This [ABC] article refers to women but some people who do not identify as women also experience menopause. I’m so…
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Sinwar has gone one further – he uses only notes and couriers. Smart guy. That’s why the IDF haven’t gotten…
As predicted by many on the cat… UK facing ‘tsunami of missed cancers’ in wake of pandemic, experts sayUK nations…
People still use pagers. Who knew?
In this post, I want to simply address a ‘revisionist’ claim – made by Buchanan… “Buchanan”? Who is this Buchanan?…
Classics.
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Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill (Live DNA)
This montage of live performances of Solsbury Hill includes footage from Rockpalast (1978), Live in Athens (1987), Secret World Live (1993), Growing Up Live (2003), New Blood Live (2011) and Back To Front (2013).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYqJxlSv-Y
I’d like to dedicate this thread to red meat, red wine and spuds of all creeds and colours.
Not sweet potatoes though. Damn satanic sham yams, not even worthy of the name.
Aha from the Palace of Pena, atop a foggy hill in Sinatra, a 40 minute train ride from Lisbon.
The other side of the Titanic story, not many talk about.
The enormous propulsion system and the poor men who serviced it.
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The Titanic had a total of 29 boilers, which were housed in six boiler rooms.
Out of these, 24 were double-ended, and 5 were single-ended boilers. The double-ended boilers were 20 feet long, with a diameter of 15 feet 9 inches, and contained six coal-burning furnaces each.
The single-ended boilers were 11 feet 9 inches long, with the same diameter, and had three furnaces.
The boilers were designed to generate steam at a working pressure of 215 pounds per square inch (psi).
The steam produced was used to drive the ship’s reciprocating engines and the low-pressure turbine, which together powered the Titanic’s three propellers.
The total heating surface of the boilers was 144,142 square feet, and they contained 159 furnaces in total. Each boiler weighed around 91.5 tons and could hold 48.5 tons of water.
The boilers required a significant amount of coal, with the Titanic’s coal bunkers having a capacity of 6,611 tons.
On a daily basis, over 600 tons of coal were shoveled into the furnaces by hand, a task performed by a large team of firemen and trimmers working in shifts.
The intense and demanding nature of the work in the boiler rooms highlighted the operational challenges faced by the engineering crew aboard the Titanic.
Not a bad idea. Keeps you mobile and occupied.
Easy and convenient?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Chip Bok.
Tina Norton.
BoN did you know about this, what are your thoughts?
I am interested in this sort of development but it totally escaped my notice.
The official arrival of NEXO coincides with the opening of Australia’s first public hydrogen refueling station, in Canberra
Thanks Tom.
KevinM
August 29, 2024 4:50 am
Forget it, only now realised it’s from 2021
Harris fabricates letter from Tucker Carlson, forges his signature on it, and posts it on the internet.
Kamala Harris Posts Letter Allegedly from ‘Tucker’ Promoting Gun Control
The Potemkin Candidate is getting desperate, and stupider than normal.
Barnaby takes on Matt Kean in a debate on energy today at the Bush Summit in Orange.
Kean is gunna get hurt bad.
Bolt, in one of his better opinion tomes, puts on his hob nailed boots and gives the idiot Bowen a fair old kicking.
Oh no, he’s done it again.
So if Chris Bowen shows up at your business saying he’s come to help, slam the door.
In an Albanese government stuffed with dreamers and incompetents, Bowen is the most worrying.
The Energy and Climate Change Minister, a global warming extremist, has a track record of such extraordinary failures – I’ll list just some – that it’s astonishing he’s still there.
The damage he’s doing is immense.
Kevin – I’ll make a comment though. The NEXO is a fuel cell car. That’s a dead end.
Although fuel cells are excellent the problem is the proton exchange fuel cells require platinum as a catalyst. So far no one has found a way to use a cheaper and more abundant catalyst despite fifty years of trying.
Platinum is so rare that as soon as you tried to produce a few million fuel cell cars the Pt price would go into orbit.
There’s another type of fuel cell – alkaline ones. They don’t need platinum. The catch is they get poisoned by CO2, so you can’t feed them air since the CO2 in that air would rapidly kill the fuel cell. No one has found an answer to that either despite the same half century of R&D.
Maybe there will be a breakthrough eventually. It’d be excellent if it could happen, especially if a fuel cell could be run off something like methanol. Then you could dispense with Li batteries and instead fuel up your phone – which would free us from the charging blues. Just carry a small bottle of methanol and you’d be able to go anywhere without ever losing phone contact.
I thought this was pretty good using the ‘indigninee’ context.
Warren Brown in today’s Tele:
As I write there is no official opposition leader in the UK. The Tories are a mess and they are still yet to elect a leader.
Actually, as I write there is an opposition leader in the UK. His name is well known to us, that name being Nigel Farage. Yes, that’s the same far-right, neo-Nazi, fascist, white supremacist, racist Nigel Farage! The one and only Nigel Farage! Nigel Farage is now the UK opposition leader and because h’s not a spineless quisling Tory, he’s taking the ideological and political fight to Fuhrer Starmer, something the Tories, even if they had a leader, would no doubt fail to do.
There are countless examples of the UK Plod’s two tier policing, but here is further proof. Whilst on the campaign hustings back in June this year, a time which now seems like another century ago, pre-election, pre-Southport stabbings, pre-riots, pre-Starmer dictatorship, a young man threw concrete at a bus carrying Nigel Farage! Over the years, Farage has been frequently hit, milk-shaked etc. And the concrete incident? Well Farage was fortunate the concrete didn’t hit him or anyone else on the bus.
Of course some (and we know who they are) would chuckle, snigger and laugh at the idea of Nigel Farage being hit with concrete. But isn’t violence a serious crime? Well, silly me, it’s all about context and who’s on the receiving end of that violence! Ya see, assaulting Farage, or Tony Abbott, or Steve Scalise and others on the right, and even assaulting women who believe in biological reality, are now acceptable methods/tools of the left. And in two tier Britain, under Dictator Kier, attacking Nigel Farage with concrete will simply incur a suspended sentence whilst some white working class man or woman, who may have drunk too many beers and posted an unsavoury tweet, will end up having ten plod on his or her doorstep, quickly charged, quickly arrested and very quickly sentenced by a secret night court, all of which would make Lavrentiy Beria beam with pride.
At least Nigel Farage is throwing it back.
Throw cement at me, walk free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a12ZcYQhpX4
Throwing cement powder is very dangerous. If it gets in your eyes you will be permanently blinded. Even wet cement is dangerous since it is highly alkaline. That the guy was let off is a complete travesty.
‘Two-Tier Justice’ — Farage Attacker Spared Jail Time After Throwing Cement at Brexit Leader (28 Aug)
Just carry a small bottle of methanol and you’d be able to go anywhere without ever losing phone contact.
Except getting on an airliner.
Fuel cells have been around for 150 years or so and still aren’t in everyday use. They are a dud technology.
And on the weekend, at the bacchanalian orgiastic ‘Notting Hill carnival’ in Londonistan, where people engaged in lewd sexual acts in broad daylight, where dozens of plod were assaulted, and where 5 people were stabbed, two seriously, there’s been silence from Fuhrer Starmer and SadIQ Khan.
Like something from a comic book, Great Britain is now Gotham Britain.
Albo must have given her the tap on the shoulder. Herald Sun:
Perfectly reasonable request. But not to Ms Allan:
FMD only a matter of time before some bad shit happens.
A quick check is that as of May, of the 153 detainees released by the High Court, 28 have reoffended. Which include hanging around schools and of course the horrible bashing of the elderly lady in Western Australia.
Now if Pesutto had two functional synapses, he would be asking Ms Allan how many of those 153 people are in Victoria and how many have reoffended. Like Tehan has done over the last couple of weeks.
That remains to be seen however.
Maybe my memory is going but I can’t recall Labor showing compassion to all the Nazis who wanted to seek refuge here after 1945.
