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Eastman Johnson, Fiddling his way, 1866


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Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:01 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:02 am

Mark Knight. More here.

Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:11 am
JC
JC
May 3, 2024 4:26 am
Philby
Philby
May 3, 2024 1:33 pm
Reply to  JC

Could do with some of this with some of our offenders

KevinM
KevinM
May 3, 2024 4:53 am

Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Mysteriously From Sudden Infection, Leaving Doctors Baffled

Must be contagious?
Or just coincidence?
Who knows in that place now?

KevinM
KevinM
May 3, 2024 6:03 am

Things we mere males do not know.
My wife never mentioned or complained about how bothersome they were.
Bless her.

Screenshot-2024-05-03-055907
KevinM
KevinM
May 3, 2024 7:29 am
Reply to  KevinM

Come to think of it, I had to fish out some of those metal stiffeners from the washing machine, so there is a hint about wearing them can’t be all bliss.

Bespoke
Bespoke
May 3, 2024 6:56 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 7:06 am
Reply to  Bespoke

Hahahahaha.
If only they had someone who had studied the Roman phalanx.
Looks like they had too many vagina knitting majors.

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 3, 2024 7:27 am
Reply to  Bespoke
Bespoke
Bespoke
May 3, 2024 7:39 am
Reply to  lotocoti

Lol

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 7:11 am

Yesterday I saw some news about groups looking to sue some pali aligned group in the US for October 7th.
It will be interesting to see which jurisdiction they try this in in.
What comes to mind is the KBJ ruling that says you can’t sue in the US for events that took place outside the US.
Which at some time will be before the SCOTUS.
I think SCOTUS is holding off on this until the presidential immunity case is either partially or fully resolved.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 7:20 am

Which jogged my memory.
Last week on the Matt Taibbi/Walter Kirn podcast, they raised some legislation that is ready to go the next time there is cover (like the FISA renewal/turbcharging under the cover of Ukraine aid).

The legislation is regarding tax exempt organisations.
It removes the already limited oversight & appeals process from anything the administrative state.
Effectively meaning the Lois Lerner IRS bullying during the Obama administration gets turned up to eleventy.

Time will tell when & how they jam this through.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 3, 2024 7:20 am

I see the latest iteration of antifa is kicking off nicely on US college campuses.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 7:22 am

KD, I was hoping for more burning & destruction of the colleges before they were removed.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 3, 2024 7:35 am

Opinion from other Cats please.
In Victoria the state government allows councils to receive direct payments from renewable companies per turbine or area of solar panels.
The justification for this is based on supreme court judgement that renewable infrastructure placed on private land is a chattel and not a fixed asset that can be included in the Capital Improved Value and therefore be rated. Stinks of influence peddling.
I don’t know of any other situation where a private industry directly funds municipalities. I asked rural councillors at a meeting whether they thought it compromised the council, they nodded in agreement.

Bespoke
Bespoke
May 3, 2024 7:36 am

It is good to those institutions displaying the sistemic rot. I hope the counter protestors don’t infiltrated by nutters.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 3, 2024 7:37 am

more burning & destruction of the colleges

Yes, that would have been handy.

As with universities in this wide brown land, those colleges have quite some number of similarities with massive public housing towers.

Conceptualised and constructed by well-intentioned people with lofty ambitions, they worked as planned for quite some time before deteriorating into shit pits, and the exact opposite of what their original sponsors hoped they would be.

Now they are to be shied away from, and are suitable only for demolition.

Mak Siccar
Mak Siccar
May 3, 2024 7:40 am

The first and last two paragraphs of Henry Ergas’s article in today’s Oz.

The motto would be an excellent choice for this august blog.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/the-answer-to-censors-must-always-be-dare-to-know/news-story/acfc23d7ccda3d44e3903625b4c9cd97

On April 22, while the rest of the world celebrated Immanuel Kant’s 300th birthday, our eSafety Commissioner obtained an order from Justice Geoffrey Kennett of the Federal Court directing X (formerly Twitter) to suppress any videos of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at the Assyrian Orthodox Church in Sydney’s west.

And far from being subject to legislation that is determinate, predictable and verifiable, we are governed by censorship laws that suppress material, such as the video of the stabbing, whose distribution is arguably in the public interest, while being utterly ineffectual in addressing incitement to violence. Benighted rather than benign, the misinformation and disinformation bills will only compound the arbitrariness – and the chilling effect on the nation’s intellectual maturity – many times over.

Already now, this country has far more adolescent minds, cosseted from reality, incapable of critical thought and crippled in their capacity for moral judgment, than there are adolescents. What greater priority could there then be, as we celebrate the dawn of Kant’s fourth century, than to yell from the rooftops the glorious phrase he hailed as the “motto of enlightenment”: “Sapere aude! Dare to know!”

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
May 3, 2024 7:42 am

St Pauline and the latest please explain.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1786140181986492657

johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 8:24 am

‘I’m the Prime Minister.’

🙂

Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 8:54 am

I can believe that’s how the Labor caucus meetings actually proceed. Nothing matters excepted getting elected, nothing.

duncanm
duncanm
May 3, 2024 7:50 am

Coloured me surprised.

Waleed Aly writes something good.

Holding all men responsible for a violent minority has failed to keep women safe
Run it through 12ft.io to remove paywall.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/holding-all-men-responsible-for-a-violent-minority-has-failed-to-keep-women-safe-20240501-p5fo82.html

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 8:15 am
Reply to  duncanm

He has to defend Muesli men. He is one.

PS, we never seem to hear from his wife these days, not since the Turdball dinner.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 7:50 am

Any time there is an open meeting with Local Councillors, attend . Any problems with the administration of council affairs should be raised. Most people don’t know councils are run by the Cabal of General Managers. They are the ones that determine what the council sees and talks about. They are a law unto themselves.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 8:16 am
Reply to  GreyRanga

And they receive excessive remuneration in comparison to their limited responsibilities.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 7:51 am

Stinks of influence peddling.

Farmer Jez, imagine re-writing this and replacing the renewable company with a property developer.
Straight to ICAC (or IBAC? down there).

duncanm
duncanm
May 3, 2024 7:53 am

Tom

 May 3, 2024 4:03 am

Brett Lethbridge.

not a new idea for a cartoon in Oz, but gotta be one of the best interpretations.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 8:00 am

Heard a good one from my wife when dealing with Heads of Departments and Agencies. “Better to live to fight another day, than be right”.

johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 8:02 am

Kevin, the bra is one of the most uncomfortable torture devices ever inflicted on women.

If you have small boobs, you don’t need one (but will still be expected to wear one). If you have large ones, the straps cut painfully into the shoulders and have been known to cause back problems because of the weight being transferred onto the upper spine. Very uncomfortable.

If they are medium, you can probably find a reasonably comfortable bra. Not as comfortable as not wearing one, though.

When I got home from work in my corporate dressing days, the first things I did were to remove high heeled shoes, pantyhose (ugh!) and my bra and whatever was covering it. Especially in summer.

Things have improved from when we were expected to wear corsets, later modified to ‘step-ins.’ But, men don’t always understand that the universally popular suit combines relative comfort with the capacity to conceal imperfections in the physique of the wearer. Imagine your typical corporate group of male executives having to expose their legs at work. No, don’t. 🙂

Some women like wearing skirts and look good in them. Fine. But I would challenge any man who complains about the lack of same to spend a month in summer wearing high heels, pantyhose, and a bra with a couple of rockmelons in the cups at work.

Sorry if I sound grumpy, but even years into retirement, I vividly remember just how uncomfortable and sometimes painful (corns from the shoes) some of my working days were.

johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 9:14 am
Reply to  johanna

Hey!

I was told this site was infested by misogynists! Has it been hacked? 🙂

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 3, 2024 8:08 pm
Reply to  johanna

Mmmm. High heels. A podiatrist once told me that he was torn between cursing them for the harm they did to the wearers and giving thanks for the amount of work (and thus income) they gave him.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
May 3, 2024 8:02 am

Tom Jones back catalogue to be purged of Domestic Violence, Capital Punishment, and Christianity.

Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 8:58 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Well, there goes his whole repertoire.

Bespoke
Bespoke
May 3, 2024 8:05 am

Chads routinely save the world. They’re normal guys who actually show up and live in the real world while people who think they’re clever invent elaborate Principled rationalizations for being useless spectators.

duncanm
duncanm
May 3, 2024 8:06 am

GreyRanga

 May 3, 2024 7:50 am

Spot on.

