Most mornings I browse the Mail Online, simply to fill in time, but lately for some reason they have become obsessed with death and illness .. 70% of stories seem to be some, usually unknown to me anyway, celebrity dying or kiddies, ordinary folk catching weird but deadly diseases ….
?Starting to be resemble an adverting forum for a “Cemeteries R Us” campaign ………..!

John H.

 September 21, 2024 12:40 am

Those of a more pragmatic nature and less likely to vote with our genitals look at what he actually did.
Policy wise Trump was overwhelmingly good.

@LauraLoomer

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE:

The ABC Whistleblower who claimed ABC News gave @KamalaHarris the Presidential debate questions ahead of the Presidential debate has exclusively given me a copy of the official complaint they filed with the SEC today.  

See screenshots of the submissions below:
As of today, The Securities and Exchange Commissioner (SEC) has acknowledged receipt of two complaints lodged against @Disney, the owner of ABC News @ABC. The complaint, seen below, states that ABC News and their Parent company Disney colluded with the 
@KamalaHarris Presidential Campaign to influence the Presidential debate on 9-10-24 and to further influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election. 

@DavidMuir @LinseyDavis
 
The Complaint shows documents uploaded to the official SEC complaint system and a screenshot of the uploaded file that the Whistleblower claims contains evidence of this collusion. 

Below are the documents that were exclusively provided to me today. 

Submission Number: 17268-694-586-914 was submitted successfully on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 08:55:41 AM EDT

Submission Number: 17268-178-298-389 was submitted successfully on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 10:16:25 AM EDT

The Whistleblower complaint that was submitted to the SEC today reads: 

“I have heard and observed conversations and have evidence in hand of ABC News, a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney Media Networks, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company, collusion between ABC news and the Kamala Harris campaign for the Presidency of the United States. It is my belief from the context of the conversations, that ABC news in the debate held on September 10, 2024, and at other various times before and after this debate to influence the Presidential election. I would like to emphatically state, that I am not a Donald Trump supporter and have never voted for Donald Trump. The context of the conversations heard and among other observations is that ABC News is working with the Kamala Harris campaign, and that Disney may exact monetary or other future considerations if they aid in the election of Kamala Harris. I have sat idly by for years and watched the media on both sides of the political spectrum become nothing more than campaign ads for politicians. It is clear that there are multiple considerations being exchanged in this current Presidential campaign. I have enclosed further evidence for your consideration. Please note, this evidence contains personal information of mine and I wish for it to remain undisclosed for safety considerations for my family.”

This was the brief statement on the complaint which was partially cut off in submission photo.

Here are the screenshots of the Whistleblower’s official complaint to the SEC today regarding their alleged claims of having evidence that @ABC News gave @KamalaHarris’s campaign the questions for the Presidential debate against Donald Trump ahead of the debate. 

ABC News and Disney must issue a statement immediately. 

WATCH: Kamala Harris Boasts That She Helped Hold Up 2,000-Pound Bombs To Israel To Force A Ceasefire

Clark, the thief who stole hopes of a peopleGeoff Clark’s criminal downfall has prompted an outpouring of regret and anger from Aboriginal leaders and policy makers, who see him as the symbol of dysfunction in Indigenous affairs.

From the Oz – anybody able to post the full article?

Bought this is a “thank you”/burfday present for my youngest daughter, her being a coin collector, because I don’t drive, she has dun all the transporting of me to & fro to quacks, scans & hospital stays culminating in the removal of my Prostate & nearby Cancer …..
Not sure if many of you collect/know Oz two dollar coins but if you do you’ll understand what your looking at & one coin in particular .. the “holy grail” of the Oz coloured two dollar coins ..
Trying to say “THANK YOU” when your kid(s) care .. priceless ………!