Conspiracy theories are still turning into objective truth at an increasing rate.
Bug Diets, Once Labeled ‘Conspiracy Theory’ By MSM, Now Becomes Fact After UK Gov’t Backs ‘Sustainable’ Food (29 Aug)
Well OK food in the UK is notorious, so maybe insects would actually improve it.
Zulu, you awake yet?
Are you able to cut&paste the Oz article about the listed marijuana farm?
AEMO warns of blackouts coming!
We told them this years ago, but we are –
Governed By Idiots & Ideologues!!!!!
Podcast of the Lotus Eaters had the excellent Dan on, reporting how the U.S. jobs data was being wildly fabricated by the authorities under Biden-Harris. Even a respectable 2 million peoples’ worth of work- granted, many returning to jobs after the China Virus Lockdowns- was fellated up to 3.2 million.
This is what worries me about the rightful return of Trump- not only has there been a ridiculous blowout in the size of the minion class, not only do they effectively run the state by their sheer virus-load numbers in positions of admin and law, but so so very many of them are now so corrupted by their partisan actions that they’d be mad to let anyone in to muck out the stables. Not that I’d be interested in any amnesty or clemency, but I can only guess that if the Big Steal 2024 is overpowered or outmanouevred, there will be mass flight to Canada, desertions, grassing-up and outright suicide.
I looked at the letter at the link. Hi Alanism through and through. The only thing missing was a dig at Trump for not only enjoying firing guns but also being hit.
In fairness though, apart from the first name, there is no definite connection to Tucker Carlson and I don’t think Cacles has explicitly claimed – they are just treating it as if it was from someone so famous.
They then let the lie travel half way around the world while truth is still fiddling with its fly.
I left out the technical bit because all you need to know is that it boils down to governments delivering projects on time without major stuff ups.
Btw, how’s Florence going?
““if now is not the time to show compassion to all who want to seek refuge here, then when is?”
All? Never.
Europe and the USA are showing what unlimited “immigration” looks like.
It’s a segment of the extreme left’s strategy to break down western civilisation, and Allan is part of it.
We already have plenty of evidence that too many unassimilables are here right now.
Another in the series:
We are Governed by Idiots and Ideologues.
So the SFL failure to submit LGA election nominations was not a ‘cockup’.
It was deliberate. Only LGA’s harbouring anti wind and solar sentiments were involved. No doubt organised by Keane.
Come on Dutton intervene FFS. The climate scam party is now more powerful than either Lib or Labor.
Waiting for Adam Bandt and Tanya Pliebersek to condemn the Houthis for causing this environmental disaster…
Houthi-Bombed Greek Tanker Larger than Exxon Valdez Disaster Ship Spilling Oil into the Red Sea (28 Aug)
We are Governed by Idiots and Ideologues.
Ideologues…yes. Idiots…..no. They know what they’re doing.
Bons, it’s what I suspected, but do you have a link to go with that?
In my municipality we have a person campaigning solely on the “no wind farm” platform. That will get him over the line, at least in the East Ward, which traditionally votes conservative. The rest of the place will just be turkeys voting for Christmas.
‘Aunty’ Nyree and the Slovenian Hag have explaining to do. Daily Telegraph:
That last paragraph is key. If the Bathurst mob didn’t engage with dialogue with Plibbers, then what the actual phuck is going on?
Rather than have Plibbers attend the Bush Summit, have Nyreeeeeee there and have her explain herself. Might be fun.
Scorched earth on retreat. Establishing income streams and areas of influence post government. All difficult to unpick if contracts signed, sealed and delivered.
The sabotage of the Australian economy for an incoming government by thieves and rascals pretending to be noble ideologues.
In 2013 Nyree was a “Gamilaroy woman” protesting a goat abattoir.
In 2018 she was a “Progressive woman” commended for her activism in the NSW parliament by Mehreen Faruqi.
In 2024 she’s a “Wiradjuri woman” with the Minister’s ear.
Me thinks Ms. Reynolds’ bona fides deserve some close scrutiny.
Cheats. At this rate women will be totally eliminated from sports.
Australian soccer team with 5 transgender players goes undefeated in women’s tournament: ‘Huge difference in ability’
Gab CEO refuses to comply with German demand to investigate user over comments about ‘fat’ MP
Kamala’s Soviet Nightmare
dunno about that
they’re full of all sorts of conceits about how things really work and apply their newly puritanical proper-speak as if they’re infallible magic spells
these people gain an office and then seek to enforce their own brand of mental onto everybody else
I’d say they earnestly believe that their half-arsed disconnected gibber is the answer
but it isn’t
… and that, makes them idiots
DEI v. Science
Was Ist Verboten
University of Sydney professor Sujatha Fernandes to avoid serious punishment after ‘Hamas rape hoax’ lectureAlexi Demetriadi
15 hours ago.
Updated 11 hours ago
393 comments
A University of Sydney professor who told first-year students that Hamas’s mass rape and sexual violence on and after October 7 were “fake news” and a “hoax” concocted by Western media will avoid serious punishment, despite an internal investigation finding she breached the university’s code of conduct.
The university is refusing to reveal what disciplinary action – if any – it had taken against sociology professor Sujatha Fernandes, who made the claims in April during a sociology lecture, accusing Western media outlets of “peddling” the rape “fake news” to “shore up support for Israel”.
A sociology professor has told her class the western media peddled the “fake news” and “hoax” that Hamas committed…
Sources close to the investigation said it determined Professor Fernandes’s conduct “fell below the university’s expectations” and that disciplinary action would be taken, which would align with the enterprise agreement, together with measures to “mitigate risk of recurrence”.
Professor Fernandes declined to comment – citing thecase’s confidentiality – and a University of Sydney spokeswoman would not talk specifically on the matter or say what exact disciplinary action the university had taken. She said it now considered the matter “closed … following careful consideration in line with relevant policies and procedures”.
“While we are limited in what we can say, given our privacy responsibilities and obligations, we manage all matters in line with our enterprise agreement, code of conduct and other relevant policies, and have been very clear with our community about our expectations of behaviour during this challenging time,” she said.
“Our academic staff giving lectures must exercise their intellectual freedom according to the highest ethical, professional and legal standards and apply a best teaching practice approach incorporating evidence and analysis.”
In a just world, she would be whipped through the streets at the cat’s tail.
Nigel Farage
Throw cement at me, walk free.
So there’s overlapping “stakeholder” power with ministerial veto power, the federal, the state, and multiple First Nationses Ownerses?
Long overdue for a bit of “afuera”, maybe starting with getting the federal government the hell out of state affairs. The Creation of the Ministry Of Nature was all a big wheeze when the states were under the Liberals, but the Labor Maaates will surely start backstabbing now that the polls are sliding and the lights are going dim.
The no energy future.
Frequent and lengthy blackouts in a (supposedly) first world country awash with energy generating resources. A (not so) long and tortuous “transition” indeed.
As I’ve observed before, people need to wise up and stop voting for politicians that are explicitly committed to destroying our way of of life.
Which is about 93.1% of the useless incompetent hypocritical utterly corrupt knobheads. This includes the gliberals, the national agrarian socialists, labore and of course the greenfilth. Not to mention those staggeringly stupid sanctimonious and evil teal slags.
They need to be gifted a long overdue starring role in HOP Time™, “pour encourager les autres”.
Brittany Higgins: Voice message bombshell rocks Linda Reynolds defamation trial as court hears evidence that contradicts one of her biggest claims
Daily Mail.
Neil Oliver: ‘No one’s safe!!!’
Apparently, Macron invited him to dinner!
Pavel Durov said that he was lured to France by President Macron.
Always look on the bright side.
If governments are involved in ‘eat the bugs’ thing then we will soon be running out of bugs. No flies and mosquitos ruining summer, no cockroaches scattering across the kitchen floor when the light comes on, not even silverfish eating your old books.
