Depends if it is smoked, or not. Hickory -smoked camel is pretty good stuff, Roast it low and slow, basting…
Open Thread – Mon 23 Sept 2024
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- Guest Post: Mem – The Ratchet Effect of Power-Price Increases
- Will the wind warriors become social outcasts?
- Open Thread – Thurs 16 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 13 Jan 2025
Chris Kenny has been putting up some good columns for the Oz though. Stuck on a horse-drawn buggy as world…
Clennell is no loss.
If they don’t get them all, start razing Gaza to the ground.
Sadly, this was predictable from the time of Al Grassby.
It was a beautiful day in Perth today. Every person I passed walking down the street was staring into their phones. Even the mums pushing their prams.
F*cking rididculous.
…ridiculous
Thurd
Some surprises here. How much we can trust any of the figures from Ukraine and Russia is a frustrating question.
The Ukrainian Economy at War (2024) – Defence Production, Energy & Endurance (youtube.com)
Cool.
Prescient?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Thanks Tom.
On the subject of cats and dogs being allowed on flights in the flight cabin…
Monday’s Daily Tele:
CATTLE CLASS IS BETTER THAN THIS
TIM BLAIR – THE CASE AGAINST
23 Sep 2024
Air travel used to be a luxury.
Now it’s becoming a lottery – with unlucky losers set to be stuck in the sky alongside canine or feline travel companions.
Virgin Australia will soon begin trial flights between Sydney and Melbourne that will accommodate dogs and cats in the main cabin.
This doesn’t sound optimal.
This sounds like visiting a relative who excessively indulges her indoor pets, but with worse food options and penalties for additional luggage.
According to reports, Virgin plans a “staged approach” to its airborne domestic animal proximity enclosures, initially allowing only “small dogs and cats in carriers on selected Melbourne-Sydney and Sydney-Melbourne flights before adding other routes”.
That line about keeping pooches and pussies in carriers is obviously intended to calm the likes of me, who’d basically prefer human or human-like company during flights.
As The Australian observed: “Only dogs and cats that could travel in a carrier able to fit under the seat in front would be permitted to travel with their owners.”
You know, this carrier strategy might not be the deal-sealer that Virgin bosses imagine it to be.
For a start, even docile dogs get a little antsy when confined in uncomfortable spaces.
If I wanted to share time with language-inhibited, tick-carrying things that growl, bark and snap, I’d watch the ABC.
There’s also the slightly concerning issue of what might define “fit” in terms of dogs, cats and their carriers.
Does anybody really want to endure an entire interstate flight sat next to a 25kg Staffie that’s stuffed into a 15kg space?
The only situation worse would be sitting next to Timmeh.
Err…no… I have met Tim personally.
Entertaining and funny.
Would sit next to Tim on a flight any day.
You on the other hand continuing to drone on about National Service in Vietnam and how hard you were done by while in the QStore would be like sitting next to Ted Striker in the movie Flying High, talking people to death.
However Ted Striker is funny and hilarious.
You are not.
Nice retort Beery to the insufferable old bore.
Good grief! You’re here early.
Don’t diss Tim.
Now. Make me a BLT, naked, but with an apron on.
Who is downticking me at 6:30am. Calli, I seem to have attracted your downticker. Cunning. It doesn’t hurt, it tickles. Sancho aka Leigh Lowe ?
That question mark was an emoji of love hearts. I have a 4,000 dollar phone. Areff has it escalating in price. It’s now the bane of my existence. Bane? Is that a word.
You need to go to the Farmer’s market to purchase a heirloom tomatoe. Bacon needs to be kosher. Cos lettuce-the baby one. Kosher salt with cracked black pepper.
And the unlucky sufferers of dog/cat allergy? Three in my family alone.
The animal swell, the barking and meowing, the pee and poo smell.
Bolta on the horrid thing that is the Wong Chap in today’s Tele:
PAGING MS PENNY:
THE FACTS CANNOT BE DENIED
ANDREW BOLT
23 Sep 2024
The exploding pagers in Lebanon last week blew up more than Hezbollah terrorists.
They also blew up Penny Wong’s claim that she backs Israel’s right to defend itself.
Yes, our Foreign Minister is a phony.
I was wondering when it would get to this – Israel launching an attack so perfectly targeting its jihadist enemies that Wong would be exposed at last as a liar or dissembling panderer to Muslim voters. A backstabber of our Israeli allies in this fight to defend western civilisation.
How could she fail to support such a brilliant operation, in which some 3000 pagers issued only to operatives of the Hezbollah terrorist army were secretly rigged with explosives by Israel, and just enough to maim or kill only the bearer?
It’s clearly an act of Israeli self-defence. Hezbollah has already fired 8000 rockets into Israel since October 7, forcing 63,000 people to evacuate homes in northern Israel.
One Hezbollah rocket two months ago killed 12 Israeli children, all Muslim Druze at a soccer practice.
Is Israel meant to keep enduring these rocket attacks, day after day?
Don’t think Hezbollah can be reasoned with instead.
It’s also attacked American bases and assets, assassinated Christian Lebanese leaders and demanded Israel’s destruction.
Yet Wong last week still tut-tutted that Israel had hurt these poor Islamist terrorists, who seem to have made up most of the dead and injured in the pager plot: “I would say all violence is something we don’t wish to see …
“This reflects the concern we’ve had for some time about the potential for regional escalation.”
I always suspected Wong was insincere. Just weeks after Hamas terrorists started this war on October 7 by slaughtering 1200 Jews, raping women, beheading men and taking 251 hostages, Wong hit on the formula that she’s used ever since to suggest she supports Israel defending itself, without ever actually doing so.
“Israel has a right to defend itself,” she said, but “Israel’s friends, including Australia, have emphasised that the way Israel does that matters”.
Wong has since honed that down after repeated use: “We recognise Israel’s right to defend itself and we stress that the way it does so matters.”
Which suits Wong, because she’s never since publicly identified a right way for Israel to defend itself.
Indeed, what seems to matter to her is not how Israel fights back, but that it fights at all.