I’m involved in a community sports club that’s has a permanent presence (clubhouse) and has been using a local park and other community resources for near on 75 years, on a fixed schedule that never changes. We’ve been in the same spot for 40 years.

We still get regularly shafted by council staff who ‘didn’t know’ we were there or when we needed the park.

Get a couple of dedicated councillors on your side and stick to them like glue. They’re the only ones that’ll fix the shit the general council staff cause.

Philby
Philby
May 3, 2024 2:03 pm
Reply to  duncanm

Well the opposite is in this shire. The council without consultation of residents in a small community decided to turn our recreation rerve into a regional soccer ground removing remnant vegetation and destroying the amenity of our small community. Add to the $millions spent on the ground $230,000 for huge light towers. Now instead of an afternoon or day of community sport we have hundreds of people sometimes on both days of the weekend and now 5 nights a week till 9 pm. All this takes place in the middle of a long established small residential area. I swear the mobs come from 200 K away just to scream and shout and destroy our ambience. The Labor Gestapo at our council care not about ratepayers.

duncanm
duncanm
May 3, 2024 8:20 am

Bespoke

 May 3, 2024 8:05 am

Chads routinely save the world. 

Its national fire and emergency services memorial day today.

The honour role can be found here: https://memorial.afac.com.au/

Those public figures bashing all men might like to remind themselves that 99% of those on the roll were men.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 10:04 am
Reply to  duncanm

Those public figures bashing all men might like to remind themselves that 99% of those on the roll were men.

They likely regard that as something to be corrected in the future.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 8:29 am

Court warned Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend weeks before alleged Perth grandmother bashing
By paul garvey ,

  • Senior Reporter

paige taylor

  • Indigenous Affairs Correspondent, WA Bureau Chief

and rhiannon down

  • Reporter
  • 8:02PM May 2, 2024

A commonwealth prosecutor warned a Perth court that freed immigration detainee and declared drug trafficker Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend yet still did not oppose his bail, eight weeks before the 43-year-old is accused of participating in a home invasion and robbery in which grandmother Ninette Simons was bashed unconscious.
A court transcript of Doukoshkan’s appearance at the Perth Magistrates Court on February 20 shows prosecutor Kirsty Stynes told magistrate Tanya Watt: “The prosecution does have concerns about his ability to not commit further offences, particularly in relation to the curfew … Not­with­standing that … we do not oppose bail with a personal undertaking being imposed, but want to make it very well known to the accused that that’s the position of the commonwealth today, but further breaches may not have the same response in terms of attitude towards bail.”
At that point, Doukoshkan was charged over what The Australian has been told were considered highly suspicious breaches of the curfew placed on him after he and 151 other immigration detainees were released by a High Court decision last November.
Doukoshkan was meant to be in his East Perth residence between 10pm and 6am each day but the ankle monitor he was wearing at the time showed multiple outings at odd hours.
When Australian Federal Police tried to question him about this, he declined to participate in an interview.
His lawyer, Stacey Byrne, told the court: “In terms of the actual offences themselves, he doesn’t wish to provide an explanation, mainly because he doesn’t wish to provide an excuse.

The maximum penalty for each of Doukoshkan’s breach charges is five years’ imprisonment.
Ms Watt told Doukoshkan: “Look, Mr Jamshidi Doukoshkan, you are on very thin ice.”
“The commonwealth is being very generous today because quite frankly if they didn’t consent to the release of you on bail, I wouldn’t be bailing you.”
Doukoshkan was in detention because successive governments wanted to deport him. He was jailed for eight years in 2017 over an attempted drug operation so serious that the court issued him with a drug trafficker declaration, an apparent warning to future courts and police about the gravity of his conviction.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 8:30 am

Barbequed Teslas.

Arson Attacks: Left Extremists Promise ‘Week of Action’ Against Teslas (2 May)

A letter posted to an infamous left-extremist website claims responsibility for a mass-arson attack against Amazon delivery trucks this week, and promises an “exciting week of action against Tesla” for “the social revolution”. …

The “militarism” statement named what it says are businesses too large and harmful to reform, which instead need to be destroyed as “Amazon, Tesla, Apple, Facebook [and] Google”. There are “endless arguments and ways to attack companies like Amazon and Tesla”, it said, while apparently promising further action.

The German far-left seems a bit inconsistent, since all these companies are or were far-left themselves. On the other hand we’ve seen from the university sit-ins how clueless these people usually are. Revolution!!! Where’s my iPhone? I need to post my latest manifesto on Facebook.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
May 3, 2024 8:31 am

Sheesh, if you thought that Eurovision hardly makes sense anymore- ie, Australia is competing, and sending over a (racially) aboriginal couple to sing about how terrible Australia is- then consider how long-time participant Israel is performing in Malmo, long-time M*slim sh*thole no-go area within long-time mainstay Sweden.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 8:34 am

Dover, grovelling apologies, can you explain, in words of one syllable, for the non techno, how I post an article that doesn’t go into moderation.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 9:01 am

Zulu – Make sure you paste plain text.

Otherwise links come across and sends it to moderation.

Usually right-click and choose “paste as plain text”. Not sure what you do a right-click on a phone, possibly a two fingered tap – that works on my laptop touchpad.

Speedbox
May 3, 2024 11:46 am

Or, instead of what BoN suggests, you could do what I do and send the post to Dover via email and ask him to post it. 🙂

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 8:34 am

Court warned Mashid Doukoshkan would reoffend weeks before alleged Perth grandmother bashing
By paul garvey ,

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 3, 2024 8:34 am

gone missing in the Baja California region

Knew a guy who went missing presumed dead while body surfing in big waves off Baja California.
Mind you he did have a Cessna Citation jet rating and had delivered some to central and south America ……….

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 8:36 am

I’ve got to say all my dealings with Shoalhaven council have been very good. Its a breath of fresh sir, literally and figuratively as well to go to the Shoalhaven area. Its a go ahead area. The people in the shops and businesses are very helpful and friendly except Colesworth. Things improved when the rotating door of SFL mayor and State MP got the boot. We now have a greenie mayor and despite some inherent problems her being a greenie the place is run a lot better. The Shoalhaven used to be bogan central but due to the cheaper prices of property a lot of families moved in replacing the riff raff.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 11:03 am
Reply to  Indolent

By the proclaimed standards of the fat facist fool, mUnty, having pleaded the Fifth, Pomerantz is quite clearly guilty.

Last edited 9 months ago by Boambee John
Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 8:44 am

I tried to put this up from another source but it went into moderation.

@MikeBenzCyber

So the prosecutors are afraid that if we knew what they did, they’d be prosecuted

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 8:44 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 8:53 am

All the tax payer resources being wasted on this “e-safety” tzar would be better spent on forcing fb to regulate market places better.
More people have been scammed & or beaten up from market places than from wrong think on the interwebs.

There’s a reason the scammers use fb instead of eBay.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 8:57 am

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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 8:59 am

From the Hun.
Notorious Sydney gang Brothers for Life re-born on Melbourne streetsSydney police declared Brothers for Life — a gang behind a spate of shootings and violent attacks — dead a decade ago. But it’s now being revived on Melbourne’s streets.

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 9:03 am

Why not. Animals try to help themselves, just like we do.
Wild orangutan seen using medicinal plant to treat wound, scientists say

Makka
Makka
May 3, 2024 9:03 am

Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout
Thursday, 2 May 2024

Victoria, Australia’s most indebted state, is projected to have $247.2 billion of debt by 2027, up from $55.2 billion in 2019:

The state’s poor budgetary position is attributed to wasteful “Big Build” infrastructure projects, such as the North-East Link and the Suburban Rail Loop, alongside excessive spending on bureaucrats.

Victoria’s public sector has grown by 59% in the last 15 years, easily exceeding population growth:

Victoria’s public service pay bill increased by 152% over the same 15 year period, the nation’s largest increase:

“Victoria is on a suicide mission to record borrowing, just as global interest rates are about to hit 5%”, Anthony said.
“Potholes can’t get filled, emergency departments can’t afford clean linen, primary schools can’t fix heaters”.
“Things are about to get very ugly”, he said.

