Daily Mail US has this article up. Chef who works on $75 MILLION superyacht reveals it costs a staggering $100,000 to stock the fridges – as he shares the most common on-board requests
Refers to the Aussie chef on motor yacht Loon. Recently came across Loon on YouTube and interesting coverage on crew life on board a $70m charter yacht. Captain is Australian Paul Clarke a former Olympian and America’s Cup crewman. The two rotating Head chefs both Aussies and both have their own YouTube videos.
12 passengers and 18 crew. The yacht seems to be well known for its YouTube work which obviously helps in marketing. However you never see the passengers.
Might go back to woodturning videos as more chance I will make a table than spend big bucks on a one week charter.
I’ve had a family death so my postings here will be thin on the ground.
Before I heard my sad family news late last Friday morning, earlier that morning I was in our work kitchen making a cup of tea and a young female work colleague, only 21 years old, was also in the kitchen making toast. She’s a strikingly beautiful young woman, 100% Polynesian background and she is quite religious, she wears a cross around her neck. She turned to me and told me how much she liked the pendant around me neck. I told her it was a “Magen David” or “Star of David” and she nodded and said she knew what it was. I told her I was Jewish and she said she knew I was and then she said to me……..
‘we stand with you”.
Standing in the kitchen, I felt tears well up in me and I turned to her and said….
thank you, I can’t tell you how much that means to us
to which she said that in her church they say prayers for Jews, Israel and the hostages.
Sympathy from us, Cassie, as you deal with another loss.
Glad your young colleague is so switched on to the truth and gave you such a meaningful gift. There are a great many of us who stand beside you against the ignorant anti-semitic loudmouths.
My sincere condolences, Cassie. I am so sorry for your loss.
A bit of noisy yapping on the table next to us about Israel – cringeworthy, uninformed, almost hysterical, oblivious of evil. Women of course…the men appeared struck dumb.
I echoed Megan’s words. They didn’t understand them, but they went with my best bright blue stare. They got the message. No more Israel sh*t talk after that.
Thinking of you Cassie and your loss of your family member on this earth. Courage that young woman, I don’t doubt there are many, many more like her who’s quiet faith runs so much deeper than the strident screeching shallowness of the left.
Mak Siccar
July 1, 2024 7:17 am
Here you go Rosie.
New Brisbane school to focus on classics
Tess Livingstone
The Power family, whose father, James snr, established Campion College, Australia’s first liberal arts tertiary institution, is behind the launch of new school in Brisbane next week.
St John Henry Newman College, initially catering from Prep to Year 3, will be built at Tarragindi, on Brisbane’s southside next year, to open in 2026. One class will be added each year, with a separate campus, later, for secondary school in 2030.
Inaugural chairman and managing director of the Power group of companies, James Power, said expressions of interest from parents were strong.
The school would be geared to the classical, Western tradition, an emphasis in the early years on direct instruction, numeracy and literacy (including phonics), encouraging reading and no devices in the classroom. When history and geography were introduced the subjects would be taught factually, not laced with ideology.
Kenneth Crowther, a teacher at Toowoomba Christian College, who has been appointed principal and is completing his PhD in Shakespeare said classical schools emphasised on introducing students to the “great books’’ – from Dante to Dostoevsky.
“For the juniors, that’ll be Aesop’s fables, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows, C.S. Lewis’s Narnia and Tolkien,’’ Mr Crowther said.
In recent years, many parents have been disappointed to find traditional favourites missing in school reading and English lessons.
As a Catholic school, religion will be part of the curriculum, with the priests of the Brisbane Oratory to serve as chaplains.
The establishment of classical schools by communities concerned about education standards has become a major trend in the US.
Australia’s first classical Orthodox school, the St John of Kronstadt Academy, opened on Brisbane’s southside this year for Prep to Year 3 and will also add a grade a year. Its stated aims are “to provide our children with a classical Orthodox curriculum that will nurture the child’s soul, mind and body, develop Orthodox wisdom and virtue and will be steeped in Orthodox faith and liturgical tradition”.
In Melbourne, the principal of St Philip’s Catholic Primary School, Blackburn North, Michelle Worcester and Parish Priest Fr Nicholas Dillon will oversee the transformation of the local Catholic school to a classical model next year and in 2026. The change has the support of Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools authorities and will be first of its kind under the system.
Based on parental interest and inquiries, which have come from as far away as country Victoria, Fr Dillon expects to the school numbers, which have fallen to 29, to double in the first year.
Similar transformations of schools in the US over the past 40 years had seen small enrolments expand to 300. “Parents are looking for a quality back-to-basics approach and want their children introduced to classical literature and Western civilisation,’’ Fr Dillon said.
St John Henry Newman College will be launched at the Brisbane Oratory on Thursday, July 11. Its patrons include businessman and Brisbane Broncos chairman Karl Morris and retired computer scientist, businessman and former Dean of Bond University business school and author Ashley Goldsworthy.
Labor MP and general practitioner Mike Freelander said he believed that Mr Biden had Parkinson’s disease and would be unable to complete another four-year term even if he beat Donald Trump.
A fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a member of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Freelander said Mr Biden displayed a range of symptoms during the debate that were typical of Parkinson’s disease.
“He is expressionless and he hesitates when he talks; he hesitates to start talking and his voice is very flat,” he said.
“He doesn’t show much emotion. When he walks, he hesitates; and he doesn’t move much when he walks. He looks stiff. And he is losing concentration; you can see it in the answers to the questions.”
Luckily, a far more expert and considered diagnosis is to hand:
Dr Freelander’s assessment was in contrast to that of Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, who said he believed Mr Biden could serve another term.
Goblin Albanese said he had a “terrific” relationship with Mr Biden (although it’s not clear how he would know that) but would work with whoever was elected president in November.
Which will be a comfort in Washington.
Wally Dalí
July 1, 2024 7:45 am
Thanks Mac, and Rosie for the prompt.
Tolkein for the juniors sounds like heaven. My kids are blessed with a voracious reading speed, but their paperbacks are mainly junk food, and the school is “studying” the Effing Hunger Games, with dystopian fiction their yera 9 focus. Most of their analysis seems to be watching film adaptations and filling in a “spot the differences” safari sheet. It is, of course, all a lever in the hands of the pinko Gramsci’ite teaching staff to belt the kids with horror tales of rampant capitalism and cruel Christianity. I had assumed that the Australian Curriculum was locked in to this guff, but obviously St John HN college can spurn it.
Just as a curiousity, I wonder what their male-female teacher ratio will be?
Rosie
July 1, 2024 7:56 am
Why don’t you get hold of the classical education reading list and use it for the home library wali.
It’s not the same as studying at school but it’s a start.
Rosie
July 1, 2024 7:59 am
Falling Catholic school enrolments in Melbourne’s mid east are in part the result of demographic replacement.
Young families don’t move into suburbs where a family home starts at 1.2 million.
It’s wealthy Chinese and or professional people.
For SF reading Cats, I’ve just finished “Theft of Fire” by Devon Eriksen.
Pretty damn good and there will be more in the orbital space series. I’m looking forward to the next one.
I’m currently reading – for the third time – the Plague War series by David van Dyke and Ryan King. It’s a 10 volume collection starting with a peculiar virus starting in the US. Unlike most, it heals people, regrows limbs and fixes the insane – well, most of them. It also has a ‘virtue effect’ people don’t like telling lies, killing others and stealing.
The Pharmaceutical and Health Industry is not happy. Nor are the political parties so they treat the carriers of the Eden Virus like the Nazis treated the Jews. Made them illegal, forced them from jobs, put them in camps to be ‘treated’, and eventually murdered.
Written before the covid flu, it concentrates in the first three books the efforts of the ‘Edens’ to remain alive in the chaos.
It’s a very interesting book in terms of the way society deals (badly) with a disease that does little but good.
I reread it during the covid season and watched the parallels.
Scary.
Just as an aside, one thing you notice is that those society wants to demonise, they first proclaim them to be ‘dirty’, ‘unclean. Reminded me of “The Eternal Jew”.
Despite being only a few years old, the school is doing fantastically well.
Let’s wait for a future ABC Louse Nilligan hit job on the schools..
thefrollickingmole
July 1, 2024 8:07 am
Goblin Albanese said he had a “terrific” relationship with Mr Biden (although it’s not clear how he would know that) but would work with whoever was elected president in November.
Heres Elbow being subjected to the blowtorch intensity of a Biden meet and greet.
You can see where John Spooner gets his Albanese cartoon characterisation from.
Rosie
July 1, 2024 8:09 am
I’ve heard a rumour that all Catholic primary schools in Melbourne will switch to a Classical curriculum. It’s only a rumour because I couldn’t confirm the source but I liked it.
Voter support has dropped sharply for the Labor government and the Coalition amid a fiery debate between parties over the nuclear energy question and Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s nomination of seven regional sites for nuclear plants.
A Newspoll commissioned by The Australian released on Sunday showed the primary vote for the Coalition slipped sharply by three points from 36 over the past three weeks.
Meanwhile, Labor dropped a point to 32 per cent.
Both Mr Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have returned to near all-time low levels of dissatisfaction, as expressed by voters in the latest poll, with both party leaders deep in negative territory. …
The poll also put the spotlight on Mr Dutton’s nuclear plan and his outline to convert coal-fired power plants with nuclear reactors.
Support for the nuclear plan came in at a total of 42 per cent of voters approving Mr Dutton’s nuclear ambitions and the replacement of coal-fired power plants at the seven locations by 2050.
For detailed numbers RTWT. Support for nuclear seems to be on party lines, plus with men in favour and women not.
I’ve heard a rumour that all Catholic primary schools in Melbourne will switch to a Classical curriculum. It’s only a rumour because I couldn’t confirm the source but I liked it.
Don’t Catholic schools have to follow state curricula to retain funding?
Classical subjects could be adopted as extra strands but not replace the state curriculum which is a version of the Australian Curriculum.
What’s going to make room for that…indigenous studies?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 1, 2024 8:33 am
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party wins first round in French election but faces new alliances next Sunday’s final pollJacquelin Magnay
2 hours ago.
Updated 1 hours ago 52 comments
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has almost doubled its vote and leads in the first round of France’s legislative elections.
But her far right party’s support may fall just short of a complete majority, analysts say, with alliances already forming among other left and centrist parties to try and stop the momentum of the National Rally in the second round.
Predictions are that the RN may get up to 280 seats but require 289 to govern in their own right. The polling group Ipsos says the RN could win 230-280 seats, falling short of a majority.
Voters in the far right’s bastion in northern France said on Sunday (June 30) they were hoping for a change from President…
Scoring an estimated 34 per cent of the vote in the first round on Sunday, the National Rally (RN) is in the strongest position going into next Sunday’s second round.
The new alliance of left-wing parties, the Nouveau Front Populaire, reached 28.1 per cent.
The centrist Ensemble party led by the president Emmanuel Macron was third on 20.3 per cent and he immediately called on voters to block the far right in the second round.
The Republicans, a right-wing group, picked up 10 per cent of the vote and has not revealed their preferences at this point.
The top two candidates in each of the 577 districts go through to the second round, as well as some third placed, and even fourth placed candidates depending if they obtain a number of votes greater than 12.5% of those registered. In the coming days there will be horse trading in each of the districts to convince some candidates to withdraw so as to not split the left wing or right wing vote.
However some RN candidates, including Marine Le Pen have already won outright in the first round. She attracted 58 per cent of the vote in Pas de Calais.
Ms Le Pen said: “The French have shown in a vote without ambiguity their will to turn the page on seven years of corrosive power.”
In another district in northern France the Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel has been knocked out in the first round by National Rally candidate, Guillaume Florquin.
Well, St John Konstadt is using the Trivium and doing well. The Principal is looking forward to putiing his kids through the following round of Naplan without coaching to see hiw they stand. There are some restrictions on funding, but otherwise great going. https://www.stjohnacademy.com.au/
Vagabond
July 1, 2024 8:36 am
Dr Faustus July 1, 2024 7:40 am
Labor MP and general practitioner Mike Freelander said he believed that Mr Biden had Parkinson’s disease
Cassie of Sydney July 1, 2024 7:13 am I’ve had a family death so my postings here will be thin on the ground.
Before I heard my sad family news late last Friday morning, earlier that morning I was in our work kitchen making a cup of tea and a young female work colleague, only 21 years old, was also in the kitchen making toast. She’s a strikingly beautiful young woman, 100% Polynesian background and she is quite religious, she wears a cross around her neck. She turned to me and told me how much she liked the pendant around me neck. I told her it was a “Magen David” or “Star of David” and she nodded and said she knew what it was. I told her I was Jewish and she said she knew I was and then she said to me……..
‘we stand with you”.
I wish you long life Cassie.
And regarding your co-worker, I have had several similar conversations, the most recent only yesterday. They helps lift the spirit in these terrible times.
I’ve said this before, but SWMBO and I have been wearing Australia/Israel pins since, well, we could.
We must have given away a couple of dozen by now. I have given pins to all races, presumably creeds and certainly colours.And that includes as bloke in the local Woollies who is quite clearly of Arab descent, who just flat out asked me at the checkout where the could get one.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are failing to break the gridlock of an electoral contest mired in a bog of mediocrity. With the past three weeks dominated by indulgent spectacle, internal division, depressing economic news and a rerun of the climate wars, it is hardly surprising voters have declared a pox on both houses.
There can be little doubt the Liberal leader has lost skin over his daring nuclear power plan, even if the numbers suggest the battle is still there to be won.
Community opinion for and against is virtually evenly divided, with a rump still sitting on the fence.
The nuclear issue is a far closer-run argument than the one Albanese created over the voice referendum. But it is clearly playing out better among men than women. This may explain some of the fall.
But there is no evidence yet that women are turning off the Coalition in response to this policy, with plenty of other issues occupying voters’ minds.
The Liberal leader may have been anticipating some short-term damage as he seeks to build electoral support. The latest Newspoll will be of concern.
What will frustrate Dutton is that his nuclear power policy hasn’t yet galvanised conservative voters who have parked themselves with the minor right-wing parties since the last election.
The issue has now become hyper-partisan. It is now more sharply divided along party political lines.
When a general proposal for small modular nuclear reactors was first put to voters earlier this year by Newspoll, there was 55 per cent support across the board, and more than 60 per cent support among younger voters.
With the question now branded politically as a nuclear plan by Peter Dutton and the Liberal/Nationals parties, that support has drained away.
This may say less about people’s opinion on nuclear than it does about their natural political bias.
Greens and Labor supporters, and younger voters who were more supportive of nuclear power as a net-zero proposal but who don’t like Dutton or the Coalition, are now more likely to line up against it.
It may be irrational but this is the political reality.
The key factor in this debate now comes down to how this issue plays out in marginal seats.
And there is no sugar-coating the latest Newspoll. It’s a shocker for Dutton.
All the gains the Coalition has made against Labor since the budget flop have been eroded since the policy was announced.
That’s not to say the latest numbers are a lot better for Albanese or Labor. Dutton has managed to maintain the very close contest with Albanese as preferred prime minister.
Labor is now also below its last election result on primary vote, with the Coalition hanging on to a marginal gain.
Albanese has recorded his second-worst dissatisfaction ratings since becoming Prime Minister. Dutton has done the same.
There has been little to be impressed by.
Not that this is unique. The electorate has been in a state of disillusionment for the past 15 years, for one reason or another.
This has been reflected in the view of the leaders on both sides.
The last time both an opposition leader and prime minister were in positive net approval territory heading into an election was in 2008 when John Howard was plus eight and Kevin Rudd was plus 37.
It went downhill from there and stayed there.
When Julia Gillard contested the 2010 election she was at plus one. Tony Abbott was at minus six.
In 2013, Abbott was minus six and Rudd was minus 25.
When Turnbull called the 2016 double-dissolution election, he was at minus seven. Bill Shorten was minus 14. In 2019, Scott Morrison was plus one and Shorten was minus eight.
In May, Morrison went to the election at minus 14 against Albanese’s minus five.
Albanese and Dutton are not only destined to consolidate this trend, but risk driving disenchantment further.
As a consequence, neither leader is able to harvest increased support for their parties.
At a combined 68 per cent of the primary vote, the major parties risk repeating the last election result, which produced the lowest-ever level of support for the major parties at an election.
At best this maintains the status quo but more likely points to a minority Labor government.
After more than two years, the electorate is as equally uninspired.
If Dutton can’t get any traction against the worst government since Whitlam’s he’s not worth his salt as Opposition leader.
Any party, that actually wished to end this farcical “Climate Change” debate, could do so easily.
Simply ask the Minister for Energy, in Parliament, “What are the “scientific studies”, you have relied upon, that prove mankind has ANY effect whatever on climate?
There are none. Only modelling suggests there are any problems.
Of course, the LNP are quite happy to piss our kids and grandkids futures, up against the wall, in the pursuit of unicorns and the “Green dream”.