Meme

Classroom classics revolution could save our failing society

Greg Sheridan, The Australian, 20 September 2024

Nothing is failing in Western societies more completely, and more tragically, than school education. This is especially so in Australia. Billions upon billions of new dollars – Gonski funding, NAPLAN funding, state promises, federal commitments – and yet the results, even measured in narrow, utilitarian, technical terms, get ever worse and we sink further down the international education league tables.

We cram every ideological fad into the curriculum – safe schools, reconciliation, gender theory, race theory, decolonisation, peace studies, green worship, net zero hymns and devotions – yet division, alienation, even violence, spread.

Even as we’ve sometimes banned the use of mobile phones in school hours, we’ve flooded our schools with gadgets – laptops and iPads and endless, endless screens. But instead of producing citizens who master technology discerningly for their beneficial use, the memes and screens have fried our children’s brains, the relentless giddy, dizzy images, bright colours, dark colours, dopamine hits, changing images, fluid images, rapid image turnover, relentless distraction, have destroyed childhood, eaten adolescence and blighted young adulthood.

We’ve sub-let our thinking out to algorithms, and in the process all but abolished deep learning, while embracing the terror of the screens.

But there’s a way back.

Perhaps the most dramatic and hopeful development in all Western culture right now is the rapidly growing movement in the US, which is also gaining traction in Australia, for an approach of classical education in high schools. This is the same as what is often called the liberal arts approach.

It’s huge in the US, with 750-odd classical high schools and 100,000 students. Growing and growing.

It’s just getting started in Australia. I’ve been investigating this in recent months, on both coasts of the US and in three Australian states.

This is a road back to sanity, learning and truth in education. A road back to depth and texture in life. A road back to intellectual substance and enchantment.

If we’re lucky, these students will form eventually a leadership cadre in our culture.

What does classical education mean?

Mary Broadsmith, principal of Harkaway Hills College, a newish girls school in eastern Melbourne, which is not fully a classical school but has moved strongly in that ­direction, says: “We want students to pursue the good, the true and the beautiful.”

Frank Monagle, the founding principal last year of Sydney’s Hartford Academy (Ian Mejia is the principal this year), believes state education systems have a narrowly utilitarian ideology.

“The purpose of education was seen as getting a job,” he says.

“The true purpose of education is to help young people be the best young people they can be.”

Kenneth Crowther, the principal of the new St John Henry Newman School in Brisbane, which will take its first students in 2026, was a teacher for years before he embraced classical education.

“I realised there were deeper purposes around what it means to be a human being,” he says.

“We have this educational inheritance that we’ve rejected. I saw so much alienation. Fifteen-year-olds would say to me, ‘why am I studying Shakespeare, when will I use Shakespeare in a job?’

“This represented an ideology of utilitarianism, instead of seeing Shakespeare as a way to deeper meaning and purpose.”

Peter Crawford, academic dean of the US Institute of Catholic Liberal Education, whom I met in Napa, California, says: “The purpose of education is to teach children the art of being free.”

He adds: “A school first of all is a community.”

Claire Whereat, the secondary school head at Toowoomba Christian College, is another who, along with her school, which was established in 1979 and has 800 students, has been on a journey to a liberal arts approach. “We had to ask ourselves what is the purpose of education? The purpose of education is to form young people of wisdom,” she says. “A wise young person is able to engage in any topic with a critical understanding of truth, beauty and goodness. Wisdom is also for everyday life.”

All of these schools are classical, or liberal arts, schools up to a point. In Australia, every registered school, especially an independent school, needs to follow state and national curricula. But they can still organise much of their school’s effort around classical principles.

All these schools are explicitly Christian. In classical education, the idea of integrated understanding – as a Christian might say, all truth is God’s truth – is a central organising principle. An integrated understanding of the world leads to an integrated human being. But in the US many classical education schools, and many liberal arts colleges, are not religious. There are 50-odd Great Hearts Charter Schools, funded by government but with a local community given a charter of indepen­dence. They’re not religious but they still study the Great Books. This is not only for religious believers, though much of humanity’s greatest thinking focuses on God.