You’d even get the impression from Wong that Israel is and always will be a war criminal.
For instance, Wong warned Israel had broken “international law” when it bombed a room in one of the many hospitals in Gaza, which Hamas used as a military base, even though Israel used surveillance and precision weapons to avoid killing civilians.
Wong also insisted Israel “must not proceed” with military operations in Rafah, in southern Gaza, even though some of the remaining Israel hostages have since been found there.
She gave Israel no credit for making civilians in Rafah first evacuate, or for warning locals ahead of strikes to move.
Wong might quibble in each case that Israel was still putting too many civilians at risk, but how could she say that about Israel’s pager-bomb attack on Hezbollah, or the booby-trapped Hezbollah walkietalkies it set off the day after?
There is almost no chance that innocent Lebanese civilians were walking around with pagers and walkie-talkies that Hezbollah admitted had been issued “to employees of various Hezbollah units and institutions”.
This had to be the cleanest kill ever seen of terrorists who hide behind civilians. So why can’t Wong support even that?
But so much that Wong and the rest of the Albanese government does makes no sense, unless you figure – aha – this is about winning Muslim votes, or pleasing anti-Israel bigots of the hard Left who’d otherwise vote for the Greens.
Why has this government said almost nothing about the Jew-hater clerics of Sydney? Why almost nothing about the abusive and violent pro-Palestine protests? And why did Wong in her visit to Israel refuse to visit places where Hamas massacred Jews on October 7?
I visited kibbutz Be’eri and saw unmistakably clearly how Hamas had planned the systematic murder of Jewish civilians, house by burned house.
Had Wong seen that she’d have had to know there cannot be any compromise with the genocidal men who ordered that horror.
I now understand why she didn’t want to learn that.
No, Israel must never be right.
No shot it fires to save itself can ever be praised.
Nice 😀 :
PAGING MS PENNY:
Wong is an absolute lightweight.
I’m still miffed why the LNP don’t go harder at her…
Because if they did, they would be waaaaaayyyyycist homophobic bigots.
Andrew hit the nail on the head, Israel should defend itself, she does not say how. It’s like all lefties, you should be able to do this that, Taney never explain why except for that’s not my job.
Ghetto stairs
I don’t get it.
I assume it means: ‘What’s up, stairs?’ As in ‘How ya doin’?’
Explainer:
from the OT for Salvatore
Sal, my missus has the court proceedings running nearly all day and from time to time I overhear quite a bit of it.
Moira’s side clearly establishes her good character and shows very well that the idiot Pesutto and his cartel of retards have gone above and beyond in an attempt to destroy her.
last I heard was Pesutto himself essentially repeating in court his idiotic smears and allegations in front of the judge… nazi’s everywhere apparently
plenty of “evidence” from Twitter too. that’s right the Leader of the Opposition is using The Sewer to justify his own poisonous behavior
the judge doesnt seem to be buying any of it either. When he asks for clarification like, “What’s a TERF?” … it sounds to me more like “Can somebody please tell me what this idiot is talking about?”
can you let women speak without them turning into Nazis … apparently not according to Pesutto
I dont think Pesutto gets it … by extension he is essentially arguing that unless you share his mental aberrations then you’re all nazi’s too…That’s right Judge … you too.
it is sickening what Pesutto, Southwick et al have done
my missus is furious over this whole issue.
the Liberal party is broken … if it has a ‘brand’ after this court case … they will be The Mental Party.
That’s right … Vik Libs … even more mental than Vik Labor
the people propping up this toxic tosser, both in his legal defense and in the Liberal Party, should be shot with their own shit.
Looking at you Mr Kennett
Political zombies: Rotting bodies that ambulate, but no functioning brain. What we perceive as verbal communication is simply the emission of gasses as the body’s organic matter breaks down – verbal flatulence.
It is those clinging desperately to nostalgia – claiming this verlatulence constitutes meaning and is an outcome of cognitive activity – who keep the collective of bog bodies ‘alive’ (so to speak).
I’m right there with your missus, MT. Prosciutto is a lightweight weasel with absolutely zero self awareness. If he thinks spewing this dog’s vomit about Deeming is a political winner, then he’s even dumber.ber than he appears.
Shot with their own shit. Now thats a keeper. Well done.
Someone I used to know from the NSW Labor Right called the Victorian Liberals the Dandy Nongs: vacuous upper-class twits who expected public office to be handed to then on a silver platter because Daddy sent them to the right school. Kennett was obviously an aberration.
Back in the late eighties I had the privilege of opening a new special school in North Queensland.
Because it was a new school, it was staffed with graduate (first year) teachers. What they had in common was youth, enthusiasm, and dedication to the students with disabilities enrolled.
These children were predominantly of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage. Itinerant health clinics visiting their communities had identified them as being at risk, and over the years they had been brought to live in a residential home run in those days by the North Queensland Crippled Children’s Association.
There they received excellent care, but they were separated from their homes and families. These days, they would probably be cared for on their own country, but that was not the practice thirty-five years ago. When the new school was opened in 1987, these children, for the first time in their lives, began to share an experience shared with children living at home with family, by attending a school located separately from where they lived.
Previously the school was an annexe of the nursing home. In that situation the children ate, slept, and went to school on the one site. It was a pretty restricted environment, and once removed from their communities, they rarely returned. It was institutionalisation writ large.
One of these children was a seven year-old Islander lad from Boigu Island, living with just about every sensory disability possible. He was hearing impaired, had low vision, and microcephaly. Of greatest concern was that he was failing to thrive. There were a number of reasons for this, but a major issue was his capacity (or rather incapacity) to chew and swallow. It took literally hours to patiently feed him, much in the same fashion as an infant is fed, and finding the time to do this, both at the nursing home, and at school was a major challenge.
He had to be carefully positioned and supported and his special food presented to him one small spoonful at a time. The nursing staff would attempt this in the morning before he left for school on the bus, but time was severely limited. Much the same was true in the evening, given the staffing at the home, and he was steadily losing weight. The “failure to thrive” diagnosis would have meant a hospital admission, and tube feeding.
