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wheelbarrow

you wouldn’t put that in the dishwasher

‘Faux Outrage’: Transgender Levine Dismisses Public Anger over Easter Provocation (breitbart.com) obscene and evil. Total filth

Oooo…Knight #3. Noice, especially the goose step. Speaks a thousand words.

As requested, from today’s Oz.
Governor-general role is cushy job for the wokest of women
Janet ALBRECHTSEN

If someone offered me the role of governor-general, I’d say shoot me now. If someone offered me that job because I’m a woman, I’d say shoot me again, please, to be doubly sure I’m dead.

I guess some women will be celebrating Sam Mostyn’s appointment as governor-general as a clenched-fist moment of empowerment. Just quietly, women of that ilk will also be celebrating that someone called Samuel Mostyn would not have had a snowball’s chance in hell of even being short-listed.
“Sam Mostyn is an exceptional leader who represents the best of modern Australia,” Anthony Albanese said when announcing her new role. Each to their own. 
I’d tweak this slightly to read Mostyn reflects the worst of modern woke Australia. The same woke corporate Australia in which our biggest companies threw many millions of shareholder dollars into a referendum that sought to divide the country, using the Constitution, on the basis of race. The same woke corporate Australia that had no read on the country given the referendum failed so spectacularly.

This is the same modern Australia in which gender equality means corralling women into jobs they may not want so executives and board members can all feel good that the workplace is 50-50. This is the modern corporate Australia that believes in every kind of diversity and inclusion except intellectual diversity, where corporate boards have become chorus lines of agreement on woke shibboleths and dissenters are cowed into silence. 
So let’s just settle on acknowledging that Mostyn’s appointment is the crowning achievement for one of the country’s most outspoken quota queens. By the way, what happened to Linda Burney? Wasn’t there talk of Burney getting this role after the failed voice referendum?
The real headline should read: Australia’s wokest woman appointed to yet another cushy job. What is there to celebrate there? The appointment of the former Chief Executive Women president is further evidence, if we needed it, that the old boys’ club has been replaced with a new girls’ club – one new group of oppressors putting the squeeze on a new group of oppressed.
Mostyn is no business heavyweight. She had a modestly successful career as a lawyer and then as a corporate communications, HR and government relations executive, rising as high as group executive, culture and reputation at IAG. 
As far as one can tell from her public profile, she has no track record running an actual business or taking P&L responsibility. 
She does, however, have history as an ALP staffer working in the offices of Paul Keating, Bob Collins and Michael Lee. Her main skills appear to be gender advocacy, networking and being a quota queen, with a helpful side order of ALP connections. 
Mostyn was obviously sufficiently user friendly and politically astute to fill the gaping need for female board members, driven by the quotas she and her fellow members of the golden skirts club had advocated for so vociferously. 
Those who froth about a few old men’s clubs in Sydney and Melbourne are the same mob who are happy to impose a girls’ club on corporate Australia. And this new club comes with the added punch of being cemented into place with formal gender quota rules. The result is that the same small group of women keep getting the gigs.
There is nothing to celebrate here, unless you believe that inequality is the new equality. In fact, there is much to despair about this appointment – that’s after you’d had a laugh at the utter predictability of Albanese appointing Mostyn to the role.
Her CV reads like a Disney movie about Ms Woke, winning climate awards, popping up in university sustainability programs, deputy chair of Diversity Australia, presiding over the CEW, chairing the Women’s Equality Taskforce, and sitting on multiple corporate boards and commissions.
The problem with all these appointments is that many will wonder if Mostyn, one the loudest voices for gender-based promotions, secured her gigs because she’s a woman. Maybe she’s fine with that. 
If that is a sign of female empowerment, shoot me a third time. My kind of feminism, the real version where your gender is neither used against you nor as a leg-up, really is dead in the water.
Mostyn won’t be the first – or last – G-G who many might think networked his or her way into high office. To be fair, this may not matter too much except in extraordinary circumstances, such as the 1975 constitutional crisis, G-Gs are mere ciphers of the government of the day. 
There is most certainly no requirement that a governor- general have a glittering business, legal, military or any other kind of career before appointment. 
The main job requirement in normal circumstances is to be presentable, speak well and understand protocol. Not much intellect required – or indeed wanted. Stroppy, mouthy, political G-Gs are an abomination. 
So I certainly don’t contend that Mostyn can’t do the job. Indeed, it is quite likely she will be a capable occupant of what is a mainly ceremonial role. But I gag when I am told what a highly-qualified person she is and what an adornment to our roll call of G-Gs. 
If her chromosomes were XY she wouldn’t have been considered for the role. The biggest question now is whether Mostyn will be able to restrain herself from using this new ceremonial platform to preach wokeness to the unenlightened.

bons

 April 4, 2024 8:19 am

Why is there no one (that I am aware) to challenge the implications of the orders of this “defender” of our nation?

Because current Army senior officers are the products of the Morrison selection and promotion system which destroyed any officer displaying individualism.

And that destruction can only be reversed by a major purge of the higher ranks, akin to FDR jumping George Marshall over several hundred officers higher than him on the seniority list.

Campbell is the final accomplishment of a century of Public Service effort dedicated to achieving absolute administrative state control of all aspects of the ADF. Witness the treasonous Defence People Group dedicated to the eradication of military ethos.

