 18c?
GTFOOH, Dot. I’ve no interest in a discussion with someone living a delusion.
Dot
What is the Libertarian policy on restricting immigration of “culturally incompatible” applicants? On restricting all immigration until the current shortage of housing is overcome?
Anyway, off to the beach this morning.
WFH today.
Most rewarding.
I’d love to see the fantasies their junior economists indulge in.
I think it has been for some time, with a sliding scale of financial “contributions” depending on the income and assets of the applicant.
Another “Gillard-era technical issue”, no doubt.
I’m looking forward to seeing his autobiography remaindered at Dymocks.
Some small consolation.
The USN isn’t getting all the Virginias they want. We’d be doing them a favour to cancel the deal.
Indolent
I like Nigel, but for Gods sake, don’t British mums teach their kids how to brush their teeth in a vertical motion?
I (like you) haven’t seen the contract, but I strongly suspect that it includes full LIFE CYCLE costs, which cover a lot more than acquisition and maintenance.
Seems he’s on TWICE the salary package of the State Premier.
PS, regardless, I suspect that large, fully crewed, nuclear powered submarines are not the way of the future.
Chinese real estate developer Vanke (ranked 208 on the Forbes Global 500) is in urgent discussions with its creditors as a bond default looms.
It’s a bit vague but it seems the visas are being cancelled because they don’t intend to stay ‘temporarily’.
Planning to lodge refugee applications as soon as they arrive?
They aren’t going back to Gaza so no need to panic.
This displays a complete misunderstanding of the raison d’etre of Queensland Rail.
It does not exist to service freight customers or passengers.
It exists to cultivate union patronage in the ALP and to distribute pork-barrelling funding to compliant rural electorates.
we don’t need subs
Indeed we don’t.
Just purchase Tomahawk Block II TLAM-N. They have a range of 2,500 kilometres and are nuclear-tipped. A nice deterrent to anyone eyeing off Oz.
Unfortunately we have no conceivable enemy within that distance even if we put them in Darwin in a bomber squadron. Sigh!
Jeeves, bring back the drawing board!
“Sir, have you considered silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles?”
Pause.
“Remind me to put your pay up Jeeves. Get the PM on the blower please.”
So, in its collective wisdom, Parliament established the Remuneration Tribunal to determine MPs remuneration “independently”, but made it also responsible for the remuneration of statutory office holders, judges, senior public servants and military officers to dilute any potential criticism.
I was thinking more about all the add-on perks & allowances .. Their basic wage is exhorbitant enuf but reality is none of ’em “work” for base rate .. what with added “allowances”, chairing committees, badged cars/comcars, living away from home, electorate office add-ons, extra for secretary of this, minister for that I’d doubt that the most junior trougher is trousering less than $325K a year (a lot of it tax free!) .. and how many, actually, pay for anything out of their own pocket .. sports/entertainment freebies to co-incide with a “political” meetings abound ……
And every query met with the standard .. “It’s within the guidelines” ………
Then there are the “advisors” who’s main qualifications appear to be “family’ members or family of “maaates” …… slurpin’ in at least $100k a year ……..
Note Zelensky adamantly supporting negotiations.
Rishi Sunak has just announced new gas plants as a back up.
Not even smoko and we’ve had our first “champing” of the day.
This could be an epic day.
It’s a bit vague but it seems the visas are being cancelled because they don’t intend to stay ‘temporarily’.
Planning to lodge refugee applications as soon as they arrive?
They aren’t going back to Gaza so no need to panic.
If anyone ever believed any of them intend to go “home” again ..
I’ve got a lovely bridge for sale .. verrrry cheap ..! LOL!
JC
I doubt that photo will ever be seen in our schools, nor will the roll call of the Royal Navy officers and crew who gave their lives and health for this noble endeavour ever be called in those same institutions.
Seems he’s on TWICE the salary package of the State Premier.
persoanally, I thinx, any state premier (or minister/mp/ ect) on over $5 a week is rorting the tax payer but I can’t understand how someone who is answerable to someone else can earn more than that person .. the premier is supposed to be on the buck-stops-here full tix yet folk underneath that role can earn more ……….
Barnett was a victim of the Federal Libs.
When WA was busy underwriting the rest of Australia and getting SFA on the dollar in the GST carveup.
Then when Sneakers got in the Libs gifted him with a fair carveup of GST because… Reasons.
The Libs had done their dash with Barnett by then but he was on a hiding to nothing with no money in the kitty.