His teacher was determined that this would not happen, so she took the whole hour long lunch time at school to set him up and feed him. This meant she had no lunch break herself, and I’ll admit turning a blind eye to her continuing to feed him past the end of the designated time, whilst a teacher aide looked after the rest of the class. Conventionally, the feeding task should have been allocated to a teacher aide, but he refused to take food from anyone else.
After a few weeks of this process, he ceased losing weight, but he was scarcely thriving. Then the teacher had a bright idea, based on what she had learned about him. He had been born and reared within the sound and smell of the sea, so she decided to take him to the beach to feed him. This was straightforward, as we had a bus at school, I had taught most of the teachers to drive it, and she booked it for a weekly trip to Rowes Bay, pretty close to the nursing home. She would put him on the sand, and feed him there. Unsurprisingly perhaps, he seemed keen to eat there, and it became an enjoyable experience, rather than an ordeal. The rest of her class enjoyed the beach, as well.
The teacher’s theory was that this little boy’s olfactory sense was critically significant to him, and the familiar smell of the sea helped him relax enough to chew and swallow. Based on his weight gain as this protocol continued, it seemed she was correct. Across a period of six months, his weight improved, he became more alert, and he began to respond more often and more clearly to other students and staff.
By the time this teacher was transferred away, two years later, his life had been transformed.
Over the years, I’ve lost track of both teacher and child, although I did encounter the teacher at a principal’s conference in 1997. She had done well, and was by that time, a junior principal. That cohort of ten beginning teachers were high achievers.
Most of them are now in senior positions.
A wonderful recollection. Such teachers are remarkable people.
Err. Weren’t you telling us a few days ago that special needs children should be educated in normal schools? Are you suggesting that this child could have been? How much disruption would result to the education of the ” normal” children had this been done?
And if a teacher’s aide could take the class, are the teachers over- credentialed?
This child should have stayed on Boigu, and been given the support he needed to live the best life he could in his own community.
Teachers are not over-credentialed. The credentials are irrelevant. Compassion and courage are what is required in a great teacher. Paying them what they’re worth would help. Finland supplies the model.
Huh? Then why the fuss over them?
What fuss?
Moving them from an “apprentice” model of training to a degree model, then suggestions that even higher credentials are needed. Have you been asleep for the past 50 years?
The mental state of leftoidism is not akin to sleep but a suppression, deliberate or involuntary, of the higher mental and moral capacities.
More solipsism from Bob.
Ellie you are taking advantage of dover’s exceptionally good nature. Desist. My concern for you in the past has been misplaced.
Have I offended you?
I am trying to use humour to distract from my jabbed existence. Don’t read me.
I didn’t know anyone within the 5 km radius during Lock down. Talk to me about gagging me. I am doing nothing wrong here, but writing words on a screen. I’m so offensive. Such protected species here.
When a man, especially a red head, tells me to desist, I bite back. Who the hell are you to tell me to desist? I am harmless. A Trump supporter. A hater of communism. A fighter of freedom. And you try to control my speech.
Free speech. Freedom of the press. It’s only ok if it makes you feeeel ok. There are parameters. It’s totally skewiff. I offend you, therefore I should be banned. Where does it start and end, Ranga.
You know you have made it on the “Cat” when you get downticked by the silent minority. I had no idea I had so much power.
Challenge the higher power. And you will be shat on.
They won’t speak to you, but they will tickle me with downticks.
How many of you left your computer screens to march against antisemitism? I am 56. My grandmother’s nightmares still haunt me.
Vicarious trauma. Why do I have to live with it. But come here to speak and sancho and ranga don’t like it.
It worse than you think Matrix.
We’ve been told by a Nat pollie that the Deeming case needs to be of the way before the Libs do anything about the renewables build or supporting Dutton’s energy policy for that matter.
We can’t get Pesutto out of Melbourne or in Melbourne to talk to us. Regional Libs know it’s a big problem and struggle to answer why the leader of their party won’t engage with conservative voters trying to bring down Labor.
He’s doing a Kamala.
Because that’s a winning strategy. What a useless clown.
Watched a couple of episodes of “Porridge” on the TeeVee last night.
A bit of light relief after watching the Amazing Lying Menendez Brothers (“Daddy touched me here … and here”).
Mackay : “Good news, Fletcher. You’re getting parole.”
Fletcher : “Oh? When?”
Mackay : “Friday week.”
Fletcher : “Who’s me parole officer?”
Mackay : “Miss [redacted].”
Fletcher : “That nutter? No fanks. I’ll just do me time.”
🙂
Spooner wins again.
Wicked.
Good morning C.U.N.T.s!
You are talking to yourself. You’re a bit off though. Tuesday is tomorrow
Unlike you, I don’t do post mortems. Haven’t been back to see what went on last night. But you do religiously.
Do you have to, Sancho?
You’re like a little kid who has found a way to use a swear word that he thinks won’t get him into trouble.
And it’s not as funny as you think it is.
In fairness Sancho did not use it first.
I see the police in NY have finally caught up with Bo Diddley.
“Congratulations to humanity—Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas terrorists in Gaza, is on his way to hell. He has been seriously injured; may he end up dead”
Today’s big twitter rumour.
https://x.com/amjadt25/status/1837941440824918287?t=Sui0YelR8R_W45PEJldN6A&s=19
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1837929739333546474?t=qLVXd6qX_tEcgaTHoOC1Vw&s=19
Boo yah!!!
My opinion?
Did he get a pager, too?
Rosie
September 23, 2024 7:10 am
Part of the evidence was that nothing has been heard from him.
Maybe he’s just not answering calls.
Understandable.
Hopefully, plenty wrong & luigi don’t read this or they’ll be offering “help” .. Imagine European countries knocking back Gaza “refugees” ….. Wonder why neighbouring Arabs aren’t offering to step in ……… https://yle.fi/a/74-20112754
Brilliant
https://x.com/LookAtMyMeat1/status/1837777277850988866?t=A8i9kthFkuLWxgXZGvsUEw&s=19
“Our” ABC is “Not Happy, Jan” .. Hadbollocks is on the receiving end of some serious Israeli retaliation so time to run out another of the, never-ending stash of ‘sob” stories …..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-23/beirut-building-bombed-by-israel-family-remain-buried/104382992
Assad has granted a general amnesty, the one million Syrians who fled to Germany can now safely return home.