The school’s mission is to equip students in spirit, soul, and body to serve the Living God in today’s world. As a Christian school rooted in the Liberal Arts tradition, they believe this educational approach best fulfills their purpose. What does it mean to be a…

So what does classical education consist of at the practical level of teaching and content?

From speaking to dozens of teachers, principals, parents, students, movement leaders, education administrators and curriculum developers, I would offer the following summary.

Classical education offers the student an integrated understanding of life, culture, knowledge and the meaning of being a human being. It gives students direct exposure to what English poet Matthew Arnold called “the best that has been thought and said”, the greatest of the Great Books.

It promotes an intellectually sophisticated encounter with these writers through Socratic ­dialogues. It offers the thrill of chronological, deep history and the finest literature. As Crowther comments: “Contemporary education fails in giving students an understanding of how the (modern) world came about.”

Thus, a classical school student may study ancient Greek civilisation in history at the same time as reading ancient Greek plays in literature. If the school teaches philosophy and theology, as many do, that too will be co-ordinated.

Says Crowther: “The unity between subjects is very important in classical education. The modern system is very fragmented. The subjects don’t connect up.”

Socratic dialogue is critical. Students might have read Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, then explore in discussion the nature of evil. This inculcates moral education and accustoms students to disagreeing with each other, profoundly and passionately, but civilly, in friendship.

Many classical schools teach Latin, the most accessible of the classical languages, in which many of the greatest works, from ancient Rome through to the late Middle Ages, are written. Studying Latin helps students master English grammar, and understand the roots and history of words.

In the most junior years, children might begin their classical exposure through Aesop’s Fables or Arthurian legends. In Australian schools they’ll meet Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.

In the early years there’s an emphasis on play, but also on explicit instruction, led by the teacher, and on rote learning. Learning times tables and English grammar provides foundational knowledge, but also exercises brain muscle, memory, attention span.

In the US recently I journeyed out from Washington DC to Annapolis in Maryland, to spend an afternoon and evening with the Chesterton Academy of Annapolis.

I was met at a nearby rail station by Azin Cleary, who founded the school with her husband, Bill. She’s originally Iranian. The family left Iran when Azin was a teenager so her brother could avoid the army in the Iran/Iraq war. In the US she fell in love with Bill, a dashing air force pilot. He wasn’t very religious but told her he wanted to get married in a church, was pro-life, and wanted to bring his kids up Catholic.

Azin was fine with that. She was a disengaged Muslim and felt no pressure to change her religion. It was years later that she herself ­became Christian.

The classical education movement is extremely ecumenical. The Annapolis Chesterton Academy, although a school in the Catholic tradition, rents its space from a Lutheran church, to which it’s a close friend.

Two things are striking. First, it’s named after GK Chesterton, an English journalist – my hero – who died nearly a hundred years ago. Chesterton and CS Lewis, who died in the 1950s, are inspirations to the classical education movement. It reveres them, two of the most prodigiously gifted Christian writers of the 20th century, because they bring everything together. They wrote theology, biography, newspaper columns, novels, poetry, adventure stories, profound theological meditations. And they exuded joy.

The Chesterton schools movement has been going just 15 years but already has 62 high schools in the US and 10 overseas. Bill and Azin hadn’t heard of Chesterton when they were looking for something better for their kids. The Chesterton network provided them a full template for a classical school.

“It’s good to have someone tell you what to do when you don’t know what you’re doing,” Bill says modestly. Now they love Chesterton.

The school’s other striking feature is its no-gadgets policy. Students hand their phones in every morning. But also, throughout their entire school learning, they don’t use laptops, iPads or anything else. The fees are $US11,700 a year. That’s cheaper than many good Catholic schools, but the families typically have iPads and the like at home. The kids all have phones. They get computers. But school time is a screen-free oasis, a time for deep learning.