Barnett was a victim of the Federal Libs.
When WA was busy underwriting the rest of Australia and getting SFA on the dollar in the GST carveup.
Then when Sneakers got in the Libs gifted him with a fair carveup of GST because… Reasons.
The Libs had done their dash with Barnett by then but he was on a hiding to nothing with no money in the kitty.
And he was no IT/ Zac Kirkup either.
The idea that reversing the ban on vaping, and opposing the demonisation and over taxation of cigarettes are “delusional”, is laughable in itself.
Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you don’t.
The vaping ban is done by governments who lecture us about “science”, the scientific evidence is that despite any ill effects of vapes, they help people to stop smoking.
Cigarette and general tobacco excise (slightly different) is usurious, regressive and mean-spirited. It is done by greedy governments who since 2007 cannot stick to a budget, like a 17-year-old nurse in training can.
That’s not to mention the voting bloc of millions of smokers remaining and the fact that tobacco excise is a putative factor in the illegal tobacco trade, which has seen violence spill out in front of the general public and endanger their health.
OH AND WHICH PARTIES MAY THESE BE???
The one that had that complete %^$# Brandis argue against repeal because he did not want to “support bigots”.
What a slimy turd he was.
Potential epicness indeed.
Wait until someone gets called ‘big fella’, or even escalates to ‘big dog’.
Hooo boy.
Indolent
Careful. Any questioning of the holy grail of the infant vaccine schedule will have Monty and Dot and others accusing you of being an adherent of bloodletting.
Note of caution though, seems a mighty coincidence that a film crew was handy if this was day of invasion, but I do remember Macron being photographed heavily early on.
What price security? To have nuclear subs with nuclear weapons can be the only deterrent for anyone threatening us. At the moment the Chinese. Pooh Bear Xi Jinping has already intimated that. I don’t know why the bedwetters can’t understand if someone attacks you a large percetage of their population are going to die. Its that simple. This is not sabre rattling but plain fact. This is not threatening your neighbour but anyone who wants to attack you. It is up to them.
B John
You’re right unless you go back to the pre-2022 election policies. The 2022 policies were really aimed at the COVID crap, freeing up businesses, free speech and going nuclear to avoid a renewables disaster.
Currently, the only thing is:
Abolish Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, and all similar
legislation.
The old policy was to restrict welfare rights (citizens only) for many years, have a long citizenship waiting period and get rid of all of the funding of stuff that doesn’t encourage assimilation, like funding based on race, langauge sevices etc. There was some stuff about cutting down on family reunions and sickly family members IIRC.
The immigration policy allowed for executive discretion on the numbers.
The only party on the right I know of that has a set target is AAFI, if they still exist. I don’t think the Sustainable Population Party wants Catholic or evangelical families with 8 – 13 kids….
I was totally okay with closing the borders to get my civil liberties back. Instead the privileged could travel and the rest of us suffered for it.
We tax home construction at 40-45% of total costs, or at a rate of 80%.
That is the key reason why we have a housing shortage. This tax rate is absurdly high, even for communist countries.
I’d rather have a lower rate of good migrants and abolish those taxes than have the taxes and have zero immigration. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to pull back for now, I suspect the ALP did this out of spite; per Cloward Piven to punish those who ever disagreed with higher immigration numbers for any reason (including me).
With this constant rain, I have lost control of the garden. I hired a couple of kids from Centerlink for a few days. Against my better judgement, one was an Irish girl.
A very bitter young woman furious about what has happened to her country. She reserved her greater anger for Sinn Fein (IRA as she called them) who she claimed are still gangsters and bullies.
She said that all of the three main parties are communists hell bent on replacing rhe Irish people with compliant foreigners. She was terrified by the number of Muslims who she said were deliberately located by the Government in rural towns and who have changed rural culture already.
She has applied for a permanent residence visa that she claims will be denied, in which case she intends to go bush.
I have no sympathy for Ireland, but wish Mary (yep an Irish name that can be spelled) well. An impressive young woman who unfortunately we would not be able to use up on the property. She came across as being potential trouble.
Her attitude was interesting given that her degree appeared to be in EU Collectivist Studies.
I actually sympathise with those who feel they have no one to vote for and refuse to vote.
Fine, but you don’t get to decide what political parties have as a policy unless you join, AND you will never get a perfect party unless it is a single-issue party; which will never hold government.