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1428082/syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-issues-general-amnesty-for-military-deserters-minor-offenses.html
They would take the promise of a Muslim?
Idiots.
Notice how many of Numberwangs screeds involve just how wonderful, government is when it has unlimited resources.
If wed just give them a bit more it would be all wine and roses.
Didn’t he comment a couple of days ago about being wealthy?
Just a little bit more, and he could be very wealthy.
I posted this on the old thread. Worth repeating.
https://youtu.be/FdPqhlVTjZo?si=6WcsR_HMyHdUGtH-
I’d bet there’s a hell of a story behind this one.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-judge-shot-killed-sheriff-chambers/
Gay panic.
Beery, many thanks for posting the Blot column in the Herald Sun. He’s a superb writer.
Unfortunately, it’s only his Trump-sized ego that got him the Sky News TV gig.
Because he’s utterly uninterested and incurious about anyone else’s thoughts, he’s a terrible TV interviewer and bathes himself each night in a bathful of smug.
At least he can write well, which he can fall back on when Sky viewers eventually tire of him.
https://jihadwatch.org/2024/09/un-demands-immunity-for-unrwa-employees-complicit-in-oct-7-jihad-massacre
In “never let a good tragedy go to waste”, Birmingham AL police “believe” that the latest homie drive-by shooting-
-was because of *gasps* cash money, and
-was because of illegal modification *eeeeek!* of legal firearms.
So, the cops will be all-in for universal digital basic income and no guns.
Unrelated news, there’s an election coming up, with one candidate whose few solid policies are brain-farts in this direction.
Habitual liars claim monopoly on truth:
If this Bill passes, it will be proof that Parliament is no longer under the control of the people, but is now a secular prize that represents only favoured groups – both social and political.
It will be the final nail.
Good to see Dutton finally finding his voice on this.
A cynic might suggest the focus group returns must have been unambiguous in their disapproval.
Pathologising dissent neatly avoids any potential debate about truth or fact, because it is not the content of the message which determines its validity, but the status of the messenger (Insider-Outsider). If you are an approved truth-teller (an Insider), you can reverse what you deem factual tomorrow, and still label disbelievers as dissenters.
By labeling dissenters as a danger to society (actually, the Insider group only), the end goal is a declaration of outlawry: That these individuals are so dangerous, they have forfeited all normal social and legal protections, and may be hunted by any means necessary to achieve the desired outcome (eradication).
monopoly *of truth, Rog
OED states both are acceptable, as is in.
😀
Claire does a good job with quillete
@amuse
@_johnnymaga
Trump was just asked how he stays healthy. He says he used to play golf but it’s a “Dangerous sport” and that he’s outlived people that tried to give him health advice.
There will never be another like him.
@OneBadDude_
Holy sht how the hell is this reality?
Shatterzzz there were some great goal over the weekend, pity for you Toon could only manage one of them.
The High Court of Australia may provide a large stumbling block to any ‘misinformation laws’. While the so-called progressive model of interpretation it employed is dubious, and can be employed to reach regressive and repressive results, the court’s holding that federal and state laws cannot detract from a freedom to engage in political communication might, if the court us so inclined, render the current plans to control and restrict such communication invalid. (It will be up to wealthy media interests to fund a challenge.)
A year or two ago, the Qld Labor Government changed union laws so that the only organisation which stood up for its members during the covidiocy, and actively challenged the wax mandates, became essentially non-grata (ineligible to be acknowledged as a union). This was an obvious attack on political communication (and a reward for the unions which told their members to get fecked (but continue handing over yer money!).
If it gets that far it will depend on how the HC interprets political communication.
Will contradicting the dogmas of the gender benders be deemed ‘political speech’ and thus protected, for example.
Yes is my guess Roger. The communications bear on public debate about how the law should bear upon these unfortunates.
But the High Court has room to choose and cannot avoid personal judgements when delivering a judgment on validity.
This account is marked “parody” but, again, I don’t see the joke.
@notPBD
I wonder why.
Would-be Trump assassin ARRESTED 74 times before attempt — and spent ZERO time incarcerated
Of course it is.
Open Borders: A “Crisis by Design”
This is from the old thread but it actually covers everything that’s happening now. All of it, including the border crisis, was covered by Aristotle’s “Politics”.
How do you get Trump to change a lightbulb?
You don’t.
He will lie that he changed it, and all the Republicans will sit in the dark and agree it was changed.
You’re repeating what was said in the Obama era
A highly edumacated teacher like you can’t even come up with an original political joke? Sad, low energy.
Yes I would get trump to change a light bulb – he’s involved in building sites.
From the Hun.
That position will be abolished’: Dutton vows to scrap First Nations Ambassador role after $145K bill revelationThe world’s only First Nations People Ambassador — appointed by the Albanese government — took nine overseas trips amassing huge bills. See the eye-watering travel costs.
Need to see more of this. Worked for Abbott when destroying R-G-R.
Dr. John Campbell
Batch dependent safety
Wordle in two!
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light globe?
None. It’s easier to sit in the dark and blame the Jews.
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has vowed to abolish the position of Ambassador for First Nations Peoples if the Coalition wins the next election.
It comes after The Daily Telegraph revealed that the Albanese government approved spending of more than $350,000 last financial year to send its ambassador on nine overseas trips – mostly to the US and Europe.
In March 2023, Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and then Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney announced the appointment of Justin Mohamed to the new role, which does not exist anywhere else in the world.
Mr Mohamed’s job description initially said he would “engage regional partners on the Voice, Treaty, Truth process,” but that function has been removed since the Voice referendum was voted down.
Travel expenses released by Senator Wong’s department under freedom of information laws reveal Mr Mohamed’s business class flights in 2023-24 cost more than $100,000.
Mr Dutton argued the funds could be better allocated to pressing economic concerns.