State school curriculum requirements are much less prescriptive than in Australia so classical schools can design the program they want. At the Chesterton Academy, the curriculum is full and demanding. For all four years of their senior secondary schooling, students study the humanities, maths and science, and the fine arts. In the humanities, they spend what Americans call Freshman Year in the ancient world. In literature: Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil and a book by Chesterton; in history: ancient Greece and Rome; in philosophy: Plato, Aristotle and formal logic; in theology: Old Testament. In Sophomore Year literature: Augustine, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Chesterton on St Francis and on Orthodoxy; history: early church and early medieval; philosophy: Plato and Aristotle; theology: New Testament. In Junior Year literature: Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, plus Chesterton on Thomas Aquinas; history: Renaissance, Reformation, and Counter-Reformation; philosophy: Aquinas, Descartes, Hobbes; theology: the Catholic Catechism. And in senior year literature: Goethe, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Orwell, plus Chesterton’s classic, The Everlasting Man; history: American and French Revolutions, US Civil War, World Wars I and II, communist revolutions; philosophy: Locke, Rousseau, US Founding Fathers, Marx and more Chesterton.

In all four years, students study Latin and practise debate, take maths and science, practise and study art (really the history of art), practise and study music, and stage plays, including in senior year a full-length Shakespeare. And of course they play sport.

That is a rich and taxing educational experience. Not every student could manage it, not every school could attempt it. Notice there are no elective choices for students? This is extremely sensible.

When I was at secondary school, English, maths, science and history were compulsory. We could choose an elective combination either of Latin and French, or commerce and geography. I’m profoundly grateful I studied Latin and French and didn’t have elective choices, at age 14, like guitar, environment studies, or, as in some American schools, “forensics”, in which kids actually get to waste their time watching NCIS episodes and pretend it’s school work.

No electives and no gadgets at all, and the students graduating from Chesterton Academy are blitzing college entrance exams and pursuing stellar academic and professional careers. If you can think well and hard, and read deeply, you can master anything.

Some US states actively promote classical education. Florida recognises the Classical Learning Test as the equivalent to the SAT for college admission.

That night I had dinner with Bill and Azin, five of their six kids, Azin’s mum, and a school board member, at the Clearys’ home. They may be the nicest people I’ve ever met. The kids are years ahead of their respective age groups in conversation and sophistication. Nor do they automatically agree with each other, with me, or with their parents. But also, they actually seem to like their parents, and even to find the conversation of a visiting journalist from Australia worth turning up for. The oldest son, Matthew, a college student, after dinner drives me all the way back to Washington and is an ­absorbing conversationalist.

Kids at this Chesterton Academy are lucky. But classical, or liberal arts, education is a broad movement. There are lots of different shades of emphasis, different intensities. Australian liberal arts schools also de-emphasise gadgets. But because NAPLAN assessments have foolishly gone online, no school now can banish gadgets altogether. Some classical schools have classes on gadgets to acquire particular skills, typing or coding, but don’t use them in most classes.

Whereat tells me the science is conclusive. When students take notes by hand they can’t write as quickly as when they type, so they actually have to process and select information much more actively. They learn better taking notes by hand than typing notes on an iPad.

Broadsmith comments: “One of the problems we have is not that students aren’t interested (in deep learning) but they’ve been taught that everything has to be fast and snappy.” Students see devices not as paths to contemplation but as sources of entertainment and distraction. Efforts to ban social media for kids are a tiny recognition that gadgets fry brains.

No Australian school could produce a curriculum like the Chesterton Academy because of the state requirements, which are obviously necessary for accountability but seem to emphasise mediocrity, ideology, narrowness in the faux service of choice, triviality, incoherence.

Claire Whereat tells Inquirer that the Toowoomba Christian College secondary literature curriculum includes Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Pilgrim’s Progress, To Kill a Mocking Bird. They’re all good choices.

She also makes a profound point about teaching history chronologically: “You can’t understand where Australia has come from if you don’t understand the Judeo-Christian background, or the Westminster system.”