They get their kickbacks as well.
Also, Albo is far worse than Whitlam ever was.
He could at least construct a sentence.
Green lawfare is now the weapon of choice for activist class Nick Cater 1 Jul 2024
The anti-industry industry has come a long way from its humble origins in the late 1970s, when Bob Brown went to his local St Vincent de Paul and bought himself a suit. The transition from a gaggle of amateur nature lovers to a professional organisation with salaried staff was a giant evolutionary leap for the environmental movement.
Ironically, the report finds that the green activist industry is growing faster than the primary industries and resource sectors it targets. Its goal is not to create wealth but to destroy it. It forms part of the NGO-corporate-industrial complex that has discovered how to profit from the war on carbon, aided and abetted by the government through subsidies and regulation.
The environmental juggernaut of today bears little comparison with the green movement that began in Tasmania almost half a century ago. Its focus has changed from conservation to the ideology of climate change. The movement has become remote and insensitive to the natural environment and developed a narrow-minded obsession with carbon emissions from coal and gas combustion.
Activist organisations have become so dependent on green corporatism that they are willing to ignore the destruction of broad acres of natural vegetation for the construction of wind turbines, industrial solar plants, energy storage infrastructure and associated transmission lines.
Climate warriors are more likely to be found in the courts these days rather than tied to the front of a bulldozer in the tropical forests of the Upper Burdekin in far north Queensland. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s approval of the Upper Burdekin/Gawara Baya wind development last month came despite a damning report that warned of “unavoidable significant impacts” on the endangered Sharman’s rock wallaby, the koala, the greater glider, the red goshawk and the masked owl.
Nowadays, lawyers perform much of the heavy lifting for climate activism. The MRC’s research found that Australia is the second-largest forum for environmental lawfare after the US. There are more climate lawsuits per capita in Australia than anywhere else in the world, thanks to a rich array of resource sector targets and an obliging legal system.
The bar for launching court actions in Australia is low for those with funds. Every dollar spent by legal activists is a drain on the profits of businesses forced to defend themselves against adventurous and vexatious claims. The biggest cost to the resource sector is not legal fees, punishing as they are. It is the mounting cost of interest on borrowed money that sits idle while the legal process drags on.
The MRC calculates that in past two years $17.48bn in industrial output has been frozen by legal action. Whether investors will see a return on their capital is at the mercy of the courts. The damage is compounded by the damage to the broader economy.
The MRC calculates 29,784 Australian jobs are at risk in cases before the courts. The loss of taxes and mining royalties will make it harder to fund roads, schools and hospitals and support our health and education systems. The fiscal impact alone would prompt a clear-thinking government to step in and clean up this mess. The Albanese government, however, is anything but hard-headed about anything related to the environment. It refuses to countenance any reform that might give the Greens party an edge in quinoa-chomping enclaves such as the seat of Grayndler, the fate of which is of more than passing interest to our PM.
In 2015, the EDO had 14 staff and a $3m budget. By 2023, it had grown to a team of 105 staff and a budget of $13.3m. It measures success with a perverse set of metrics. Its 2022 annual report boasts of providing 11,587 legal hours and spending 134 days in court.
In January, the EDO’s tactics were heavily criticised by Federal Court Justice Natalie Charlesworth, who reversed an order preventing Santos from building a pipeline allowing the $5.8bn development of the offshore Barossa gas field. She rejected assertions by three Tiwi Islanders that the pipeline posed a risk to intangible underwater heritage, including Crocodile Man song lines and an area of significance for the rainbow serpent Ampiji, and was not “broadly representative” of the beliefs of Tiwi people who would be affected by the pipeline.
Charlesworth found the EDO had engaged in dishonest “coaching” tactics and the misrepresentation of local Indigenous knowledge. Charlesworth dismissed evidence from the EDO’s expert witness about potential impacts on underwater archaeological sites, finding there was a “negligible chance” of a significant impact on tangible cultural heritage. Charlesworth found a cultural mapping exercise undertaken by an expert witness for the applicants and “the related opinions expressed about it are so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on them”.
“I am satisfied that this aspect of the case does indeed involve ‘confection’ or ‘construction’, at least in part, and that it cannot be an adapted account of the kind discussed by the anthropologists,” the judgment states.
Yet despite the loss of the case, the activists are winning. The global demand for liquid natural gas has never been higher, and is forecast to continue to rise until the 2040s. Yet oil and gas exploration activities in Australia have been falling significantly over the past two decades. The number of new offshore wells has fallen from over 50 in 2010 wells to just three in 2023. When your aim is to frustrate and delay, there is no such thing as a wasted day in court.
Nick Cater is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute.
Roger
July 1, 2024 8:53 am
Younger Australians think Australia should be more socialist
YouGov
In this survey Australians were asked if they think Australia should be more socialist or capitalist on an eleven-point scale, 0-10. 0-4 indicates a degree of support towards socialism, and 6-10, a degree of support for capitalism. 5 is the neutral option, placed equally between socialism and capitalism.
This poll found that 53% of 18-24-year-olds think Australia should be more socialist, while only 22% think it should be more capitalist; a net support for socialism at +31%.
YouGov’s Director of Public Affairs and Public Data, Paul Smith said, “Australia’s [sic] opinion towards socialism is divided generationally, with young people in favour of more socialism due to their very different experience of entering the workforce after the 2008 financial crisis. They have paid more for homes and education without the secure and well-paying jobs older Australians generally enjoyed, and therefore favour change.”
Let’s shrink the economic pie and make everyone poorer!
It’s a few years since I was last in Cambodia, but visiting a school, and seeing the children still getting used to the sight of an elderly person, is an experience guaranteed to cure anyone of any tendencies to the filthy doctrine of socialism. Churchill was correct!
The National SOCIALISTS had better tailors (Hugo Boss) than the triumphant INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS.
The “benchmark for “socialism” was set by one Saloth Sar, (Pol Pot)
A few weeks traveling the actual killing fields, the hectares of shallow graves, Tuol Sleng torture centre, (repurposed high-school in Phnom Penh), etc WAY back in 1990, permanently cemented that analysis for me.
Check out the body-counts from the assorted “socialist Paradises” of the 20th century.
Then wonder at the “interesting alliance” (temporary) between the head-lopping sand-pirates and the “international socialists”.
Remember: the sand pirates hate ATHEISTS even more than the hate the Jews.
Why are we surprised? The kids have been fed a scholastic diet of Marxist crap since they were in kindy. I kid you not. It is insidious. The little tots are conditioned to “group think” – literally – in the placement of desks and emphasis on interaction, as opposed to attention to the teacher.
Once in high schools, the indoctrination begins big time with Syllabi altered over the years to contain a a Marxist view of not only History & English, but even the notational subjects.
I need not note the parlous state of a liberal (small “l”) view of higher study in universities.
Even so, it a curious phenomenon that the perception of the world and our place in it has taken huge turns over the millennia. I believe some believe that a “Fourth Turning” is taking shape.
The young keep voting for the very policies that will shrink the pie and make them poorer and then are horrified when they become poorer. Yes, the educational model is to blame.
What stands out is the refusal to phrase ‘capitalist’ as ‘conservative’. The poll is a shit poll, designed to portray those polled as something they are not.
bons
July 1, 2024 8:57 am
Unfortunately, the. combination of the commies and public sector unions will once again knock out Le Pen in the second round.
It is just too difficult to get the center-right to turn out. The old line about the conservatives spending Sunday morning preparing lunch, and Sunday afternoon recovering, thus not having time to vote, is pretty accurate.
Given the absolute dominance of Grandes Ecoles indoctrination, there is no way that any of the elite will stray towards the centre. They would consider setting up their lawn chairs to watch the second march of barbarians down the Champs Elysee to be more appropriate than voting for the centre right.
Sad, this is probably their last chance to defeat German pan-european Islamo fascism.
It all depends how many of the unionists get pissed off enough to vote with the right. Remember the Yellow Jackets protests? Maybe they might want to stick it to the elites.
thefrollickingmole
July 1, 2024 8:59 am
Sad to think we have 40+ more years of decline before things get bad enough to see a leader like this.
Jim Chalmers in the Daily Telegraph to assure you rosy fields await you:
No matter who you are, where you live, what you do for a living or how much you earn, we’re doing what we can to help you with the cost of living.
We recognise that people are under pressure. I see it in my own community and right across the country and we’re doing something about it.
From today, billions of dollars’ worth of relief will begin to roll out to millions of Australians to help ease the cost of living.
Starting today, every taxpayer will get a tax cut, every household will get an energy rebate and a million small businesses will get energy bill relief.
Around 2.6 million workers on modern award minimum wages will get a 3.75 per cent pay increase.
More than two million families will benefit from the latest round of indexation to family tax benefit and other family payments, while pensioners will benefit from indexation of income and asset thresholds.
Australians will soon get access to cheaper medicines, so no one will pay more than $31.60 for a PBS medicine and concession card holders will only pay $7.70.
People will start to accrue more money for their retirement with the superannuation guarantee to increase from 11 per cent to 11.5 per cent.
About 876,000 people on income support payments will get a helping hand with social security deeming rates to be frozen for another year.
And new parents will get an extra two weeks of paid parental leave, with an extra two weeks added each year until they reach 26 weeks total by July 2026.
That’s how you deliver cost of living relief, not with nuclear reactors that will only push up the price of power.
At the same time as we’re rolling out this extra relief, we’re doing our bit in the Budget to fight inflation through responsible economic management which has seen us turn big Liberal deficits into Labor surpluses.
At the same time as we’re rolling out this extra relief, we’re doing our bit in the Budget to fight inflation through responsible economic management which has seen us turn big Liberal deficits into Labor surpluses.
Importantly, Treasury estimates the government’s energy bill relief and additional increase to Commonwealth Rent Assistance will directly reduce inflation by half of a percentage point in 2024–25 and are not expected to add to broader inflationary pressures.
If the Coalition cared at all about easing the cost of living for Australians, they would have voted for cost-of-living relief in the Parliament but instead they voted against it.
Peter Dutton wants Australians to work longer for less, but we take a different approach.
We think that every Australian deserves a bit of help and that’s what we’re delivering.
Our economic plan is all about helping Australians earn more and keep more of what they earn which is why our focus is on growing real wages and easing the cost of living through tax cuts for every taxpayer and energy rebates for every household.
We’re helping every Australian up and down the income scale because we know that every Australian has been impacted by the cost of living.
Whether you’re a truckie, a tradie or a teacher, from Logan to Launceston, Western Sydney to Western Australia, Wentworth to West Footscray – more cost-of-living help is coming your way from today in the form of energy rebates, tax cuts and more.
Only Labor cares about easing the cost of living for Australians and only a Labor government will back Australians with the cost of living relief they deserve, with more on the way starting today.
Well I’m happy! 3.75 percent increase in my wage! Exciting!
Except when that needs to go on power bills. As the next article will describe.
ALPBC radio news vox pops showed most people get it. “Insignificant “”Swallowed by price rises””Won’t even cover a quarter of the increase in my insurance bill”. God knows what ones they didn’t put to air.
The number of NSW households forced onto hardship plans because they can’t pay their energy bills has risen by 97 per cent since the last federal election — the highest of any state or territory and eclipsing the national increase.
As the Albanese government ramps up its marketing campaign about a suite of cost of living measures coming into place today, the latest hardship figures reveal the untold story.
More than 127,000 households across the country have been forced onto hardship plans by their energy provider with 70,000 of them living in NSW, according to the latest industry figures.
The data does not does not include struggling households in the Northern Territory, Western Australia or Victoria, which have different arrangements for helping struggling customers.
“Every single week since Labor took office, 600 households on average have been plunged into hardship arrangements with their electricity retailer,” coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien said.
This has worsened by an average of 50 households per week since the last quarterly report which included data up to the end of December 2023.
The numbers build on another concerning metric for Labor — latest inflation figures that show CPI has jumped again to 4 per cent — that has undermined the government’s messaging that it was bringing the cost of living under control.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers did the TV round on Sunday morning maintaining the government’s policies, which include tax cuts and energy bill relief, will bring inflation under control despite the recent jump in CPI.
From July 1, Australians earning between $30,000 and $200,000 will get a new tax cut ranging from $6.81 to $87.10 a week and every household will get a $300 energy bill discount spread across the next financial year.
“We are confident, but not complacent about inflation in our economy. What we’ve seen in the last couple of years is that inflation has moderated really quite substantially, but it doesn’t always moderate in a straight line,” he said.
“Inflation is still too high, but it’s much lower than what we inherited from the Coalition, and we know that our policies are helping.”
Mr Chalmers acknowledged that Treasury forecasts — which had been more optimistic about inflation returning to the two to three per cent band — were “uncertain”.
“There’s always an element of uncertainty when it comes to forecasts about the economy, but especially right now,” he said.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese claimed Labor was hitting the “sweet spot” between curbing inflation and helping households.
“Our objective here (is) to make sure that we get through the short-term issues which are there for cost of living pressures on families,” he said.
Judo Bank chief economist Warren Hogan said the cost of living benefits would bring down headline inflation — for example the cost of energy to consumers — but do nothing for underlying inflation.
Mr Hogan predicts there will be more interest rate hikes to come in the near future.
“I’m forecasting the headline CPI to be lower than 3 per cent by the end of this year or next year … but information is more like 3.5 per cent of 3-and-a-quarter,” he said.
“(The lowered inflation) is artificial, it’s not real. The inflation is still there.”
Mr Hogan said history showed that the real interest rate has to be “at least another per cent” higher than inflation in order to bring it down.
Right now the cash rate is sitting at 4.35 per cent while inflation is at 4 per cent.
“With rate hikes going for more than two years it shows the level of interest rates isn’t high enough, it’ll need to be higher,” he said.
“The fact is for the last three months we keep getting surprised by the inflation.”
Neutral Bay couple Amber Knight and Troy Wilson have turned to wearing more clothes and using hot water bottles and heat packs to avoid a spike in their energy bills.
“We have an oil heater which is more energy efficient but we mostly try not to use it, we use hot water bottles, heat packs and just put on more clothes,” Ms Knight said.
Mr Wilson added: “I always find myself so cold.”
The couple who rent their two-bedroom apartment said they feel “anxious” in the lead up to lease renewals and have cut back on how often they drive to keep costs in check.
“Having a car is a huge expense. Keeping it on the road costs so much money,” Mr Wilson, 20, said.
“There is not one specific thing that we are feeling because everything adds up.”
Quakers Hill mum-of-three, Iram Siddiqui can’t remember a time when electricity bills were higher than now.
Ms Siddiqui spent years as a stay at home mother, looking after her three children Mariam, 11, Aamir, 8, and Maahir, 6, but was forced to go back to work to help her husband pay the bills.
“There was one income in the family, and because of some health issues I couldn’t work as much,” she said.
“It’s got to the stage where I had to get up on my feet no matter how sick I felt, to be able to help my husband out with the bills because every little bit helps.”
To reduce costs the family changed their heaters to gas, and rug up with jumpers and socks while inside but Ms Siddiqui said with three young children she has to keep the house warm in winter to prevent them from getting sick.
“It’s a juggle because every single thing you do in your life costs money, not just electricity, it’s healthcare for the kids,” she said.
For the Siddiqui family, the Albanese government’s $300 electricity rebate will barely touch the sides.
“Big deal $300 – you’re not going to notice it,” she said.
“It’s just going to make us smile for 30 seconds but it is not going to put a dent in it.”
So who to believe? Old mate on Struggle St or some bloke in the Canberra bubble?
$300 is so laughable that it may as well not be given. To use the standard metric, it’s not even a cup of coffee for the week!
What will frustrate Dutton is that his nuclear power policy hasn’t yet galvanised conservative voters who have parked themselves with the minor right-wing parties since the last election.
What frustrates me is that, having put together a lo-info policy document on an incredibly complicated matter, Team Dutton has done SFA to backup, explain, and present an adequate knowledge of the issues and outline any realistic ’next steps’ they would be taking next year.
The ‘no follow up’ strongly suggests to me the policy, such as it is, was created by Canbra Bubble political advisors, with no serious input on the myriad practical technicalities.
The result has been a brief display of pathetic Three Eyed Fish theatre – followed by, well, not much.
Despite this damp squib sputtering in the gutter, Newspoll tells us that 55% of the punters are either in favour of, or open to nuclear power generation (60% in the SMH Resolve poll).
If, as increasingly seems likely, Dutton is unable to take advantage and prosecute his headline policy, he has squandered an opportunity to lead and minimise the dreadful energy damage coming down the line – and kicked sensible nuclear debate into the long grass for another generation.
Evidences?
Exhibit 1: Lack of prepared response (in fact surrender by useless Ted O’Brien) to the truly awful CSIRO GenCost Report.
At this stage, the only winners are the grinning Green vermin.