See? Smile a little!
Tomatoes are killing the planet.
Bloomberg News touts new green villain: Refrigeration! YOUR fridge ‘has wide-ranging climate implications’ using ‘more than 8% of global electricity..at a time when ice caps are melting’ – ‘You really don’t need to have a tomato in December…Just don’t do it’ (28 Aug)
And eating one in December is a climate crime.
I have eaten very good food in the UK.
Are they idiots?
No.
The only idiots are the people who choose not to notice.
Trudy McIntosh at Sky News Daytime says that the blackouts warning from AEMO is merely that planned renewable projects have to be implemented on time and at the energy rating they promise. Plus, rooftop solar is on the increase and this will help, she says. Laura Jayes must concur, she had nothing to add.
OK, lets see. Adding more “renewables” will not prevent outages, nor will it lower costs. It’s still just intermittent and unreliable. It doesn’t achieve plated capacity as a rule.
Rooftop solar or solar farms will add to the daytime supply – but wait a minute – aren’t they already foreshadowing that the feed-in tariffs might disappear because solar adds to daytime supply which is essentially off-peak and surplus!
How is garbage such as this anything other than insanity? What sort of preposterous weirdo obsesses about such irrelevancies?
If you’re the sort of numbskull who obsesses about fridges causing polar ice caps to melt then you should be doing it clad in straightjacket while languishing in a padded cell – for your own f*cking good and the good of the planet.
Some of us smelt it from the beginning but I now think the evidence proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that the Hoggins’ r*pe allegations were weaponised by Labor, the Greens, the MSM, the Turdbulls etc. to bring down the Morrison government.
It worked a treat because of the ineptness and spinelessness of Morrison and his government. From day one they responded like a deer caught in headlights.
The whole thing is shameful.
I hope Reynolds gets justice.
Cassie one more essential ingredient was a lazy and incurious mass media.
As well as some messiah-complex camera hags, of course
Blackmail time.
Richest unis threaten to cut local enrolment (Paywallian)
I for one would say off you go. Sparing kids the sort of indoctrination and propaganda they’ve been spouting lately would be a very good thing. And what I see of my old chemistry department in the news sheet they send me what passes for research these days is rubbish: most of the department seems to be working on climate crap. Plus on top of all that if that Fernandes woman is teaching lies about Gaza then how can anyone think the other stuff she teaches isn’t a pack of lies also?
That may be the case, and it reflects extremely poorly on those involved, but when most voters went into the polling booth on 21May 2022 the alleged/confected injustice done to Higgins wasn’t at the forefront of their minds. This is very much a Canberra bubble/doctors’ wives thing.
I know nothing about WA radio but I was shocked this morning listening to an excerpt a moron on 6PR? intoning about Pauline’s comments regarding the Welcome To Country scam.
Extremist views it would appear.
Even the few callers who actually supported her had to protect themselves with qualifiers such as “she may have gone a bit far”.
Excuse me, which way to the gas chambers?
Heritage laws have been weaponised against Indigenous progressNyunggai Warren Mundine
4 hours ago
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At the 2024 Garma Festival, Anthony Albanese stated that he saw economic development as the way forward for Indigenous Australians.
Within weeks, his government placed the uranium-rich Jabiluka mining region into Kakadu National Park, ensuring there will never be mining at Jabiluka, now or in the future, and then vetoed the $1b goldmine near Orange, NSW. The Jabiluka mineral deposit is one of the largest high-grade uranium deposits in the world. The lease, held by Energy Resources Australia, was granted in 1982 following an agreement with the Northern Land Council, representing the traditional Aboriginal owners. The agreement included royalties and other payments to traditional owners and covenants that no Aboriginal sacred sites would be disturbed.
Feasibility work, approvals and preliminary work had taken place but no mining had commenced. There has been a campaign by Mirarr traditional owners against renewing the lease which expired in August. ERA applied for a lease renewal on the basis there would be no uranium mining unless the traditional owners changed their minds. On advice from the Albanese government, the NT government refused the renewal.
First, as an Aboriginal man who has fought for decades for traditional owners to have the right to determine what happens on their land, I respect the Mirarr people’s rights and decisions for their own traditional lands. But I do oppose the Albanese government’s decision to prevent uranium mining there for all time.
The Mirarr leadership today opposes mining. But this decision by the federal government has been made, not just for them, but for all Mirarr people now and in the future, even if their children and grandchildren have a different view.
A uranium mine at Jabiluka would put the Mirarr people at the centre of global energy discussions and policy and the push for emission reductions and a clean energy future. The Mirarr people would have had a seat at the table in regional, national and global decisions that impact their lands and the world. They would also have been positioned at the centre of their own economic prosperity and the energy economy. This could have delivered real empowerment and real self-determination for this and future generations of the Mirarr people.
The world is moving rapidly to a nuclear future to combat climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions and needs energy that is both decarbonised and abundant. Demand for uranium is rising as more nuclear power plants are built to meet that demand.
The development of safe, clean, heritage protected uranium mining at Jabiluka and uranium exports would provide a strong economic base for the Mirarr people, the Northern Territory and Australia. This would benefit all, providing more funding for the building of schools, hospitals and infrastructure and, most importantly, jobs and business creation in remote northern Australia providing opportunities for the Mirarr people to participate in the real economy on their own lands.
That may be the case, and it reflects extremely poorly on those involved, but when most voters went into the polling booth on 21May 2022 the alleged/confected injustice done to Higgins wasn’t at the forefront of their minds. This is very much a Canberra bubble/doctors’ wives thing
Yes and no. It was used effectively in electorates won by Teals. It was used to malign sitting Liberals. And the smears about the Liberals having a woman problem were used very effectively by the MSM every single day up to May 2022. It began in late 2020 with the Four Corners ‘exposure’ (another hit job by Louse Nilligan) and ramped up with the Hoggins and Porter bulldust. In September 2020, Morrison was riding high in the polls, he was also riding high with female voters. And then it all came undone.
Don’t get me wrong, Morrison was (and remains) a nitwit or as my mother likes to call him…a Billy Bunter character. However, from day one the Morrison government handled it all appallingly. It sought to prostrate itself before a baying mob, an action always doomed to failure. As I said from day one, the moment the Hoggins allegations surfaced, Morrison should have trotted down to Albanese’s office and said…’okay Albo, if you go ahead and politicise this r*pe allegation, we will then rehash the r*pe allegation against the member for Maribyrnong’. Not nice, I know, but we saw the consequences by being ‘nice’. The left don’t play politics using Queensberry Rules, I fail to see why the right should either.
Not according to a certain erstwhile commenter* who was adamant the Hoggins imbroglio was the main reason the Morristeen goat rodeo and clown show was punted in May 2022.
*No prizes for guessing his identity.
Roger
August 29, 2024 8:01 am
Err, no, Graham.
It is heading inexorably towards a very certain future on the current trajectory.
Certain but somewhat unpleasant.
Cassie of Sydney
August 29, 2024 8:57 am
And conversely I have eaten rubbish in Italy and France.
The “English food is swill” stereotype has it’s origins in post-war rationing when people used all sorts of inferior and bland substitute ingredients.
Yes I’d say quite a few of the ideologues are idiots in the sense that they hold technical skill and knowledge in complete contempt. The Ryan horror comes to mind ‘not my problem’.
The Caribbean people who moved to the UK brought great food, as did the Hindu migrants.
There was excellent food in the UK prior to the arrival of people from the Caribbean and sub-continent.
Classical English food is delicious.
The Hindu influence started arriving in the 1700s.
Toad in the hole and Welsh rarebit before that… 😀
And haggis, if you were a Scot.
Haggis Highlander (1986)
Excellent movie!
While on this subject some classic UK television…
The Emulsified High-Fat Offal Tube | Yes, Minister: 1984 Christmas Special
Science!
