Broelman actually nails it today.

And another classic from Leak Jr.

Thanks, Tom.

…suspected autism spectrum disorder.

Speaking of which:

How the rise of autism and ADHD fractured Australia’s schools

• The Guardian

Delayed parenthood appears to be a significant factor in the incidence of autism:

There is growing evidence that older fathers and mothers (over 45 years) are at increased chance of having a child with autism. Older parents, as a rule, are more likely to have children with developmental and other disorders. 

Autism Awareness Australia

Genetic mutations with age?

Nor is there any plausibility to comparing this church video to pedophilia or the sort of obscenity I would support being removed as online content. What those who support the removal of true and publicly important content from the online platforms need to tell us is why the harms so massively outweigh the public’s right to know that censorship is warranted. 

The problem is that they can’t permit free access to the video or they will have to admit that there is a group within our society who consider terrorism a legitimate expression of their religion. Having it all swept under the carpet advantages Labor’s electoral prospects which apparently outweigh the safety of the citizenry.

Traitors!

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The skank is back! Andrew Bolt:

An Australian academic can’t get much lower than to cheer on children parroting war cries against Israel.

Yet Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah last Friday clapped along as a boy of primary school age chanted “intifada, intifada”.

Also given the mic at Abdel-Fattah’s anti-Israel “family event” at Sydney University was a child chanting for Israel’s destruction from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Abdel-Fattah, a Macquarie University fellow, is now getting big coverage for her latest stunt, but I’ve followed her for years and can say she’s said a lot worse, only to be rewarded, including by the Albanese Government.

For instance, I was shocked by her reaction to the 2018 murder of Melbourne cafe owner Sisto Malaspina by Islamist terrorist Hassan Khalif Shire Ali.

“I, an Australian Muslim, refuse to condemn the violence that took place on Bourke Street,” she wrote in The Age.

“To ask me to condemn is to strip me of my basic humanity.”

Really? My humanity felt strengthened by repudiating evil.

But Abdel-Fattah preferred in her article to condemn Australia’s “state-sponsored terrorism” and “patriarchal, racist, capitalist social order”.

It got worse. She recently helped publicise a leaked list of Jews on a WhatsApp website who were discussing the new anti-Semitism, and issued what to me sounded a threat: “to ensure that every space Zionists enter is culturally unsafe for them’.

This year for International Women’s Day she even shared a poster on her Instagram page of “a few of the many icons of unstoppable Palestinian women that have inspired us”.

They included Islamist terrorist Leila Khaled, who hijacked two passenger jets around 50 years ago, and Dalal Mughrabi, who in 1978 joined a terrorist raid on Israel which slaughtered 38 civilians, including 13 children and an American wildlife photographer, a woman who pointed the way to Tel Aviv and was shot dead by Mughrabi herself

With that record I believe Abdel-Fattah shouldn’t hold job in any Australian university, yet she not only has one at Macquarie but was given $802,000 by the Albanese Government to help activists like her make common cause with other Left-wing groups here, especially Aboriginal ones.

The State Library of NSW also paid her to head a jury to judge one of this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Now she’s encouraging even children in Australia to cry for intifada. Why on earth are we paying her?

There is much material for Dutton to use. “Why Prime Minister are you spending $800k on activist whores who hate the West?”
And the question shouldn’t be why we are paying for this shite Mr Bolt, it is why she isn’t in a cell awaiting incitement trial or hate speech.
I’m sure the eSafety Commissioner is onto it.

Bruce Pascoe getting aroused by the prospect of another work of fiction being written to coincide with the ‘strengthening of the curriculum’.

Calls to abolish the eSafety Commissioner are shortsighted and will not only increase online risks but leave the tech companies to operate in Australia with little or no accountability.

Given that the AHRC allowed the federal and state governments to act with little or no accountability during the covidiocy, Ms. Finlay will have to excuse me as I take her concern for our rights with a pound of salt.

Freedom is always the outcome of a set of conditions; not a condition itself.

That’s what I was saying.

Kevin M

I read that Unheard piece you linked to. Part except here:

Polanyi set out to explain the massive economic and social transformations that he had witnessed during his lifetime: the end of the century of “relative peace” in Europe, from 1815 to 1914, and the subsequent descent into economic turmoil, fascism and war, which was still ongoing at the time of the book’s publication. He traced these upheavals back to a single, overarching cause: the rise of market liberalism in the early 19th century — the belief that society can and should be organised through self-regulating markets. For him, this represented nothing less than an ontological break with much of human history. Prior to the 19th century, he insisted, the human economy had always been “embedded” in society: it was subordinated to local politics, customs, religion and social relations. Land and labour, in particular, were not treated as commodities but as parts of an articulate whole — of life itself.

Did Polanyi appreciate what came before industrialization? We had feudalism.

I suspect that some people here are rustling around in the grass and really not understanding what it is they’re pining for. I suspect it’s something resembling the bland life of living in Portugal under Salazar.