Like I said before: ACP doesn’t exist, Bernardi has given up and Australia 1 is a joke and quite possibly a scam.
I don’t mind people even saying what I think is crazy:
“I’m going to join the Liberals and reform them, then we’ll be governed well”, this has less chance than Pauline Hanson winning a double/super majority in every Parliament
I don’t mind the alternatives of retreating out of the city and enjoying good food, wine and company or leaving for greener pastures.
I don’t see the point of screaming into the void if you know nothing will ever change.
This then becomes a struggle session and it is incredibly sad.
RTWT.
I’ve never seen the succulent Chinese meal man vid before.
It’s great.
https://x.com/north0fnorth/status/1767724790175920468?s=20
360 bn on top of our current national debt and out-of-control spending is crippling.
Lazy research. Wiki.
$2.8 billion per unit (2019);[1]
$4.3 billion per unit w/VPM (2023)
Five of these beasts turns into a “lifetime cost” of 360 bn, before any personnel are paid and do we get weapons?
This lifetime cost thing is a scam, particularly when the reactors can run for DECADES. The F-35s were not priced with this outrageous markup. No one buys a new 3 Series BMW for 80k then pays 1.2 mn in “lifetime costs”.
Likely next move. RUS is humming right now.
Early voting in Toowoomba for Council elections yesterday at midday. Line out the door.
Citizens beset by bunch of main chancers looking for the back bencher salaries for being on Council. Worthless PoS’s. Ten position twenty seven candidates. One migrant git wants more migrants and representation for them. Piss off.
Are you ready to receive my limp penis
A line for the ages
I believe the term is “red pilled”, bons; meaning in exposed to the previously hidden reality of things.
Comes from a cult film, apparently.
One of the many things I’ve learned here. 😀
Sure is. Anyone know who that was and what it was about?
UK manufacturers plan to increase reshoring to get better value and more security
Bringing Manufacturing back home? Now, that’s a novel idea.
You would think that ALL Political Parties and the Unions would all for it here in Australia. In fact, didn’t Elbow have an ‘Erection’ promise to increase manufacturing in Australia? Mal TurnBullShit certainly used the slogan – “Australia – The Clever Country”. LOL.
https://www.logisticsit.com/articles/2024/01/04/uk-manufacturers-plan-to-increase-reshoring-to-get-better-value-and-more-security#:~:text=A%20further%2058%25%20of%20manufacturers,reshoring%20process%20report%20successful%20outcomes
This might be EPIC
INSIDE THE PENTAGON: Secretary of Defense Personnel TELLS ALL.
Starts at 11:55.
Begins with an interview with Bannon.
INSIDE THE PENTAGON: Secretary of Defense Personnel TELLS ALL w/ Special Guests!
O’Keefe Media Group.
The thing is, the US only has to close one border…the Canadian, Alaskan, east and west coast & Hawaiian borders were never really significant.
“Repeal the 2ns amendment, take all of the guns away” – yep, through nationalising the National Guard.
How?
“Pack the Supreme Court!”
a succulent Chinese meal
Yes, he promised that right after he promised to cut migration.
Indolent
That’s looking dodgy – but the answer is clear – a whistleblower is a marked man.
A vindictive Skeletor?
shatterzzz
All good points. I’m not sure how things lie electoral allowances are determined, privately plated cars flowed on from senior public servants. Things like freebie tickets to sporting events and such should (stop larfing) be declared on registers of interests.
Also not sure how the “guidelines” are determined, but you can bet whoever does it knows who will extend their cosy little job.
Bannon made a good point, the Pentagon guy interviewed is an extremist and fascist; yet the regime surrogates call anyone who opposes them, “fascists”.
Interesting Eyrie. I am fanatical about local government elections especially since the implementation of the scam of subjugating previously rural electorates to big regional cities. Your LGA being one of the more egregious examples. (Numbers gets to vote on farm issues FFS!!).
I studied my LGA candidates in detail and attended the Candidates’ Night. Unlike the last election that featured droves of secret Greens pretending to be human, I could identify one only this time.
Perhaps the Greens have given us up as a lost cause and are focusing on capturing Brisbane, the greatest local government prize in Australia. A Greens’ Brisbane would (and probably will) make residents envious of Clover’s asylum.
This would vex the progressive left:
https://time.com/6076035/erik-prince-ukraine-private-army/
Exclusive: Documents Reveal Erik Prince’s $10 Billion Plan to Make Weapons and Create a Private Army in Ukraine
July 7, 2021 3:12 PM EDT
shatterzzz
You are using the wrong verb. Neither the premier (or PM) nor his supposed lackeys actually “earn” what goes into their bank, they are “paid” that sum.
