I’m sure we can totally trust one of the most conniving, snide and underhanded (and unfortunately, rat cunning) Ministers in one of the most radical (but thank God, utterly useless) governments in Australian history:

The government will seek to enhance protections in anti-discrimination law in a way that brings Australians together.

Just as commonwealth law already prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexuality, disability and age, no one should be discriminated against because of their faith.

Equally, no students or member of staff should be discriminated against because of who they are. At the same time, religious schools must continue to be able to build and maintain communities of faith.

The government recognises and respects the right of parents to send their kids to a religious school because of the beliefs and values they teach their children.

Over many months, we have been talking to a range of religious institutions, community organisations, unions and legal experts. We thank them for their engagement, and we thank the Australian Law Reform Commission for its work.

The government is seeking an enduring solution that strengthens protections for all of us – students, teachers, people of faith. And that’s why bipartisan support for solutions is essential.

(SPAM, shilling, etc)

Fight for your open spaces – Take 30 seconds to sign the NSW Parliament Petition to re-open Mt Warning!

There is no doubt COVID-19 hysteria gripped governments and decision makers, leading to irrational behaviours on all levels of government and all areas of society. Who can forget mask mandates in open spaces or the forced vaccination with experimental MRNA technology?

One other instance of government hysteria is when Mount Warning was closed in March 2020 as a part of the Government’s so-called safety measures. Leaving aside no evidence of COVID-19 transmission in open spaces, Mount Warning isn’t in metropolitan Sydney, it sits nearly eight hours north in the middle of a sparsely populated area of our state. Even though most COVID overreactions were eventually reversed, this site was closed and has remained closed at the cost to the taxpayer. In order to protect people from COVID-19 , the Government has employed security guards earning up to $7000 of taxpayer money per week to guard Mount Warning.

In July 2021, The Wollumbin Aboriginal Place Management plan recommended the track be closed permanently, a recommendation which resulted in the then NSW government closing the mountain “pending further discussions”. The commission claims the site as a “sacred site to indigenous men” and that they want it to remain closed to preserve it from vandalism, erosion and dumped rubbish. 

The Management Plan explicitly states the key cultural and spiritual values of the place cannot be respected or protected if the general public continues to have access. The plan also states the mountain is considered a “men’s site” and that the “sanctity” of Wollumbin Aboriginal Place “may also manifest physically”, making people sick or putting women in “physical danger”. The plan further states: “For example, if women access areas that are restricted to men, women are in physical danger and likewise for men,”

How much more land under Place Management plans will they lock up if we just let Mount Warning go? How many more action plans will lock up NSW?

The Libertarian Party has always stood up to unfair embargoes on open spaces. In fact, the strongest voice in opposition to the lock up of Mount Warning is Libertarian MLC, John Ruddick. John had stated that “Mount Warning is (part of) a national park unlike any other, it is a taxpayer funded asset of our state that should be enjoyed, appreciated, and respected by all Australians,” and that spending $7000/week on security guard salaries is a “sad and terrible joke”.

John has stated “This is why I am seeking support for a parliamentary inquiry; this inquiry will empower all community stakeholders to have their say rather than just a few”.

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/Pages/epetition-details.aspx?q=mIh4VlYuV3MWXOB3MBXJYQ

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL – Signing ePetition –
Re-open Mt WarningTo sign the ePetition, confirm you are a resident of New South Wales and enter your title, first name and last name. Once you click ‘submit’ you will have signed the ePetition and will be re-directed to the Legislative Council’s ‘ePetitions open for signature’ page.
Re-open Mt Warning Petitioner: Mr Marc Hendrickx | Member: Ruddick, John | No. of Signatories: 5,899 | Date closes: 02/05/2024 | Status: Open

To the President and Members of the Legislative Council, the petitioners of New South Wales state that Mt Warning, which has been walked by visitors young and old for generations, has been closed to all but select indigenous males by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, in violation of liberal democratic principles. The petitioners request that the House call upon the Minister for the Environment to reopen Mt Warning’s summit track so it can be enjoyed by all, regardless of race or gender.

BT, whats a Collingwood?

Toad, Trust me, the site is better off you watching the footy.
The IQ goes up a few notches.