“If it is a case that we win the next election, that position will be abolished on day one and that money will be spent to help Australians who are struggling at the moment to keep a roof over their head, or to pay their electricity bill, we’ve got higher priorities at the moment,” he told 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Monday morning.
“The cost of living crisis that Labor has created means that a lot of families over this winter have gone without electricity to power their air conditioning, their heating, and they just can’t afford to eat at the same time, they can do one or the other.
“I’m not going to tolerate a situation where we’re wasting taxpayers’ money.”
Mr Mohamed travelled to the US four times and to Switzerland twice, records show. He went to Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea once each.
He also visited the United Arab Emirates. That trip was to “represent First Nations perspectives” at the United Nations climate change conference, COP28. Mr Mohamed’s flights to and from the UAE cost more than $10,000 and his hotel room cost nearly $7000 for a seven-night stay.
His overseas hotel bill last financial year was over $30,000.
DFAT pre-approved spending of up to $358,000 in 2023-24 on the nine overseas trips by Mr Mohamed. Sometimes he was accompanied by a colleague or colleagues from DFAT and this figure includes their travel costs. All of the trips appear to have come in under budget.
Still, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said the contrast “could not be more stark” between the spending and the everyday experiences of Australians, especially those of “marginalised Indigenous Australians in remote communities”.
“The Albanese Government needs to explain how these frequent and expensive trips are advancing the interests of Australia and improving outcomes for First Nations people,” Senator Nampijinpa Price said.
DFAT said “international engagement by the Ambassador for First Nations People supports DFAT’s strategic priorities to embed First Nations perspectives into Australia’s foreign policy.”
“This has included elevating First Nations involvement in Australia’s trade and investment opportunities, strengthening human rights resolutions at high-level UN forums and securing the historic Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge.”
The FOI request, made by an unknown party, only covered up until June 30.
DFAT said that since then Mr Mohamed has visited the Solomon Islands and Fiji. It is not known if he has gone to any other countries this financial year.
Before becoming First Nations People Ambassador, Mr Mohamed was the deputy secretary for Aboriginal justice in the Victorian government’s Department of Justice and Community Safety. He was previously the state’s Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People.
Ten staff work in Mr Mohamed’s office; eight are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people. The office has a four-year budget of $13.6 million.
Mr Mohamed said any questions should be directed to DFAT.
Join the comments at the Daily Tele
First Nations? What First Nations?
Why stop at this one?
I think it’s about time DFAT had the financial microscope run over its activities and expenses.
A good look at the employees would be a great idea as well.
Are we paying for the Lebenese rugby league national team?
With his heel spurs? Right?
Daily Tele poll:
Should pets be allowed to travel in plane cabins with humans?
?
Yes 23 %
No 77 %
1256 votes
The idea of a killer terrier loose in the aircraft is a 77% downer.
Tough if you’ve got serious cat allergies. My daughter’s sinuses fill, eyes and face puff up along with splitting headache. Imagine going to a meeting like that.
Many such cases.
“represent First Nations perspectives” curious what are they?
Does it mean Supermarkets should start offering dilly bags as an alternative to carting the shopping home.
NASA could also do with some constructive suggestions.
How on earth would “Mohamed”, know what is important to Abos anyway?
I wonder what he has on Burqa and Pong?
Hezbies would be afraid to go near a light bulb right now, in case Mossad has been at it.
Nah. They’re still lobbing rockets into Israel. Apparently they can do it one handed.
Mossad needs to booby trap the next shipment of ordnance.
Morn. FFS I got a headache. Was a good afternoon though…
Word hot off presses from someone in RSFU’s is that there are boats with illegal migrants are in business again, just in smaller numbers. Press not even reporting.
Bad look for their man sleazy obviously.
Gee Bobby, if you workshopped that Trump joke you could elevate it to lame status.
You must be a riot at parties.
You don’t. He employs people to maintain his facilities, while spending his time more constructively on business decisions, which (hopefully) lead to making a profit, which in turn allows him to employ more staff, who can then afford to feed their families.
(Depending on the height of the light fixture, it also makes more sense safety-wise to get someone else to do it. If it’s a bedside lamp, I suspect he intones ‘I am the MAGA King, you WILL shine for me!’ and it sparks back up. Though who needs light when you have Melania?).
P.S. Lightbulbs are killing Gaia, so why are you championing them?
Now if Mr Dutton would just announce an enquiry into changing the funding model for the ABC I think it would spark a very productive debate into the ABCs audience, role and practices. I think Dutton would become a shoo-in for the next PM.
He is creeping up on being representative of Australia’s concerns.
Promising to dump the blackfella international lie teller is an absolute winner.
Slowly slowly catchee monkey. Turn the heat up imperceptibly, give them room to make mistakes.
Biggest lie the Nats mouth is The ABC looks after the bush.
It doesn’t and hasn’t for decades..
Sooner this is called out and rectified the better.
Nationals are rarely part of the solution. At best they are like leaving the park brake half on.
With the then Australian attitude towards dogs, I was more than a little surprised to encounter handbag dogs in French aircraft. A tiny head poking out of a handbag and sometimes being biffed when the poor creature squirmed.
Of course, that was before flying PIA in which you encountered every form of animal or vegetable in the cabin, including bins of fish.
But not women. As a concession to the sensibilities of passengers, those creatures were seated behind a screen.
Given the degree of Karening that I have noticed in aircraft of late, the screen option may merit some consideration.
Chickens in aisles?
The identity of the 65-year-old man arrested over the “gruesome” and “horrific” Easey Street murders has been revealed, almost 50 years after two women were found violently stabbed to death in Melbourne.
Perry Kouroumblis was arrested in Italy at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport about 9 pm on Thursday.
In 1977 he lived in Bendigo Street, Collingwood, just a few streets away from the home where Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were murdered.
He was also a student at Collingwood High School, where Ms Bartlett was an arts and crafts teacher.
Former homicide investigator Ron Iddles told The Herald Sun he pulled Mr Kouroumblis over about a fortnight after the murders occurred, finding a knife in the boot of his car.
When questioned, the then-teen claimed he had found the weapon on bluestone at nearby railway tracks under a pedestrian overpass near Hoddle St.