Roger
July 1, 2024 9:37 am
What frustrates me is that, having put together a lo-info policy document on an incredibly complicated matter, Team Dutton has done SFA to backup, explain, and present an adequate knowledge of the issues and outline any realistic ’next steps’ they would be taking next year.
They were waiting for the Newspoll results before deciding what to do next.
Diogenes
July 1, 2024 9:38 am
ircumvent QLD laws that make the Federal communist curriculum compulsory?
The English curriculum lays down broad themes for each year. You find a classic that matches the theme instead of whatever garbage other schools find popular
Exhibit 1: Lack of prepared response (in fact surrender by useless Ted O’Brien) to the truly awful CSIRO GenCost Report.
+1
It should have been really easy to knock this on the head. Where is the peer review?
Organise some international criticism? The Left is really good at this this, but now when the Right has a golden opportunity to do the same, it completely drops the ball.
The Right was skewered for arguing that Australia was a special case when it cited the “Australia is only 1% of global emissions statistic”. But here the Left is doing the same thing. If Australia should “show leadership”, well we can really do that on nuclear, e.g. It looks dodgy if we are selling nuclear fuel but won’t use it ourselves; going nuclear would help persuade India to copy us.
Donors looking to get Biden to drop out have emphasized that the money raised needs to transfer over to the new candidate. Team Biden however is warning that it’s not going to happen. Any new candidate will start with “zero dollars.” …
The larger signal is that the Biden campaign won’t cooperate with any transition effort and will not only keep all the money, but fight this process every step of the way, taking the 2024 race hostage. If Dems try to replace Biden, Team Biden will make sure that whoever they replace him with loses.
If the Obama people running the White House don’t get full cooperation from their puppet president, they’ll instruct the media to unload a raft of Biden family scandals.
If that doesn’t work, they’ll unleash the lawfare they used on Trump. Failing all that, there’ll be an accident.
The puppet president’s use-by date has passed.
Dr Faustus
July 1, 2024 9:51 am
They were waiting for the Newspoll results before deciding what to do next.
Precisely.
There will be one more informal vote next election in the seat of Brisbane. I’m not going to enrich the LNP by my electoral contribution and see my preference cascade down to re-elect Master Bates.
Labor MP and general practitioner Mike Freelander said he believed that Mr Biden had Parkinson’s disease and would be unable to complete another four-year term even if he beat Donald Trump.
Or, maybe, just maybe at 79 he is feeling his age and has early stage dementia ..
Seems it’s very difficult for some folk & the media to just accept the bloke is showing common symptoms of .. old age ….!
He’s 81 not 79. And Biden’s sort of blanking out and losing track is not typical of old age in the 80’s or even later. It’s a pathology. Could be Parkinsons but more likely some other brain dementia.
Roger
July 1, 2024 9:56 am
The larger signal is that the Biden campaign won’t cooperate with any transition effort and will not only keep all the money…
They’ll also keep all the delegates.
m0nty
July 1, 2024 9:56 am
And there is no sugar-coating the latest Newspoll. It’s a shocker for Dutton.
All the gains the Coalition has made against Labor since the budget flop have been eroded since the policy was announced.
Ideology has no place in sexual assault law reform JANET ALBRECHTSEN 29 Jun 2024 Fairness demands one should, at least initially, give Australian Law Reform Commission president Mordecai Bromberg and part-time commissioner Marcia Neave the benefit of the doubt. It’s possible the review of the nation’s sexual assault laws by these former judges at the behest of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will be a balanced affair, paying proper regard to the rights of all those dragged into these unhappy events.
However, the early signs are bad. Bromberg and Neave appear to have already nailed their colours to the mast in a way that makes it hard to scramble back to the proper path one might expect from law reform commissioners of neutrality and impartiality.
Bromberg started out by paying lip service to the need for balance when he said the inquiry would focus on “improving both the experience and outcome of victim-survivors without … compromising the rights of the accused”.
But look closer at his use of the term “victim-survivor”. Bromberg’s language gives the game away. Using the term favoured by #MeToo activists rather than the more accurate legal description of “complainant” assumes guilt when it has not been proved. It is an ideological phrase, not a legal one. Is it too much to expect that law reform commissioners should be grounded in law, not ideology?
Bromberg went on to put his approach into further doubt, saying that the desires of victim-survivors would take primacy in the inquiry and those desires could be achieved through civil alternatives.
Neave, too, likes the civil system. “There’s no right of silence in the civil justice system,” she said, adding: “There are things in the civil justice system you might want to think about.” Let’s hope she is not saying let’s get rid of these pesky rights accused people have in the criminal system. As Australian Lawyers Alliance national criminal justice spokesman Greg Barns SC told this newspaper last month, “any suggestion that the standard of proof be reduced ought to be rejected”.
“The fact that a rape conviction in criminal law has serious consequences, such as the loss of liberty of the accused person, means it should have the highest standard (of proof),” he said. “We don’t lower the standard simply to increase convictions.
“It would be a very, very dangerous precedent, because if we use it in these cases, then why not use it in burglaries, for example?”
Barns also warned against removing the right to silence. “Our system of justice for centuries has said it’s for the prosecution to prove its case, and the defendant can’t be compelled, for good reason. The right to silence is sacrosanct in our democracy,” he said.
Equally problematic is that both Bromberg and Neave say they are big believers in the “data”. Bromberg quoted statistical information suggesting only about 13 per cent of rape victims reported their assault. This led him to conclude that “something in the order of perhaps eight or nine perpetrators of 10 are not made accountable at all and are not brought to justice at all”. How does Bromberg know that upwards of 80 per cent of perpetrators are escaping jail? The justice system has not decided on guilt yet. These are alleged perpetrators. Alleged is not a word that can be skipped over so lightly, especially by the president of the ALRC. Or is Bromberg saying skip the trial? Neave complained “lawyers have historically not used data very well”. What does this mean? Are we to set up quotas under which a set percentage of accused persons are to be presumed guilty? If we do so in sexual assault cases, why not other cases?
As Hanna Legal principal Nick Hanna told this newspaper in May, it’s wrong to think that false allegations of sexual assault don’t happen. “Those of us who work in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors, know this is simply not the case,” he said.
“There are a range of reasons for complainants making false accusations, including mental illness or ulterior motives.”
The evidence is already mounting that while it was once critical to make the legal system more user-friendly and compassionate towards sexual assault complainants, the pendulum may have swung too far. We have now had five NSW judges complain innocent men have been hounded by prosecutions for sexual assault so lacking in merit they should never have been brought.
The jury in the prosecution of prominent rugby player Kurtley Beale had only just closed the door on the jury room when they were back to throw the manifestly unfair charge out. Harry Garside, another prominent sportsman, had been smart enough to take his own video proving the assaulting party was his girlfriend not him. NRL player Jarryd Hayne has spent a lengthy period of time in jail, and faced several trials, on charges of which he must be again presumed innocent. Or Mr Jackmain, the pseudonymous appellant who because of overreaching, if well intentioned, laws of evidence was refused permission to bring evidence that his complainant had brought 12 false claims of sexual assault against a variety of defendants.
If all this were not enough to make you think the activist pendulum had swung too far, the Chief Justice of the ACT, Lucy McCallum called concerns about a fair trial an “intractable problem”. One hopes this was clumsy language, not ideology.
Thwarted time and again by the good sense of ordinary jurors, along with barristers and brave judges, calling out judicial or legislative overreach, activists never sleep. A new wheeze springs up every day.
Call a scenario that a defendant may seek to rely on to raise doubt a “rape myth” and “trauma-informed” judges will exclude it. Or point to the data – the numbers apparently never lie so we should be paying less attention to the individual merits of individual cases and relying on the iron clad guarantees of the laws of big numbers. Establish specialised courts in which only those lawyers who have been properly indoctrinated in activist doctrine can appear – kangaroo court would be a complimentary name for such a court.
The latest wheeze, one that Neave and Bromberg seem already to favour, is lowering the standard of proof by turning what was once a criminal matter into a civil one. The beauty of this is that a complainant who wins such a trial will be able to use a criminal label – “rapist” – without having to prove it to a criminal standard. And while the complainant in a civil trial won’t get the satisfaction of a prison sentence if successful, they will be eligible for damages that one would expect to be substantial.
One can expect this to spawn a whole new shakedown legal industry – suing high-profile footballers alone may become the life’s work of some lawyers. And any footballer, or indeed any other prominent person, will have little choice but to settle such a claim.
Overblown? This is where the track record of Bromberg and Neave becomes relevant. When Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg was appointed president of the ALRC, inner city leftists would have seen it as a historic opportunity to fuse judicial activism with the capture of institutional policy-making in a perfect storm of revolutionary change.
The ALP branches to which Bromberg belonged will no doubt have been singing round after round of the Internationale, throwing cloth caps in the air and generally celebrating the news. For the rest of us, not so much.
Indeed, we can look forward to what I anticipate will be five years of dismal ALRC recommendations embodying the ideals Bromberg espoused when explaining his motivation for leaving the law and standing for ALP preselection for parliament in 2001: “I’m certainly not doing this for the money. But I am committed to improving the Workplace Relations Act to make it fairer and more equitable and I think I can be more effective doing that in parliament.”
Described by The Age at the time as a long-time member of the Labor Party, Bromberg never made it to parliament, but he did make it to the Federal Court bench where his novel legal approaches attracted headlines in areas from workplace law to climate change. In industrial matters his judgments were, statistically speaking, strikingly pro-union. His radical judgments on casual employment in the Skene and Rossato cases were comprehensively overturned by the High Court.
Bromberg’s judicial creativity was not limited to workplace law matters. In one case, Bromberg created a novel duty of care in a class action brought by children who wanted an order to stop an extension project to Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery mine on the basis that it would add to emissions that cause catastrophic harm to the health of all children. This horrified the full Federal Court.
As Justice Jonathan Beach said when overturning Bromberg’s duty of care frolic: “This was a bold step to take, given that trial judges normally only assess, admire or indeed chop down completed forms … it is for the High Court, not us, to engineer new seed varieties for sustainable duties of care.” Bromberg must be cheering his new liberation from legal orthodoxy.
Neave too has form in the “reform” of sexual assault laws. In 2004 she presided over a Victorian Law Reform Commission report into sexual offences whose recommendations (including specialist court lists, “training” for judges and lawyers, changes to the committal process, and recommendations to protect complainants during cross examination) would have been cheered by modern commentators like Lucy McCallum. Some of Neave’s suggested reforms may have been sensible but with #MeToo activism ramping up to dangerous levels, one wonders if Neave can be the person to rein in Bromberg’s wilder side. It would be worse than unfortunate if these two spend their time in furious assent, praising each other’s work and wondering how the world will ever cope without their latest “reform” insights.
Is it unfair to wonder whether these two former judges, whose CVs don’t mention running criminal trials, are eminently unqualified to be at the helm of a review into reforming the conduct of criminal trials? Is it unfair to ask whether one of their more obvious qualifications seems to be as signed up members of the legal left? Or is this all about politics?
There are many problems with the law and practice relating to sexual assaults that would benefit from a cold, forensic look at the issue from both sides. So why not add people to the review panel who have “lived” experience – to coin a faddish phrase – in criminal trials, be they judges and/or lawyers to ensure that an accused’s fundamental rights are indeed protected. Not in throwaway words, but in reality. Why not include Barns or long-time criminal barrister Steve Whybrow SC, or similarly experienced lawyers?
A genuine contest of ideas at the ALRC would at least make it possible that the review’s recommendations have been tested for the sake of a fair trial for all. A chorus line-up of people clamouring to toss aside our foundation values is dangerous.
There was a piece in the Sun Tele about new laws coming into effect today in NSW that are tied in with the ‘domestic violence’ narrative.
Coercive Control:
WHAT IS COERCIVE CONTROL?
Patterns of behaviour that seek to control or entrap another person. It doesn’t need to be one big incident or action. Coercive control can take place over time and is often a series of seemingly smaller incidents or actions that nevertheless cause significant harm.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Use the Empower You app to create a secure log of ongoing domestic violence. DV NSW suggests also using the list of services on the App – that can be searched by LGA. Ask Izzy is also a helpful tool, which can also be searched via location. You can also call the NSW Domestic ViolenceLine or the NSW homelessness information line.
Another bullshite abstract charge added to the growing list.
If you are interested I can post the whole article.
The corrupt and contemptible Stalinist political prosecution of Cardinal Pell shows how far things have already gone. But it’s not enough for the ideologues.
Roger
July 1, 2024 10:02 am
Why are you doling out “energy rebates” if your own insane stone age year zero policies aren’t driving up the cost of energy, you forking dimwit?
Dim’s energy rebate is like a Colesworths’ special – put the price up 25% one fortnight and two weeks later drop it by 25% and tell the punter he’s getting a bargain.
Notice from the media reports I’ve read on the French elections the media is steering clear of the main problem for Macaroon .. He is still prez until 2027 .. BUT .. the French prez rules/governs thru Parliamentary majority ..
If he loses the “house” he is, for all practical purposes, a “lame duck” occupant for the remainder of his term ..
He gambled, his over-sized ego, on being luvved by the small folk and has lost … BIGGLY .. LOL!
There is a very good chance, that Jupiter will quit, should results go the way he doesn’t want.
He is merely the President of France.
He wants to be the Ruler of the Universe.
Dr Faustus
July 1, 2024 10:03 am
2dogs @ 9:51 am
It should have been really easy to knock this [GenCost Report] on the head. Where is the peer review?
The GenCost Report was put out as a consultation draft last year for industry review.
The final version came out with a few clangers corrected – and an entire appendix (Appendix D FAQ) devoted to explaining how stupid the review comments were, why the smooth brains at CSIRO weren’t picking them up, and just get forked anyway.
m0nty
July 1, 2024 10:06 am
The ‘no follow up’ strongly suggests to me the policy, such as it is, was created by Canbra Bubble political advisors, with no serious input on the myriad practical technicalities.
I doubt it was political advisers, as even the least competent among them could see massive flaws of Dutton’s strategy, or lack thereof.
Much more likely is that Rolls Royce’s marketing department is running LNP nuke policy. “I see no method at all,” as a wise man once said.
the school is “studying” the Effing Hunger Games, with dystopian fiction their yera 9 focus.
Don’t knock the books if they read them .. One of my grandaughter’s, miss, just turned 13, never been much of a scholar or reader coupla weeks ago picked up a copy of MAZE RUNNER and didn’t put it down until finished .. Found out it was book 1 of 5 so bought her the other 4 and she is over the moon ….
If they start reading .. encourage ’em .. so what if they start with the “pulp” .. Hopefully it getz ’em interested and into the ‘reading” habit ..
Too easy to be distracted by their phones & laptops these dayz …… FFS!
One of my grandsons was into Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Anh Do books and The Thirteen Story Treehouse series. Another one was into sci-fi while the third one will read anything.
Yep, start ’em early and they keep the habit. Read to them when they’re babies – even if it’s the newspaper.
Roger
July 1, 2024 10:11 am
“The BBC’s Nick Robinson said that Conservatives think of Reform leader Nigel Farage as ‘a kind of Sunday roast with all the trimmings’ while Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is ‘a quinoa salad.’
The latest YouGov UK poll on 25 June has Labour leading at 36 percent, followed by Conservatives 18, Reform 17, and Liberal Democrats 15. Based on these, their modeling projects Labour winning 425 of Parliament’s 650 seats (65.4 percent), Conservatives 108 (16.6), Reform 5 (0.8), and Liberal Democrats 67 (10.3). Thus Labour with about one-third of votes would win almost two-thirds of seats; the Conservatives, level-pegging with Reform in votes, would win 22 times as many seats; Reform would win less than one-third of its vote share in seats; and the LibDems, with only four-fifths of the Reform share of votes, would have thirteen times as many seats.
The UK distortions reflect the quirks of the first-past-the-post electoral system used in elections for the mother of parliaments. The Australian electoral system in combination with the institutionalised practice of preference flows produces its own significant distortions. In the May 2022 elections, Labor won 77 of the 151 seats with 32.6/52.1 percent primary/two-party preferred votes, and the Coalition won 58 seats with 35.7/47.9 percent votes. The last Newspoll on 9th June had the Coalition’s primary vote at 39 and Labor at 33 percent, with the two-party preferred vote tied 50-50. Although one cannot make linear extrapolations, under the UK system the Coalition would have won the last election and would be on track for a landslide victory next year.”
There’s been a decline in the breadth of support for wind and solar power. The shares who favor expanding solar and wind power farms are down 12 percentage points and 11 points, respectively, since 2020, driven by sharp drops in support among Republicans.
Interest in buying an electric vehicle (EV) is lower than a year ago. Today, 29% of Americans say they would consider an EV for their next purchase, down from 38% in 2023.
Seeing that the MSM has been furiously gaslighting everyone for a couple decades now, it is interesting that the mk. 1 punter is wising up to their lies. The now collapsed snow job they used to prop up Biden will have more and more people likewise questioning the MSM.