I’m a little out of touch after 15 years away from Canberra. What has DPG been up to?

What part of “dont post about your legal case on social media or you are a fat spastic” is too difficult for brittle-Knees to understand?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-03/mediation-talks-collapse-between-linda-reynolds-brittany-higgins/103550924

Senator Reynolds’s case centres on social media posts by Ms Higgins and her partner David Sharaz last year, which she maintains damaged her reputation.
On Wednesday, the WA Supreme Court heard Ms Higgins allegedly posted, “I won’t stay silent so you can stay comfortable” on social media about the same time as a mediation session in Perth, which Ms Higgins and Mr Sharaz flew in from France to attend.
Senator Reynolds’s lawyer, high-profile defamation specialist Martin Bennett, indicated that the matter would be added to an amended statement of claim for further aggravated damages.

Just as I have been predicting ever since Biden got in – the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now too expensive to refill, because Biden has passed legislation making it so.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/breaking-after-draining-strategic-petroleum-reserve-lowest-level/
I hope China, India and Europe are happy pissing it away on God knows what.

Link to the above:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/stay-home-alice-springs-the-prime-ministers-got-his-eye-on-this/news-story/0938fae38f1c9be0c54cdd1a54fba83d

Not really a surprise I suppose.

Sixty-two percent of voters say the U.S. is moving in the wrong direction in advance of the 2024 election, according to a new poll, but the responses show it depends on who is answering the question. …

Among Republicans, 10% of likely voters said things were headed the right way. Among Democrats, 51% of likely voters said things were headed the right way. For True Independents, those who don’t lean toward either major party, 22% said things were going the right way compared to 65% who said things were headed in the wrong direction.

“Republicans and Democrats are living in different realities,” David Byler of Noble Predictive Insights told The Center Square.

Well, no, that’s not quite correct. Republicans are living in reality, Democrats are living in some sort of weird fantasyland since basically nothing they believe is true.

Majority of voters say U.S. heading in the wrong direction (30 Mar)

Rooftop swimming pool during the Taiwan earthquake.

https://twitter.com/enazator/status/1775415137656320381

 I’m not sure that’s going to end well for anyone, but particularly Iran.
I think Israel would be well aware of any plans Iran has, and would be happy to take them on, at any level including mushroom cloud level. Unfortunately, civilians would be toast on both sides, making the current storm in a teacup over incidental caterer casualties look like the side issue it is. It was Harry S. Truman that said if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

The Conversation:
The long-awaited UN report into human rights abuses committed in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) was finally published last week to a mixed reception. For some – principally the Chinese government – it went too far. Others thought it didn’t go far enough.
And:
The UN report makes no attempt to measure genocide allegations made against Beijing against the criteria laid out in the UN convention on genocide (1948), despite several reports, legal opinions, scholarly articles and conferences on the issue.

A few moments ago, comments on Janet A’s article had reached 1415! Very impressive.

The article contains a linky to a parliamentary website where submissions can be made online. Tell anyone who might have a case to report.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/inquiry-into-excess-deaths-now-open-for-submissions-5620720?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=top-news-australia-top-news-7

Taylor whatever

deer in the headlights

Lee J hasn’t even kicked in yet

Richo’s sprog is giving this Taylor thing an absolute bashing

In other news we are receiving our first decent rain for the year. Heavy and prolonged. The roos all have their backs to what looks like a promising East Coast Low.

It’s also a “scorching” 20 degrees. Think I might put a cardigan on. 😀

That poor bugger has come to court for a battle of wits.
Armed.
With a rubber chook.

Johanna has been hacked..

The recurring mistake of non-Leftists again.
She is not a dunderhead and he is not stupid for appointing her.
Quite the opposite on both counts.

This ain’t her/

Just remember all the Higgins shenanigans when the new GG gets sworn in, the one that used to be a staffer for the ALP

Rabz
 April 4, 2024 4:38 pm

Armed.

With a rubber chook.

No frozen ducks available?

In the first 5 minutes the chook had been thoroughly inserted, rotated and jackhammered up his own backside.
Like pitting jeb “pocket Turtles” Bush against Trump, horrifyingly like a small boy with a magnifying glass and and ant hill.

The judge is likely to be pissed about lack of evidence as it most likely appears and the lawyer allowing some dickwit on the stand not producing it and wasting the courts time resulting in higher damages. If this is what happens can 10 make claims on her professional indemnity? A future in conveyancing looks to be on the horizon.

Take-aways from today’s FCA hearing with Lee J (Brucie in the audience, somewhat slimmer but most likely just as stupid).

1) Auerbach is the new standard for a suicide bomber who doesn’t use esplosives. Doing remarkable work in life-long career suicide.
Clear sociopathic traits in full view.

2) Brucie comes off, once again, as an uncontrolled hedonist with a severe deficit in judging the character of people around him.
Able to create mortal enemies in a single meeting.

Hard to see how the new evidence will NOT make Lee J take a much dimmer view of the 4-eyed oaf.
His future net-worth took a real hit today, methinks.

Zulu. You are correct. As an old corporate finance type, nothing is paid without signed authorisation. Seven like all listed corporates has rigorous systems to ensure all payments are proper. There is also the matter of internal and external audit. There is no way something is paid on verbal authorisation.