EU-Funded Scholars Fail to Define ‘Sex’ or ‘Gender’ after Five-Year Research Project (28 Aug)
Great Britain has just had a Communist Revolution imposed from the top down. It took the Marxists in the Liberal Party – thankyou Gramsci, your ‘Long March Through The Institutions’ strategy has just delivered another victory to the Communists.
?In conjunction with Labour, the people of Great Britain are seeing the mailed fist.
They are about to find out the truth of the old saying “You can vote your way into Communism, but you have to shoot your way out.”
Toad in the hole and Welsh rarebit before that
No, English food such as its roast meats and puddings were the envy of Continental visitors.
Respect to both boxers. Nikita was just more precise.
I’m glad the ref stopped the fight when he did.
Kosta Tszyu would be all smiles.
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Nikita Tszyu vs. Koen Mazoudier Full Fight Highlights | Main Event | Fox Sports Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TGBNUAFCr0
Haven’t been in the UK since the early 90s. Australian cafe type food was miles ahead of the UK equivalent. Getting a decent coffee anywhere outside London (and only then with deep, pre Internet knowledge) was impossible. British style curries were usually sublime.
I grew up on English food! Back then there wasn’t anything else. Australian food was very bland. My mum, who has Jamaican heritage, was enlightened, but my dad is still meat and three veg even now. Don’t ever give him something with chillies in it!
When we visited Sydney CBD in the sixties we’d go to one of the only Chinese restaurants in Ultimo. Absolutely scrumptious! I learned to use chopsticks.
Eventually in the seventies a basic Chinese restaurant opened in our country town. A wonder! Before that it was English food.
Then by the time I got to university the whole scene exploded, and we had dozens of Thai, Italian, Chinese and French restaurants in our suburb of Kingsford. Yum and cheap too, which for a student is important.
On the other hand the Maccas at Kingsford was pretty good too. One of the floor sweepers rose through the ranks to become the Maccas CEO.
Bangers and mash, with Gravox! And mushy peas.
Certainly visited Chinese restaurants in Dubbo and Blaney in the 70s when I was a kid. I never agreed with the trashing of Aussie tucker as ‘bland’ when it can be delicious and nutritious. Just part of the push to trash Anglo Australia.
Food was pretty crap in the 70s, apparently. Not so now, traded for a bunch of fat bastards everywhere you look.
I’ll get slammed for saying this. I am not a fan of curries in any way shape or form. Imagine taking a glorious piece of marbled beef and infusing it with spices … I want to taste the flesh, not the spices!
Give me meat with a nice gravy or garlic sauce, combined with fresh vegetables with a squeeze of lemon juice. I remember reading years back, the reason so many spices etc were used was because of lack of refrigeration. It would mask the taste of the meat going off?
Each to their own.
When Indians eat meat it’s generally not beef (or pork) for religious reasons.
That mainly leaves chicken or goat as the available animal proteins (“mutton” in India is usually goat), both of which benefit from the addition of spices for different reasons – chicken tends to be bland and goat can be gamey.
Rule of thumb: if there are more than three different spices beyond garlic and chili, the curry is usually just hot slop.
Re food from various countries – I think a lot of it is class-based. Well off people (a small minority until recently) everywhere had pretty decent food, the toiling masses, not so much.
British cuisine in the C20th was also blighted by two wars and rationing that continued long afterwards, followed by the Depression after WW1. Again, this affected the masses, especially in cities, far more than wealthy people and the more prosperous segments of country dwellers.
In Australia, the food was pretty boring for the most until the first TV chefs appeared (e.g. Graham Kerr in the 1960s) as well as the Australian Women’s Weekly Cookbooks and of course Charmaine Solomon’s groundbreaking book on Asian cookery.
As a child growing up in the 1960s, meals at friends’ houses seemed to feature a lot of charred lamb chops, peas, and soggy mashed potato. The jar of dripping saved from multiple roasts was often found above the stove, and it was none too appetising to someone raised on speck fat only for recycling purposes. 🙂
These were working and lower middle class urban families, though. As above, the grub was no doubt better on other parts of the economic spectrum.
The fact that the children of postwar European migrants were generally taller and burlier than their parents indicates that the now adored ‘peasant food’ of southern Europe was not all it is now cracked up to be.
Wally Dali
August 29, 2024 12:10 pm
Rule of thumb: if there are more than three different spices beyond garlic and chili, the curry is usually just hot slop.
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I still spin out as to why the Brits favour curries over traditional cuisine … not every Brit of course.
I find curries the most overated foods in the WORLD.
But that is just me. No harm with differing opinions.
“Are they idiots?
No.”
But they think you are.
….overrated
When Indians eat meat it’s generally not beef (or pork) for religious reasons.
Religious reasons stopped making sense with proper cooking and refrigeration. Not that sense has anything to do with it.
Dover Beach, I’m try to resuscitate Winston Smith as I don’t feel “Boozer Bob” has the right gravitas for the site.
I still have multiple posts awaiting publication to my adoring fans.
Ta.
Religious reasons stopped making sense with proper cooking and refrigeration. Not that sense has anything to do with it.
Beef in India was banned by the upper classes to reduce cattle rustling; a religious reason was concocted to give the ban force.
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Reality check.
The original populations of “here” have begun to stabilize and even decrease naturally because they hit (and recognized) the limitations of land and resources.
The populations of “there” keep producing like rabbits because “here” keeps letting masses of them in, thus not forcing the natural limitations of their places of origin to slow and stabilize their own reproduction.
Should this continue the math is simple and undeniable, as are the results. This isn’t cultural replacement theory, it’s cultural replacement fact.
The original populations of “here” have begun to stabilize and even decrease naturally because they hit (and recognized) the limitations of land and resources.
Not a factor. Forcing women into the workforce is.
Forcing women into the workforce is.
Likewise the pill, and “abortion rights”.
When I was a kid the food was terrific. The rabbito would come round. Fresh fruit. Fresh milk. Apricots to die for. All backed up by the back yard garden. Then we watched as the processed foods came in. Breakfast cereal, the spreads, TipTop and taste hit the deck. The last was the disappearance of the green grocer. When the Chinks arrived it great as it was fresh cooked food again.
At least the Frogs still do it well. Local markets in the middle of the cities, buy what you will cook that night
#Metoo.
My fellow Australians, if this is the last post you read from me it means I have been put down and the Beachmeister has acceded to my request to transition back to my Adelaide name.
Lawgi Dawes Hall
Nvidia.
Dude posting that reckons it’s the most important company in the world at the moment.
Premier Jacinta Allan
It’s Dan Andrews in a horrible frock.
Vile socialist.
I suspect what’s going on here is that Western intel knows Russian intel (and therefore, likely, Chinese intel) have open access to Telegram and they don’t.
On English food….
Eric Olthwaite’s mum used to make the best black pudding.
Even the white bits were black.
Beef ban in India has a mixed heritage.
The Hindu belief and the practical elements In famine if you eat the cow, no milk or cheese, the ox, no ploughing or transport.
Horses play a small part in Indian agriculture because of feet issues in the wet/dry monsoonal climate.
Hezbollah Still Can’t Quite Grasp What the IDF Did to It
I’m not so sure – the Israeli Chicken Battalion suffered grievous casualties with at least twenty dead. No wounded were reported.
When asked, an Israeli spokesman replied that they were still being treated in an appropriate manner, that is, with gravy and chips. Some were being turned into soup for the coming winter season.
Bob, there is a difference between saving the juices/fat from a single roast and the IXL tin above the stove half full of the residue of numerous roasts, sausages etc.
Re curries – haters should realise that it is a generic term which roughly equates to ‘stew with spices.’ I am not a fan of vindaloos and the like, but the Malaysian and Singaporean models, or the northern Indian ones, are very different. They are not hot, although they may have a trace of chili. The flavour comes from a blend of spices and a bit of garlic, but not so that you stink afterwards. Gulai Ayam, chicken and potato ‘curry’ is a staple in my takeaway diet. It’s delicious, and nothing like the brown sludge you rightly deplore.