All the classical or liberal arts schools teach grammar. She says: “We spend a lot of time looking at beautiful words, looking closely at what words mean, their Latin and Greek roots.”

NSW schools enjoy one happy curriculum freedom because of the legacy of former premier Bob Carr. Monagle says: “Carr saved history as a discipline.”

In other states history has been rolled into geography and social studies and mangled into a thousand incoherent pieces, often at best a few isolated case studies and relentless agitprop.

Carr recalls: “I insisted on maintaining the traditional disciplines. I wanted curriculum rigour. I insisted history remain a separate subject. History could be defined as what happened next and why. I also reinstated traditional grammar, and corrected the retirement of Shakespeare from English courses.”

Carr wrote his own version of a guide to the Great Books in his much-neglected My Reading Life, which is a classic of sorts in Australian letters. He thinks now a suitably supple Great Books approach has a lot to recommend it.

Dedicated classical and liberal arts schools are just beginning in Australia. But existing schools, especially Catholic and Christian schools, are increasingly examining this option. It’s a trend. It’s the future.

In an important recent speech, Sydney Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher argued for a move to a more integrated liberal arts approach in Catholic schools. He asked: “How might we cultivate a more expansive educational environment, whereby all academic disciplines interconnect and serve the transmission of faith and development of the whole child?”

In a distressed and bleeding culture, these schools are field hospitals; perhaps more than that – base camps; perhaps more than that – signs of a new creation.

Cassie at 8:23.
The article by Uhlmann is spot on.
As is the quote about directors shitting themselves if a couple of activists show up in the foyer or at the AGM.
But interesting that he still doesn’t go on the record to be quoted directly.
The real test is yet to come.
Who will be first to attack Blackout Bowen and Luigi the Unbelievable directly and publicly over the renewballs scam?

How his crimes and his ego poisoned Indigenous affairs all the way up to the Voice

Paige Taylor, The Australian, 20 September, 2024

Just the sight of Geoff Clark made some Australians want to vote No to the Indigenous voice. And that suited him. The former chairman of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ­Islander Commission arrived at the landmark Uluru convention in 2017 to make the case against an Indigenous advisory body in the Constitution. When he complained there had been “no consultation” on the long walk towards a referendum, Aboriginal people familiar with his methods knew he meant there had been insufficient deference to him.

For proponents of the voice, Clark’s interventions during the campaign were as unwelcome as they were unsurprising.

“It was always about Geoff Clark,” said Geoff Scott, once an acting chief executive of ATSIC. “His story is a very sad one for the whole Aboriginal community. It cast that shadow over everything”.

Clark, now 72, is in prison awaiting sentencing for stealing almost $1m from the Aboriginal community in rural Victoria that he had ruled for decades.

His criminal downfall has prompted an outpouring of regret, anger and even grief from Aboriginal leaders and policy makers, who see Clark as the symbol of 25 years of dysfunction and corruption in Indigenous affairs.

An outline of the prosecution case, released by the Victorian County Court, shows the police investigation was lengthy and complex. It took about 11 years for police to unravel Clark’s offending over 16 years.

One whistleblower – an Aboriginal elder – died waiting for the outcome. There were four trials, each subject to suppression orders until this month. Clark’s critics ­describe him as intelligent, but the court documents suggest he got sloppy at some point.

For example, Clark committed perjury when he swore an affidavit in which he stated he did not hold any real estate. The prosecution showed Clark held three properties and legal title for each of these was registered in his name.

“He kept a folder marked ‘Geoff’s houses and land’ at his house in which he stored documents pertaining to his purchase and improvement of these properties over the years,” the prosecution stated.

Clark is not only a thief, he is a great wrecker in the modern era of Indigenous affairs, according to Fred Chaney.