Don’t understand lotza folks attitudes to these energy rebates the gummint is handing out .. As an OAP the last one (with one quarter to go) @ $125 quarter reduced my, usual, bills from 3 figures ($150/$180) down to well under $100 .. this next one tho not as large @ $75 quarter will still keep ’em down .. Pity they aren’t discounting the gas as well (I’ve gas heating & water) which, now, hovers between $140 & $200quarter the year round ..
I know it’s gummint policy that keeps ’em high and higher but something back is better than nuttin’ ..
Tho it won’t affect my, never ever Labor/Greens, vote even if that’s the, obvious, intention .. LOL!
If leftards don’t win, clearly it is a failure of “democracy”, and riots are the obvious solution. Beat up those who didn’t vote the “right” way, as approved by Comrades Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
Until young people realise they have to pay by way of work socialism will always be attractive. Take the levies, charges, subsidies, rebates, multiple levels of government doing and charging for the same things and whatever, out of the system so people can see what the tax rate is, then and only then will they realise they are being ripped off by government. They should be able to see it already but hey what would I know. I found out years ago the harder I worked the luckier I got.
Not that simple. There are ( and have been) some long term shifting of wealth between elements of society and between generations. More than a few younger people realise they are getting screwed.
Roger
July 1, 2024 10:48 am
Don’t understand lotza folks attitudes to these energy rebates the gummint is handing out ..
Doesn’t do much for a family with children, shaterzzz.
Essentially, government policy is robbing them to pay the ruinables subsidy grifters and then giving them back a pittance and saying they should be grateful.
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Steve trickler
July 1, 2024 10:50 am
damon July 1, 2024 9:12 am
“I just ate half a chook. Now I am hungary again So you turned into a country. Just like that.
Stranded on the dead fred … I am not a huge fan of Jon Stewart, but his take on the debate was hilarious. (Sorry can’t link, but should be easy to find). He goes to a few grabs of “experts” declaring, in advance, what Biden needed to do to be successful in the debate:- “No physical or verbal stumbles” “Not have a senior moment” “No brain freezes” And finally, the lowest bar setting of all … “Remain upright”. Cut back to an incredulous Stewart:- “To be President all he has to do is … remain upright? I could be mistaken but I believe that is also the qualification to be a scarecrow.”
The pervert apologist has just uploaded this wee bit sanctimonious puke…
I am, indeed, out of step with people voting for a man convicted of fraud over a six-figure hush money payout to a porn star.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who vote for a political party no different to the National Socialist Party of 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Germany.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who vote for politicians who mouth genocidal calls for the elimination of Jews and the destruction of the sole Jewish state on the planet.
I am, indeed, out of step with those people who join in the weekly Jew hate protests across the West, screaming, screeching and shouting abuse of Jews.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who side with the murderers, rapists and kidnappers of October 7 2023.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who turn up to Jewish suburbs, on the Sabbath and other holidays, just like what happened in Caulfield last November, like what happened in LA last weekend, and shout, scream and screech abuse at Jews and attack them physically.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who use and justify violence against their political enemies, like the writer of the above puke words has done many times here on these pages. After all, his favourite line is “punch a Nazi”……except those Nazis and men and women such as myself. And indeed, remember how only last year our resident hypocrite advocated violence against women who refuse to buckle to the nonsense that is gender ideology, and please do recall how he thought the violence in that Auckland Park in March 2023 was hilarious.
Finally, I am, indeed, out of step with a person who was quite willing to join in the pile on of an innocent man, called him a ‘rock spider’ and has never ever retracted that LIE.
Lizzie, Monty isn’t joking or jesting – he’s deadly serious about wanting to install the ‘Wukkas Paradise’ in Australia.
His problem will arrive on his doorstep when the Blockleiter arrives on his doorstep after an anonymous caller has dobbed him in to the authorities as an ‘unreconstructed Nazi’.
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Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 11:34 am
Labor MP and general practitioner Mike Freelander said he believed that Mr Biden had Parkinson’s disease and would be unable to complete another four-year term even if he beat Donald Trump.
Utter bullshit.
This is part of a narrative that he is physically afflicted but mentally alert.
Therefore OK to complete this term at least.
He didn’t (and hasn’t) exhibited the almost universal common symptom of Parkinson’s sufferers, which is tremors, particularly in the hands.
Seventy percent of MAGA voters agree it is important to the United States that Ukraine win the war with Russia (versus 64 percent of non-MAGA Republicans).
There’s a link to the Reagan Institute poll in the story. I couldn’t find the story where I first saw it last week, so the WaPo link will have to do. Search engines just do not ever want to provide righty website hits, it’s annoying.
No one in the DR thinks much of Meloni. As for the WaPo article, I’m sure there is a substantial portion of MAGA that support the GAE and forever wars; they can’t help themselves.
Understandable error given how incestuous such things are these days, thinking as I am of Bill Shorten’s mother in law.
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 11:53 am
Roger
July 1, 2024 8:53 am
Younger Australians think Australia should be more socialist
I had a quick read of the blurb.
It is alternately described as a “poll” and a “survey”.
I think it is the latter, drawing on those who subscribe to YouGov, so subject to self-selection bias.
And, of course, those plumping for socialism see themselves as the beneficiaries, without examining the history which tells us that the real beneficiaries comprise about 0.05% of the population.
I’m reminded of the young Negro woman who ecstatically rejoiced on hearing of the Obama election win.
“I don’t have to pay my credit card or the gas to put in my car!”
I wonder if she’s woken up yet to the reality of the situation.
Roger
July 1, 2024 12:00 pm
ABC’s embarrassing blunder as news host confuses Albo’s fiancée Jodie Haydon for Australia’s new Governor-General Sam Mostyn
Re the painting chosen to lead this thread, I’ve been contemplating the title Truth Rescued by Time, Witnessed by History, Francisco Goya, 1814 and applying its message to contemporary events and issues. Let’s take the climate change scam and ask, how long will us humans need to wait until the truth is revealed? Or is it all in the hands of the gods? And then just now, watching the clip of the new president of Argentina (posted up thread), wondered if in time, he will be seen by the Argentinians as a god.
Always look at who gains. If this had anything to do with environmental concerns there would be no mountains of wind turbines or fields of solar panels, we would have a nuclear power station near every larger population centre. That there is nobody prepared to invest in nuclear energy is a clear indicator that it is much cheaper than the proceeds from building the renewables infrastructure. Therefore, renewables can never be cheaper, never mind that they are not fit for purpose.
Crossiie, you’re missing the BIG INTANGIBLE – which is sovereign risk. The left can drown a project in red and green tape to the point that it goes bankrup. It’s what they’ve been doing and now we have an out of control Leftist judiciary that will ease the path of of renewables and damn the environmental consequences, and delay the nukes – to hell with the gum trees and koalas.
billie
July 1, 2024 12:06 pm
The English curriculum lays down broad themes for each year. You find a classic that matches the theme instead of whatever garbage other schools find popular
Don’t most teachers just go to Cool Australia and download what the rest of their mob does?
I mean, it is easy to do that and not do any work, while spending their time demanding more money
We pay so much for so little
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 12:08 pm
Donors looking to get Biden to drop out have emphasized that the money raised needs to transfer over to the new candidate. Team Biden however is warning that it’s not going to happen. Any new candidate will start with “zero dollars.” …
It isn’t Biden’s money.
Legally he would have to run as an independent to justify keeping the money.
It would only take a couple of large donors going to Court to tip the Biden cart over and force return or transfer of donations.
The larger signal is that the Biden campaign won’t cooperate with any transition effort and will not only keep all the money, but fight this process every step of the way, taking the 2024 race hostage. If Dems try to replace Biden, Team Biden will make sure that whoever they replace him with loses.
All noise.
The two things a 40 year old in the Biden camp knows are:-
1. By the time he/she is 42 Jill and the Sniffer will be in the dustbin of history with zero influence; and
2. The capacity for the Dimocrats to wreak vengeance on people who rock the boat knows no bounds.
Roger
July 1, 2024 12:15 pm
I think it is the latter, drawing on those who subscribe to YouGov, so subject to self-selection bias.
No doubt.
But it’s one of a number of such recent polls which are probably picking up on a trend among urban millennials (is that the right term?).
As I’ve commented a few times here, if people don’t feel they have a stake in society they will opt for an alternative that holds that promise out, however illusory. The falling primary vote for the Uniparty also reflects this, I believe.
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Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 12:25 pm
WRT to the Chevron decision, in practical terms, what happens 8:00 am Monday morning in the US?
Various Swamp Agencies have 30 years of layered regulations which are now invalid. I’ll bet most of their in-house lawyers couldn’t tell you off the cuff which regs are rooted in legislation and which were fabricated out of thin air by some over-zealous bureaucrat in the 1990’s.
Presumably aggrieved citizens everywhere will be immediately taking actions which were prohibited last Friday with a middle finger extended to the relevant agency.
I predict a few individual bureaucrats and even whole agencies will do their very best Hiroo Onoda impression and keep fighting the war.
I wonder what the “Constitution” says about these agencies?
Oh, ……, sorry about that.
Roger
July 1, 2024 12:25 pm
It isn’t Biden’s money.
Legally he would have to run as an independent to justify keeping the money.
Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.
He doesn’t have to hand it over if he somehow loses the nomination but he can use it for any number of political purposes or even donate it to charity.
Just for the LOLs, if he is dumped, Biden should run as an independent. He would have access to vastly more campaign money than most independents, plus name recognition. He could even beat whomever the DemonRats put up.
Ignoring the Chinese & Russians because politics still leaves reputable entities capable of building nuclear in Korea, Japan, USA, France etc. KPECO built multiple reactors in Dubai since 2012, for example.
There would be a tender, unlike the Labor/Green/Teal hidden plan to go ruinable by handing lots of moolah to their mates and campaign funders.
He doesn’t have to hand it over if he somehow loses the nomination but he can use it for any number of political purposes or even donate it to charity.
I think it would be legally fraught to pass the money to “another political purpose” or even a charity. Big donors, particularly those connected to the Dimocrat machine (which Jill and the Sniffer will shortly not be part of) will litigate. They clearly gave to a Presidential campaign. The only question would be, did they give to a Democrat campaign or a Biden campaign. Even if it is decided they gave to a Biden campaign I think legally Biden would have to run as an independent and use the money on that campaign.
Doctor Jill would have to consider (Joe isn’t capable of considering anything) if she wants to go down in history as the person who handed Trump the White House.
Ruth Madoff : “I am the most unpopular woman in New York!”
Dr Jill : “Hold my Prosecco!”
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 12:40 pm
Roger, I think there will be a lot of careful reading of the Dimocrat donation conditions over coming days.
GreyRanga
July 1, 2024 12:43 pm
Condolences Cassie. I hope they lived a long and fruitful life. Not too much pain at the end.
John H.
July 1, 2024 12:46 pm
Roger
July 1, 2024 12:15 pm
I think it is the latter, drawing on those who subscribe to YouGov, so subject to self-selection bias.
No doubt.
But it’s one of a number of such recent polls which are probably picking up on a trend among urban millennials (is that the right term?).
As I’ve commented a few times here, if people don’t feel they have a stake in society they will opt for an alternative that holds that promise out, however illusory. The falling primary vote for the Uniparty also reflects this, I believe.
The trend is there. It isn’t just people feeling they don’t have a stake in society it is also people feeling government doesn’t care about them. Both major parties spit out the same tired old cliches. The collapse in the primary vote should be a good sign but the situation is not yet dire enough. Mugs will still think this is a binary issue and fail to recognize that it is a systemic issue. It just might be true, at the end of the decade we might be up for a 4th turning.
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Muddy
July 1, 2024 12:48 pm
Hypothetical.
Imagine a Mexican cartel – or a terrorist group assisted by a cartel – breaching the Mexican-U.S. southern border, murdering any number of civilians of a nearby border town, and abducting back over the border X number of U.S. civilians as hostages.
What might be the response from the various stakeholders? Would this situation – the holding of civilian hostages in a foreign country – still exist after 9 months?
And imagine if, within the US, you then had a heap of university students and cartel members who had infiltrated into the US creating merry hell about how unpleasant were any attempts to release the hostages and declaring the true source of evil to be those who were trying to take out the terrorist cartel in order to bring peace. Meanwhile, internationally, great support for the hostage-takers was being expressed and bugger the rapine and deaths of those in the border town.
Kneel
July 1, 2024 12:48 pm
“Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.”
Unlikely.
Big donors get around the limit on campaign donations by donating to a PAC.
The PAC decides where the money goes.
Who controls the PAC controls the $.
Talkback on radio has been slimed with Trump is a liar feedback about the debate because the perverted corpse said Trump had said US soldiers were suckers and losers.
In fact the corpse was repeating an old claim that former President Donald Trump once called fallen soldiers suckers and losers. Apparently Trump had said this because he did not want to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery — which is home to the graves of Americans who fought and died in World War I — for two reasons, according to The Atlantic: He feared the rain would dishevel his hair, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead. This was according to four anonymous people with first hand knowledge of the discussion that day.
Trump, in turn, denied saying it, accused Biden of making up the quote, and demanded an apology.
It wasn’t the first time Biden had made this claim. It was tweeted from his X account in October 2023.
Biden also said he ran for POTUS because Trump had said both sides had very fine people: President Joe Biden repeated the claim that former President Donald Trump said there were good people on both sides during the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 despite Snopes recently acknowledging the claim is false.
I said I wasn’t going to run again until I saw it happen in Charlottesville, Virginia, Biden said on the CNN debate stage on Thursday night.
But as Snopes belatedly pointed out Trump specifically condemned the white nationalists and nazis: he was talking specifically about the statues of historical people: people for and against removing them.
The suckers and losers comment is a lie. The Atlantic is run by steve jobs’ widow Laurene Jobs who hates Trump; the Atlantic has been the source of many of the lies against Trump: they published the suckers and losers claim in 2020 just before POTUS election when it would have maximum effect: they quoted anonymous sources; there was no evidence, no records, nothing; the Atlantic alleged Trump’s former chief of staff, General John Kelly said it; he denied this, Pompeo, John Bolton, both not fans of Trump, also denied it happened.
The irony is biden said Trump was a disgrace when he saidsuckers and losersbecause biden’s son Beau had died in combat in Iraq in 2015; in fact he died in the US in a hospital from a brain cancer. Or maybe he was eaten by cannibals.
Biden is the liar
Kneel
July 1, 2024 12:53 pm
“Biden is the liar”
Always was. Always will be.
Bruce of Newcastle
July 1, 2024 1:16 pm
WRT to the Chevron decision, in practical terms, what happens 8:00 am Monday morning in the US?
Nothing much. The alphabet agencies are fully captured. What will happen is they will fight it tooth and nail through the courts system, particularly via friendly lefty judges.
For example the practice of “sue and settle” has been going on for nearly 20 years now. By that the USEPA has enshrined in case law a whole pile of legal wheezes which lets them control anything and everything. For the Planet! All that stuff is subject to overturning, but they will use taxpayers’ money to lawfare all of that defensively for about the next thousand years.
But the Scotus decision is nice. At least there’s that.
m0nty
July 1, 2024 1:28 pm
The 70-year-old relief teacher I mentioned the other day who fell off the roof at my kids’ school passed away from his injuries yesterday. He had a wife, kids and grandkids, and was a 40-year friend and mentor to our current principal. Tragic for all concerned.
WorkSafe and the cops will now be joined by the coroner in crawling all over it, adding to the trauma that teachers and school leadership are going through. I suppose that’s their job, I just hope the outcome is that it’s written off as an accident that no one could prevent.
Sad to hear that Monty. Hard on your kids especially.
Gravity is to be respected, and it doesn’t take much – a work colleague of mine tripped and fell when jogging and hit his head on the kerb. Instant. He wasn’t a tall man either.
Ladders and rooves are the reason we don’t have solar panels. If we followed the rules we’d have to have scaffolding erected every year for cleaning, simply unaffordable. School is responsible for this.
Take your faux sympathy and shove it. Geriatrics have no place on a roof, FFS. Harsh? Yes. True?. Indubitably.
John H.
July 1, 2024 1:31 pm
Muddy
July 1, 2024 12:48 pm
Hypothetical.
Imagine a Mexican cartel – or a terrorist group assisted by a cartel – breaching the Mexican-U.S. southern border, murdering any number of civilians of a nearby border town, and abducting back over the border X number of U.S. civilians as hostages.
What might be the response from the various stakeholders? Would this situation – the holding of civilian hostages in a foreign country – still exist after 9 months?
Just wondering.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The US would love that because it justifies going into Mexico and demolishing the cartels. It has already been suggested they be deemed terrorist organisations allowing that to happen and the Mexican government might kick up a public fuss but privately be pleased because in parts of the country the cartels are a de facto government. That is, the USA would do exactly what Israel is doing.
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m0nty
July 1, 2024 1:31 pm
Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.