But moreover, what isn’t currently subordinated to local politics, customs etc in the current world? And then there’s choice. You could actually decide to live the way you wish. We once had one of the site’s intellectual leaders refusing to buy any Chinese made spanner set and opted for a Korean made set. That’s choice. 🙂

I suspect it’s something resembling the bland life of living in Portugal under Salazar.

Pretty much poverty stricken according to Sara Hoyt who grew up there.

Turns out it was one of Elbow’s 149 detainees released:

Girrawheen home invasion: Arrests made over violent robbery of elderly couple (watoday.com.au)

Albo a victim of friendly fire in the war on women. Caution required when the handbags start whirring.

Why has the bloke that ‘tree-d” Paul kent been charged and not Kent ..
Fairly obvious from the video that a drunken Paul Kent abused & provoked the bloke …..!
If nothing else he should be charged with being an idiot .. at 60 years old and a nasty drunk time he woke up to himself .. next time he might not get too walk away .. furglewit ..!

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/twist-alleged-nrl-journo-punch-213700529.html

From the piece, Polanyi wasn’t criticizing industrialization but market liberalism.

 
LOL, what is the purpose of industrialization if not for mass production and therefore access to large markets at scale? How do you have industrialization without access to large markets, or are you thinking of setting up, say, a Boeing production plant in most towns and cities to satisfy demand for two planes per decade?
 
 
You sound like monty arguing that anyone that might be opposed to transgenderism must be pining for the 50s.
 
Really? You’re sounding awfully like Salazar, then.
 
You’re now even using the word “liberalism” to suggest access to markets at scale is a bad thing and should be curtailed. The opposite word for liberalism is illiberalism and not conservationism, which these days appears to be confusing you. So let’s discuss your illiberal views in regards to markets and industrialization.
 
Someone once wrote a piece called Nastaglacomics as a criticism of Krugman’s views on those often pining for the past. It’s not me pining for the past, it appears to be you.
 

There are certainly issues that we need to address, but the last 30 years have seen 2 billion people move out of grinding poverty and into the middle class. If you want to criticize that, then go ahead.

The pouring out of such Saint like love for the improved lives of all the world’s poor peasants…
Libertarians really are a conundrum, aren’t they.
OUR societies don’t exist, but the world’s peasantry… Well, THATS how we know if everything is good and right.

geoff chambers Years of political attacks on Scott Morrison catch up with Anthony Albanese

• 3:28PM April 29, 2024
• 23 Comments

Anthony Albanese – whose party spent years attacking Scott Morrison over misogyny – has been hit by a political karma bus and reality check.
While some in government feel the Prime Minister is being unfairly maligned following his appearance at a gendered violence rally in Canberra on Sunday, Albanese owns his government’s pledge to “end violence against women and children in one generation”.
Akin to Bob Hawke’s pledge that no Australian child would live in poverty by 1990 and Scott Morrison’s zero suicides ambition, Albanese’s promise is a populist declaration that will not be realised in his lifetime, if ever.
All three pledges, along with measures to Close the Gap for Indigenous Australians, must be prioritised for more targeted resources and funding tied to results, structural reforms and change.
Ahead of the 2022 election, Albanese and his senior ministers led the pile-on targeting Morrison’s handling of women’s policies and scandals that the former prime minister struggled to fully comprehend and address. Labor’s political attacks framing Morrison as misogynistic were a constant theme in the lead-up to the election.
After offering to privately meet with March4Justice organisers in 2021, Morrison – who once described Marise Payne as the “prime minister for women” and deferred to his wife Jenny following the Brittany Higgins rape allegation – clumsily invoked Myanmar in parliament and said “not far from here, such marches, even now are being met with bullets, but not here in this country”.

For all of Morrison’s poor judgment, Albanese sought to put himself and his party on a pedestal when it came to dealing with the complex nature of a domestic and family violence scourge that does not discriminate along social or cultural lines. Labor poured petrol on every political opportunity to malign Morrison and accuse the Coalition of being anti-women.
Just over one-year out from the 2025 election and facing a public blowtorch over gender violence, Albanese is under pressure to deliver on his rhetoric to keep women and children safe.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has upset the organiser of the ‘No More’ rally against men’s violence in… Canberra over on Sunday. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has upset the organiser of the ‘No More’ rally against men’s violence in Canberra over on Sunday. The rally was attended by 5,000 people. More
Issues predominantly led by states and territories have become priorities for the federal government under Albanese.
The Prime Minister – who will convene an urgent national cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss the family violence crisis – has taken greater responsibility for reforming and overhauling domestic violence policy settings, a national firearms register, housing, health, NDIS funding, education, public safety and court systems.
Family and gendered violence is horrific and senseless.
The number of Australian women killed by men this year is tracking at an unacceptable rate.
Amid a proliferation of pornography and social media, increasingly fractured family units and growing lack of respect across society, the challenge is generational and in some communities institutionalised.
The government’s national plan to end violence against women and children, backed by more than $2.3bn across Labor’s first two budgets, cannot become another big spending, unwieldy manifesto that leads nowhere.
There is no easy, quick fix. But for the sake of victims and families of murdered women and children, politicians need to get on with the job of combating the evil at its roots.