Police had multiple warrants out for the arrest of Mr Kouroumblis, including two counts of murder, and one count of rape.
They will now begin the process of extraditing the dual Australian and Greek citizen.
Ms Armstrong and Ms Bartlett were found dead inside their home on Easey Street in Collingwood in Melbourne’s inner-city on January 3, 1977.
Sky
How many past and present school teachers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, they do not know how to turn the bulb to the right.
Also they want to keep the
mushroomskids in the dark and feed them BS.Hi Wivenhoe. Hope you are well.
It just keeps on getting better.
The IDF has shut down Al Jizz in the left bank. Qatar is going nuts which will be nothing compared to how the ABC will screech at the loss of their closest “but Moslem groups say” jew hater ally.
I hadn’t considered using the Army on the ALPBC. I suppose it is an option but does it have the operational capability anymore? Wouldn’t be too hard to get some special services guys at the moment.
Mike Carlton is outraged.
Amidst all the hater’s honking and squawking about Israel taking out Hezbollah terrorists, Labor’s Mike Kelly [unlinkable OZ] sums up and reminds us:
In short, a complete practical and moral failure of UN process. (Although, probably exactly as planned.)
The last couple of weeks, the Gimp has been trying to make us believe that Trump rallies have very few attendees.
The famous Oprah has such pulling power, when she interviewed the Kackler, many of the audience were put on a loop during filming to falsely inflate the numbers. haw!
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/09/22/kamala-oprah-zoom-event-n2179629
Personified by Guterres.
An unquestioned oracle on ABC news radio.
They’re still busing in and paying attendees, and booking small venues so the visuals look packed.
PATHETIC: Kamala Harris Holds Georgia Rally in Small Ballroom at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Due to Low Attendance (20 Sep)
Everything about Kamala is fake. It’s quite amazing that they can get away with this.
They get away with it for one reason: the vile media. When it’s working the media is one of the key elements of Western society which makes it so much better than the commie and muzzie shit holes. But when the media becomes partisan and takes sides with the left as it has does in the US against Trump and is doing here then it is a grave threat to the West
Beertruk
September 23, 2024 5:57 am
Bolta on the horrid thing that is the Wong Chap in today’s Tele:
PAGING MS PENNY:
THE FACTS CANNOT BE DENIED
As has been noted bolta can wield a good pen because, unlike on his tv show, his ego does not splatter all over the good intentions. He is a terrible interviewer because it is all about himself and he is getting worse. I was interviewed by him and Steve Price many years ago and even then his ego was palpable. He’s got much worse.
But he has captured the character of that vile chap wong. To quote Sancho, wong is a C.U.N.T.; and not just an ordinary one but one fetid and infected with terminal leftoidism.
He can be a touch trying in person but unlike most of his Sky colleagues, his guests tend to be specislists, not off the shelf generalists.
Bolt and Caleb are the most thoughtful in terms of guest selection.
Latest polls show Trump doing well:
Trump SKYROCKETS In New 2024 Election Polls (Map Projection) (youtube.com)
Delta A
September 23, 2024 8:48 am
Tin arse as well as a tin leg, eh?
Oh how offensive! LOL
I once told a joke about Delta’s disability and was shat on.
I do respect you, Delta.
Nothing lucky about it, sonny.
How appropriate.
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Isn’t woke anticulture lovely?
Now a good news story.
Went for a walk around the block and found $50 in the middle of road. Spoke to a lady walking past and she found $20. Gave it to me to give to local fire brigade. Then I found another $50. $120 in total
But wait there’s more.
A young mum from around the corner wrote on local Facebook that she had lost $170 and had anyone found it ?
Bingo
UPDATE. Went and had another look this morning and found the other $50. Money returned to a very great full owner
Well done, chrisl.
One of the benefits of doing this kind of thing is the benefits last a lifetime.
Warm and fuzzies all round – a thief would never get them.
Honesty pays in ways material benefits never can.
You are a good man Chris.
I took a brief look in Reddit to see what satanism is all about.
Sounds perfectly normal.
I’d take a stab and guess satanists would be huge demonrat supporters in the US. Their Australian adherents would be massively for the Greens.
How do you get Trump to change a lightbulb?
Well of course when I moved to a remote community, I was able to advise Qld Education about the correct numbers of teachers who can easily devise a more equitable way to change lightbulbs.
In fact my PhD majors in light bulb facilitation factors in Vietnam veterans and the number of light bulbs needed to adequately illuminate a Miata.
More Miata stuff always appreciated. Don’t forget the AGM.
How many Microsoft Support engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
Have you tried the Dark upgrade?
Disarming Hezbollah was never going to happen, especially since they’d just defeated the IDF.
Moreover, this would have been a catastrophe down the line for minorities in Lebanon and Syria when the color revolutions in the MENA took hold half a decade later.
Scare campaign of the day award goes to…
Scientists reviewed 7,000 studies on microplastics. Their alarming conclusion puts humanity on notice (22 Sep)
Micro plastics are basically harmless. They are degraded rapidly by sunlight and are eaten by sulfate-reducing bacteria. But who might you ask is the self described international expert who wrote this drivel?
Sigh, again. Yet another august educational institution which could markedly improve humanity by being bulldozed into the Tasman Sea.
So many bad actors, chewing away like termites at Australia’s social support structure.
Exactly. Science on this one is as dodgy as AGW.
Bruce knows more than I on the subject but the cat was belled when they went all out to ban biodegradable bags. That was the kerching moment it was all about the money.
Yet another Karen
Dawkins uni
What is she a lecturer in?
Somewhat more especially since Israel demonstrated rule of law respect for UN SC1701 and supplier-in-chief Iran didn’t.
Just trying to dispute a transaction with Commonwealth Bank.
15 minutes on hold with callback.
Sent to the wrong place, so put on hold for another 15 minutes – no callback option so hung up.
Called again and tried to get CC fraud. Sent back to the wrong place again. This time I got an unintelligible name subcontinental who didn’t speak in sentences, just 50 letter words. Told him I was hearing impaired and asked him to slow down. He didn’t. Still spoke in 50 letter words.