Relax, according to Cats he can totally use that money to pay off a porn star for unprotected sex. MAGA!
Um, wrong guy Monty. It’s Biden and his family who are threatening not to hand over campaign funds if Joe gets turfed.
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 1:40 pm
The irony is biden said Trump was a disgrace when he saidsuckers and losersbecause biden’s son Beau had died in combat in Iraq in 2015; in fact he died in the US in a hospital from a brain cancer. Or maybe he was eaten by cannibals.
He didn’t actually say Biden Minor was killed in Iraq during the debate, but was quite happy to leave the implication hanging in the air like the smell of a leaking Depends. Or maybe the silly old fart just doesn’t know anymore.
The point was though, his attempt to raise that and go the full “How dare you!” with Trump fell flat. Apart from the most Rustadon Dimocrat, I think most would see that as a cynical attempt to exploit his dead son.
WRT to the Chevron decision, in practical terms, what happens 8:00 am Monday morning in the US?
Various Swamp Agencies have 30 years of layered regulations which are now invalid.
I posted Vermeule’s article on the decision which indicates the situation is the much the same as it was Thurs and all that will change is that the agencies or courts will cite the Loper Bright delegation.
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 1:46 pm
WorkSafe and the cops will now be joined by the coroner in crawling all over it, adding to the trauma that teachers and school leadership are going through.
And, just like that, m0nster discovers the regulatory apparatus of the state cumbersome and unnecessary. From the story so far, it seems pretty clear that the school principal should be charged with Industrial Manslaughter and jailed.
That’s my understanding of the current law in Victoria. It was stupid when it was conceived but the drooling morons voted in by even more moronic droolers decided the bosses had to pay for workers stupidity. Serves them right – hoisting and petards come to mind.
The leftist Bureaucrats who thought they had a wonderful tool with which to control the Industrialists are now thinking – Oh dear. Perhaps we should have made those regulations a bit tighter.
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 1:56 pm
Re the relief teacher who does his own stunts.
Questions which will be asked:-
1. “Was the ladder in use the property of the school?”
2. “If not, how did it make it onto school premises?”
3. “What were the procedures for use of ladders? Specifically, was the ladder placed in a gutter-guide or similar? Was there a designated spotter footing the ladder?”
4. “Irrespective of the answers to Q3, was the deceased trained in work-at-heights procedures. Was any other person involved in the incident similarly trained?”
5. (The Zinger) “Can we please see your plant and equipment register, including maintenance and inspection reports on the ladder?”
#5 Is the zinger is correct.
I had the misfortune to be Regimental Property Officer for a year where I was stationed. The previous 4 or 5 Officers didn’t treat the property as seriously as they could have. Multiple, multiple, missing, damaged, untended goods appeared on the manifest. Remedial action ordered, no problem. Until the armoury was audited.
Oh shit.
Sancho Panzer
July 1, 2024 2:10 pm
m0nty
July 1, 2024 1:31 pm
Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.
Relax, according to Cats he can totally use that money to pay off …
… people who have evidence (via his inept junkie son) that he takes bribes.
In any case, how do you think the campaign is going m0nster (whose ever campaign it is right now)?
thefrollickingmole
July 1, 2024 2:15 pm
Whats the difference between “Germany will be Judenrein” and “Palestine from the river to the sea”? Opportunity? Both are barely coded calls for the destruction of the jewish people.
And our ALP and people who consider themselves “good” are now chanting it openly. ?
How many of the Liars have gifted their residences and investment properties to the local indigenous peoples?
Until they and their supporters (Hi mUntfa) do that, they are just a bunch of posers.
Zippster
July 1, 2024 2:33 pm
With all the monster power required to run AI data centers all this talk of “renewabullsh!ts” is already quietly disappearing up its own butt. someone hand luigi and smutley up to date talking points please
5. (The Zinger) “Can we please see your plant and equipment register, including maintenance and inspection reports on the ladder?”
These maintenance & inspection records must show the qualifications of both the inspector & those of the authorised & accredited safety equipment technician who carried out maintenance on the ladder.
Idiots. But where would we be without them? Probably still refusing to let the village idiot find the elephant graveyard and not getting ivory for our spears.
bons
July 1, 2024 3:03 pm
Holy snapping St Albaneses.
I have just completed my annual review to determine how much is in the giveaway pot for next year.
An object lesson in cost of living impacts.
After non-discretionaries like the grandkids education funds and Advance Australia, it is going to be lean pickings for some previous recipients.
Independently, I decided to no longer join any political parties. Membership provides no influence. “Outside pissing in” is a more relevant contemporary strategy. If you want to lend a hand at election time, it can be done without the frustrations inherent to membership.
Bruce of Newcastle
July 1, 2024 3:07 pm
Flying My Jet Engine Merry-Go-Round Until It Explodes
Bit like the jet engine…the bolts holding it on failed or something. The kaboom when it lands is very kaboomy. I hope there wasn’t anyone on ground zero.
They’re still using nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine, which give the red colour to the fumes. Really nasty if you happen to be nearby when something like this occurs, basically you are in the middle of a cloud of hot nitric acid.
I just ate half a chook. Now I am hungary again.
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Wilderness Cooking:
Juicy Grilled Chicken With Wild Rice For All Our Little Visitors!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJI_0R33aIw
Will Biden last till Tuesday? Sportsbet Joe to win 2024 presidential election $4.50
When universities turned out real engineers.
115 years later and still in use.
I’m enjoying your posting of historical/general interest snippets, Kevin. Thanks.
So am I. 😀
Universities still turn out real engineers, just not in the west.
Russia produces more engineers per annum than the US, with half of its population.
On the plus side though, Russia doesn’t have anywhere near as many Gender Studies majors, so there is that.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Christian Adams #2.
Michael Ramirez.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Aging Bull. Brilliant.
We’re glad you’re on the team.
You won’t be.
Daily Mail US has this article up.
Chef who works on $75 MILLION superyacht reveals it costs a staggering $100,000 to stock the fridges – as he shares the most common on-board requests
Refers to the Aussie chef on motor yacht Loon. Recently came across Loon on YouTube and interesting coverage on crew life on board a $70m charter yacht. Captain is Australian Paul Clarke a former Olympian and America’s Cup crewman. The two rotating Head chefs both Aussies and both have their own YouTube videos.
12 passengers and 18 crew. The yacht seems to be well known for its YouTube work which obviously helps in marketing. However you never see the passengers.
Might go back to woodturning videos as more chance I will make a table than spend big bucks on a one week charter.
Cat and dog rescue videos do it for me.
Anyone able to post this article?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/new-brisbane-school-to-focus-on-classics/news-story/cb8dc0a68e714a2d028743009ce9b635
“BREAKING:
Severe defeat for Macron in the French parliamentary election
Le Pen’s National Rally won the first round with 34% of the votes according to the exit poll.”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1807485676969136434?t=Y6M9C2X3du-0O5EXBL3YbA&s=19
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/jun/30/france-election-live-polls-close-marine-le-pen-national-rally-emmanuel-macron
I’ve had a family death so my postings here will be thin on the ground.
Before I heard my sad family news late last Friday morning, earlier that morning I was in our work kitchen making a cup of tea and a young female work colleague, only 21 years old, was also in the kitchen making toast. She’s a strikingly beautiful young woman, 100% Polynesian background and she is quite religious, she wears a cross around her neck. She turned to me and told me how much she liked the pendant around me neck. I told her it was a “Magen David” or “Star of David” and she nodded and said she knew what it was. I told her I was Jewish and she said she knew I was and then she said to me……..
‘we stand with you”.
Standing in the kitchen, I felt tears well up in me and I turned to her and said….
thank you, I can’t tell you how much that means to us
to which she said that in her church they say prayers for Jews, Israel and the hostages.
Dear Cassie,
so happy to hear you have love and loyalty in your work place.
Condolences on the family death.
Sympathy from us, Cassie, as you deal with another loss.
Glad your young colleague is so switched on to the truth and gave you such a meaningful gift. There are a great many of us who stand beside you against the ignorant anti-semitic loudmouths.
Am Ysrael Chai
My sincere condolences, Cassie. I am so sorry for your loss.
A bit of noisy yapping on the table next to us about Israel – cringeworthy, uninformed, almost hysterical, oblivious of evil. Women of course…the men appeared struck dumb.
I echoed Megan’s words. They didn’t understand them, but they went with my best bright blue stare. They got the message. No more Israel sh*t talk after that.
Thinking of you Cassie and your loss of your family member on this earth. Courage that young woman, I don’t doubt there are many, many more like her who’s quiet faith runs so much deeper than the strident screeching shallowness of the left.
Here you go Rosie.
New Brisbane school to focus on classics
Tess Livingstone
The Power family, whose father, James snr, established Campion College, Australia’s first liberal arts tertiary institution, is behind the launch of new school in Brisbane next week.
St John Henry Newman College, initially catering from Prep to Year 3, will be built at Tarragindi, on Brisbane’s southside next year, to open in 2026. One class will be added each year, with a separate campus, later, for secondary school in 2030.
Inaugural chairman and managing director of the Power group of companies, James Power, said expressions of interest from parents were strong.
The school would be geared to the classical, Western tradition, an emphasis in the early years on direct instruction, numeracy and literacy (including phonics), encouraging reading and no devices in the classroom. When history and geography were introduced the subjects would be taught factually, not laced with ideology.
Kenneth Crowther, a teacher at Toowoomba Christian College, who has been appointed principal and is completing his PhD in Shakespeare said classical schools emphasised on introducing students to the “great books’’ – from Dante to Dostoevsky.
“For the juniors, that’ll be Aesop’s fables, Beatrix Potter, Winnie the Pooh and Wind in the Willows, C.S. Lewis’s Narnia and Tolkien,’’ Mr Crowther said.
In recent years, many parents have been disappointed to find traditional favourites missing in school reading and English lessons.
As a Catholic school, religion will be part of the curriculum, with the priests of the Brisbane Oratory to serve as chaplains.
The establishment of classical schools by communities concerned about education standards has become a major trend in the US.
Australia’s first classical Orthodox school, the St John of Kronstadt Academy, opened on Brisbane’s southside this year for Prep to Year 3 and will also add a grade a year. Its stated aims are “to provide our children with a classical Orthodox curriculum that will nurture the child’s soul, mind and body, develop Orthodox wisdom and virtue and will be steeped in Orthodox faith and liturgical tradition”.
In Melbourne, the principal of St Philip’s Catholic Primary School, Blackburn North, Michelle Worcester and Parish Priest Fr Nicholas Dillon will oversee the transformation of the local Catholic school to a classical model next year and in 2026. The change has the support of Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools authorities and will be first of its kind under the system.
Based on parental interest and inquiries, which have come from as far away as country Victoria, Fr Dillon expects to the school numbers, which have fallen to 29, to double in the first year.
Similar transformations of schools in the US over the past 40 years had seen small enrolments expand to 300. “Parents are looking for a quality back-to-basics approach and want their children introduced to classical literature and Western civilisation,’’ Fr Dillon said.
St John Henry Newman College will be launched at the Brisbane Oratory on Thursday, July 11. Its patrons include businessman and Brisbane Broncos chairman Karl Morris and retired computer scientist, businessman and former Dean of Bond University business school and author Ashley Goldsworthy.
Love it!
Thankyou Mak.
I hope these schools grow like topsy.
Condolences on your loss Cassie.
National Rally’s Marine Le Pen: ‘Democracy has spoken’ • FRANCE 24 English
In Telehealth news:
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Luckily, a far more expert and considered diagnosis is to hand:
Goblin Albanese said he had a “terrific” relationship with Mr Biden (although it’s not clear how he would know that) but would work with whoever was elected president in November.
Which will be a comfort in Washington.
Thanks Mac, and Rosie for the prompt.
Tolkein for the juniors sounds like heaven. My kids are blessed with a voracious reading speed, but their paperbacks are mainly junk food, and the school is “studying” the Effing Hunger Games, with dystopian fiction their yera 9 focus. Most of their analysis seems to be watching film adaptations and filling in a “spot the differences” safari sheet. It is, of course, all a lever in the hands of the pinko Gramsci’ite teaching staff to belt the kids with horror tales of rampant capitalism and cruel Christianity. I had assumed that the Australian Curriculum was locked in to this guff, but obviously St John HN college can spurn it.
Just as a curiousity, I wonder what their male-female teacher ratio will be?
Why don’t you get hold of the classical education reading list and use it for the home library wali.
It’s not the same as studying at school but it’s a start.
Falling Catholic school enrolments in Melbourne’s mid east are in part the result of demographic replacement.
Young families don’t move into suburbs where a family home starts at 1.2 million.
It’s wealthy Chinese and or professional people.
https://cardinalnewmansociety.org/wp-content/uploads/Literature-Selected-Reading-List.pdf
For SF reading Cats, I’ve just finished “Theft of Fire” by Devon Eriksen.
Pretty damn good and there will be more in the orbital space series. I’m looking forward to the next one.
I wonder if it is similar to the ‘Stainless Steel Rat’ series by Harry Harrison.
I’m currently reading – for the third time – the Plague War series by David van Dyke and Ryan King. It’s a 10 volume collection starting with a peculiar virus starting in the US. Unlike most, it heals people, regrows limbs and fixes the insane – well, most of them. It also has a ‘virtue effect’ people don’t like telling lies, killing others and stealing.
The Pharmaceutical and Health Industry is not happy. Nor are the political parties so they treat the carriers of the Eden Virus like the Nazis treated the Jews. Made them illegal, forced them from jobs, put them in camps to be ‘treated’, and eventually murdered.
Written before the covid flu, it concentrates in the first three books the efforts of the ‘Edens’ to remain alive in the chaos.
It’s a very interesting book in terms of the way society deals (badly) with a disease that does little but good.
I reread it during the covid season and watched the parallels.
Scary.
Just as an aside, one thing you notice is that those society wants to demonise, they first proclaim them to be ‘dirty’, ‘unclean. Reminded me of “The Eternal Jew”.
St John Henry Newman College
This school is following in the footsteps of Hartford College, a Catholic boys school established here in Sydney’s inner-southern suburbs.
https://hartfordcollege.nsw.edu.au/
Despite being only a few years old, the school is doing fantastically well.
Let’s wait for a future ABC Louse Nilligan hit job on the schools..
Goblin Albanese said he had a “terrific” relationship with Mr Biden (although it’s not clear how he would know that) but would work with whoever was elected president in November.
Heres Elbow being subjected to the blowtorch intensity of a Biden meet and greet.
8 months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SEn15H1-8s
You can see where John Spooner gets his Albanese cartoon characterisation from.
I’ve heard a rumour that all Catholic primary schools in Melbourne will switch to a Classical curriculum. It’s only a rumour because I couldn’t confirm the source but I liked it.
Who doesn’t love a few failed predictions?
Worse than Millerites this lot.
https://x.com/CampbellNewman/status/1807218316693635200?t=hJzcNri3mAyCtXGzh-jIAQ&s=19
Newspoll is out.
Newspoll shows voter support for Coalition and Labor drop in favour of Greens as both parties stuck at a nuclear impasse (Sky News, 1 Jul)
For detailed numbers RTWT. Support for nuclear seems to be on party lines, plus with men in favour and women not.
universal suffrage was a fatal mistake
Much like covid, then
No surprise about where the French left stand.
https://x.com/F_Desouche/status/1807439252281524292?t=BlRK7YzVcs-tb8DYjtIyag&s=19
Don’t Catholic schools have to follow state curricula to retain funding?
Classical subjects could be adopted as extra strands but not replace the state curriculum which is a version of the Australian Curriculum.
IMHO there is room for plenty more factual knowledge in the curriculum.
What’s going to make room for that…indigenous studies?
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party wins first round in French election but faces new alliances next Sunday’s final pollJacquelin Magnay
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Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has almost doubled its vote and leads in the first round of France’s legislative elections.
But her far right party’s support may fall just short of a complete majority, analysts say, with alliances already forming among other left and centrist parties to try and stop the momentum of the National Rally in the second round.
Predictions are that the RN may get up to 280 seats but require 289 to govern in their own right. The polling group Ipsos says the RN could win 230-280 seats, falling short of a majority.
Voters in the far right’s bastion in northern France said on Sunday (June 30) they were hoping for a change from President…
Scoring an estimated 34 per cent of the vote in the first round on Sunday, the National Rally (RN) is in the strongest position going into next Sunday’s second round.
The new alliance of left-wing parties, the Nouveau Front Populaire, reached 28.1 per cent.
The centrist Ensemble party led by the president Emmanuel Macron was third on 20.3 per cent and he immediately called on voters to block the far right in the second round.
The Republicans, a right-wing group, picked up 10 per cent of the vote and has not revealed their preferences at this point.
The top two candidates in each of the 577 districts go through to the second round, as well as some third placed, and even fourth placed candidates depending if they obtain a number of votes greater than 12.5% of those registered. In the coming days there will be horse trading in each of the districts to convince some candidates to withdraw so as to not split the left wing or right wing vote.