JC the entertainment when you are on the turps and stoushing gets boring, clogging up the blog. I suspect you’re a Saints supporter and dulling the senses early.

Good luck 🙂

Who had “hairy curvey mountain bodies – the astonishing singles scene in Nimbin” for March?
Anyone got the gen on this from Daily Telegraph or others in the stable, so to speak?

Meanwhile in the Territory:

A Northern Territory principal has resigned after a 12-month stint at Tennant Creek High School.

and

The school is currently advertising for generalist, home economics, Health/PE, science, and STEM secondary teachers.

and

TCHS’s attendance rate in 2023 was 49 per cent, up from 44 per cent in 2022.

Very odd.

Paywalled at the WSJ.
Good read if you have access.

Russia Seized 400 Foreign-Owned Jets. Then an Epic Insurance Fight Began.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/russia-seized-400-foreign-owned-jets-then-an-epic-insurance-fight-began-194c1ded?mod=djem10point

Dover, ignore my post Did not realise two paras became the whole article

I haven’t been to a gallery since I rented behind one in the 90s and used to head down for leftover wine and cheese on opening nights.

Worth reposting. LOL!

Never had a cold or a flu?

No joke, get genetic tests done.

I have my doubts.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dont-immune-colds.html

Scientists have discovered that the immune response to cold viruses targets the wrong part of the virus: the immune response attacks the inside of the virus cell and not the envelope, which is what the virus uses to become established in the patient’s mucosal tissue. “Anyone who has a cold develops antibodies against the wrong part of the virus, so their immune response fails to protect them. It ‘misfires’,” explains Rudolf Valenta, head of the research from the University Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research at the MedUni Vienna. This could be the reason why humans cannot become immune to colds in the same way as they do with other infectious diseases, such as measles. When someone develops another cold, the antibodies once again attack the wrong part of the virus.

I did 1,000 trunk curls in a day and have a wash board tummy

Convulsing after a ladyboy experience is not counted as ‘trunk curls’.

To wit, there were actually three fraud convictions.

“And who is boasting? Seems to be a few insecurities here.”
No insecurities on health issues but repeatedly commenting how you never got this generally mild ailment and never got that mild ailment over and over as though it’s some sort of personal achievement that sets you apart from the rest.
What does it prove?
Nothing.

Would you eleborate on this, please KD?

6.54 p.m. today, and just upthread. The part time bovver boy and part time ladyboy posted another of Mr Armstrong’s grift pieces, with that as the headline.

William Hurt never fails to deliver, over 50 movies.

A first-grade teacher asks her class if anyone knows a word they can spell. Only little Johnny raises his hand

And says:

‘Z-I-O-N-I-S-T T-A-K-E-O-V-E-R’

Right Rotten? I mean, that’s what your guy said.

Right?

JC, Hurt was described as a detached intellectual.

I mentioned yesterday that the front of the cathedral had been ravaged by vandals, got a little booklet that confirmed it was French Revolutionaries who also did a lot of damage inside and pulled down the spire over the transept.
St Stephen who stands over the main entrance was spared though, because he was holding a book and the ignoramuses thought he was a secular figure, and instead gave him a red cap.

A right load of bollocks

You’ve been shown the official court records.

You have the devotion of a battered wife who continually says, in the face of overwhelming evidence that her bloke is a scrote who flogs her daily, that ‘he didn’t really mean it’.

Another cracker that I missed, from the grifter’s mouthpiece:

And the Guv’ment never got the source code to his system which is what they were after all the time

Yesssss Rotten. Big Government wanted Socrates. Wanted it baaad.

This is much better comedy than the usual Benny Hill flapping, or extracts from the Great British Joke Book of 1973.

Sitting at the railway station looking at the picture of a wooden sculpture of two bucks in a fighting embrace
It is from the the ‘paleolithque supérieur’ about 20,000 years old, the detail is exceptional, it is decoration on a hook, or crochet as the French call them of a spear, (javeline) .
It’s on exhibit at the French Natural History museum which I don’t think I’ve visited.
Europe is overwhelming in terms of quantity and quality of art.
It is always fascinating to see progress of the decorative arts through the millennia, which even in the Palaeolithic had application of great skill.