Victorians are bracing for higher taxes, levies, and charges in the upcoming state budget to pay off the state government’s debt, as well as cuts to key services.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/05/bankrupt-victoria-may-need-federal-bailout/

Last edited 9 months ago by Makka
feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 9:08 am
Reply to  Makka

I would short Victorian debt & buy QLD debt.
A nice little arb developing.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 9:43 am
Reply to  Makka

Andrews’ chickens coming home to roost.

You’d have to wonder whether there’d be any federal electoral payoff in Albanese bailing Allan’s government out by redistributing its debt to the rest of Australia during the present economic climate.

Last edited 9 months ago by Roger
Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 11:06 am
Reply to  Roger

If that were to happen Labor might win some seats in Victoria but lose more in WA and Queensland. I don’t see it as a good trade-off.

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 3, 2024 8:15 pm
Reply to  Makka

And Albersleazy, despite being from Sydney, is short-changing NSW in the distribution of GST revenue to prop up the basket case run by his left faction mates in Yarragrad.

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 9:06 am

From 2011 but more relevant than ever now.

The Five Stages of Islam

johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 9:08 am

Project Gutenberg strikes again. It’s got to be by orders of magnitude one of the best things on the interwebs.

Following on from Dr Doolitle on the Moon (which I recommend) I found a newly released collection of Dorothy L Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey short stories.

The novels have all been made into TV series, some of them twice, But, this is new.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73295/pg73295.txt

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 9:11 am

This is what the American legal system has been reduced to. It’s the judge who should be on trial.
Dem Judge Claims Conservative Lawyer is “Threat to Public” for Representing Conservatives

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 9:13 am

President Trump Gives Impromptu Presser After Leaving NYC Courtroom
And then took pizzas to a firefighters’ station.

vr
vr
May 3, 2024 9:20 am

Interesting article in the journal about the exodus of Chinese to Japan.

The Exodus of China’s Wealthy to Japan

TOKYO—Last year, China native Tomo Hayashi, the owner of a metals-trading firm, moved to Tokyo. He quickly adopted a Japanese name, spent the equivalent of about $650,000 on a luxury waterfront condo and, in March, brought his family to join him.

The 45-year-old, whose two boys just started in a Japanese elementary school, is one of the many wealthy Chinese driving a boom in high-end Tokyo properties and reshaping the city.

Frustrations with Beijing’s autocratic political system, which flared during abrupt pandemic-era lockdowns and have only grown since then, have helped drive the wave, according to real-estate agents and others watching the exodus. China’s economic slowdown and its struggling stock market are also motivating wealthy people to leave the country, they say.

Hayashi, who like many Chinese buyers avoids discussing politics back home, said the move to Tokyo was a challenge. “But we like Japan—food, culture, education and safety,” he said.

Japan isn’t the only haven for Chinese people seeking a Plan B. The U.S., Canada and Singapore are among the countries drawing Chinese migrants, while Hong Kong residents often head to the U.K.

But Japanese cities that are just a few hours’ flight from China are a leading choice for better-off Chinese people. Japan’s real-estate prices are low for foreigners thanks to the weak yen and it is fairly easy for them to purchase property. And the Japanese writing system uses Chinese characters in part, so new arrivals can more easily find their way around.

A report last June by Henley & Partners that tracks worldwide migration trends estimated that a net total of 13,500 high-net-worth Chinese people would migrate overseas during the year, making China the biggest worldwide loser in that category.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 9:30 am

Albanese has lost the confidence of Michelle Grattan due to the poor ministerial performance (i.e. they’ve gone to ground) in response to former immigration detainees running amok.

When you’ve lost Michelle Grattan…

Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 10:16 am
Reply to  Roger

While working all of her long life in the lefty media cocoon, Michelle Grattan is actually a good reporter who would often harrass subeditors like me to make relatively minor changes to her copy — and often right on edition deadline time.

IMO, Michelle is actually a closet conservative.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 12:55 pm
Reply to  Tom

I met her once at a Canberra party in the 70’s. She’s been around for a long time. She seemed very open then to new ideas (new at that time) on the 3rd sector (charities). I recommended an article (sort of stuff I was reading then). She seemed less of an overt leftie than I was, though everyone was a bit left.

As in that movie The History Man (Bradbury – read the book ages ago) that someone linked here yesterday and I watched again. It came out in 1981 and nailed the late seventies; what horrible people some of us were, children of the times. The departmental meeting was like those I had to chair as HOD through the 90’s. I was older and wiser by then, clued in by David Lodge and other ‘university’ novelists about the hypocrisy going on in academia. And by my own eyes, having seen it writ even larger in the 80’s and with post-modernism in the 90’s.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 1:02 pm
Reply to  Tom

I don’t know, Tom. As I posted here recently, she’s blamed the failure of multiculturalism on not enough multiculturalism and wanted ethnic groups to be given a direct voice in government.

bons
bons
May 3, 2024 9:41 am

What a joy it is to see Turnbull’s Guardian begging for money.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 3, 2024 9:45 am

I dislike most polimuppets but Giles is a particular standout for me. Along with ‘Dr’ Emerson who hangs around the rotten intellectual cesspit known as the ANU.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 9:54 am

Makka
May 3, 2024 9:03 am

Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout
Thursday, 2 May 2024

Victoria, Australia’s most indebted state, is projected to have $247.2 billion of debt by 2027, up from $55.2 billion in 2019:

Very simple to fix. Just do what Argentina is now doing. Get back to Small Guv’ment. Balance the Budget. Live within your means. Also allow Gas and Oil drilling and only take minimal royalties. No more Ruinaballs…………

And then I woke up. Never going to happen until ‘Crash and Burn’.

Last edited 9 months ago by Johnny Rotten
johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 9:55 am

Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout

‘Need’? Like something bad has happened and it is up to everyone to rescue them?

What they ‘need’ is consequences, good and hard.

When the remaining productive States are not paying for SA’s bogus defence industry or rewarding Tasmania’s refusal to allow anything that might make money, they are bailing out Victoriastan’s repeated failed socialist experiments.

Basta!

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 3, 2024 8:21 pm
Reply to  johanna

Yes indeed. That even includes Albanese’s home state of NSW, which he is short-changing to prop up the basket cases. But then, NSW Labor is run by the (weakened but not yet dead) Right faction which he has hated all his life.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 9:58 am

Jacinta Allan has done what many considered impossible…

Saved John Pesutto’s leadership.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 3, 2024 10:08 am

Anthony ‘Strong Deliverer’ Albanese is outraged, absolutely outraged, at the pensioner bashing by a released detainee.

But, what to do? Independent authorities, separation of powers, prosecutorial discretion: it’s a nightmare.

Majid Jamshii Doukoshkan, 43, was one of several people charged over a violent home invasion and burglary in which an elderly man and woman were assaulted. 

…after appearing before court at least once on a separate matter, his ankle monitor was removed in a decision by the government’s hand-picked Community Protection Board that was stood up to manage the former detainees.

Bail was also not opposed by prosecutors in that hearing.

Mr Albanese this morning criticised the independent board’s decision to remove the monitoring device.

“I think that’s a wrong decision by that board, which they make the decisions independent [of government],” Mr Albanese said. “It is an outrage that this occurred.”

The prime minister also distanced himself from the decision not to oppose bail for Mr Doukoshkan before the alleged home invasion occurred.

“In this country, in Australia we have a separation of the judicial system from the political system, but if it was up to me I assure you there would not have been bail granted in that case … I am upset about that decision.

In this country, in Australia we have a government that apparently has no idea about what the judicial system is, or how it’s supposed to work.

The only thing that’s crystal clear is that it’s someone else’s fault and shite ministerial oversight has nothing to do with anything. To say otherwise is misinformation with a side of disinformation.

Alamak!
May 3, 2024 11:23 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

“round up the usual suspects …”

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 3, 2024 8:23 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

And guess who was on the Community Protection Board? That incompetent stooge of the Victorian Socialist Left Graham ‘Fatty’ Ashton, former commissioner of the Victorian police.

m0nty
m0nty
May 3, 2024 10:12 am

I see Trump’s lawyer has said in court, into the public record, that his client’s latest unhinged tirade was in response to an April 22 tweet by Michael Cohen calling him Vonshitzenpants.

This is now the #1 trend on Twitter.

Are you tired of winning yet?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 10:22 am
Reply to  m0nty

The Dems are panicking Monty. Why is that?

Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 10:23 am
Reply to  m0nty

Thank, Monts! Like one of those Dem media sites that specialise in attempted Trump gotchas, whenever your adjective of choice is “unhinged”, your target rises in my estimation.