However some RN candidates, including Marine Le Pen have already won outright in the first round. She attracted 58 per cent of the vote in Pas de Calais.
Ms Le Pen said: “The French have shown in a vote without ambiguity their will to turn the page on seven years of corrosive power.”
In another district in northern France the Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel has been knocked out in the first round by National Rally candidate, Guillaume Florquin.
let’s use the correct terminology “Centrist” equals “Left” in the correct terminology. “Left” equals “Far left/communist”.
“Prime Minister Richard Marles, who said he believed Mr Biden could serve another term”
What does that mean? Another three or four months lying on a beach in Delaware?
How will the St John Henry Newman College circumvent QLD laws that make the Federal communist curriculum compulsory?
Well, St John Konstadt is using the Trivium and doing well. The Principal is looking forward to putiing his kids through the following round of Naplan without coaching to see hiw they stand. There are some restrictions on funding, but otherwise great going.
https://www.stjohnacademy.com.au/
Dr Faustus
July 1, 2024 7:40 am
He must have read my comment on CL’s blog!
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/06/30/iran-warns-obliterating-war-israel-launches-attack-lebanon/
Israel has to nuke iran: ASAP.
Cassie of Sydney
July 1, 2024 7:13 am
I’ve had a family death so my postings here will be thin on the ground.
Before I heard my sad family news late last Friday morning, earlier that morning I was in our work kitchen making a cup of tea and a young female work colleague, only 21 years old, was also in the kitchen making toast. She’s a strikingly beautiful young woman, 100% Polynesian background and she is quite religious, she wears a cross around her neck. She turned to me and told me how much she liked the pendant around me neck. I told her it was a “Magen David” or “Star of David” and she nodded and said she knew what it was. I told her I was Jewish and she said she knew I was and then she said to me……..
‘we stand with you”.
I wish you long life Cassie.
And regarding your co-worker, I have had several similar conversations, the most recent only yesterday. They helps lift the spirit in these terrible times.
My sympathy, Cassie.
Sympathies, Cassie.
I’ve said this before, but SWMBO and I have been wearing Australia/Israel pins since, well, we could.
We must have given away a couple of dozen by now. I have given pins to all races, presumably creeds and certainly colours.And that includes as bloke in the local Woollies who is quite clearly of Arab descent, who just flat out asked me at the checkout where the could get one.
Many more stand with you than you believe.
If Dutton can’t get any traction against the worst government since Whitlam’s he’s not worth his salt as Opposition leader.
Any party, that actually wished to end this farcical “Climate Change” debate, could do so easily.
Simply ask the Minister for Energy, in Parliament, “What are the “scientific studies”, you have relied upon, that prove mankind has ANY effect whatever on climate?
There are none. Only modelling suggests there are any problems.
Of course, the LNP are quite happy to piss our kids and grandkids futures, up against the wall, in the pursuit of unicorns and the “Green dream”.
They get their kickbacks as well.
Also, Albo is far worse than Whitlam ever was.
He could at least construct a sentence.
Today’s Paywallion:
Green lawfare is now the weapon of choice for activist class
Nick Cater
1 Jul 2024
The anti-industry industry has come a long way from its humble origins in the late 1970s, when Bob Brown went to his local St Vincent de Paul and bought himself a suit. The transition from a gaggle of amateur nature lovers to a professional organisation with salaried staff was a giant evolutionary leap for the environmental movement.
It was the precursor to blocking the Franklin Dam and the first tentative steps into politics and the law. Today, green activism in Australia is a quarter-billion-dollar business that employs hundreds of people. Research published this week by the Menzies Research Centre shows the combined revenue of the top 25 green advocacy groups was $275m last year. The revenue has more than doubled from $113m in 2015. The number of staff on their books has increased from 374 to 880.
Ironically, the report finds that the green activist industry is growing faster than the primary industries and resource sectors it targets. Its goal is not to create wealth but to destroy it. It forms part of the NGO-corporate-industrial complex that has discovered how to profit from the war on carbon, aided and abetted by the government through subsidies and regulation.
The environmental juggernaut of today bears little comparison with the green movement that began in Tasmania almost half a century ago. Its focus has changed from conservation to the ideology of climate change. The movement has become remote and insensitive to the natural environment and developed a narrow-minded obsession with carbon emissions from coal and gas combustion.
The big environmental groups are wholly committed to renewable energy and dogmatically opposed to nuclear power. To the extent that we’re able to trace the source of their funding, much of it flows from investors in the renewables sector whose portfolios would be instantly devalued by the entry of nuclear power.
Activist organisations have become so dependent on green corporatism that they are willing to ignore the destruction of broad acres of natural vegetation for the construction of wind turbines, industrial solar plants, energy storage infrastructure and associated transmission lines.
Climate warriors are more likely to be found in the courts these days rather than tied to the front of a bulldozer in the tropical forests of the Upper Burdekin in far north Queensland. Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s approval of the Upper Burdekin/Gawara Baya wind development last month came despite a damning report that warned of “unavoidable significant impacts” on the endangered Sharman’s rock wallaby, the koala, the greater glider, the red goshawk and the masked owl.
Nowadays, lawyers perform much of the heavy lifting for climate activism. The MRC’s research found that Australia is the second-largest forum for environmental lawfare after the US. There are more climate lawsuits per capita in Australia than anywhere else in the world, thanks to a rich array of resource sector targets and an obliging legal system.
The bar for launching court actions in Australia is low for those with funds. Every dollar spent by legal activists is a drain on the profits of businesses forced to defend themselves against adventurous and vexatious claims. The biggest cost to the resource sector is not legal fees, punishing as they are. It is the mounting cost of interest on borrowed money that sits idle while the legal process drags on.
The MRC calculates that in past two years $17.48bn in industrial output has been frozen by legal action. Whether investors will see a return on their capital is at the mercy of the courts. The damage is compounded by the damage to the broader economy.
The MRC calculates 29,784 Australian jobs are at risk in cases before the courts. The loss of taxes and mining royalties will make it harder to fund roads, schools and hospitals and support our health and education systems.
The fiscal impact alone would prompt a clear-thinking government to step in and clean up this mess. The Albanese government, however, is anything but hard-headed about anything related to the environment. It refuses to countenance any reform that might give the Greens party an edge in quinoa-chomping enclaves such as the seat of Grayndler, the fate of which is of more than passing interest to our PM.
It gets worse. In an act of fiscal self-harm, the government is subsidising legal activism that eats into the profits it likes to milk. The 2022 budget included $10m in funding for the Environmental Defenders Office and Environmental Justice Australia, the two bodies responsible for most environmental lawfare in Australia.
In 2015, the EDO had 14 staff and a $3m budget. By 2023, it had grown to a team of 105 staff and a budget of $13.3m. It measures success with a perverse set of metrics. Its 2022 annual report boasts of providing 11,587 legal hours and spending 134 days in court.
In January, the EDO’s tactics were heavily criticised by Federal Court Justice Natalie Charlesworth, who reversed an order preventing Santos from building a pipeline allowing the $5.8bn development of the offshore Barossa gas field. She rejected assertions by three Tiwi Islanders that the pipeline posed a risk to intangible underwater heritage, including Crocodile Man song lines and an area of significance for the rainbow serpent Ampiji, and was not “broadly representative” of the beliefs of Tiwi people who would be affected by the pipeline.
Charlesworth found the EDO had engaged in dishonest “coaching” tactics and the misrepresentation of local Indigenous knowledge. Charlesworth dismissed evidence from the EDO’s expert witness about potential impacts on underwater archaeological sites, finding there was a “negligible chance” of a significant impact on tangible cultural heritage. Charlesworth found a cultural mapping exercise undertaken by an expert witness for the applicants and “the related opinions expressed about it are so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on them”.
“I am satisfied that this aspect of the case does indeed involve ‘confection’ or ‘construction’, at least in part, and that it cannot be an adapted account of the kind discussed by the anthropologists,” the judgment states.
Yet despite the loss of the case, the activists are winning. The global demand for liquid natural gas has never been higher, and is forecast to continue to rise until the 2040s. Yet oil and gas exploration activities in Australia have been falling significantly over the past two decades. The number of new offshore wells has fallen from over 50 in 2010 wells to just three in 2023. When your aim is to frustrate and delay, there is no such thing as a wasted day in court.
Nick Cater is a senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre and a visiting fellow at the Danube Institute.
Let’s shrink the economic pie and make everyone poorer!
A friend of mine has teenage children, who believe Australia should be more socialist.
A school holidays, working in an orphanage in Cambodia, cured such thoughts.
anyone in cambodia needs to visit S21 genocide museum
It’s a few years since I was last in Cambodia, but visiting a school, and seeing the children still getting used to the sight of an elderly person, is an experience guaranteed to cure anyone of any tendencies to the filthy doctrine of socialism. Churchill was correct!
Socialism is a DEATH CULT.
ANY socialism is a DEATH CULT.
The National SOCIALISTS had better tailors (Hugo Boss) than the triumphant INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS.
The “benchmark for “socialism” was set by one Saloth Sar, (Pol Pot)
A few weeks traveling the actual killing fields, the hectares of shallow graves, Tuol Sleng torture centre, (repurposed high-school in Phnom Penh), etc WAY back in 1990, permanently cemented that analysis for me.
Check out the body-counts from the assorted “socialist Paradises” of the 20th century.
Then wonder at the “interesting alliance” (temporary) between the head-lopping sand-pirates and the “international socialists”.
Remember: the sand pirates hate ATHEISTS even more than the hate the Jews.
Get your affairs in order.
Why are we surprised? The kids have been fed a scholastic diet of Marxist crap since they were in kindy. I kid you not. It is insidious. The little tots are conditioned to “group think” – literally – in the placement of desks and emphasis on interaction, as opposed to attention to the teacher.
Once in high schools, the indoctrination begins big time with Syllabi altered over the years to contain a a Marxist view of not only History & English, but even the notational subjects.
I need not note the parlous state of a liberal (small “l”) view of higher study in universities.
Even so, it a curious phenomenon that the perception of the world and our place in it has taken huge turns over the millennia. I believe some believe that a “Fourth Turning” is taking shape.
The young keep voting for the very policies that will shrink the pie and make them poorer and then are horrified when they become poorer. Yes, the educational model is to blame.
What stands out is the refusal to phrase ‘capitalist’ as ‘conservative’. The poll is a shit poll, designed to portray those polled as something they are not.
Unfortunately, the. combination of the commies and public sector unions will once again knock out Le Pen in the second round.
It is just too difficult to get the center-right to turn out. The old line about the conservatives spending Sunday morning preparing lunch, and Sunday afternoon recovering, thus not having time to vote, is pretty accurate.
Given the absolute dominance of Grandes Ecoles indoctrination, there is no way that any of the elite will stray towards the centre. They would consider setting up their lawn chairs to watch the second march of barbarians down the Champs Elysee to be more appropriate than voting for the centre right.
Sad, this is probably their last chance to defeat German pan-european Islamo fascism.
It all depends how many of the unionists get pissed off enough to vote with the right. Remember the Yellow Jackets protests? Maybe they might want to stick it to the elites.
Sad to think we have 40+ more years of decline before things get bad enough to see a leader like this.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1807324828954771466
best speech ever
It really is that bad.
Jim Chalmers in the Daily Telegraph to assure you rosy fields await you:
Well I’m happy! 3.75 percent increase in my wage! Exciting!
Except when that needs to go on power bills. As the next article will describe.
“Snake” Chalmers?
ALPBC radio news vox pops showed most people get it. “Insignificant “”Swallowed by price rises””Won’t even cover a quarter of the increase in my insurance bill”. God knows what ones they didn’t put to air.
“I just ate half a chook. Now I am hungary again
So you turned into a country. Just like that.
Used his best china as well.
Why the need for worry? Jim Chalmers is helping:
So who to believe? Old mate on Struggle St or some bloke in the Canberra bubble?
$300 is so laughable that it may as well not be given. To use the standard metric, it’s not even a cup of coffee for the week!
Meme
x 1,000.
Now it was all deliberate.
REPORT: Joe Biden Set Up to Fail in Debate As Part of “Soft Coup” – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer Makes “Secret” Move to Prepare for Possible Presidential Run
Oh, I hope it iscWhitmar. She will be esten.
MSNBC host shocked and offended that many Americans believe our laws should be based on Christian values
Cardiac arrests skyrocket by 20% in Victoria, over the past 5 years – Senate Estimates 16.2.23
“Well I’m happy! “
Free stuff! Free stuff for everyone!! There will be no tomorrow.
Farmer Gez
Rafe Champion is circulating a Stop Labor’s Towers newsletter by email. Are you connected to this group?
Gotta luv the Oz two tier justice system .. You can guarantee if “joe blow” made this sort of complaint to plod they’d show minimal or no interest beyond a, “We’ll look into it” ..
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/nurse-accused-of-stalking-and-female-politician-she-met-on-dating-app/ar-BB1paxSY?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=34069feffb1b44988fd6c833c4ae00da&ei=16
What frustrates me is that, having put together a lo-info policy document on an incredibly complicated matter, Team Dutton has done SFA to backup, explain, and present an adequate knowledge of the issues and outline any realistic ’next steps’ they would be taking next year.
The ‘no follow up’ strongly suggests to me the policy, such as it is, was created by Canbra Bubble political advisors, with no serious input on the myriad practical technicalities.
The result has been a brief display of pathetic Three Eyed Fish theatre – followed by, well, not much.
Despite this damp squib sputtering in the gutter, Newspoll tells us that 55% of the punters are either in favour of, or open to nuclear power generation (60% in the SMH Resolve poll).
If, as increasingly seems likely, Dutton is unable to take advantage and prosecute his headline policy, he has squandered an opportunity to lead and minimise the dreadful energy damage coming down the line – and kicked sensible nuclear debate into the long grass for another generation.
Evidences?
Exhibit 1: Lack of prepared response (in fact surrender by useless Ted O’Brien) to the truly awful CSIRO GenCost Report.
At this stage, the only winners are the grinning Green vermin.
They were waiting for the Newspoll results before deciding what to do next.
The English curriculum lays down broad themes for each year. You find a classic that matches the theme instead of whatever garbage other schools find popular
You can choose your own texts?
A loophole the powers that be won’t tolerate for long, one suspects.
+1
It should have been really easy to knock this on the head. Where is the peer review?
Organise some international criticism? The Left is really good at this this, but now when the Right has a golden opportunity to do the same, it completely drops the ball.
The Right was skewered for arguing that Australia was a special case when it cited the “Australia is only 1% of global emissions statistic”. But here the Left is doing the same thing. If Australia should “show leadership”, well we can really do that on nuclear, e.g. It looks dodgy if we are selling nuclear fuel but won’t use it ourselves; going nuclear would help persuade India to copy us.
Interesting blogpost from Daniel Greenberg today.
Team Biden Threatens to Keep Cash if He’s Replaced (30 Jun)
Popcorn futures are up…
Greenfield.
Yes, sorry, too late to edit unfortunately. I keep making that mistake for some reason. Irritating.
If the Obama people running the White House don’t get full cooperation from their puppet president, they’ll instruct the media to unload a raft of Biden family scandals.
If that doesn’t work, they’ll unleash the lawfare they used on Trump. Failing all that, there’ll be an accident.
The puppet president’s use-by date has passed.
Precisely.
There will be one more informal vote next election in the seat of Brisbane. I’m not going to enrich the LNP by my electoral contribution and see my preference cascade down to re-elect Master Bates.
Labor MP and general practitioner Mike Freelander said he believed that Mr Biden had Parkinson’s disease and would be unable to complete another four-year term even if he beat Donald Trump.
Or, maybe, just maybe at 79 he is feeling his age and has early stage dementia ..
Seems it’s very difficult for some folk & the media to just accept the bloke is showing common symptoms of .. old age ….!
He’s 81 not 79. And Biden’s sort of blanking out and losing track is not typical of old age in the 80’s or even later. It’s a pathology. Could be Parkinsons but more likely some other brain dementia.
They’ll also keep all the delegates.
Good.
Your website won’t work if there’s no electricity Monty.
Fat Boy doesn’t understand those technical details. Top. Men. have convinced him otherwise.
Dim Chambers contradicting himself (again):
Why are you doling out “energy rebates” if your own insane stone age year zero policies aren’t driving up the cost of energy, you forking dimwit?
Weekend (Saturday) Paywallion:
Ideology has no place in sexual assault law reform
JANET ALBRECHTSEN
29 Jun 2024
Fairness demands one should, at least initially, give Australian Law Reform Commission president Mordecai Bromberg and part-time commissioner Marcia Neave the benefit of the doubt. It’s possible the review of the nation’s sexual assault laws by these former judges at the behest of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will be a balanced affair, paying proper regard to the rights of all those dragged into these unhappy events.