As for furrin food in the 1960s, it was Chinese (us) and French (them) when I was growing up. The Griks ran fish and chip shops and the Italians were starting to open coffee bars. The first really exotic restaurant I went to was the Costa Brava – Spanish – in Liverpool Street, Sydney in 1970. Garlic prawns! Wow!
The wine scene evolved about the same time.
One thing I don’t miss about Old Australia is the food (and wine) that was available to the masses.
“The Testing of Eric Oulthwaite”.
An absolute classic.
“It were always raining on Denley Moor, except on days when it were fine”.
We’ve got our own Eric these days. The dunderhead Chris Bowen.
Chris Bowen. Boring little tit.
All this culinary discussion had me looking up my 1966 Commonsense Cookbook.
Anyone care for boiled sheep’s tongues? Tripe and onions? Dessert…a nice plate of lemon sago? 😀
It even has a madeira cake recipe, but it’s mean as. I made one the other day with three times the butter and eggs. Mmmmm.
One of my horrid childhood memories is grilled devon for tea, because there was no money left in the tin and Dad was paid next day. But a good memory – breaking the hi-top loaf and getting that first convex slice! Heaven!
What the ….. ???
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/british-tyranny-police-raid-arrest-11-year-old/
British police have raided and arrested an 11-year-old child for participating in a spate of recent anti-immigration protests, some of which turned violent.
Local police confirmed the arrest of the child on Thursday as they widen their crackdown against political dissidents and those who participated in the demonstrations.
The Evening Standard reports:
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2024 9:34 am
Heritage laws have been weaponised against Indigenous progressNyunggai Warren Mundine
4 hours ago
Warren Mundine is good value but the bottom line is that NT should not exist. 3rd nations are equal to everyone else and no more. They should have no say on any project beyond what every other Australian can do. The creature behind the plibbersac’s rejection of the goldmine is one of the ugliest humans ever and personifies the truism that leftoid sheilas are ugly beyond redemption. Nyree Reynolds:
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The measurements are all Imperial. It lists a “gill” for fluids, which is around a quarter pint or half cup.
Spaghetti, a most exotic creature, is boiled then layered in an oven dish with an insipid tomato sauce and reheated in the oven. Yum!
Advertising in the small volume consists of various tinned veggies, Hotpoint and Sunbeam appliances and Kraft cheese in a cardboard packet.
Here’s a horror of a story about perverts, trannies and all things disgusting….
Dean Angus Bell charged with child abuse material offences
A notorious child sex offender who transitioned genders in prison has been charged with directing a child abuse material ring called “The Pack” from inside a NSW jail.
A notorious child sex offender who transitioned genders while in custody has been charged with allegedly directing a child sexual abuse ring called The Pack at a regional NSW prison.
Dean Angus Bell, 31, allegedly identified herself as “the leader of The Pack” before detectives arrested her at Junee Correctional Facility on Tuesday.
A court has previously heard Bell, who was charged under her legal name, is a transgender woman who goes by Jessica, and is housed with the male population at the male-only prison.
In April 2024, Sex Crimes Squad detectives established Strike Force Edits to investigate the alleged production and distribution of child abuse material in NSW prisons.
“During the investigation, strike force detectives identified a group of inmates allegedly calling themselves ‘The Pack’,” NSW Police said in a statement.
“This group allegedly shared letters among themselves detailing the sexual abuse of children and plans to offend against children in the future.”
Bell was charged with eight counts of producing child abuse material, eight counts of disseminating child abuse material and knowingly or recklessly directing a criminal group.
She is currently serving a prison term for using a carriage service to access child abuse material and breaching an extended supervision order.
She was refused bail to appear before Wagga Wagga Local Court yesterday.
“Detectives will allege in court the woman directed the group while in the correctional facility and wrote letters detailing the child abuse which she sent to other inmates,” NSW Police said in their statement.
Investigations under Strike Force Edits continue.
The above is nightmarish, dystopian and creepy. Why is the MSM referring to this criminal and pervert as a SHE? Bell is a biological male, was born a biological male and will die a biological male. As far as I am concerned, the MSM, by referring to Bell as a she, is complicit in this gaslighting and lies.
Oh but that’s right, according to some, those of us who refuse to acknowledge this criminal and creep as a SHE are Nazis.
Anyone care for boiled sheep’s tongues? Tripe and onions? Dessert…a nice plate of lemon sago?
All of which, if cooked properly, are delicious.
I actually think tongue is very delicious. Mum used to often make it. I also love liver.
Good article on the POS Jack Smith’s attempt to resuscitate the Jan 6 BS case against Trump:
Jack Smith’s Weak, Watered-Down Election Interference Gambit (declassified.live)
Smith and garland photos in article. They both have faces that cry out for a third eye between their other 2.
If you’re the sort of numbskull who obsesses about fridges causing polar ice caps to melt then you should be doing it clad in straightjacket while languishing in a padded cell –
There was a letter to the editor in the Spencer Street Stürmer (aka the Age) today reminding us that two dissimilar electrodes stuck into a potato make it act as a tiny battery . The letter suggested that a boot full of potatoes could be used to power EVs. My mate thinks it’s what passes for satire in that august publication but having read the letters page for years I’m no so sure. Age readers are known to have no sense of humor except for lame attempts to make fun of conservative politicians.
It’s hard to say given the ban on visuals but given that I’ve seen footage of hits on Meron its definitely possible that Unit 8200, for instance, was hit.
What’s the expression for people who think their own culture’s food is pathetic and everyone’s else’s is marvellous.
Lemon chicken and fried rice?
Chicken curry and rice?
Never mind that the vast majority of Indians and Chinese wouldn’t have eaten meat, Indians for religious and poverty reasons, Chinese for poverty reasons, no country beats English cooking for desserts, cakes and biscuits.
And the despised meat and three vegetables is delicious and nutritious.
I shared an apartment with a German and a French couple in Galway.
The Germans ate potatoes with a bit of sliced ham, the next night pasta, tomato sauce with cold ham, the French ate pasta with plain tomato sauce and a bit of cheese.
Give me a lamb chop, mashed potatoes, beans and broccoli over that any day.
On national cuisines, I think many have absolute delicious meals. I do love Indian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, etc. but Italian and French are something else. As for English, the traditional Christmas roast followed by a pudding with brandy cream and double cream is almost unbeatable for Christmas.
“Good article on the POS Jack Smith’s attempt to resuscitate the Jan 6 BS case against Trump:”
And DJT responds here:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/27/trump-responds-to-jack-smith-filing-superseding-indictment-should-be-dismissed/
Joan Kirner was frequently described (flatteringly) at the time as Barrie Unsworth in drag.
I agree Dover, I like most international cuisines, I’m just going to disparage my own, the traditional English Christmas dinner is perfect.
My Sicilian hairdresser was telling me Christmas Eve is traditionally cod, which sound’s like a poor people Christmas traditional to me. Her mother made it but she doesn’t.
My Irish landlady in Navan had started making her Christmas puddings, no flour so they keep better, I’ll stick to my recipe though.
Spuds coming through strong on the blogue today!
E10 petrol at the moment ranges from about $1.63 (Homebush) and there are lots of outlets under $1.90.
Why Coles/Shell think they can go to $2.17 I don’t know. It happens quite a bit.
“4c off if you spend $30+ at Coles” is a joke.
“My Irish landlady in Navan had started making her Christmas puddings, no flour so they keep better, I’ll stick to my recipe though.”
Nah, my grandmothers steamed pudding recipe is the best – dried fruit, just enough flour to keep if from falling apart, make in August and sprinkle liberally with brandy (or rum) once a week until Christmas.Serve with brandy custard make from vanilla icecream.
