calli

 May 11, 2024 12:37 am

Australia now has the worst, most despicable, craven, corrupt and malice driven government since the days of the Rum Corps.

Prove me wrong.

You’re not wrong though the government before this one was almost as bad which led the people to give it a flick. It’s difficult to make a good choice when the options are so poor.

Get the jug eared imbecile before this judge. The horse has bolted though, this should have been done at the time. Hun:

Victoria Police used “unlawful” and “unjustified violence” in a violent attack on anti-lockdown protesters during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, a judge has found.

In a stunning decision handed down in the County Court, Judge Liz Gaynor ruled police were the “aggressors” and “employed unjustified violence” amid a public protest on 29 May, 2021 that left one man with a dislocated arm.

The judgment has called into question police tactics and prompted calls for prosecutors to consider laying charges against the police involved.

At the time of the protest Victorians were subject to strict lockdown conditions including bans on leaving the home and wear face mask requirements.

A 5km bubble was in place for needing to go shopping or wanting to exercise, and both public and private gatherings were explicitly banned.

The protest, around the city’s Flagstaff Gardens, drew a huge police presence with officers outnumbering the 150 protesters and forming a ring of steel around the gardens.

More than a dozen protesters were arrested for offences including assaulting police, affray and breaching the chief health officer’s directions, during the protests.

They included Jason Reeves, Nicholas Patterson and Adam Roob who were each thrown to the ground and arrested by police at the scene.

The men had been asked to leave before their arrests.

In her stinging judgment Judge Gaynor ruled the arrests unlawful, saying the men did nothing to warrant the violent police response which was captured by body-worn cameras.

Mr Reeves was the first to be arrested after being punched to the face by police and thrown to the ground in what Judge Gaynor dubbed an “immediate and violent” response.

Mr Patterson and Mr Roob, who said they were trying to defend Mr Reeves, were then sprayed with OC spray and thrown to the ground, with Mr Paterson suffering a dislocated arm.

The pair was in court facing a string of charges including assaulting an emergency worker on duty and common law assault.

But Judge Gaynor ruled police evidence inadmissible because “by their unlawful violence police instigated the response by the accused which underlies the charges they now face.”

“There are a number of ways in which the charging of the accused could have taken place,” Judge Gaynor said.

“It could have been done by the issuing of infringement notices at any stage … it could have been done by way of stopping the accused and other members of the group informing them that they were in breach of the restrictions and that they were to be placed under arrest.

“However, the police chose not to respond that way. I am satisfied that in arresting Mr Reeves, police used unnecessary and unwarranted force and violence.”

Judge Gaynor said footage of the group in the half-hour leading to the arrest showed no behaviour which warranted police forming a view they would engage in violent behaviour.

“I am satisfied that (police) were the aggressors in the situation and that they employed unjustified violence on Mr Reeves in effecting the arrest.

“They did not wait for a line to be formed across the footpath which could have been observed by Mr Reeves.

“They did not speak to him and inform him he was under arrest and then inform him why.

“They simply confronted, pushed, and attacked him before bringing him to the ground. In my view, they used unlawful violence in arresting Mr Reeves.”

Judge Gaynor also found Mr Paterson and Mr Roob “were met with physical intervention”.

A senior justice figure, who could not be named, said the matter warranted further investigation.

“I’m not a fan of those who were protesting and carrying on during the lockdowns, but considering the waste of money and resources that continue, and now what appears to be police committing serious indictable offences, people should be held to account,” they said.

“If protesters were charged, so should the police who have been found by a court to have committed impropriety or contravention of an Australian law.”

Both Victoria Police and Office of Public Prosecutions refused to comment.

Andrews and that fat phuck Cornelius were glowing in their praise of the jackbooted thugs during this period of interminable idiocy. Get the feeling their chairs got a little hot.

Soo “plenty wrong” & Luigi go against the USA & Israel, officially , a now standard procedure where Oz pollies are concerned, and vote YES to legitimize terrorism … furgling traitors ..!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-11/australia-votes-yes-at-un-for-more-palestinian-rights/103833838

hzhousewife
 May 11, 2024 8:30 am

So the members of the U.N. are betraying their morals and standards, while the citizens of the UK attempt to destroy the Magna Carta. What a day!