You’ll always be the Cat’s King of Wrongology.

Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 3, 2024 10:23 am

GreyRanga, May 3, 2024 8:36 am

I’ve got to say all my dealings with Shoalhaven council have been very good.

We must be living in different realities.

SCC is broke because it does all the things Green activists want (e.g. youth mental health, childcare, low cost housing, proposing holiday home owners be forced to rent out their houses, etc), rather than the traditional, and limited, roles of roads, rubbish, sewage & water – because they are too hard. For example, rubbish charges up 68% in 4 years!

Oh and GreyRanga how did you feel about the rate increase proposal? Which option are you going for? Option 1 or 2

Consider two options for a proposed Special Rate Variation (SRV):

(1) 32% increase in 2024-25 (inclusive of rate peg); or

(2) 18% increase in 2024-25, 13% increase in 2025-26 and 8% increase in

2026-27 (inclusive of rate peg).

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 10:32 am

I’m amused that Labor which has been shafting mining, oil and gas companies over and over in WA and Qld now wants to throw money at them.

Sandbags of cash to save rocky states (Paywallian)

Anthony Albanese will sandbag seats in WA and Queensland and shield struggling miners in the budget, with Treasury close to finalising targeted production tax credits.

Hypocritical irony to eleventy. Methinks someone has been getting some disturbing internal poll numbers from those states.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 10:37 am

That QLD mining seats won’t abide Labor’s green urban agenda was supposed to be the big take away from Shorten’s 2019 defeat.

It’s a lesson they seem incapable of learning.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 3, 2024 3:39 pm
Reply to  Roger

Exactly Roger.

I work with CMFEU types regularly. Rank and file miners are pretty good and socially conservative. The old ALP Right faction types that haven’t totally disappeared yet. Plus the fact the GW scam that is threatening their jobs and sons future jobs/apprenticeships, things could get ugly for sleazy.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 10:44 am

It’s begun.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 3, 2024 3:29 pm

They’re not sandbagging against the LNP, they’re sandbagging against the Greens.

ALP has 4 seats in Qld, none are regional and all are Brisbane, GC/BNE Hinterland. The Hinterland seat may be a possible swing to LNP but others I doubt it.

ALP have 9 seats to lose in WA, though the 3 in the south unlikely to fall. I don’t know much about WA Politics though.

Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 3, 2024 10:33 am

Mr Albanese this morning criticised the independent board’s decision to remove the monitoring device.

He deliberately outsourced his accountability, so he could say that when it went pear shaped.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 3, 2024 10:33 am

I see Trump’s lawyer has said in court, into the public record, that his client’s latest unhinged tirade was in response to an April 22 tweet by Michael Cohen calling him Vonshitzenpants.

This is now the #1 trend on Twitter.

There’s a bit of a trend emerging here.

In the considered political discourse of the US Salon Left, the Orange Man has moved from being a literal ‘Farty Poo Bum’ to a full-on incontinent.

There’s a scatological elegance in boosting his ploppiness when the nation is being asked to compare him to President Depends.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 10:41 am

He deliberately outsourced his accountability, so he could say that when it went pear shaped.

Accountability actually rests with the ministers responsible, whom Albanese is covering for, since they are apparently not allowed to front the media.

I don’t suppose he’s been secretly sworn in to their portfolios?

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H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 10:49 am
Reply to  Roger

The idea of a responsible Minister resigning for a Departmental failure in modern Australian politics is laughable.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 10:59 am
Reply to  H B Bear

Not entirely (and it wasn’t just a departmental mistake). This is where Albanese has made a mistake. He could have sacked or demoted one or more ministers, instead he now owns the problem.

Last edited 9 months ago by Roger
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 10:48 am

Shorten joins PM in lashing prosecutors’ bail call
Rhiannon Down
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has slammed commonwealth prosecutors for not opposing the release of a freed detainee on bail before he allegedly bashed a Perth grandmother, admitting the decision to remove the Kuwaiti-born man’s ankle bracelet was a “mistake”.
Mr Shorten questioned “why on earth” prosecutors decided not to argue against Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan’s release when he fronted court on charges of breaching his visa conditions on February 20.
The prosecutor warned a Perth court that Doukoshkan was a risk of reoffending again but did not oppose bail, a transcript of the hearing reveals.
“I honestly don’t know why the federal prosecutor – who admittedly is independent, so I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this – but why on earth didn’t the federal prosecutor oppose bail?,” he told Channel 9’s Today.
Mr Shorten sought to lay the blame for the dShorten joins PM in lashing prosecutors’ bail calcomment image&r=g
Rhiannon Down
Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has slammed commonwealth prosecutors for not opposing the release of a freed detainee on bail before he allegedly bashed a Perth grandmother, admitting the decision to remove the Kuwaiti-born man’s ankle bracelet was a “mistake”.
Mr Shorten questioned “why on earth” prosecutors decided not to argue against Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan’s release when he fronted court on charges of breaching his visa conditions on February 20.
The prosecutor warned a Perth court that Doukoshkan was a risk of reoffending again but did not oppose bail, a transcript of the hearing reveals.
“I honestly don’t know why the federal prosecutor – who admittedly is independent, so I’ll probably get in trouble for saying this – but why on earth didn’t the federal prosecutor oppose bail?,” he told Channel 9’s Today.
Mr Shorten sought to lay the blame for the decision to remove Doukoshkan’s ankle monitor months before the assault, but conceded it had been a “mistake” made by the Community Protection Board.
“So, we set up a community protection board,” he said.
“They made a decision to not put an ankle bracelet on this fellow, because previously he hadn’t shown any crimes of violence.
“But again, I agree with probably what most viewers would think, that that is a mistake.”ecision to remove Doukoshkan’s ankle monitor months before the assault, but conceded it had been a “mistake” made by the Community Protection Board.
“So, we set up a community protection board,” he said.
“They made a decision to not put an ankle bracelet on this fellow, because previously he hadn’t shown any crimes of violence.
“But again, I agree with probably what most viewers would think, that that is a mistake.”

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
May 3, 2024 12:19 pm

It’s always someone else’s fault.
Labor motto.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 10:49 am

Bankrupt Sicktoria may need bailout? Put the place into administration, sack all the politicians and staff. There’s enough Cats and Kittahs in Victoria to do the job. Sack 90% of pubic servants. No borrowing till the slate is cleared.

Natural Instinct
Natural Instinct
May 3, 2024 10:55 am

Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout

‘Need’? Like something bad has happened and it is up to everyone to rescue them?

What they ‘need’ is consequences, good and hard.

What happened to “competitive federalism” where the states solve problems in different ways and the best then disseminates over time. E.g. Joh abolishing death duties, and other states forced to follow. Or in the case of “don’t solve” then the worst is abandoned.

Same complaint with calls for “uniform bail laws”, “national gun register”, etc. We do not live in a single jurisdiction country – we are a commonwealth of states, where suprisingly for the Canberra press pack, the federal government does not do much for citizens directly.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 2:44 pm

Preach it. Competitive federalism. Vote with your feet.

johanna
johanna
May 3, 2024 10:57 am

Crime wave – but the important thing is to move smokers from legal to illegal products:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/tobacco-wars-melbourne-majid-alibadi/103797524

It is getting harder and harder to buy my legal brand, but the illegal ones are available everywhere.

It’s Prohibition all over again.

Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 11:16 am
Reply to  johanna

And yet marijuana is legal for private use. Marijuana has been implicated in triggering schizophrenia and other mental issues, particularly in young users, I have never heard nicotine do the same. PS, I am not a smoker but find this hypocrisy a bit hard to take.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 11:00 am

Not at all a conspiracy theory, really it isn’t.

WHO’s focus is on global health, not secret power grab (Paywallian)
by Ashley Bloomfield

Rest assured that all of us involved in the WHO’s pandemic treaty is focused on a single agenda: preventing, preparing for and responding to outbreaks with a view to heading off the next global pandemic.

Here’s who he is (from wiki):

Sir Ashley Robin Bloomfield KNZM (born March 1966) is a New Zealand public health official. He served as the chief executive of the Ministry of Health and the country’s Director-General of Health from 2018 to 2022. He was the public-facing health specialist liaising with the media during the COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand on behalf of the government, from the first press conference on 27 January 2020.