Droooool! I can taste it now…
Instead of putting the weights on Labor/Green/Teal wreckers for their ideological madness and the ruination of our formerly affordable and reliable energy system, Sky New Daytime continues to harass the coalition about Nuclear.
“Nah, my grandmothers steamed pudding recipe is the best…”
Oh, and don’t forget the sixpence in there somewhere, if you still have one.
I’m having black pudding on toast for breakfast.
Not quite as nice as the continental version but still very tasty.
Comes in a little block at Dunne’s supermarkets
The Seventies: Curried prawns, oysters mornay, chicken Maryland, prawn cocktails, Hawaiian ham steaks with potatoes cooked in foil.
Have you lot forgotten?
Yes Blue Nun or Black Tower for extra special occasions
Peaceful Bonobos Reveal Evolutionary Secrets of Group Loyalty (scitechdaily.com)
As humans do.
Insecure.
Calling someone a fat slob, or in this case, just fat, is now a hate crime in Germany, and the cops are looking for the criminal
Just get a load of the fat slob. She’s even too obese to be considered a cute owl.
Shireen Morris’s voice referendum post-mortem is dripping with delusion
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In one sense I agree with Shireen Morris, author of ‘Broken Heart: The True History of The Voice Referendum’, director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab at Macquarie Law School, and former federal Labor candidate.
“From the moment the results of the voice referendum started coming in,” she states in her introduction, “politicians, advocates and commentators have been trying to rewrite history”.
They have indeed. And Morris proceeds to do exactly that throughout this tedious lamentation. For example, were you of the belief the Albanese government ran a “crash or crash through” campaign or that Yes proponents were “pig-headed”? Well, according to Morris, you have been deceived. “That narrative is false, and inverts reality,” she insists.
Mind you, I was not expecting a frank introspection. As refreshing as it would have been, I never entertained hopes the author would say, “The referendum was a lousy idea from the start and should never have been given legs,” or “Unfortunately for us activists, most Australians were not as gullible as we had believed”.
But the lack of self-awareness in this book is Oxford-level obtuseness. On one hand Morris stresses the importance of learning from the Yes campaign’s failings. Yet like many in her bubble, she holds the cause is righteous and that its rationale is self-evident and incontrovertible.
“The Australian people got it wrong in the voice referendum,” she writes. “We chose fear over love.”
We? By embracing vicarious liability for the supposed moral failings of her fellow citizens, Morris – as behoves a martyr – neatly ensures the record reflects she is among the elect. As for her claim the referendum was a choice between fear and love, that is nothing but reductionist piffle.
Her take on voters is not only fallacious but also condescending. Consider Albanese’s opportunistic refusal to separate the issues of recognition and voice for the purpose of the referendum. Unsurprisingly, Morris refuses to acknowledge this was emotionally manipulative. “Dividing the question would confuse voters,” she insists.
Really? I know activist academics regard mainstream Australians as dullards, but if Morris is to be believed, we are in fact complete morons unable to distinguish basic concepts. Presumably this explains why, according to her, the Yes campaign was felled by “disinformation, hate and dumbed-down debate”.
If only the masses had the means to enable them to make an informed decision. A constitutional convention, perhaps? But Morris does not agree. Constitutional conventions are “adversarial” by nature, she proclaims. Had the Albanese government commissioned one, it “would only have amplified division.” And we cannot allow dissenters a forum to question the narrative that the voice was all about love, can we, Shireen Morris?
Her assessment of Anthony Albanese’s motives is both naive and simplistic. “You could see his heart was in it,” she writes adoringly. “His tears when he spoke about the Uluru Statement were not for show: his emotion and conviction could not be contained.” He “knew this was the kind of thing that really mattered in the leadership of a nation.”
If there is one thing that should have been obvious to Morris by now, it is that what really matters to this prime minister is not principled leadership but rather political self-interest. Instead she chooses to believe his intentions were pure although his tactics flawed.
journalists: heroes in their own minds
US, UK, Denmark, Finland, Norway: cumulative excess deaths kept rising after the shots rolled out
Avi Yemini
WATCH: Climate change minister’s BIZARRE response after DODGING key question
Wine in the ’80’s.
Does anyone remember Clarsac and Valsac?
I still put shit on my older sister and her husband over that stuff.
oysters mornay
I love those, actually all oysters are good, natural with a splash of fresh lemon or lime juice is sublime.
Carry on, double away smartly.
Some years ago now I was on a guided tour of the haunted homestead Monte Cristo in Junee. Before the night time tour of the house we had dinner which was mostly corned beef and boiled cabbage. There were grumblings from some guests who expected something better seeing as it used to be a grand house and estate.
On foreign cuisine.
As a young, young lad in my ancestral NW country Vicco seat, there was a milk bar which served dim sims – regarded by most locals at the time as a delicacy.
The name of the store coincided with the name of the owner:
Poon Ming’s Cafe.
Nobody asked what was in the dimmies.
Dutch activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek Slams British government on UK Riots
Sentenced to 36 months in jail for waving a flag.
Protesters Are Being Sent to Lethal Jails
Modern Britain is rather disgusting. Can’t see myself ever going there again.
I don’t see black pudding very often at the supermarket Roger.
It’s a travelling treat for me.
We didn’t eat ‘fancy’ food as kids in the 60s and 70s though I do remember an almond in a prune wrapped in bacon as a delicacy.
Of course anything with bacon is good, even lamb’s fry with bacon which I sometimes still made.
Fresh bread with coon cheese and mustard pickles.
Toast with home made apricot jam.
Fresh scones just out of the oven with jam and cream, or fruit scones with butter.
Hot pikelets with butter and cinnamon sugar.
All good.
Two days in Dowerin, a three-hour drive home and I’m done for the week!
Easily clocked up over 60 hours per week for the last four to five weeks and it’s prolly not my biggest week(s) but I am getting older… 😛
Indolent
August 29, 2024 5:48 pm
Avi Yemini
WATCH: Climate change minister’s BIZARRE response after DODGING key question
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I’ve watched many clips from Steve Inman showing that carrying a firearm is good for self protection. Nobody can deny it.
Top 5 Instant Justice Compilation
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Andrew Doyle: Pride Is an Anti-Gay Movement
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
August 29, 2024 6:45 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Remind me not to get on the wrong side of the lady in take 3 – she wields a pretty mean bikers helmet!
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I love her to bits.
Did I see the Armadillo put his head up here last night?
Perhaps I did.
In which case it’s time for Mister Weeble and the Armadillo Song.
Sovereign Indigenous nations ‘is an Australian myth’
The Australian Business Network
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Denying reality never ends well. Sooner or later someone comes along and punctures fashionable delusions.
Hans Christian Anderson made this clear in his fairytale about the Emperor’s new clothes. And almost two centuries later, exactly the same point has been made by Victorian barrister Lana Collaris.
The issue now is whether the cognoscenti in the law and elsewhere will face the facts about Indigenous Australia or whether they will continue to pay homage to a bucolic past that never really existed.
Collaris’ article in this newspaper on Tuesday made many powerful points but they all flow from this: there have never been sovereign Aboriginal nations on this continent.
This reality lies at the core of her refusal to go along with other members of the Victorian Bar Council who, before each meeting, acknowledge the “traditional owners” of the land on which they meet.
It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that these acknowledgments and the omnipresent welcomes to country give effect to the idea that Indigenous people are the true sovereigns of this land.
How many times have we heard acknowledgments of “first nations” whose sovereignty, while never ceded, was taken improperly?
This is a modern fairytale that does more harm than good.
It gives children a flawed understanding of their own history and hinders the development of public policy on Indigenous affairs based on true equality of citizenship, not historical fantasy.
It gives succour to the wrongheaded notion that modern Australia is somehow in need of “decolonising” – a process that actually unfolded decades ago and culminated in 1986 when Bob Hawke severed this country’s last constitutional links with Britain.