Boambee John
Mar 14, 2024 9:29 AM
It doesn’t matter what anyone’s policy is, BJ. The facts are that the people who decide the rules have an entrenched financial interest in increasing housing prices due to excess illegal and legal immigration.
I have no answer to this corruption of the housing market. But I do know that nearly all of our political class have multiple houses that increase in value the more the building market is stifled.
I was swimming near Fort Nepean over the weekend and as I floated in the water wondered about the sheer insanity of thinking the Russians could pose a threat at the turn of last century to Melbourne given the logistics involved. Similarly, the Chinese aren’t in a position to invade Australia so what actual role do nuclear-powered (I understand their advantage over diesel) subs play in Australia’s defence?
Chinese don’t seem to be very talented at diplomacy.
Russia, Ukraine Show Little Enthusiasm for China’s Second Try at Ending War (13 Mar)
Going to be a long war, especially if Biden steals the election again.
Easy, Tiger.
All good stuff, but …
Why was the pre-2022 policy changed?
Also, you have carefully avoided any mention of my phrase “culturally incompatible”. Why? Are Libertarians fearful of being accused of discrimination, or worse, waaaycsim?
The increasing numbers of “excitable” immigrants who cheerfully march through the streets calling for genocide, and the many yoofs from certain regions who bash, rob, rape and murder, and receive only a slap with a wet lettuce leaf will lead to “blood on the streets”, even if not Rivers of Blood.
Blame the shortage of housing, promise to cut immigration “until the crisis has passed”, and the votes will flow. And so will the social benefits.
Monster salary upthread – would only be in the lower reaches of the State PS here in Victoria.
If the same rationale applied as at Fort Lytton in Brisbane the threat wasn’t just the Russians but also the French. It was necessary to prevent an enemy warship sailing into the Brisbane river unmolested. It may seem foolish now, but in fact the colonies would have been foolish then not to make such provisions for the defence of their capitals.
Queensland also had a navy, btw.
Dot
The “whole of life” costs is a budgetary measure to ensure that the old lurk of buying a capability, but not allowing for the spares, maintenances, fuel and personnel costs was stopped.
As with the BMW, they are not paid up-front but (surprise) across the lifetime of the capability. Add up the rego, insurance, a=maintenance, fuel costs of the BMW, and your eyes might water, but you don’t pay them up front.
It wasn’t.
The 2022 election was held whilst we still had a lot of COVID nonsense. The most relevant issues were presented.
Your focus is simply different to ours; these enclaves are not self-sufficient, what we should do is turn off the spigot of OPM; migrant or Aboriginal. I don’t care if people think that’s racist, it’s actually not, they’ll call you a “Nazi” for not agreeing with their radical authoritarian progressive agenda anyway.
Come off it. It’s a scam. TWELVE TIMES the sticker price.
A lot of Gaia chariot fun today.
40 flee unit complex after e-bike battery blaze (Tele, paywalled)
As well as that Porsche’s share price went up 10% yesterday after they said they were backing away from electric cars, and the Chinese have 10,000 cheap EVs sitting in Europe unsold because demand is so low. They’ve been there so long that they’re literally going moldy.
Re 18c, I think we need to advance the idea that prosecutions under laws limiting free speech should be bipartisan.
This can be put forward as preventing abuse.
The benefit here is there should be no argument for any exceptions to this. Even the extreme cases like divulging national secrets – bipartisan prosecution. Assange only gets charged if both sides agree. If one side unreasonably withholds approval, let them pay any political price then, but the accused individual stays free.
Independent analysis that came to me in an email a week or so ago (where did I put it?) recently suggested that the government has severely underestimated the number of Australians who are about to “creep” into a higher tax bracket. The analysis suggested the actual number was 50 times the government’s expectation.
With those “higher” wages buying less than they did 12-24 months ago and a greater income tax impost on them, many working Australians are going to be hit with a clue bat.
The Libertarians ought to push hard on welfare reform and income tax cuts. Why not a flat rate of income tax? They could even cite “fairness” as a rationale!
Cheers.
Any other defective and dangerous consumer product like these Gaia Chariots would be banned.
Bill Gates 1
Bill Gates 2
Meme
Were they just in it for the cabin-boys?
Bill Gates 3