So the rampant totalitarian in charge of New Zealand’s Covid response under the Labour Government says there’s nothing to be scared of. Oh, ok. I should really really believe him then.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 11:01 am

Bankrupt Victoria may need federal bailout

‘Need’? Like something bad has happened and it is up to everyone to rescue them?

What they ‘need’ is consequences, good and hard.

As I was ruminating upthread, I don’t see any political upside to Albanese bailing VIC out in the current economic climate. It certainly won’t go down well in QLD & WA, where he needs to get traction.

Indolent
Indolent
May 3, 2024 11:03 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 3, 2024 11:06 am

H B Bear @10:49 am

The idea of a responsible Minister resigning for a Departmental failure in modern Australian politics is laughable.

There is a well-established form of words to defuse any such call:

“It was a bit disappointing yesterday to see the Opposition immediately out playing politics on this matter. We have a really important issue to resolve here.”

Paraphrased: She who broke it is the only person to fix it

I think that’s in the Constitution.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 2:46 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Usually accompanied by a request for the need for bipartisanship on this issue.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 3, 2024 11:10 am

As I was ruminating upthread, I don’t see any political upside to Albanese bailing VIC out in the current economic climate. It certainly won’t go down well in QLD & WA, where he needs to get traction.

Ingrate.
We’re getting a fault-tolerant Lithium Supercompuder and two Hydrogen Hubs.

I don’t think you could reasonably ask for more.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 11:15 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

How about something, like, um, useful?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:01 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Where on earth is the due diligence on this quantum computer nonsense and the even worse (because splodey) green hydrogen fantasy?

All of that money to Labor mates and no accountability at all?

Where’s Dutton calling this out, loudly? I haven’t heard him.

Rabz
May 3, 2024 11:11 am

Teats Peanuthead: “So, we set up a community protection board”

Which is not proving to be particularly adept at “protecting da communidy” and no doubt stuffed to the gills with labore maaaaaates, you useless sleazy utterly corrupt piece of excrement.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 11:14 am

Ingrate.

We’re getting a fault-tolerant Lithium Supercompuder and two Hydrogen Hubs.

Quite….right at the top of most Queenslander’s wishlists, atm.

What was I thinking?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 11:18 am

As I said my dealings have been very good. A dose of reality never hurt anyone after voting councils in. The rates are cheap in comparison to a similar property in Canberra which has probablyclouded my judgement. All I can go by is what I see. Councils everywhere are useless. When the SFL were in power nothing in my area got done.

Rabz
May 3, 2024 11:18 am

What happened to “competitive federalism”

It was replaced by “collusive federalism”, which was a far easier option for our beloved z-grade political shitbags. An obvious example is all the states now charging similar theft duty rates on property purchases.

Reminiscent of Waffles Turnbuckle’s legendary brainfart (which lasted barely a day) regarding the states being able to levy income taxes. Under collusive federalism, they would have all ended up levying the same extortionate tax rates.

Don’t expect this sorry state of affairs to be challenged any time soon.

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H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 2:48 pm
Reply to  Rabz

collusive federalism aka National Cabinet

Makka
Makka
May 3, 2024 11:28 am

We’re getting a fault-tolerant Lithium Supercompuder and two Hydrogen Hubs.

And the DV $quander fe$t.

Yep, anything but address the REAL problems;

Trashing of our power grid.
Crushing inflation
Out of control immigration.
Feather soft justice system.
Exponential growth of taxpayer funded Govt’s and councils.
Land reforms ie much more of it for residential.

No end of distraction squirrels.

Bill From The Bush
Bill From The Bush
May 3, 2024 11:31 am

For some years I have had a Thuraya satphone as an emergency measure when I am out and about in remote areas of this wide red land.

Recently the service has been lost as the satellite or system has suffered some sort of failure that is apparently terminal.

That means I have to buy a different handset, connect to a different satellite system etc. etc. It will probably cost somewhere around a grand, which I will happily pay as I am worth at least that in the eyes of my family.

The provider has been very up front about the problem and will shortly offer substitutes keeping my existing number.

All very well handled and professional but it has made me look at my “plan B” when in remote areas as I have relied on the ability to have contact anywhere anytime and to suddenly lose it came out of nowhere.

A salient reminder to us all that our modern day electronic society can turn to custard without any warning. Fortunately I am still finding gold from time to time so life continues to be good.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 3, 2024 11:33 am

A salient reminder to us all that our modern day electronic society can turn to custard without any warning. 

We are one Carrington Event away from the early 19th Century.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:04 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Keep copies of important stuff on paper in a cool but not damp place.

Delta A
Delta A
May 3, 2024 1:26 pm
Reply to  Eyrie

Thanks, Eyrie. I didn’t know about the Carrington event so looked it up. Very interesting indeed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 3, 2024 11:39 am

And the DV $quander fe$t.

Five grand free handout for every DV sufferer, no questions asked.

What could possibly go wrong?

‘Abuse or poverty’: $5k domestic violence payment leaves victim-survivors impossible choice (News.com.au, 3 May)

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 11:41 am

m0nty
May 3, 2024 10:12 am

I see Trump’s lawyer has said in court, into the public record, that his client’s latest unhinged tirade was in response to an April 22 tweet by Michael Cohen calling him Vonshitzenpants.

This is now the #1 trend on Twitter.

MontyPox Virus, you just cannot see further than your own BS. Just to bring you up to date with today’s World. There is no longer a ‘Twitter’. It is now ‘X’. Sounds like you though – An Ex.

And that could be Extraterrestrial – As in an Alien –

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life

shatterzzz
May 3, 2024 11:43 am

Five grand free handout for every DV sufferer, no questions asked.
What could possibly go wrong?

I live alone but my 2 moggies go feral if meals are 5 minutes late .. wonder if that’ll qualify for $5K ..?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
May 3, 2024 12:42 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

You’re lucky, shatterzzz. If I don’t leave a full bowl of bikkies out for Elsie, I get the Bobstacle Course routine – pounce from the foot end of the bed onto my head, claws unsheathed, and a terrifying shriek of “My bowl is empty again!” (It’s in Feline, of course, but I’ve no doubt of what the message is.)
And if I don’t immediately comply with the demand, there’s an outpouring of grief and tears that would put a woke uni student to shame.
It’s a bit like being married.
However unlike being married, a swift backhander across the doona usually stops the wailing.

Alamak!
May 3, 2024 12:03 pm

And the DV $quander fe$t.

Five grand free handout for every DV sufferer, no questions asked.

What could possibly go wrong?

Perverse incentives galore …

An extra $5k/year/partner incentive for violent men (and women?) to pressure and bully their partners for $$$.

cohenite
May 3, 2024 12:26 pm

Best of Tom’s toons:

370493_image.jpg (720×514) (creators.com)

I’m really starting to like Kristi Noem.

wivenhoe
wivenhoe
May 3, 2024 12:38 pm

I live alone but my 2 moggies go feral if meals are 5 minutes late .. wonder if that’ll qualify for $5K

Of course it will, think outside the square. They are not “moggies”, they are dependents abusing you.

Morsie
Morsie
May 3, 2024 12:50 pm

Comments at the Oz getting sillier and sillier.I have a comment with 118 likes which has now been rejected

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 12:54 pm

The beginning of the end of corporate woke?

Google has sacked 28 employees who occupied offices at their HQ and demanded the company divest from any business with Israel.

A further 22 employees were sacked for other acts of political activism carried out on their employer’s time and dime.

Last edited 9 months ago by Roger
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 3, 2024 2:04 pm
Reply to  Roger

A tiny light in the darkness of stupid.

Diogenes
Diogenes
May 3, 2024 12:59 pm

An extra $5k/year/partner incentive for violent men (and women?) to pressure and bully their partners for $$$.

Mrs D is babysitting the grand kids today. She said some rude words to me because I have been at the hospital longer than expected and so have not been able to help her. – Got seen by haematologist 5 minutes late, but then sent for blood test, then had to wait for the nurse to organise a marrow biopsy, then they decided to take 500ml and replace with IV. So instead of the “allow 2 hours” I have been here for 4.5 with at least another 30 minutes to go.

Where do I claim my 5k?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
May 3, 2024 1:07 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

We need to see the bruises first, young feller.
If they’re not really all that visible perhaps we can introduce you to our service “BruisesRUs”.
Complementary ice packs for first time customers.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:12 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Hairy’s at the docs. Something to do with testosterone levels.
Checking up if he’s overloaded with toxic man stuff.