However, the early signs are bad. Bromberg and Neave appear to have already nailed their colours to the mast in a way that makes it hard to scramble back to the proper path one might expect from law reform commissioners of neutrality and impartiality.
Bromberg started out by paying lip service to the need for balance when he said the inquiry would focus on “improving both the experience and outcome of victim-survivors without … compromising the rights of the accused”.
But look closer at his use of the term “victim-survivor”. Bromberg’s language gives the game away. Using the term favoured by #MeToo activists rather than the more accurate legal description of “complainant” assumes guilt when it has not been proved. It is an ideological phrase, not a legal one. Is it too much to expect that law reform commissioners should be grounded in law, not ideology?
Bromberg went on to put his approach into further doubt, saying that the desires of victim-survivors would take primacy in the inquiry and those desires could be achieved through civil alternatives.
Neave, too, likes the civil system. “There’s no right of silence in the civil justice system,” she said, adding: “There are things in the civil justice system you might want to think about.” Let’s hope she is not saying let’s get rid of these pesky rights accused people have in the criminal system. As Australian Lawyers Alliance national criminal justice spokesman Greg Barns SC told this newspaper last month, “any suggestion that the standard of proof be reduced ought to be rejected”.
“The fact that a rape conviction in criminal law has serious consequences, such as the loss of liberty of the accused person, means it should have the highest standard (of proof),” he said. “We don’t lower the standard simply to increase convictions.
“It would be a very, very dangerous precedent, because if we use it in these cases, then why not use it in burglaries, for example?”
Barns also warned against removing the right to silence. “Our system of justice for centuries has said it’s for the prosecution to prove its case, and the defendant can’t be compelled, for good reason. The right to silence is sacrosanct in our democracy,” he said.
Equally problematic is that both Bromberg and Neave say they are big believers in the “data”. Bromberg quoted statistical information suggesting only about 13 per cent of rape victims reported their assault. This led him to conclude that “something in the order of perhaps eight or nine perpetrators of 10 are not made accountable at all and are not brought to justice at all”. How does Bromberg know that upwards of 80 per cent of perpetrators are escaping jail? The justice system has not decided on guilt yet. These are alleged perpetrators. Alleged is not a word that can be skipped over so lightly, especially by the president of the ALRC. Or is Bromberg saying skip the trial?
Neave complained “lawyers have historically not used data very well”. What does this mean? Are we to set up quotas under which a set percentage of accused persons are to be presumed guilty? If we do so in sexual assault cases, why not other cases?
As Hanna Legal principal Nick Hanna told this newspaper in May, it’s wrong to think that false allegations of sexual assault don’t happen. “Those of us who work in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors, know this is simply not the case,” he said.
“There are a range of reasons for complainants making false accusations, including mental illness or ulterior motives.”
The evidence is already mounting that while it was once critical to make the legal system more user-friendly and compassionate towards sexual assault complainants, the pendulum may have swung too far. We have now had five NSW judges complain innocent men have been hounded by prosecutions for sexual assault so lacking in merit they should never have been brought.
The jury in the prosecution of prominent rugby player Kurtley Beale had only just closed the door on the jury room when they were back to throw the manifestly unfair charge out. Harry Garside, another prominent sportsman, had been smart enough to take his own video proving the assaulting party was his girlfriend not him. NRL player Jarryd Hayne has spent a lengthy period of time in jail, and faced several trials, on charges of which he must be again presumed innocent. Or Mr Jackmain, the pseudonymous appellant who because of overreaching, if well intentioned, laws of evidence was refused permission to bring evidence that his complainant had brought 12 false claims of sexual assault against a variety of defendants.
If all this were not enough to make you think the activist pendulum had swung too far, the Chief Justice of the ACT, Lucy McCallum called concerns about a fair trial an “intractable problem”. One hopes this was clumsy language, not ideology.
Thwarted time and again by the good sense of ordinary jurors, along with barristers and brave judges, calling out judicial or legislative overreach, activists never sleep. A new wheeze springs up every day.
Call a scenario that a defendant may seek to rely on to raise doubt a “rape myth” and “trauma-informed” judges will exclude it. Or point to the data – the numbers apparently never lie so we should be paying less attention to the individual merits of individual cases and relying on the iron clad guarantees of the laws of big numbers. Establish specialised courts in which only those lawyers who have been properly indoctrinated in activist doctrine can appear – kangaroo court would be a complimentary name for such a court.
The latest wheeze, one that Neave and Bromberg seem already to favour, is lowering the standard of proof by turning what was once a criminal matter into a civil one. The beauty of this is that a complainant who wins such a trial will be able to use a criminal label – “rapist” – without having to prove it to a criminal standard. And while the complainant in a civil trial won’t get the satisfaction of a prison sentence if successful, they will be eligible for damages that one would expect to be substantial.
One can expect this to spawn a whole new shakedown legal industry – suing high-profile footballers alone may become the life’s work of some lawyers. And any footballer, or indeed any other prominent person, will have little choice but to settle such a claim.
Overblown? This is where the track record of Bromberg and Neave becomes relevant. When Federal Court Justice Mordecai Bromberg was appointed president of the ALRC, inner city leftists would have seen it as a historic opportunity to fuse judicial activism with the capture of institutional policy-making in a perfect storm of revolutionary change.
The ALP branches to which Bromberg belonged will no doubt have been singing round after round of the Internationale, throwing cloth caps in the air and generally celebrating the news. For the rest of us, not so much.
Indeed, we can look forward to what I anticipate will be five years of dismal ALRC recommendations embodying the ideals Bromberg espoused when explaining his motivation for leaving the law and standing for ALP preselection for parliament in 2001: “I’m certainly not doing this for the money. But I am committed to improving the Workplace Relations Act to make it fairer and more equitable and I think I can be more effective doing that in parliament.”
Described by The Age at the time as a long-time member of the Labor Party, Bromberg never made it to parliament, but he did make it to the Federal Court bench where his novel legal approaches attracted headlines in areas from workplace law to climate change. In industrial matters his judgments were, statistically speaking, strikingly pro-union. His radical judgments on casual employment in the Skene and Rossato cases were comprehensively overturned by the High Court.
Bromberg’s judicial creativity was not limited to workplace law matters. In one case, Bromberg created a novel duty of care in a class action brought by children who wanted an order to stop an extension project to Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery mine on the basis that it would add to emissions that cause catastrophic harm to the health of all children. This horrified the full Federal Court.
As Justice Jonathan Beach said when overturning Bromberg’s duty of care frolic: “This was a bold step to take, given that trial judges normally only assess, admire or indeed chop down completed forms … it is for the High Court, not us, to engineer new seed varieties for sustainable duties of care.” Bromberg must be cheering his new liberation from legal orthodoxy.
Neave too has form in the “reform” of sexual assault laws. In 2004 she presided over a Victorian Law Reform Commission report into sexual offences whose recommendations (including specialist court lists, “training” for judges and lawyers, changes to the committal process, and recommendations to protect complainants during cross examination) would have been cheered by modern commentators like Lucy McCallum. Some of Neave’s suggested reforms may have been sensible but with #MeToo activism ramping up to dangerous levels, one wonders if Neave can be the person to rein in Bromberg’s wilder side. It would be worse than unfortunate if these two spend their time in furious assent, praising each other’s work and wondering how the world will ever cope without their latest “reform” insights.
Frankly, if there is so much as a comma in their report that disappoints Dreyfus and the #MeToo activists, I would be staggered. Pity.
Is it unfair to wonder whether these two former judges, whose CVs don’t mention running criminal trials, are eminently unqualified to be at the helm of a review into reforming the conduct of criminal trials? Is it unfair to ask whether one of their more obvious qualifications seems to be as signed up members of the legal left? Or is this all about politics?
There are many problems with the law and practice relating to sexual assaults that would benefit from a cold, forensic look at the issue from both sides. So why not add people to the review panel who have “lived” experience – to coin a faddish phrase – in criminal trials, be they judges and/or lawyers to ensure that an accused’s fundamental rights are indeed protected. Not in throwaway words, but in reality. Why not include Barns or long-time criminal barrister Steve Whybrow SC, or similarly experienced lawyers?
A genuine contest of ideas at the ALRC would at least make it possible that the review’s recommendations have been tested for the sake of a fair trial for all. A chorus line-up of people clamouring to toss aside our foundation values is dangerous.
JANET ALBRECHTSEN COLUMNIST
FMD. The lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Pretty much Tom.
There was a piece in the Sun Tele about new laws coming into effect today in NSW that are tied in with the ‘domestic violence’ narrative.
Coercive Control:
WHAT IS COERCIVE CONTROL?
Patterns of behaviour that seek to control or entrap another person. It doesn’t need to be one big incident or action. Coercive control can take place over time and is often a series of seemingly smaller incidents or actions that nevertheless cause significant harm.
WHAT CAN I DO?
Use the Empower You app to create a secure log of ongoing domestic violence. DV NSW suggests also using the list of services on the App – that can be searched by LGA. Ask Izzy is also a helpful tool, which can also be searched via location. You can also call the NSW Domestic ViolenceLine or the NSW homelessness information line.
Another bullshite abstract charge added to the growing list.
If you are interested I can post the whole article.
Australian Law Reform Commission has always been populated by activists.
As for the crime or complaint of rape, maybe this will lead to the new morality where people don’t have sex until they are married.
The corrupt and contemptible Stalinist political prosecution of Cardinal Pell shows how far things have already gone. But it’s not enough for the ideologues.
Dim’s energy rebate is like a Colesworths’ special – put the price up 25% one fortnight and two weeks later drop it by 25% and tell the punter he’s getting a bargain.
Notice from the media reports I’ve read on the French elections the media is steering clear of the main problem for Macaroon .. He is still prez until 2027 .. BUT .. the French prez rules/governs thru Parliamentary majority ..
If he loses the “house” he is, for all practical purposes, a “lame duck” occupant for the remainder of his term ..
He gambled, his over-sized ego, on being luvved by the small folk and has lost … BIGGLY .. LOL!
There is a very good chance, that Jupiter will quit, should results go the way he doesn’t want.
He is merely the President of France.
He wants to be the Ruler of the Universe.
2dogs @ 9:51 am
The GenCost Report was put out as a consultation draft last year for industry review.
The final version came out with a few clangers corrected – and an entire appendix (Appendix D FAQ) devoted to explaining how stupid the review comments were, why the smooth brains at CSIRO weren’t picking them up, and just get forked anyway.
I doubt it was political advisers, as even the least competent among them could see massive flaws of Dutton’s strategy, or lack thereof.
Much more likely is that Rolls Royce’s marketing department is running LNP nuke policy. “I see no method at all,” as a wise man once said.
Tragic story behind this Landcruiser packed with Aussie’s entire belongings parked outside a men’s shelter as housing crisis hits breaking pointDaily Mail.
The owner of the Landcruiser was found dead in said Landcruiser – it’s going to be handed over to his closest relatives…..
Dover,
Janet Albrechtsen Paywallion article in moderation for approval.
Cheers
Regards
Beertruk
the school is “studying” the Effing Hunger Games, with dystopian fiction their yera 9 focus.
Don’t knock the books if they read them .. One of my grandaughter’s, miss, just turned 13, never been much of a scholar or reader coupla weeks ago picked up a copy of MAZE RUNNER and didn’t put it down until finished .. Found out it was book 1 of 5 so bought her the other 4 and she is over the moon ….
If they start reading .. encourage ’em .. so what if they start with the “pulp” .. Hopefully it getz ’em interested and into the ‘reading” habit ..
Too easy to be distracted by their phones & laptops these dayz …… FFS!
Correct.
A rule to live by.
One of my grandsons was into Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the Anh Do books and The Thirteen Story Treehouse series. Another one was into sci-fi while the third one will read anything.
Yep, start ’em early and they keep the habit. Read to them when they’re babies – even if it’s the newspaper.
Ramesh Thakur, The Crisis of Democracy and the New Right
why does sunak remind me of an indian version of gavin newsom?
Rishi did an MBA at Stanford, there is that.
Monty is getting increasingly out of step with the voters.
Pew Research: How Americans View National, Local and Personal Energy Choices (29 Jun)
Seeing that the MSM has been furiously gaslighting everyone for a couple decades now, it is interesting that the mk. 1 punter is wising up to their lies. The now collapsed snow job they used to prop up Biden will have more and more people likewise questioning the MSM.
I am, indeed, out of step with people voting for a man convicted of fraud over a six-figure hush money payout to a porn star.
Butthurt since Thursday eh Monty?
There’re creams you can get for that.
Meme
Don’t understand lotza folks attitudes to these energy rebates the gummint is handing out .. As an OAP the last one (with one quarter to go) @ $125 quarter reduced my, usual, bills from 3 figures ($150/$180) down to well under $100 .. this next one tho not as large @ $75 quarter will still keep ’em down .. Pity they aren’t discounting the gas as well (I’ve gas heating & water) which, now, hovers between $140 & $200quarter the year round ..
I know it’s gummint policy that keeps ’em high and higher but something back is better than nuttin’ ..
Tho it won’t affect my, never ever Labor/Greens, vote even if that’s the, obvious, intention .. LOL!
Shatterzzz,
most of the people receiving the handouts, are simply getting a tiny bit of their own money back. It isn’t free.
$150/qtr, what have you got a fridge and a single light bulb in your place?
They’re tripping over each other.
Israel-Hamas war protests have disrupted Pride marches across the U.S.
BREAKING: Left Wing Riots In France Following Le Pen Victory
mUnty loves this …defending democracy
If leftards don’t win, clearly it is a failure of “democracy”, and riots are the obvious solution. Beat up those who didn’t vote the “right” way, as approved by Comrades Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
Democrats still scrambling to avoid any democracy in wake of Joe Biden’s debate disaster
This is huge.
@RealSpikeCohen
For those who don’t understand what Chevron Deference is, and why SCOTUS ended it, here’s the long and short of it:
Until young people realise they have to pay by way of work socialism will always be attractive. Take the levies, charges, subsidies, rebates, multiple levels of government doing and charging for the same things and whatever, out of the system so people can see what the tax rate is, then and only then will they realise they are being ripped off by government. They should be able to see it already but hey what would I know. I found out years ago the harder I worked the luckier I got.
Not that simple. There are ( and have been) some long term shifting of wealth between elements of society and between generations. More than a few younger people realise they are getting screwed.
Doesn’t do much for a family with children, shaterzzz.
Essentially, government policy is robbing them to pay the ruinables subsidy grifters and then giving them back a pittance and saying they should be grateful.
damon
July 1, 2024 9:12 am
“I just ate half a chook. Now I am hungary again
So you turned into a country. Just like that.
(: Hungry.
I was going to edit that but the time expired.
And again…
Just fairly similar to the one I got a couple of days ago…
Early Projections Show French Nationalists Poised for Big Gains – Macron Will Likely Now Deploy “Operation Chaos” for Second Round
Stranded on the dead fred …
I am not a huge fan of Jon Stewart, but his take on the debate was hilarious.
(Sorry can’t link, but should be easy to find).
He goes to a few grabs of “experts” declaring, in advance, what Biden needed to do to be successful in the debate:-
“No physical or verbal stumbles”
“Not have a senior moment”
“No brain freezes”
And finally, the lowest bar setting of all …
“Remain upright”.
Cut back to an incredulous Stewart:-
“To be President all he has to do is … remain upright? I could be mistaken but I believe that is also the qualification to be a scarecrow.”
The pervert apologist has just uploaded this wee bit sanctimonious puke…
I am, indeed, out of step with people voting for a man convicted of fraud over a six-figure hush money payout to a porn star.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who vote for a political party no different to the National Socialist Party of 1920s, 1930s and 1940s Germany.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who vote for politicians who mouth genocidal calls for the elimination of Jews and the destruction of the sole Jewish state on the planet.
I am, indeed, out of step with those people who join in the weekly Jew hate protests across the West, screaming, screeching and shouting abuse of Jews.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who side with the murderers, rapists and kidnappers of October 7 2023.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who turn up to Jewish suburbs, on the Sabbath and other holidays, just like what happened in Caulfield last November, like what happened in LA last weekend, and shout, scream and screech abuse at Jews and attack them physically.
I am, indeed, out of step with people who use and justify violence against their political enemies, like the writer of the above puke words has done many times here on these pages. After all, his favourite line is “punch a Nazi”……except those Nazis and men and women such as myself. And indeed, remember how only last year our resident hypocrite advocated violence against women who refuse to buckle to the nonsense that is gender ideology, and please do recall how he thought the violence in that Auckland Park in March 2023 was hilarious.
Finally, I am, indeed, out of step with a person who was quite willing to join in the pile on of an innocent man, called him a ‘rock spider’ and has never ever retracted that LIE.
Well said, Cassie.
Change the channel, Marge.
Piss off, Nazi.
Arseh0le, bugger orf
You’ve had your time here, M0nty.
Consider leaving. Things are too serious now to joke and jest.