There are four originals of the Magna Carta document. One is in Salisbury Cathedral and another in Lincoln Castle.

The British Library has the other two (I think).

The best preserved copy is in Salisbury Cathedral and is quite secure.

https://www.salisburycathedral.org.uk/discover/magna-carta/

As for the UN, well they would not know what the Magna Carta is so who gives a shite about that awful Mob and what they do.

Even though they should do as the Magna Carta was the basis for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. 

Live sheep shutdown date to be revealed as Federal Government unveils new industry ‘transition’ plan
Dan Jervis-BardyThe West Australian
Sat, 11 May 2024 12:00AM

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A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new plan to ‘transition’ the industry. Credit: The West Australian

A timeline to shut down the live sheep export trade will finally be revealed as the Federal Government unveils a new $107 million plan to “transition” the industry.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt will make the long-awaited announcement in Perth on Saturday, ending the uncertainty for WA farmers about how and when the trade will end.
Senator Watt is expected to release the independent panel’s report into the phase out as well as the Federal Government’s response to it.
WA farmers and the State and Federal oppositions have been demanding Labor come clean about the timeline after Senator Watt was handed the panel’s findings in October last year.

The announcement will put an expiry date on an industry that employs about 3000 people across the supply chain – 80 per cent of which are in WA – and ignite a political firestorm for Labor in the State just days out from the Federal Budget.
Senator Watt will attempt to soften the industry and political blowback with the announcement of a $107 million package to support an “orderly and well-planned” shutdown of the trade.

The package – to be funded in next Tuesday’s Budget – will include $64.6 million to assist producers and workers across the supply chain manage the phase-out of their industry.
The West understands that will include access to advice, grants for capital upgrades and support to expand processing capacity.
Rural financial counsellors and broader mental health support for farmers will be funded as part of the package.
A further $27 million will be put towards boosting demand for sheep products in Australia and internationally, including in the Middle East and north Africa, while $2.6 million will be set aside to improve sheep welfare standards.
A so-called “transition advocate” will be appointed to act as an intermediary between the industry and Federal Government during the transition.
More than $11 million will be budgeted to implement the phase out, including a stocktake on progress in 2026-27.
The timeframe for the stocktake suggests the industry will be phased out gradually over the course of the decade rather than shut down immediately.
Labor went to the past two federal elections promising to phase out live sheep exports after the deaths of about 2400 sheep on a ship from Fremantle to the Middle East in 2017.

What is it with these foul old wimmin trying to destroy the Magna Carta? Trying to feel important?

A retired priestess and a retired schoolteacher.

Big clues right there.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/how-dare-you-.html

Little Greta’s latest cause..

Still cannot believe KRuddy missed out on the UN Secretary General job. He was born for it.

One of Maladroit Trumble’s better decisions.

Rabbi ‘totally appalled’ and ‘offended’ by Labor MP who compared WA Liberal leader to Adolf HitlerEmma KirkNCA NewsWire
Fri, 10 May 2024 5:23PM

A rabbi has called out a Labor MP in Western Australia for “appalling” comments he made comparing a parliamentary colleague to Adolf Hitler.
WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam had spoken out against a bill that would make it easier to change gender on a birth certificate and said her party would ban the use of puberty blockers to children under the age of 16.
Labor MP Stuart Aubrey told parliament that like Hitler was to the Jews, Ms Mettam was to the trans community of WA.
“Infamous world leaders have found ways to blame marginalised sections of society for the suffering of the masses, using mass communication methods to spread propaganda, lies and fear and using politics of fear and division in an attempt to overthrow democracies and convince people to vote against their better interests,” he said.

“People like Trump and the Mexicans, Hitler and the Jewish, Abbott and the boat people, Morrison and trans athletes, Dutton and Indigenous Australians, Hanson and Asians, Indigenous Australians and basically all minorities, and the Leader of the Liberal Party, Libby Mettam, and the trans community of WA.”