The Constitution started life as an act of the British parliament after the document had been approved in this country. True independence, however, was painfully incremental.
Hawke’s Australia Acts were the final step.
They mean the Constitution’s status as Australia’s fundamental law now derives entirely from the people of this country – a point made by constitutional lawyer Geoffrey Lindell soon after this change came into effect.
After the outcome of last year’s referendum on the Voice, it seems beyond debate that the guiding constitutional principle in this country is now equality of citizenship – not the race-based division that blighted earlier years.
This is the legal reality that all those welcomes and acknowledgments simply gloss over.
But in the gentlest possible way, Collaris has belled the cat.
She could have gone much harder and was clearly sparing the blushes of those lawyers who have simply gone along with the prevailing fashion despite authoritative statements to the contrary from the High Court.
Lawyers, of all people, should have known that the doctrines of Aboriginal sovereignty and nationhood – which underpin these welcomes and acknowledgments – have been repeatedly rejected by the High Court. Because of that it makes no sense for anyone – let alone the lawyers – to talk of “first nations” or to assert that some Indigenous communities had not ceded their sovereignty. They had none to cede.
Collaris merely referred in passing to the 1979 case of Coe. She could, for example, have reminded her critics about what Justice Harry Gibbs said when confronted with the argument that Aboriginal people had once been a sovereign nation and Britain had wrongly asserted sovereignty.
“There is no Aboriginal nation, if by that expression is meant a people organised as a separate state or exercising any degree of sovereignty,” Gibbs wrote in Coe.
Gibbs made the point that the history of the relationships between white settlers and Indigenous people was not the same in Australia as the United States. He noted that the US Supreme Court had accepted in 1831 that America’s Cherokee nation had been organised as a “distinct political society separated from others”. But it was not possible to make such a statement about Aboriginal people in Australia.
Collaris might also have mentioned what happened in 1992 when the great native title case of Mabo (No 2) also rejected the notion of Aboriginal sovereignty.
This aspect of Mabo was explained by former Chief Justice Anthony Mason in the second Coe case, decided in 1993.
The next time someone asserts that Aboriginal sovereignty exists and has never been ceded, keep in mind what Mason had to say in the second Coe case:
“Mabo (No 2) is entirely at odds with the notion that sovereignty adverse to the Crown resides in the Aboriginal people of Australia,” he wrote.
“The decision is equally at odds with the notion that there resides in the Aboriginal people a limited kind of sovereignty embraced in the notion that they are ‘a domestic dependent nation’ entitled to self-government and full rights (save the right of alienation) or that as a free and independent people they are entitled to any rights and interests other than those created or recognised by the laws of the Commonwealth, the State of NSW and the common law,” Mason wrote.
The point here could have been made by Hans Christian Anderson: organisations risk embarrassing themselves when they ignore the facts and succumb to peer pressure or fashion.
Society expects much more from those in positions of leadership, particularly those in business and the law. It is therefore reassuring that the Victorian Bar has leaders with the fortitude of Collaris. Why not follow her example and abandon these race-based mantras and acknowledge all Australians, regardless of race, religion or national origin?
That would be more in keeping with the doctrine of equality of citizenship. It might even prevent eye-rolling when planes full of weary travellers arrive at the nation’s airports.
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Was the Biden administration involved in the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov? Mike Benz explains.
Thanks Dover, Winston is back.
But I keep getting this warning:
I usually yell “Go root your boot” at the computer but it doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Brave Browser on Win11.
Food in Australia in 1950s-60s.- in our family of 10, bunny was on the menu mid-week, fish on Friday, lamb roast on Sunday and scratch stuff such as corned beef or sausages the other nights.
We lived near the beach, and near a coal mine in the cliffs behind, so bunnies in abundance which everyone shot or trapped on a regular basis. My mother’s recipe was to soak in vinegar and water for a few hours, drain, dredge in flour, braise with onions, carrots, celery and green ginger wine in the pressure cooker. Serve with mashed potato. I still do this occasionally, though a bunny is now about $35, instead of free foraged.
We caught our fish off the beach, clean, scale and fillet, dredge in flour and pan fry with butter, served with lemons off our tree.
Australian food in those days was pretty good if you knew what to do with it.
I must admit, I hated bread&butter pudding, custard etc, but loved all the fresh stuff we grew in our garden.
I’m a pretty good cook in international cuisines, but we have gone back to plain, fresh and simple lately.
Speaking of culinary delights, how about shit on toast? Sky News:
Could have been any one of us in our yoof. If only we thought about the next 2 years, hard graft, no foresight, instead of getting the dick wet.
There’s a doctorate for us all. Wowee.
so, a lesbian, a midget, and a ranga walk into a bar …
Winston Smith
August 29, 2024 7:43 pm
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G’day bloke.
There is a flick on Amazon called “The Men Who Stole The World” about the GFC.
it would seem that they are claiming that the GFC was the natural denouement of capitalistic greed.
Even though the movie is from 2018, IMDB has no viewer reviews for it.
None.
Amazon (whose prime streaming service has the movie) does have reviews, but only one of them mentions the Community Reinvestment Act – a classic example of government policy flatulence rather than capitalism:
Just like so much else a government embarks on a program without fully grasping the issues, but casually touts it infinite capacity for rapine against taxpayers as a reason not to worry, and then they act all shocked when they are called to account when their dimwitted flights of fancy are proven to be laughably ill-conceived.
But the morons at Amazon cream their pants at the new, amazing, insight the movie (rather than facts) proffers.
Winston Smith
August 29, 2024 8:05 pm
Reply to Steve trickler
Steve, I’ve been Winston Smith for nearly 20 years and when DB took over with WordPress it wouldn’t allow me to use the name so I had to go and use one from my past.
But the problem has been sorted and Winston rides again. yeeha.
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You are back. All the best.
Time for some music. I’ll have to think about it.
Sharri: naughty Trump says Kamala may have worked her way to the top by “traditional” methods. (my quote marks). This is not new, not just Trump.
I rely on Sky after dark to counterbalance Sky daytime, otherwise my Foxtel subscription is reduced to the US shows like The Five, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, and so on.
If even Sky after dark can’t resist a bit of Trump bashing things are getting grim.
So much fun!
Haddaway – What Is Love (Moreno J Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3mzvJiUZao
Have just been to a granddaughter’s school concert ( Grade 3) where a child parrotted the Welcome to Country even down to ‘elders past, present and emerging’ to rapturous parental applause. Adam Bandt spotted in the audience by son. Luckily I didn’t see him.
DIL seems happy to go along with the nonsense, son perhaps less so but we aren’t allowed to discuss it. DIL simply closes up and refuses to engage.
Brainwashing children should be an indictable offence. But is it too late?
Bungonia Bee
August 29, 2024 8:15 pm
Sharri: naughty Trump says Kamala may have worked her way to the top by “traditional” methods. (my quote marks). This is not new, not just Trump.
The measure of a person is what they think of Trump. Little sharri is nominally conservative on some issues, mainly the chunk virus but she is MIA on most of the other issues and on Trump she is as bad as that smug cracker Annelise Nielsen.
So, a log fire, a good pub tea, a couple of single malts and a good book “Vietnam:The complete Story of the Australian War” by Bruce Davies and Gary McKay.
“Between January 1965 and 1972 there were 154,517 man called up for national service: 90,782 failed the medical.” Page 116.
Nothing to do with the tale that there were certain doctors, who would ask the happy warrior if he wanted to serve, and, if the answer was negative, he would fail the medical?
Food in Australia in 1950s-60s.- in our family of 10, bunny was on the menu mid-week, fish on Friday, lamb roast on Sunday and scratch stuff such as corned beef or sausages the other nights.
Your mum and mine must have had the same cookbook, apart from the rabbit chapter.