Where’s my 5k?

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 1:38 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

I think you’ll find you’re the wrong “gender”/sex.

Alamak!
May 3, 2024 2:20 pm
Reply to  Diogenes

Steps to 5k

1. Get the stat dec done on being a “wimmin”, regardless of biological reality
2. Get some evidence of ‘violence’ e.g. harsh words, evil looks, hurt feelz, TV shows not watched,…
3. Find some new element that requires actual cases now that legal folks and support workers are awaiting bz e.g. “coercive control”
4. Profit …

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:15 pm

They are not “moggies”, they are dependents abusing you.

Ouch. Stop it. I am missing Attapuss soooooooooo much.

Lysander
Lysander
May 3, 2024 1:17 pm

The brothers from Perth missing in Mexico (one was a Doctor, the other a National lacrosse player):

Jake and Callum Robinson update: Three people reportedly arrested in hunt for missing brothers in Mexico | PerthNow

Seem to have met a grisly end.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:28 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Mexico didn’t strike us as a safe place when our Panama cruise ship had to take a replacement port in Mexico due to bad weather. It was a nightmare place, gang warfare and military men with AK47’s everywhere. Most people quickly scurried back to the ship. And on our recent trip (see 4 travelogues on http://www.medium.com/@lizzie.beare) a woman finding Manaus, main Amazon port too drug gang crazy, commented she’d never go there again, because if she wanted to get mugged it was easier to go the 85km down the road from her house to Tijuana just over the Mexican border.

Recently, in Brazil especially, we got nervous a couple of times, and took due care to avoid being in a bad situation, because we’d heard of a few.
These drug gangs are so embedded into the culture and economies of some town in South America, rooting them out is politically difficult.

We were going to go to Galapagus via coastal Ecuador but Aust Gov said avoid due to risk of kidnapping and/or hostage taking by drug gangs. It’s bad there, but the risk is anywhere in South America if you’re unlucky.

cohenite
May 3, 2024 3:22 pm
Reply to  Lysander

I taught some new law grads in the early 1990s. The best of them was going to broaden his horizons by going to South America. He was never heard from again.

One of the reasons I despise the liars and the filth is because they are intent on importing the scum from overseas. Pretty soon you won’t have to go overseas to go missing.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 3, 2024 4:11 pm
Reply to  Lysander

KD alluded to it the other night. I did think ransom but no longer since they have 3 in custody and no bodies.

Mexico at the moment with all the drug cartel violence and thousands of illegal immigrants surging through it’s borders would be off my travel list despite the DFAT’s warning of exercise a high degree of caution. FFS most of the world is on that rating…

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 1:32 pm

See my embedded comment above re gang issues in South America.

El Salvador, Ecuador and now others, are beginning to get tough on gangs and put them in concentration camps to end the violence, both economic and actual.

Travelogues 1-4 of our South America sojourn are at http://www.medium.com/@lizzie.beare

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 3:53 pm

Place where those two surfers have gone missing is near the port where we called in on our cruise as a stop-gap going to the Panama canal, and which was a total drug gang haunt. Mexico is dangerous outside the known tourist areas and ports used by cruise ships (even then they say to take care).

Lysander
Lysander
May 3, 2024 1:38 pm

If I refresh the page here, it keeps “bouncing back” up to half way through the thread… which is really annoying!!!

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 3, 2024 1:49 pm

“It was a bit disappointing yesterday to see the Opposition immediately out playing politics on this matter…”

Playing politics. There is a definite strategy (ignoring the hypocrisy) in discrediting what is going on when they complain of this.

An opposition is the primary check on a government. The government is not going to fess up to their screw ups. It is in the opposition’s interest to expose government failures – which is in the public’s interest. (Let us not pretend an opposition does so from true devotion to nation. People like that are so rare as to be lost to sight in some margin of error.)

It is the particular pragmatic genius of our system to turn the self-interest of the political class to the nobler purpose of informing the electorate. All we need do is winnow the issues from the clickbait.

Now, the ‘playing politics’ whereby members of a party conspire together to dupe the electorate, to elevate some cretin because he has the photos of someone else, or divvy up the benefit of some clandestine scheme buried in a section of new legislation – stuff done away from any scrutiny whatsoever – that is what is discreditable.

It happens also to be what Labor surpasses at. (Libs too, but they are minnows constantly caught out by the press like a guy who swears he was never in the public toilets where a man was murdered only to notice everyone can see he has a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe with blood.)

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 2:19 pm

Bill from the bush. I heard on the radio the other day Telstra has done a deal with Elon to use Starlink. The data speeds are not as great. Thats all I know about it. Worthwhile have a look.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 3, 2024 2:30 pm

Bill from the bush. I heard on the radio the other day Telstra has done a deal with Elon to use Starlink. The data speeds are not as great. Thats all I know about it. Worthwhile have a look.

I seriously doubt that Starlink is slower than that satphone. 100Mb/sec not enough for you?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 2:32 pm

Lizzie the little creatures really get inside you. My pup was 16 and not a day goes by without expecting to see him come round the corner to check on me. Where would be without them?

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 3, 2024 4:02 pm
Reply to  GreyRanga

Hairy and I are still quite heartbroken, Ranga. I bought a new cabin bag suitcase on wheels and was taking it up from the garage to show Hairy when I suddenly thought how I’d better not do that because suitcases freak out Attapuss. They I remembered he was gone. Hairy said he did the same, looking for Attapuss on my side of the bed where he used to settle if I went off early to a dance class, and then realising there was no point in looking for him there any more. His little ears don’t peep around corners anywhere here any more and we still can’t bear it.

In other news, Hairy’s back from the doc with toxic testosterone levels just as they should be, neither too much nor too little. You should whack me, I say when he comes in, so’s I can collect 5k. But he doesn’t hit women. I can probably organise a Brittany-style bruise for you, he offers kindly. One you can’t really see.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 2:32 pm

stephen rice Why Brittany Higgins and Bruce Lehrmann should both accept the Michael Lee’s verdict

  • 11:01AM May 3, 2024

Two weeks ago — the day before Justice Michael Lee brought down his judgment in the Lehrmann defamation case — I made an optimistic plea in these pages that, no matter what the decision, we all accept his call.
It shouldn’t be too hard.
Having meticulously worked his way through the facts, Lee came to two key conclusions: 1. Brittany Higgins had been raped by Bruce Lehrmann. 2. There had been no attempt by anyone to cover it up.
Who could argue with that?
Well, the two principal characters, for a start.
Bruce Lehrmann is now talking about an appeal. Or to use Lee’s parlance, going back — yet again — for his hat. He should leave the loathsome thing where he left it, in the lion’s den. Even before Lee’s verdict it was sullied beyond redemption by his woeful performance in the witness box and extra-curricular activities out of it.
Whether the Seven Network knew he was spending its handouts on hookers and drugs — unlikely — is now irrelevant, except to the Seven journalists consumed by the Lehrmann bonfire.
Lee made a sound case that Lehrmann was “hell-bent” on having sex with Higgins and didn’t care one way or the other whether, in her drunk state, she understood or agreed.
Lehrmann’s chances of a successful appeal are minimal – even if he can find someone wealthy and careless enough to fund it.
And then there’s Higgins, vindicated by Lee’s finding that, on the balance of probabilities, she was raped, yet still unwilling to acknowledge his finding that her accusations of a cover-up by Linda Reynolds and her then chief of staff Fiona Brown were utterly false.
Having rightly been given the benefit of the doubt over the rape, Higgins now refuses to accept that the claims she and fiance David Sharaz made that destroyed the careers and reputation of Reynolds and Brown were dead wrong.
Both are haunted by Higgins’s false claim that they walked past another woman’s rape.
Neither is remotely helped by her Clayton’s apology last week that “my perceptions and feelings about what happened in the days and weeks after my rape are different from theirs.”
Higgins’ regret that “we have not yet found common ground” just rubs salt in the wounds.
What common ground? She made false accusations that devastated the lives of two older women who had only ever tried to help her.
As Higgins said, she was only 24 when she was raped. She is entitled to be given, as Lee did, significant latitude for someone who suffered trauma after a terrible crime.
Is it too much to ask then, that as a now mature and more reflective adult, she cannot offer a genuine and unconditional apology to the two women she wronged?
There is, of course, one large stumbling block for Higgins in apologising to Reynolds in the defamation case the Senator has vowed to keep pursuing.
If Higgins admits she made false claims about her treatment by Reynolds and Brown that contributed to her $2.4m settlement from the Commonwealth, she might be open to a move by the Commonwealth to challenge the payout.
Higgins is in a bind.
She stands to lose a great deal of money from the defamation claim if Reynolds wins, both in costs and damages – but potentially even more if she apologises and admits her claims about her former boss in the Commonwealth settlement were untrue.
She should opt for the apology.
The reality is, the Commonwealth is unlikely to demand its money back.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 2:54 pm

With respect, j’ismists shouldn’t really comment on the likelihood of an Appeal getting up. I haven’t read the Lee judgement and note it’s hard (though not impossible) to reverse a finding of fact.