Rabbi David Freilich said the comments were “totally appalling”.
“I lost most of my family during the Holocaust and making those comparisons was very offensive,” he said.
“Comparing situations to one of the most atrocious and vile things to take place against humanity trivialises the enormity the Holocaust had against Jewish people and all of humanity.
“Whenever a politician uses that comparison, I get very offended and it hurts me deeply.
“It doesn’t just hurt me, it hurts many people in the Jewish community and beyond who lost whole families.”

The ALRC admits one of its recommendations may limit “the freedom to manifest religion or belief in community with others, and the associated parental liberty to ensure the religious and moral education of one’s children in conformity with one’s own convictions”. This, it says, is balanced by the overall effect, which “would be to maximise the realisation of human rights”. 

This is from Chris Ulhmann’s column. ALRC has always been over the top and all about changing our society. The overall effect will not be to maximise the realisation of human rights but to curtail them against sections of the community they don’t like. Extreme individualism is only to be extended to a preferred section of the population. That somebody’s extreme individualism impinges on others’ rights does not concern the ALRC in the least.

This agency refuses to recognise that churches are groups of individuals whose rights will be curtailed or even simply forbidden in order to placate some other vocal groups. The Australian Law Reform Commission is actually working agains voters rights. This agency needs to be closed and new laws proposed only by our elected representatives who are answerable to voters for their actions and policies. Enough of the unaccountable elite.

The #summit between the two countries produced results that correspond to the #Chinese President #XiJinping’s historic #visit, with the parties signing eighteen important #agreements, the #ForeignMinister announced.

Who needs EU money if the Chinese will provide

Some great toons this morning Even Ramirez was clever.

Just rethinking Lehrmann. His appeal options are solid. Lee is a self indulgent jurist. He said this in his cost judgment:

Justice Lee said, even in an alternative where he did not find the rape took place, he was unable to find there was no sex at all.
“Even if I had not reached the level of satisfaction Mr Lehrmann raped Ms Higgins … I would have declined to award costs in Mr Lehrmann’s favour.”

This is remarkable. Firstly Lee is saying he cannot find that sex did not take place but since it did it was non-consensual. But he offers no criteria for saying sex took place rather than did not let alone that it was non-consensual. This is a half rotten apple but you don’t know which part until you bite it.

Secondly he says even if he found Lehrmann did not commit rape he would still punish him by not awarding costs even though he would have proved his point. This shows fatal bias.

The cost awards are a dog’s breakfast: 10 have their truth but not Qualified privilege costs. So they have costs for being right but no costs for anything to do with proving they were right because according to Lee they did not attempt to prove they were right. They will have buggar all costs once the costs consultants and the fed court assessor combs through their file separating the 2 areas of work.

Brucie should appeal. He can continue his law degree but can’t practise unless he overturns Lee’s judgment because bankrupts and folk of bad character cannot be lawyers.

San Francisco is giving taxpayer-funded shots of vodka to homeless alcoholics in $5m program organizers claim ‘improves participants’ health’

• Program provides beer and vodka shots to homeless alcoholics 
• Aims to curb excessive drinking among the homeless and prevent deaths
• Despite criticisms about enabling addiction, officials argue it saves money

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Daily Mail.

Time for him to do an apprenticeship in carpentry and go work in a real job.

Brucie can’t afford to work .. LOL!
What he needz is a rowboat/ bit o’ flotsam.. 5kms off Cronulla then paddle inshore & claim “refugee” and get us, taxpayers, to fund his High Court challenge ..
Worx everytime for the country-shoppers .. LOL!

We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto.
Women are paying big money to scream, smash sticks in the woods. It’s called a rage ritual.

Sometimes, some of them don’t seem to be of the same species as us.

Can’t disagree with that. What flabbergasts me though is how so many big businesses like Coles and Woolworths are very into insulting their customers aka go woke go broke. What’s in it for senior management?

It’s a modernized version of the economic side of fascism. Whatever Wokeism is, whether it’s Marxism or fascism, it has an authoritarian ID. It’s fascist corporatism.

Dover wrote interesting pieces at the Old Cat about these different ideologies all coming together under the same roof: authoritarian collectivism. There was one thing he once wrote: fascism/Nazism and communism/socialism were basically different rooms of the same house. That still remains in my head as a great explanation. Now he’s more interested in which farmhouse the Russians have taken.