Got sent back to the wrong place with no callback. So 10 minutes of prerecorded bullshit about how much the Commonwealth Bank cared about me, and hung up.
After the Revolution, Commonwealth Bank Call Centre employees will be first against the wall – after the codemonkeys who designed the software and didn’t allow a written coms system.
NADT. 🙂
Tomorrow I’ll drive to Longreach to remonstrate with the humans. 200k. What a waste of fuel.
Lots of sympathy, Winston. It has happened to most of us. Thank God husband has more patience than I have.
BTW in many Sydney branches you have to make an appointment to see anyone with any experience. Scary stuff.
I have found the way to get through is to request to set up a new account.You get through much quicker. When I get through I say before I set up this new account I just need to fix xyz on the other account so can we do that first?
I’ve been without NetBank access since early May after I was locked out of my account and my PIN wouldn’t work. No reason given as to why. Had to visit the bank to reset my PIN and account password. Made four attempts to change it following the six rules of CBA password creation.
First attempt denied – you’ve used this PW before. Against rule 3. No, I have not, this is a completely new PW. Computer Says NO. Moving on.
Second attempt denied – PW must be between 8 to 16 letters.Against rule number 1. I have not. It’s 12 letters. Computer still says NO.
Third attempt denied – PW must contain a number. Rule number 2. Last time I looked 1 was a number. Computer stubbornly impervious to swear words and fury. Still says NO! Bank employee trying to help looks equal parts confused and embarrassed.
I storm home without having created a new password. Cannot access my account. Cannot face bank employee, the call centre, or thinking up a new password that I can remember for fear I might inflict violence on someone or something.
They don’t want you to write it down anywhere for security reasons but now I’ve memorised four passwords that are completely useless how am I meant to remember a fifth if I do manage to finally succeed? I’m trapped in the CBA matrix and cannot escape.
“especially since they’d just defeated the IDF”
When did this happen?
https://youtu.be/8gFCW3PHBws?si=XEeOiWKZiHnmZ_PG
It’s his birthday.
Can’t remember the last time I had to change a lightbulb.
Not even in one of the cars.
The last ten years they just don’t burn out.
Like spark plugs.
Used to have to change them every 20,000km and clean and gap them between. Now they go 90,000km.
Those old halogens from 30 years ago would burn out all the time and the holders had awful wire clamps that would require weird hand contortions and doing 4 dimensional spatial calculations in your head as you changed them on the roadside at 3am.
Not everything is shitter than it used to be.
How many Goldilocks does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just the right number.
Seeing it’s a joke day, here’s a quickie from a post nuke war novel:
Q: How many Lawyers does it take to pull a plough to till a field?
A: All of them.
How is Elsie, aka L C – little cat. Like her former owner Areff aka R F.
I rescued her. She ran away back to the beach side suburb. He was concerned. I confidently said let’s get in the 4WDrive and go get her.
We sat in the empty house for ages. She eventually came in. I did the mum thing and held her by the scruff of her neck.
Kept her inside for a while.
Then she was out catching mice and bringing them back beside her food bowl again.
Her looks are deceiving. She is a born hunter.
I had a supposedly eternal LED bulb go *ping* recently. And twisty bulbs from time to time.
The amusing thing is I have several ye olde filament bulbs that have been chugging away for decades.
Remember when CDs came in and were marketed as indestructible?
My endless life bulbs LED tricolour EGLO have died – several, kitchen and office. One in the bedroom stopped then started again. Harder to change over because ladder screwdriver torch requires three hands. All supposed to make life easier. House has been certified rewired and steady 50 Hz with hybrid system.
as I type this
Moira’s side are play a recording for the court of Pesutto arguing like a 16yo school-girl
its all about nazis and inclusiveness … and freedom of speech
as he goes out of his way to smear her, shut her down and reject her from the party
and the idiot reckons it was Deeming that brough the party to disrepute
wtf ???
the idiot sounds more ridiculous that mUnty
Give yourself 15 upticks for being the most interesting, thought provoking commenter here, Trans. We know you can do it.
Try a more interesting topic. What are your thoughts on Google Nests as ac controllers?
Trans
Did everyone shit themself when you walked into the bar? lol
What infuriates me is that the ABC does not allow comments for most (or any – I haven’t seen any) of their news or commentary.
They know that there is another side and know that it is more convincing than theirs and they have no answers to them.
Another one about to go to his natural home.
https://x.com/JewsAreTheGOAT/status/1837927040130941253?t=ATvoKOJgzrfiucsxqPiqpg&s=19
The desert camo pants are a nice touch.
I wonder if the Ambassador for the Indigenous, Mr Mo (Pox be upon him), ever considered travelling to Britain to see how they indigenous white population is responding to a regime actively at war with and trying to dilute them out of existence.
Of course his parties are a riot. His friends are lefties. They protest the cake, the land the party is on, the ‘party privilege’ where people are invited on subjective grounds, the imported goods prepared by child labour, the domestic goods made by capitalists…you name it.
Any good lefty will tell you that you have not really been to a good party unless you drive home with a garbage tin smashed through the windshield and the word RACIST! spray painted all over the sides.
Hezbollah never agreed to disarm and the IDF never completely withdrew from Lebanon in 2006. Neither event should surprise anybody.
Talk about putting the cart before the donkey.
If the Hez had disarmed, Israel would’ve withdrawn.
Why would Hezbollah disarm first?
Because they promised they would?
DFaT is one of the more disgusting departments in a vile city. Personified by Rudd.
Name an acceptable Minister for FF, since Bill Haden.
dover0beach
September 23, 2024 11:11 am
Yes. De-balling them, de-fingering them and popping their eyeballs out has been a far more satisfying exercise.
Speaking of which, the Labour Party is reportedly already in meltdown at its annual conference in Liverpool this week.
They’re facing a backlash over gifts and donations to cabinet ministers during an austerity drive that has seen pensioner winter fuel allowances cut, contradicting a campaign promise by the PM.