Chook
Chook
May 3, 2024 3:13 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

So there was a finding of a fact of rape then?

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 3:17 pm
Reply to  Chook

Yep. Ch 10 got their defence of truth up. Probably why they will get orders for the bulk of their costs (that in practice never get paid).

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 3:16 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

a now mature and more reflective adult,

No, she’s still an immature little girl.

cohenite
May 3, 2024 3:25 pm
Reply to  Boambee John

She’s not little.

shatterzzz
May 3, 2024 3:24 pm

Lee came to conclusions without any, proven, evidence .. but .. for some reason, most likely cos he’s a judge the media and a lot of folk have taken his words as gospel ..
Lee really has as much idea of what occurred in that office as I have but I’m “houso” so I got no media attention …..

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 3, 2024 8:37 pm
Reply to  shatterzzz

That’s Lehrman’s doing. He went to the court seeking a judgement on the balance of probabilities, so Lee had to give one. He couldn’t just throw up his hands and say ‘all too hard, dunno’.

And I say that as someone who would have said ‘dunno’ (i.e. can’t reach a verdict) if I had been in the jury room and obliged to give a verdict beyond reasonable doubt: both Higgins and Lehrman have serious question marks about their credibility. Lee didn’t have that option.

Aaron
Aaron
May 3, 2024 9:28 pm

Taxpayers money.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 2:44 pm

Eyrie I get 1Gb when I use the hard wired connection. Aren’t satphones expensive to use. Elon has made the local system redundant.

bons
bons
May 3, 2024 2:45 pm

” It was a bit disappointing yesterday to see the Opposition immediately out playing politics on this matter…”

Reminiscent of the ABC’s conclusion that the Voice outcome was a disaster for Dutton who would be seen as being negative.

Canberra and Ultimo joined at the hip.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 3:21 pm
Reply to  bons

Complaining about the Opposition playing politics isn’t really fighting Tories is it?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 2:47 pm

Thats on the NBN not satellite.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 2:58 pm

Wifes had a few job interviews this week. She’s had an offer an hour after the interview before they’d finished interviewing the rest. The place she’s at now when she asked for a referees report had an oh shiite moment as they realised they can’t really manage without her. The place she’s at now have a greasy pole attitude so nothing gets done, you’d all nod if you knew who it was. Some think its malevolence but its not, its incompetence. Just another place with top heavy management or in this case mismanagement.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 3:02 pm

ZK2A picked up a good selection of malt from Dan Murphy today. Discounts are better than they have been, people must be tightening the purse strings. Son in hospitality tells me people are still going out the same but spending 30% less.

Eyrie
Eyrie
May 3, 2024 3:16 pm

GreyRanga, why on Earth do you need 1 GB/sec? Or is that your monthly limit, 1 Gb?
I get unlimited Gb per month and 50 Mb/sec down, 17 Mb/sec up via NBN fiber to under the office desk.
Starlink is unlimited Gb data and you typically get 100Mb/sec or better I’m told.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 3:23 pm

A Hard Days Night now on SBS World Movies Ch 32.

Jock
Jock
May 3, 2024 4:55 pm
Reply to  Johnny Rotten

it is virtually every week!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 3, 2024 3:25 pm

Incontinence Joe gives Tojo a whack:-

Joe Biden has labelled Quad allies Japan and India as ‘xenophobic’

Speaking at a campaign event in Washington on Wednesday night (Thursday AEST), the US President said one of the reasons the US economy was growing in contrast to other large economies was because of rapid immigration, prompting a pushback from Japanese politicians and diplomats.

“Why is China stalling so badly economically? Why is Japan having trouble? Why is Russia? Why is India? Because they’re xenophobic. They don’t want immigrants,”

Three reasons Japan is becoming increasingly popular as a tourist destination for Westerners are:-
1. You are not accosted by shifty sub-Saharan blow-ins on the streets as you might be in Milan, Rome or Paris;
2. It is evident that there is some local homelessness, but they do not threaten or pan-handle tourists;
3. Police take reports of law-breaking seriously and respond.
Once Japan breaks the 1980’s myth that it is an expensive holiday destination (it isn’t) and people realise that the language barrier doesn’t exist anymore because of mobile phone translation tech, it will become the premier tourist destination for Westerners.
Seriously, I would take it over Europe all day long because it has tight immigration policies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 3:42 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Skiing in Japan has been a perfectly acceptable alternative to taking the boat to Rotto or heading down to Eagle Bay for years in Perth.

Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 4:21 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Many young people in my extended family have been to Japan for skiing holidays and are very pleased with their experiences.

Makka
Makka
May 3, 2024 5:05 pm
Reply to  Crossie

Crossie, my family and I have had 2 ski holidays there the last few years and it was superb. Relaxed, clean , efficient, safe, excellent food and my daughter ripped the slopes. Excellent ski destination IMO.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
May 3, 2024 6:38 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

My youngest went to Japan with his school. We were able to follow him on Life 360. We felt safer with him wandering around Tokyo at night with his host brother and friends than we would him doing the same in Brisvegas.

He wants to go and study there and possibly live and work there when he gets older. He is investigating the possibilities now. I’m wondering if we can join him!

billie
billie
May 3, 2024 3:33 pm

He deliberately outsourced his accountability, so he could say that when it went pear shaped.

Like Rudd, Albo is whip fast when it comes to blaming someone else.

It’s like Deja Vu all over again!

——————————————————

Question without notice, how long did it take the Ruddster to admit it was his fault for the Pink Batts deaths? He took the “buck stops with me” I take full responsibility call, but then didn’t resign and the media, did nothing said nothing to hold him to actual account.

pfft, the media, filth

Crossie
Crossie
May 3, 2024 4:22 pm
Reply to  billie

“I take full responsibility” no longer means what it used to, it’s just a misdirection tactic.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 3, 2024 3:38 pm

Diogenes at 12:59

Got seen by haematologist 5 minutes late, but then sent for blood test, then had to wait for the nurse to organise a marrow biopsy, then they decided to take 500ml and replace with IV. So instead of the “allow 2 hours” I have been here for 4.5 with at least another 30 minutes to go.

Bwah ha ha ha.
My limited hospital experience tells me that, if you need to get three things done before discharge, you are not getting out that day, no matter how mundane or routine those tasks might be.
Last year I had to have a scan which involved infusion of a particular radioactive tracer. After driving four-and-a-half hours to Melbourne I am up on the hoist at 11:30 a.m. waiting for the infusion when the doctor comes in and says, “Err, they sent the tracer to Sydney”.
“Oh?” I say. “So what now? Do I come back tomorrow?”.
“Well, no. The tracer has a use-by of 7:00 pm tonight, and it comes from the US, so we will have to order another one”.
So I hang around at the hospital for six hours until it arrives and gets pumped in with 45 minutes to spare.

PS. 500ml of bone marrow seems like a LOT.

Last edited 9 months ago by Sancho Panzer
cohenite
May 3, 2024 3:47 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

You poor bastards. My only advice to you is to have a child who is a doctor.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 3, 2024 3:54 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Cheaper to pay as you go rather than sponsor one.
You just know that, if your kid is a doctor, they will bulk-bill visits to you as “extended consultations”.

cohenite
May 3, 2024 3:55 pm
Reply to  Sancho Panzer

Nah, I know where his skeletons are hidden.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
May 3, 2024 4:41 pm
Reply to  cohenite

memes from the Left:
You can’t arrest me – I’m a professor!
Don’t you know who I am?
I can’t tell you, I’m not a biologist.

Pogria
Pogria
May 3, 2024 8:00 pm
Reply to  cohenite

Did you hear the copper saying, “no, you are a rabid dog”.
snork.