It was around 2000 when Chaney – who had been Malcolm Fraser’s Indigenous affairs minister – watched in awe as Clark gave a compelling and succinct explanation of ATSIC’s work towards a treaty. “Clark was a person of terrific ability who, as it turned out, had so many ugly aspects to his character,” Chaney said. “The trouble with terrific ability is that, when badly used, it is disastrous. Clark brought the whole thing undone because it was his personal reputation that enabled ATSIC to be attacked so effectively … he provided ammunition for the assimilationists to pull down Aboriginal organisational structures notwithstanding those structures were operating more effectively than the ones they replaced.

“It’s been all downhill in Indigenous affairs since.”

By 2001, Clark was embroiled in a power struggle with his deputy, Ray Robinson, and fending off allegations from four women who said he raped them. A special audit did not uncover fraud at ATSIC. Regardless, perceptions were growing that the organisation was problematic.

In 2002 the Brisbane Courier-Mail aired allegations that Robinson, the deputy, had received money to which he was not ­entitled from a taxpayer-funded organisation. In 2011, after a retrial, Robinson was put on a good ­behaviour bond after being found guilty of misappropriating $45,000, part of the proceeds from the sale of 10 cars owned by community-based Aboriginal corporations formerly under his control. His appeal was dismissed in 2012.

Noongar lawyer Hannah McGlade recalls that in the early 2000s, ATSIC at the federal level was a men’s club characterised by sleaze and disrespect to Aboriginal women. She was an ATSIC executive, hired for her qualifications in international human rights law to work on treaty, yet she said Clark spoke down to her.

When McGlade was invited to a human rights convention in Ireland, she asked ATSIC for permission to attend but could not get an answer. McGlade quit ­ before she found out why. “It became untenable after the sexual assault allegations against Clark,” she said.

McGlade turned her anger into a PhD about sexual assault and ­violence against Aboriginal women and children, and became an even stronger advocate for them. She later learned from a story in The Australian that Clark had taken her work trip to Ireland, and stayed only two nights at the week-long convention.

Freedom of Information documents showed he toured Ireland with his wife and friends, with stopovers in London and Singapore. In all, Clark’s week abroad in 2022 cost the taxpayer $31,000 or $50,200 in today’s money. McGlade says Aboriginal women did excellent work at ATSIC, especially in the regions, but they were not properly ­acknowledged for this under Clark’s leadership.

Clark’s tenure was a contrast to ATSIC’s early years when Aboriginal women were in charge. Pat Turner was the chief executive from 1994 to 1998 and Lowitja O’Donoghue was the government-appointed chair from 1990 to 1996. Turner went on to rewrite the Closing the Gap agreement with Scott Morrison. When O’Donoghue died in February aged 91, Noel Pearson described her as the greatest Indigenous leader of the modern era.

He said her six years as chairwoman were “ATSIC’s best years”.

“They were years of great ­coherence in Indigenous affairs, before the national commission’s subsequent poor leadership played into the hands of the Howard government’s antipathy to all things Indigenous,” Pearson said in his tribute to O’Donoghue.

Amanda Vanstone was the minister who suspended Clark in 2003 after he was convicted for­ obstructing police during a pub brawl. “He was a sharp one, he was always being nice to me saying things like ‘you’re all right, not like all your Coalition mates’. Full on blatant sucking up really,” she said.

Vanstone recalls a detective phoned her about Clark more than 10 years ago. Those were the early days of Operation Omega which slowly established how Clark had stolen from the Framlingham Aboriginal Trust and three related entities. Across multiple trials, Clark was found guilty of 25 charges. His son, Jeremy Clark, 51, was found guilty of seven charges including theft and false accounting.

Vanstone says she is particularly troubled by corruption in Indigenous organisations because of who it deprives. “The key thing is that when you have people up the top creaming the money out of Indigenous affairs, people underneath aren’t getting it,” she said.

“In that sense, corruption in ­Indigenous affairs is more detrimental than some other areas because it is at the expense of people for whom life really is very difficult. There are plenty of really good people genuinely trying to do the right thing and then you have others helping themselves and their family, hurting people who need the most help.”

