Yet now everyone is expected to be able to use MyGov to interact with the government.

So that the minions of government can hide from the people they are meant to serve. The banks have gone the same way.

Great music and stunning ladies. Perfect.

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Fool (If You Think It’s Over) ? CHRIS REA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCd88ub_Tc8

A terrific Trump ad, unlike any other.

Maybe it is partly fondness, maybe not, but among all of Trumps mountain goat-like rhetoric – capering, impossibly nimble, yet sure-footed – he has pearls like what the ad has him say about ‘impossible’ and about ‘outsiders’ (a subtle reference to himself politically but also a reference to so many of his base who have been pushed to the outside – and likely outnumber the insiders). I won’t post the quotes because they are so much more vivid in their context.

But anyway, it may be mere fondness on my part, to me those nuggets of profundity from Trump are far more resonant than those from Obama – the Obama whose reputedly mellifluous delivery sent tingles down Andrew Sullivan’s leg (not a smart thing for someone whose job has him standing around electrical cables).

Obama’s rhetoric, to me, always seemed contrived. Like someone who had been shown a list of inspirational phrases, determined what they looked like, but had never been inspired themselves, so when they go to create them they are stillborn: fully formed but lifeless. “The day the seas ceased to rise and the planet begin to heal.” A lofty enough turn of phrase but unanchored to the Earth where people live. And sure enough the people who heard this came out believing Obama was going to put free petrol in their cars. Even his audience listened without the words speaking to them.

Trump, on the other hand, does his rallies by the seat of his pants. They are actually a dialogue between him and an audience of tens of thousands of people. No, not even a dialogue. Something more intimate, filled with in-jokes, comical mimicry, rib-nudging, and serious exposition.

Obama gave progressive beatitudes from the mount. It was no accident that photographers made a point of framing photos so blurred lighting or images of official seals would look like halos.

But when Trump goes for inspiring messages, like that ad, it reverberates. Everyone can take those messages – about impossibility and the feeling of being an outsider, and work it into their lives, to see themselves in a new light.

Good shit.

But that is the thing: Trump is the real deal. The Dims are all show. Explains why they are so keen to recruit the company of Hollywood.

Dolly Downer has an op ed in today’s Paywallian. Yet another road to Damascus moment from an ex politician.

…with possibly Dozens of Democratic Candidates vying for the Nomination.

Yeah…they’ve got a surfeit of talent.

No doubt about it.

Wouldn’t think too many people here watch The Chase, whoever is on now is Albo’s son. Prove me wrong

…in a message to Palestinians: “We want our hostages back. And they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.”

Shades of Reagan succeeding Carter.

(Crowdstrike sounds like a bunch of malicious computer hackers like Julian Assange).

Tom, there was some connection between Hillary and Crowdstrike over the Russia hoax from vague memory.

in a message to Palestinians: “We want our hostages back. And they better be back before I assume office, or you will be paying a very big price.”

I hope he means all hostages taken from civilised lands, not just the Americans.

“The National Coordination Mechanism has been activated and is meeting now.”

Rest easy, everyone…the government’s on the case.

Treaty call by First Peoples Assembly of Victoria to seek minister’s powersTricia Rivera
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The organisation tasked with negotiating a statewide treaty for Victoria wants the powers of the state’s First Peoples Minister to be handed to an elected Indigenous representative and key recommendations from a truth-telling body to be implemented.
First Peoples Assembly of Victoria co-chair Rueben Berg said some of the likely priorities of a treaty would be to ensure decisions impacting Indigenous people will be made by them, to expand the role and responsibility of the assembly to provide advice and hold government to account, to enact Yoorrook Justice Commission recommendations and to celebrate Aboriginal language and culture.
In a keynote speech to the Castan Centre Human Rights law conference, Mr Berg said treaty negotiations would begin in November and he hoped the first agreement would be struck by April.
He flagged that traditional owners will also negotiate local deals and that there was an intention to “have multiple treaties across a significant time period”.
“We think that when there are decisions being made by government that are directly about First Peoples, they shouldn’t be made by an elected group of non-Aboriginal people up in Spring Street. Those decisions should be made by an elected group of First Peoples chosen by their community,” Mr Berg said on Friday.

“We’re looking to see what those decision-making powers are and what is the structure that needs to exist to enable First Peoples to make decisions instead of the government.
“At the moment we do have a Minister for First Peoples (Natalie Hutchins) … she shouldn’t have that role, all her powers should come across to a future assembly, that’s what we’re striving for.”
Asked by an audience member why the state government had not implemented solutions to barriers faced by First Peoples, Mr Berg said red tape made it “almost impossible”.
“These local communities … know what the solutions are, know how to achieve it, but can’t disentangle that from the web of government,” he said.
“We see this process of treaty, through the establishment of this future assembly, to be able to short-circuit all of that and say we’ll take on the risk.

Why do I see a legal dogfight, of monumental proportions on the horizon. Is someone who may have had an Aboriginal great grandparent one of the “First Nations?”