Bill From The Bush
Bill From The Bush
May 3, 2024 4:12 pm

Grey Ranga,

the satphone was purely for use in an emergency. If the brown stuff and the spinning thing meet I would have been able to call for help. As it is I always carry a PLB with me I am still able to get help, although it will be slower.

I am often on my own 40kms or more from anyone else (that I know of) and part of the deal with my wife is that I have comms available.
Living in the Northern goldfields of WA and also working at times in the Pilbara, I have learnt that the cops are your last option as most of them do not have any idea where things are away from the major roads. Combine that with local colloquial names and they would be more of a hindrance than a help.

I have good relations with the local pastoralist in the Pilbara and know enough people here in the Goldfields who would know where I am talking about if I need help.

I don’t need internet when out in the bush, in fact that is one of the pleasures of being out there.

I know that one of the Telcos is doing a deal with starlink to get access through their handsets. Helstra is the only cellphone network in most of the areas I visit, so knowing my luck it will be one of the other Telcos that gets access to Starlink.

With the Thuraya network being based in the UAE, I wonder whether the outage is a result of something going on in the Middle East?

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 4:22 pm

The ATC has emailed members saying that the sale of Rosehill will only proceed if the members vote yes on the sale.
Based on that, I would say the likelihood of any sale going ahead to be 25% at best.

Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 4:31 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Bern, you’re right — it has no chance. It was a brainfart by ATC chairman Peter McGauran, an ex-Nationals polirician, who didn’t consult users, trainers etc, including Gai Waterhouse, who are up in arms against it.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 4:25 pm

Apologies if already posted.

Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid

The jokes just write themselves: A group of woke students at @UCLA
converted to Islam on the spot and are praying in campus

https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1786148294487388201

Burn it to the ground.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 5:39 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

Don’t they realise that the “conversions” will be taken as real by the Mueslis? The girlies had better have their hijabs on tomorrow.

Are male converts required to get circumcised?

Johnjjj
Johnjjj
May 3, 2024 6:37 pm
Reply to  feelthebern

It’s women. Islam is a female religion. The first converts will be young western women. They have nothing: no care, no love, no embrace. Watch it happen.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
May 3, 2024 4:28 pm

Eyrie thats the speed using Ethernet. I don’t pay extra for it. We’re about 80m from the node.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 4:28 pm

The reality is, the Commonwealth is unlikely to demand its money back.

Owe the Commonwealth $3 000?

You’ve got a problem.

Owe the Commonwealth $3 000 000?

The Commonwealth has a problem.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 5:35 pm
Reply to  Roger

Dreyfus and the Dept of Finance aren’t likely to want anyone taking too close an interest in that payment. Might be too late for that.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 3, 2024 5:40 pm
Reply to  Roger

Mizzz Knickerless earned the money by her betrayal of Reynolds.

Lysander
Lysander
May 3, 2024 4:54 pm

Dont go Labour-lite:

Local elections results – live: Labour takes Blackpool South as Tories set for ‘catastrophic’ 500-seat loss
Local elections results 2024 live: Labour takes Blackpool South as Tories set for ‘catastrophic’ 500-seat loss | The Independent

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
May 3, 2024 5:05 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Haha!

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 5:33 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Only the modern Tories could manage this.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 5:36 pm
Reply to  Lysander

500 seats? Sounds Kirkupian.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 3, 2024 5:14 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Sunshine says it all LOL.

A relative was on a few building contracts out that way. Great place for a rough looking tradesman to pick up goods from vans in shopping centre car parks that you need asbestos gloves to hold I hear.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 3, 2024 5:23 pm

Mother’s day is coming up.
Or Momala’s day, as it will be known from now on.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 5:59 pm

feelthebern
May 3, 2024 5:23 pm

Mother’s day is coming up.
Or Momala’s day, as it will be known from now on.

What is a Mother? Is a Mother a Woman? What is a Woman?

Well, here’s a Woman.

https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.ZIvq9oKdubjd7EwbZjUa7gHaF7&pid=Api&rs=1&c=1&qlt=95&w=149&h=119

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 3, 2024 6:05 pm

feelthebern
 May 3, 2024 4:22 pm

The ATC has emailed members saying that the sale of Rosehill will only proceed if the members vote yes on the sale.

Err, how else would it be sold?
By decree of the ATC committee?

Based on that, I would say the likelihood of any sale going ahead to be 25% at best.

Tom
 May 3, 2024 4:31 pm

 Reply to  feelthebern

Bern, you’re right — it has no chance. It was a brainfart by ATC chairman Peter McGauran, an ex-Nationals politician

A brainfart indeed.
Peter Mcgauran always struck me as a spiv interested in advancing the cause of Peter McGauran’s career.
It would be informative to read the ATC Constitution and see where sale of the course to property developers fits.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 6:07 pm

This weeks Media Watchdog continues the very ALPBC problem – what do you do with an old lesbian? A: Sideline an old possibly non-lesbian. The staff co-op as the Hotel California.

Tom
Tom
May 3, 2024 6:20 pm
Reply to  H B Bear
Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 7:01 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

Thanks for the heads up, Bear.

Gerard doesn’t seem to have a subscription facility, or have I missed it?

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 3, 2024 6:12 pm

So the old perve’s been lecturing other countries about immigration? That’s one thing I don’t get about the degenerate American establishment- they’re trashing the US socially and economically yet they still carry on like a world policeman..

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 6:36 pm
Reply to  Miltonf

Born to rule.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 3, 2024 6:16 pm

Detainee’s multiple breaches of curfews before attack laid bare
By paul garvey

  • Senior Reporter

and rhiannon down

  • Reporter
  • 3:42PM May 3, 2024

A convicted drug trafficker and former immigration detainee charged over the brutal bashing and burglary of an elderly Perth couple breached his curfew conditions just one minute after they were placed on them, and went on to break his curfew a further five times.
Kuwait-born Majid Jamshidi Doukoshkan first breached his curfew conditions on 9 February and ignored multiple federal police and Home Affairs warnings, setting a pattern of behaviour that prompted commonwealth prosecutors to flag their concerns about the likelihood that he could reoffend.
Just weeks later, however, the Community Protection Board – the body set up by the Albanese government to monitor Doukoshkan and the 151 convicted criminals released from immigration detention following last year’s High Court decision – opted against requiring him to keep wearing the device.
Doukoshkan then went on to commit at least two more offences before he was then allegedly involved in the attack on Ninette and Philip Simons. He and his accomplices are alleged to have used a stolen police badge to talk their way into the couple’s Girrawheen home.
The extent of Doukoshkan’s curfew breaches were laid out in transcripts released by the Western Australian Magistrates Court, amid intense scrutiny into the Commonwealth’s handling of the released detainees.

This swine should be on the next aircraft out of the country..

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 3, 2024 6:40 pm

Or 1 way Blackhawk trip into the Indian Ocean towards MH370’s resting place, ‘cept the Blackhawk comes back with crew only.

Facetiousness aside how did this guy, a criminal non citizen not get deported. I’m more interested now how he still here, what person, UN Treaty or judge blocked his deportation? I cannot find that info online and it may reinforce how screwed the system is.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 6:50 pm
Reply to  Rockdoctor

Countries of origin often stymie deportation attempts.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 7:16 pm
Reply to  Roger

Then ensure they are not countries of origin. Don’t take citizens back then no right of immigration. Don’t sign any treaty that would prohibit that policy. I suspect that would be all of them.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 7:19 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

I’d just drop them clandestinely, regardless.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 7:23 pm
Reply to  Roger

Very Mossad.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 7:31 pm
Reply to  H B Bear

I meant drop them back in their country of origin, not “drop” them.

In case there was a misunderstanding.

After explaining to them that the alternative was a long stretch in an Australian prison followed by immigration detention and eventual deportation.

Save the taxpayer c. $100k p.a.

Roger
Roger
May 3, 2024 6:46 pm

Only after his guilt is established at trial.

In the meantime, remand in the general prison population, where they don’t take kindly to those alleged to have beat up old ladies.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 3, 2024 7:10 pm

Even by the now familiar standards of government “services” that seems particularly woeful.

Johnny Rotten
Johnny Rotten
May 3, 2024 6:35 pm

This swine should be on the next aircraft out of the country..

I take that to mean Albo Sleazy and the entire Feral Guv’ment? They are ALL swine. No offence to all the pigs out there though.