Though Clark was reinstated the year after Vanstone suspended him over the pub brawl conviction, John Howard’s gutting of ATSIC was under way in 2004. Labor’s then leader, Mark Latham, made abolishing ATSIC an election promise. On March 16, 2005, parliament disbanded the federal body that had been elected by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be responsible for half the commonwealth budget for ­Indigenous-specific programs.

Clark was never convicted of rape. However, a jury at a 2007 civil trial found he led two pack rapes at Warrnambool in March and April 1971.

Aboriginal entrepreneur Sean Gordon, a conservative who supported the Indigenous voice, said Clark should have resigned as chairman for the good of ATSIC. However, Gordon says that the Howard government’s decision to shut ATSIC down rather than deal in the usual way with an organisation’s leadership problems has had lasting ramifications.

“I have no doubt it was on ­people’s minds during the voice debate,” Gordon said.

“That government response to ATSIC is inconsistent with their response to other elected representative bodies such as local government authorities.

“When they are dysfunctional they aren’t wound up but are put into administration and councillors replaced. The body itself ­remains intact … unfortunately we got special treatment.”

Vanstone herself was not entirely sure that abolishing all of ATSIC was the answer.

Mick Gooda, Australia’s former social justice commissioner, told The Weekend Australian that ­Aboriginal people knew Vanstone had fought and lost in cabinet to keep the regional councils.

Vanstone confirmed she saw the value of ATSIC in the bush.

“I do have a slight lingering doubt about getting rid of all the regional offices,” she said. “I did think at the time it might be worth keeping some of the regional offices for the purposes of getting information from those offices and feeding it into Canberra.”

In her travels as a minister, Vanstone said she saw first hand the disconnect between the government and its Aboriginal constituents in regional and remote areas. She said she also saw people living in appalling conditions while their land councils or Aboriginal corporations managed many millions of dollars.

“I still think and worry about what we need to do,” she said. “Once you’ve had Indigenous ­affairs you never let go of the things you have seen.”

She was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2014 for outstanding public service in the development of Australia’s liquefied natural gas and other resource and energy industries.

The Australian prog-left establishment do love their medals despite their professed egalitarianism.

Which is funny, because it’s a holdover from the imperial honours system.

Chris Kenny on Welcome to Country has blown up Teh Weekend Paywallian. 1531 comments at last count and you would struggle to find any in support.

Paul Joseph Watsom Watson comments on Bald and Bankrupts latest travel video.

Bald does not sugarcoat the truth. India has serious problems, all captured on camera.

Who cares if the Indians are upset. No wonder they are fleeing the joint to come to places like here, Canada the UK and elsewhere.

The squalor is breathtaking.

He’s Made Them Very Angry

Top Ender

 September 21, 2024 1:15 pm

Close down the “remote communities” and just treat everyone the same.

March10, 2015, when PM, Tony Abbott made the decision to close remote aboriginal communities. The resultant whining from do-gooders registered on the Richter scale. Brave Sir Tony boldly turned his tail and fled from what would have been a legacy-making decision.

From the Guardian, 2015:

Tony Abbott has shrugged off the decision to close 150 Western Australian remote Indigenous communities, saying the taxpayer should not have to fund people’s “lifestyle choices”.
The WA premier, Colin Barnett, foreshadowed the closure of up to 150 remote communities after the commonwealth said funding for them would soon lapse and fall entirely to the states. The federal government is currently a major contributor to keeping the communities afloat.

Abbott told ABC Radio in Kalgoorlie that Barnett was right to shut down the communities if the cost of providing services outweighed the benefits.
“What we can’t do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have,” Abbott said during a visit to the historic city on Tuesday.

– 1,735 injured in “reproductive organs.”

Not much point martyring yourself if you can’t rape reap the reward – those 72 virgins.

I think Trump wonders a bit at times, but he always circles back to the point being made and offers a direct response.

KamalToe is a fcking moron, and although in a different way, about as bad as Dementia.