Years later, I told Mum I was cooking Lapin au vin (a Bourdain-inspired variation on coq) and even over the phone I could sense she was shuddering. She’d eaten so much rabbit during the Depression it left a lifelong bad taste in her mouth. She also never got over her contempt for ferrets.
I’d often do rabbit for Easter, telling Junior that once the Easter Bunny had delivered the eggs what else was he good for?
And revhead Cats might recognise the name Geoff Portman, one of the best rally drivers we’ve produced, who sadly was claimed by cancer about three years ago. Wonderful bloke, superbly gifted driver, whippet lover
Anyway, he had a rabbit farm in NIllumbik that was doing OK — 2000 rabbits typically in his hutch — until they released the colesi virus, which meant every single rabbit had to be vaxed and that put him out of business.
I hope you people realise that all this talk of appreciating food of foreign origin puts us at risk of losing at least one ‘far’ from our far-far-far-far-right-radical-hurty-controversial-extremist-poohbum reputation?
*Sigh* So disappointing.
Saturday night was Chinese night at my girlfriend’s parents home at the time. The old boy would take their pots and pans to the Chinese restaurant and they’d fill them up with his order.
Obviously, that went away when plastic containers became the norm.
I can still clearly remember watching on TV, Alan Greenspan testifying before Congress at some point in the mid-1990s. He described “red-lining” as racist in response to pressure from the demonrats. The phrase “red-lining” was used in the banking to describe regions where banks refused to lend because, predictably, the loan default rate was exceptionally high. Minorities were the problem, of course.
I honestly thought at that point that the banks were going to be hammered since the loan market would probably experience issues as a result of the decree to outlaw red-lining. You had to wait a decade before it went into the toilet.
Pretty funny
https://x.com/AdinHaykin1/status/1828838852443943390?t=F947iBjRWVUKMMdUH1ujgw&s=19
The one meat I don’t eat much is chicken. I still smell boiled feathers, which was the only way to prepare a chook for cooking back in my 1960s girlhood. Ducks are OK, for some reason. And kangaroo, I have never had a problem cooking that.
btw, I am not a country girl, we grew up by the beach, but most critters are food. Fish still my favourite. Fresh, easy and simple.
I’m in Dundalk.
20 minutes by train from Drogheda.
I’m thinking of day tripping to Belfast which is 90 minutes by train.
Unfortunately Newgrange and Mellifont Abbey are inaccessible by public transport, it’s private car or minumum €40 by taxi so I won’t be bothering.
I did visit the Martello tour at Millmount and the folk museum next door. Apparently all the Spanish visitors to Drogheda want to know is where James Bond lived.
Drogheda demolished it’s last Tudor style house in 1945. What a pity.
As I walked to the town centre in Dundalk council workers were painting boarded up windows and doors in a 19th century building silver.
The rot is everywhere.
Now in a hipster cafe with a menu that could have been on a table anywhere in Melbourne except possibly the chicken stuffing sambo.
I’m surprised sambo is allowed tbh.
https://droghedalife.com/news/bradys-building-demolition-a-shameful-symptom-of-the-neglect-of-drogheda
Rabbit – “underground chicken” according to my Mum.
The Chinese trade surplus is not a good sign as Chinese domestic consumption has fallen to very worrying levels. Pilko doesn’t mention this because he’s an idiot.
If the exchange rate was free of capital controls capital would be leaving the country by the ship load as a “massive” trade surplus would equal a massive deficit on the capital account, suggesting return on capital is inadequate.
If the Chinese economy was doing well the stock market would be reflecting this. It’s not.
dover0beach
August 29, 2024 10:51 pm
As I get older I am becoming more and more cynical and disillusioned by the prognostications of economists and financial wizards.
They are not even right half the time, all they do is explain after the fact and nobody calls them up on it.
Wish I had a job like that.
Have fun (-:
Mannequin (1987) / Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now (Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUXsXQ359pk
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I would guess that the people who think Australia needs decolonising are the same people who are in favour of massive immigration. Neither one makes sense and will very likely result in the very opposite of their plans.
The newcomers have no interest in any indigenous history, whether 5,000 or 10,000 or 65,000 years old. They want what modern Australia offers, equality and upward mobility as a reward for hard work which seems to be antithetical to the indigenous industry. The newcomers, once naturalised, are not likely to vote for anything that will disadvantage them and advantage the idle classes.
Ian Cook soldiers on
https://x.com/LawyersCity/status/1828917222510866612?t=IZnejwf7qA4mN-hq_7w17w&s=19
John H.
August 30, 2024 1:24 am
Look I wouldn’t mind them being wrong most of the time, but they have an undue influence on policy making which affects us all.
I’m sure they have their paws in the renewables business too.
I think the same of most public servants and politicians, pay them to stay at home and do nothing. The harm they do would be minimised.
Imagine this today in UK.
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On December 25, 1940, amidst the turmoil of World War II, a Christmas party in an underground shelter in London provided a rare moment of respite and cheer.
As the Blitz raged above, Londoners sought refuge in these shelters, which were crucial for safety during air raids.
The Christmas party, held in such a makeshift setting, was a beacon of hope and community spirit. Decorations, perhaps crafted from available materials, and festive fare helped lift spirits and foster camaraderie among those enduring the war’s hardships.
This celebration exemplified the resilience and determination of Londoners to maintain their traditions and morale, even in the face of adversity.
Another example along similar lines.
The recent CPI data supposedly showed a drop in the inflation rate. The drop was actually caused by the government offering energy subsidies to counter the rise in energy costs. In reality, the inflation rate is around 4% and there was really no fall.
Frank again, love him or loath him he had a good side to him
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.Sometime in the late 40’s, before either man was famous, Frank Sinatra appeared in a theater in New York.
After his show he went to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio led by a young Sammy Davis Jr. Frank is blown away by Sammy’s talent and after the show he asks Sammy to come see his show.
A week goes by. No Sammy. Sinatra goes back to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio again and asks Sammy why he didn’t show. Sammy said he was there but they wouldn’t let him in.
Frank stormed back to the theater, tore up his contract in front of them, and never performed there again.
That would be a common theme during the course of their friendship and careers. When Sammy wasn’t allowed to play at the Copacabana, Frank wouldn’t play there either.
When Sammy was refused a Las Vegas hotel room, Frank said, “Give him my room!” After Sammy’s car accident where he lost his eye, it was Sinatra who paid all his medical bills.
After 5 decades and 40 years of performing together, a reporter once asked Frank why he was always so charitable to Sammy. Frank responded in three words, “He’s my brother.”
Now that is a tricycle.
Thia is another snippet about Frank Sinatra told by Babara Sinatra “We were at a dinner party one night with Bennett Cerf and Betty Bacall when Frank wandered into a guest room to collect a pack of cigarettes from his overcoat. There he found the producer Arthur Hornblow finishing up a telephone call to a woman. ‘I hope she’s pretty,’ Frank said softly. Arthur replied that she was; it was his mother, Susie, who was in poor health in Florida but still excited about the latest Yankee scores.
‘What I wouldn’t give for one more telephone call with my mom,’ Frank told him wistfully.
At his suggestion, they called Arthur’s mother back and put Frank on the line. ‘Is this really Frank Sinatra?’ she asked. ‘You sound too much like him not to be. I love your voice.’
‘Well, I love your voice too, Susie,’ Frank said. ‘Tell you what—I’m going to call you every Saturday night at six o’clock, and we’ll chew over the Yankees’ performance, okay?’ He kept his promise and never missed a Saturday evening call to Susie Hornblow until the day she died. For good measure, he sent flowers to her on Mother’s Day and to other widowed mothers in the same hospital. Frank added her name to his list of lonely women he’d call on a regular basis.
They included a relative of Freeman Gosden’s and several single mothers. Few believed them when they claimed that Ol’ Blue Eyes was a frequent caller, but they knew the truth and that was all that mattered.”
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Brett Lethbridge.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.