Lizzie, Monty isn’t joking or jesting – he’s deadly serious about wanting to install the ‘Wukkas Paradise’ in Australia.
His problem will arrive on his doorstep when the Blockleiter arrives on his doorstep after an anonymous caller has dobbed him in to the authorities as an ‘unreconstructed Nazi’.
Utter bullshit.
This is part of a narrative that he is physically afflicted but mentally alert.
Therefore OK to complete this term at least.
He didn’t (and hasn’t) exhibited the almost universal common symptom of Parkinson’s sufferers, which is tremors, particularly in the hands.
Nor does it mention the obvious Parkinsons Psychosis.
Sad to see Macron, Scholz, and Sunack losing bigly even though they’ve unequivocally supported the GAE, particularly, in Ukraine.
It’s actually a fairly complex issue. Meloni has been supporting the Ukies for example. And this:
The myth of MAGA isolationism (WaPo, 25 Jun)
There’s a link to the Reagan Institute poll in the story. I couldn’t find the story where I first saw it last week, so the WaPo link will have to do. Search engines just do not ever want to provide righty website hits, it’s annoying.
No one in the DR thinks much of Meloni. As for the WaPo article, I’m sure there is a substantial portion of MAGA that support the GAE and forever wars; they can’t help themselves.
“Important that Ukraine wins” does not equal “Important for us to be involved”.
From what I’ve seen/heard MAGA voters don’t want to waste another corrupted dime on it.
It is the ‘elensky curse raising its ugly head again.
ABC’s embarrassing blunder as news host confuses Albo’s fiancée Jodie Haydon for Australia’s new Governor-General Sam Mostyn
Daily Mail.
SHUT! IT! DOWN!
FIRE! THEM! ALL!
Understandable error given how incestuous such things are these days, thinking as I am of Bill Shorten’s mother in law.
Roger
July 1, 2024 8:53 am
I had a quick read of the blurb.
It is alternately described as a “poll” and a “survey”.
I think it is the latter, drawing on those who subscribe to YouGov, so subject to self-selection bias.
And, of course, those plumping for socialism see themselves as the beneficiaries, without examining the history which tells us that the real beneficiaries comprise about 0.05% of the population.
Everyone always thinks someone else will pay for the free government stuff. They can’t all be right.
I’m reminded of the young Negro woman who ecstatically rejoiced on hearing of the Obama election win.
“I don’t have to pay my credit card or the gas to put in my car!”
I wonder if she’s woken up yet to the reality of the situation.
Understandable.
They’re all cut from the same cloth.
Really chunky, cheap cloth.
Re the painting chosen to lead this thread, I’ve been contemplating the title Truth Rescued by Time, Witnessed by History, Francisco Goya, 1814 and applying its message to contemporary events and issues. Let’s take the climate change scam and ask, how long will us humans need to wait until the truth is revealed? Or is it all in the hands of the gods? And then just now, watching the clip of the new president of Argentina (posted up thread), wondered if in time, he will be seen by the Argentinians as a god.
Always look at who gains. If this had anything to do with environmental concerns there would be no mountains of wind turbines or fields of solar panels, we would have a nuclear power station near every larger population centre. That there is nobody prepared to invest in nuclear energy is a clear indicator that it is much cheaper than the proceeds from building the renewables infrastructure. Therefore, renewables can never be cheaper, never mind that they are not fit for purpose.
Crossiie, you’re missing the BIG INTANGIBLE – which is sovereign risk. The left can drown a project in red and green tape to the point that it goes bankrup. It’s what they’ve been doing and now we have an out of control Leftist judiciary that will ease the path of of renewables and damn the environmental consequences, and delay the nukes – to hell with the gum trees and koalas.
The English curriculum lays down broad themes for each year. You find a classic that matches the theme instead of whatever garbage other schools find popular
Don’t most teachers just go to Cool Australia and download what the rest of their mob does?
I mean, it is easy to do that and not do any work, while spending their time demanding more money
We pay so much for so little
It isn’t Biden’s money.
Legally he would have to run as an independent to justify keeping the money.
It would only take a couple of large donors going to Court to tip the Biden cart over and force return or transfer of donations.
All noise.
The two things a 40 year old in the Biden camp knows are:-
1. By the time he/she is 42 Jill and the Sniffer will be in the dustbin of history with zero influence; and
2. The capacity for the Dimocrats to wreak vengeance on people who rock the boat knows no bounds.
No doubt.
But it’s one of a number of such recent polls which are probably picking up on a trend among urban millennials (is that the right term?).
As I’ve commented a few times here, if people don’t feel they have a stake in society they will opt for an alternative that holds that promise out, however illusory. The falling primary vote for the Uniparty also reflects this, I believe.
WRT to the Chevron decision, in practical terms, what happens 8:00 am Monday morning in the US?
Various Swamp Agencies have 30 years of layered regulations which are now invalid. I’ll bet most of their in-house lawyers couldn’t tell you off the cuff which regs are rooted in legislation and which were fabricated out of thin air by some over-zealous bureaucrat in the 1990’s.
Presumably aggrieved citizens everywhere will be immediately taking actions which were prohibited last Friday with a middle finger extended to the relevant agency.
I predict a few individual bureaucrats and even whole agencies will do their very best Hiroo Onoda impression and keep fighting the war.
I wonder what the “Constitution” says about these agencies?
Oh, ……, sorry about that.
Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.
He doesn’t have to hand it over if he somehow loses the nomination but he can use it for any number of political purposes or even donate it to charity.
Just for the LOLs, if he is dumped, Biden should run as an independent. He would have access to vastly more campaign money than most independents, plus name recognition. He could even beat whomever the DemonRats put up.
Much more likely is that Rolls Royce’s marketing department is running LNP nuke policy. “I see no method at all,” as a wise man once said.
Dickless, Westinghouse is building nuclear Trucks and Gates and Buffet are building natrium reactors.
Anyway we know who is running the renewables market: turdball, holmes a kunt, the filth and the unions via industry supper.
Wake me up in ten to fifteen years when natrium might have progressed to a mature tech.
I doubt severely that Dutton has anyone in mind for the contract other than Rolls Royce. There would be no open tender.
Ignoring the Chinese & Russians because politics still leaves reputable entities capable of building nuclear in Korea, Japan, USA, France etc. KPECO built multiple reactors in Dubai since 2012, for example.
There would be a tender, unlike the Labor/Green/Teal hidden plan to go ruinable by handing lots of moolah to their mates and campaign funders.
mUntyfa “knows” things (taps side of nose)
I think it would be legally fraught to pass the money to “another political purpose” or even a charity.
Big donors, particularly those connected to the Dimocrat machine (which Jill and the Sniffer will shortly not be part of) will litigate.
They clearly gave to a Presidential campaign. The only question would be, did they give to a Democrat campaign or a Biden campaign. Even if it is decided they gave to a Biden campaign I think legally Biden would have to run as an independent and use the money on that campaign.
Doctor Jill would have to consider (Joe isn’t capable of considering anything) if she wants to go down in history as the person who handed Trump the White House.
Ruth Madoff : “I am the most unpopular woman in New York!”
Dr Jill : “Hold my Prosecco!”
Roger, I think there will be a lot of careful reading of the Dimocrat donation conditions over coming days.
Condolences Cassie. I hope they lived a long and fruitful life. Not too much pain at the end.
The trend is there. It isn’t just people feeling they don’t have a stake in society it is also people feeling government doesn’t care about them. Both major parties spit out the same tired old cliches. The collapse in the primary vote should be a good sign but the situation is not yet dire enough. Mugs will still think this is a binary issue and fail to recognize that it is a systemic issue. It just might be true, at the end of the decade we might be up for a 4th turning.
Hypothetical.
Imagine a Mexican cartel – or a terrorist group assisted by a cartel – breaching the Mexican-U.S. southern border, murdering any number of civilians of a nearby border town, and abducting back over the border X number of U.S. civilians as hostages.
What might be the response from the various stakeholders? Would this situation – the holding of civilian hostages in a foreign country – still exist after 9 months?
Just wondering.
Nothing to see here, move along.
And imagine if, within the US, you then had a heap of university students and cartel members who had infiltrated into the US creating merry hell about how unpleasant were any attempts to release the hostages and declaring the true source of evil to be those who were trying to take out the terrorist cartel in order to bring peace. Meanwhile, internationally, great support for the hostage-takers was being expressed and bugger the rapine and deaths of those in the border town.
“Well, he can’t spend it on personal items, but it is his campaign’s money.”
Unlikely.
Big donors get around the limit on campaign donations by donating to a PAC.
The PAC decides where the money goes.
Who controls the PAC controls the $.
Talkback on radio has been slimed with Trump is a liar feedback about the debate because the perverted corpse said Trump had said US soldiers were suckers and losers.
In fact the corpse was repeating an old claim that former President Donald Trump once called fallen soldiers suckers and losers. Apparently Trump had said this because he did not want to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery — which is home to the graves of Americans who fought and died in World War I — for two reasons, according to The Atlantic: He feared the rain would dishevel his hair, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead. This was according to four anonymous people with first hand knowledge of the discussion that day.
Trump, in turn, denied saying it, accused Biden of making up the quote, and demanded an apology.
It wasn’t the first time Biden had made this claim. It was tweeted from his X account in October 2023.
Biden also said he ran for POTUS because Trump had said both sides had very fine people: President Joe Biden repeated the claim that former President Donald Trump said there were good people on both sides during the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 despite Snopes recently acknowledging the claim is false.
I said I wasn’t going to run again until I saw it happen in Charlottesville, Virginia, Biden said on the CNN debate stage on Thursday night.
But as Snopes belatedly pointed out Trump specifically condemned the white nationalists and nazis: he was talking specifically about the statues of historical people: people for and against removing them.
The suckers and losers comment is a lie. The Atlantic is run by steve jobs’ widow Laurene Jobs who hates Trump; the Atlantic has been the source of many of the lies against Trump: they published the suckers and losers claim in 2020 just before POTUS election when it would have maximum effect: they quoted anonymous sources; there was no evidence, no records, nothing; the Atlantic alleged Trump’s former chief of staff, General John Kelly said it; he denied this, Pompeo, John Bolton, both not fans of Trump, also denied it happened.
The irony is biden said Trump was a disgrace when he said suckers and losers because biden’s son Beau had died in combat in Iraq in 2015; in fact he died in the US in a hospital from a brain cancer. Or maybe he was eaten by cannibals.
Biden is the liar
“Biden is the liar”
Always was. Always will be.
Nothing much. The alphabet agencies are fully captured. What will happen is they will fight it tooth and nail through the courts system, particularly via friendly lefty judges.
For example the practice of “sue and settle” has been going on for nearly 20 years now. By that the USEPA has enshrined in case law a whole pile of legal wheezes which lets them control anything and everything. For the Planet! All that stuff is subject to overturning, but they will use taxpayers’ money to lawfare all of that defensively for about the next thousand years.
But the Scotus decision is nice. At least there’s that.
The 70-year-old relief teacher I mentioned the other day who fell off the roof at my kids’ school passed away from his injuries yesterday. He had a wife, kids and grandkids, and was a 40-year friend and mentor to our current principal. Tragic for all concerned.
WorkSafe and the cops will now be joined by the coroner in crawling all over it, adding to the trauma that teachers and school leadership are going through. I suppose that’s their job, I just hope the outcome is that it’s written off as an accident that no one could prevent.
Sad to hear that Monty. Hard on your kids especially.
Gravity is to be respected, and it doesn’t take much – a work colleague of mine tripped and fell when jogging and hit his head on the kerb. Instant. He wasn’t a tall man either.
Ladders and rooves are the reason we don’t have solar panels. If we followed the rules we’d have to have scaffolding erected every year for cleaning, simply unaffordable. School is responsible for this.
Take your faux sympathy and shove it. Geriatrics have no place on a roof, FFS. Harsh? Yes. True?. Indubitably.
The US would love that because it justifies going into Mexico and demolishing the cartels. It has already been suggested they be deemed terrorist organisations allowing that to happen and the Mexican government might kick up a public fuss but privately be pleased because in parts of the country the cartels are a de facto government. That is, the USA would do exactly what Israel is doing.
Relax, according to Cats he can totally use that money to pay off a porn star for unprotected sex. MAGA!
Um, wrong guy Monty. It’s Biden and his family who are threatening not to hand over campaign funds if Joe gets turfed.
He didn’t actually say Biden Minor was killed in Iraq during the debate, but was quite happy to leave the implication hanging in the air like the smell of a leaking Depends. Or maybe the silly old fart just doesn’t know anymore.
The point was though, his attempt to raise that and go the full “How dare you!” with Trump fell flat. Apart from the most Rustadon Dimocrat, I think most would see that as a cynical attempt to exploit his dead son.
Quite so.
I posted Vermeule’s article on the decision which indicates the situation is the much the same as it was Thurs and all that will change is that the agencies or courts will cite the Loper Bright delegation.
And, just like that, m0nster discovers the regulatory apparatus of the state cumbersome and unnecessary.
From the story so far, it seems pretty clear that the school principal should be charged with Industrial Manslaughter and jailed.
As usual, Sancho, you grasp the wrong end of the stick and think it’s an ice cream.
The principal is guilty as charged. Also jailed should be the district/area superintendent of schools, and the Head of the Education Dept.
Those three are guilty as can be of industrial manslaughter & should already be in custody.
It’s the law, mUntyfa, and cannot be challenged.
That’s my understanding of the current law in Victoria. It was stupid when it was conceived but the drooling morons voted in by even more moronic droolers decided the bosses had to pay for workers stupidity. Serves them right – hoisting and petards come to mind.
The leftist Bureaucrats who thought they had a wonderful tool with which to control the Industrialists are now thinking – Oh dear. Perhaps we should have made those regulations a bit tighter.
Re the relief teacher who does his own stunts.
Questions which will be asked:-
1. “Was the ladder in use the property of the school?”
2. “If not, how did it make it onto school premises?”
3. “What were the procedures for use of ladders? Specifically, was the ladder placed in a gutter-guide or similar? Was there a designated spotter footing the ladder?”
4. “Irrespective of the answers to Q3, was the deceased trained in work-at-heights procedures. Was any other person involved in the incident similarly trained?”
5. (The Zinger) “Can we please see your plant and equipment register, including maintenance and inspection reports on the ladder?”
#5 Is the zinger is correct.
I had the misfortune to be Regimental Property Officer for a year where I was stationed. The previous 4 or 5 Officers didn’t treat the property as seriously as they could have. Multiple, multiple, missing, damaged, untended goods appeared on the manifest. Remedial action ordered, no problem. Until the armoury was audited.
Oh shit.
m0nty
July 1, 2024 1:31 pm
… people who have evidence (via his inept junkie son) that he takes bribes.
In any case, how do you think the campaign is going m0nster (whose ever campaign it is right now)?
Whats the difference between “Germany will be Judenrein” and “Palestine from the river to the sea”?
Opportunity?
Both are barely coded calls for the destruction of the jewish people.
And our ALP and people who consider themselves “good” are now chanting it openly.
?
I don’t think that lady has quite thought it through somehow.
Dispossessing a people of their lands they’ve lived in for millennia?
How many of the Liars have gifted their residences and investment properties to the local indigenous peoples?
Until they and their supporters (Hi mUntfa) do that, they are just a bunch of posers.
With all the monster power required to run AI data centers all this talk of “renewabullsh!ts” is already quietly disappearing up its own butt. someone hand luigi and smutley up to date talking points please
These maintenance & inspection records must show the qualifications of both the inspector & those of the authorised & accredited safety equipment technician who carried out maintenance on the ladder.
OH&S and HRM, both terrorist philosophies.
Funny as. Cody is a cracker.
God knows how much money that jet engine cost?
All in good fun Ladies and Gents.
—-
WhistlinDiesel:
Flying My Jet Engine Merry-Go-Round Until It Explodes (13G FORCES)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJTgFgd01ns
Idiots. But where would we be without them? Probably still refusing to let the village idiot find the elephant graveyard and not getting ivory for our spears.
Holy snapping St Albaneses.
I have just completed my annual review to determine how much is in the giveaway pot for next year.
An object lesson in cost of living impacts.
After non-discretionaries like the grandkids education funds and Advance Australia, it is going to be lean pickings for some previous recipients.
Independently, I decided to no longer join any political parties. Membership provides no influence. “Outside pissing in” is a more relevant contemporary strategy. If you want to lend a hand at election time, it can be done without the frustrations inherent to membership.
Chinese people do that sort of thing too…
Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion (30 Jun, via Instapundit)
Bit like the jet engine…the bolts holding it on failed or something. The kaboom when it lands is very kaboomy. I hope there wasn’t anyone on ground zero.
They’re still using nitrogen tetroxide and hydrazine, which give the red colour to the fumes. Really nasty if you happen to be nearby when something like this occurs, basically you are in the middle of a cloud of hot nitric acid.