Not surprisingly, “Free Gear” Keir’s approval rating has sunk to 24% and he dodged the traditional first day interview with the BBC, sending his deputy instead, who defended the gifts as “the way politics is done.”
And his chief of staff, who has been subject to leaks by someone in No. 10, is so unpopular with the rank and file she daren’t show her face at the conference.
These were supposed to be the grown-ups.
The deputy PM has just had a permanent photographer appointed to follow her around – first one ever
With instructions to snap only her good side?
Gillardian. Only 5 more years to go.
This is why fixed terms are a bad idea.
In 2006, and it is understood as a failure in Israel itself.
Not a surprise since Olmert is a lefty.
For those who are less than happy about the recent “free the trolls” action, Firefox has a reasonable killfile for blogs. There’s probably a good one for Chrome too.
Do the screening! This article explains why once cancer becomes established it becomes so difficult to treat. So many different types of cells in a single tumour, and I imagine the cells in the metastases are also different.
I”m not sure it really challenges old theories. Oncologists aren’t dills and do the reading. They probably are aware of everything in the article. They are aware that this so called new approach doesn’t offer any new treatment options; at least not yet.
Finally, to avoid boring you, this article is a good example of why some health influencers don’t have an effing clue and think curing cancer is easy.
Rewriting Cancer’s Blueprint: New Study Challenges Old Theories (scitechdaily.com)
Panic merchant, aka get your gazillionth booster jab now, expert featured in Daily Mail article. Part of article below.
“XEC is a recombinant of two other sub variants,’ Australian infectious diseases expert Dr Paul Griffin told Daily Mail Australia on Monday.
It is a descendant of the notorious Omicron Covid strain and a recombinant variant of KS.1.1 and KP.3.3.
‘It’s still fairly early days, so speculation around symptoms or severity etc is a little bit early to do at this point in time,’ Dr Griffin said.
‘But what we had in the countries where it appeared early is it does appear to have a significant growth advantage which would suggest it’s likely to be immune, evasive and potentially more infectious.’
Because of this, the medical community is ‘paying close attention to it to see whether it may be the next sub-variant that causes another increase in activity,’ he said”.
Naturally does not know if a new updated vaccine will be required. By the time been and gone any new vaccine will be out of date. However trust the Dr as it will stop you getting the variant 4 versions ago that is now died out.
Paul Griffin was a defender of not allowing next of kin to visit their dying loved ones in hospital during covid.
Griffin has benefitted massively from pushing Vax. He would never want it to end.
While I did not experience this loss myself, I still cannot wrap my head around the cold inhumanity of such a policy, and the ease with which such depths have apparently been popped into the forgettory.
”Notorious Omicrom strain”. Um was this the strain that didn’t do too much, infected everybody overnight and let us get on with our lives?
That’s why it is notorious, it failed to cause a panic
On light bulbs.
Had a new porch light put in at the country estate 2-3 years ago.
‘Viromentally virtuous LED.
I’d forgotten about that and it blew just before the sparkie came to do a couple of other jobs last week. It’s about five metres up and I couldn’t be arsed dragging my ladder up from the shed so I asked him to replace the globe for me while he had his ladder there.
“Nah mate. We replace the whole unit with these.”
As I say, totally ‘vironmental.
Sounds like fun- Podcast of the Lotus Eaters usually runs an audio digest of the Labour Conference tying itself in knots, launching factional mini-putsches over abstractly Mrs Jellyby-esque causes, and usually shouting at itself a fair bit and demanding its own resignation, too.
You can count on Private Spud to get the party going.
The mood really picks up when he says those seven magic words ..
“I think I’ll have an early night.”
I’d rather party with Numbers than you, sancho. At least he doesn’t play mind games like you, you absolute vagina of a man.
How common sense has gone walkabout in woke Australia: Calling cities by their Aboriginal names, treating the didgeridoo like Mozart and extreme trans rights
Daily Mail lead story
I can’t find it now but most will remember the Muslim religious leader in Sydney after 7 Oct who gave the disgusting “I am elated” rant. Just imagine if a Jewish leader had repeated same speech word for word but in relationship to the recent great “kabooming”. Would have been great.
WTF!. How does that work? Perhaps CAT legals could explain.
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Avi:
Freedom activist Monica Smit has won her case against Victoria Police for false arrests but still faces up to $250,000 in court costs.
Monica Smit ordered to pay $250K after WINNING unlawful Covid arrest case?
Remember, remember!
The fifth of November
The Fifth of November (Guy Fawkes Night Poem)
Interesting that the US election should happen to fall on this date.
Hezbollah never agreed to disarm and the IDF never completely withdrew from Lebanon in 2006. Neither event should surprise anybody.
No, nothing surprising in any of this.
UNIFIL itself seems to think that Israel was compliant with its undertakings within 30 days of the implementation of SC1701. The situation has obviously changed since as the ‘Blue Line constraint’ on Hezbollah has broken down.
The issue is not actually about Hezbollah’s compliance as a non-state actor – they are a terrorist group who were not party to SC1701 and they were always going to continue to do terrorist shit. It’s also really not about the failure of the ineffectual Lebanese government – who were party to SC1701 – and then comprehensively failed to control Hezbollah militarisation.
The greater issue is that Iran has cheerfully and openly continued to supply funding, expertise and bulk weaponry to Hezbollah in breach of SC1701 s.15.
Giving the forks to the world.
The interesting bit, I’m lead to believe, is the connection between U.S. government agencies and the Lebanese security services, some elements of which – allegedly – have been providing ‘services’ …
Not all is bad in the world.
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Steve Inman:
Brotherly Love
https://youtu.be/8gFCW3PHBws?si=XEeOiWKZiHnmZ_PG
Just got told to behave
Oops, wrong link
I aim to misbehave – Serenity (2005)
😀
How do you make people better?
Forgive me if I am repeating myself.
I interviewed IM. Whether someone is sentenced to life or an automatic release (under three years), they need to have a case plan.
Identify the factors associated with their offending. Put in place strategies to address them.
Ultimately, it is about community safety.
But! If an election is pending, write a report not recommending parole. If it’s not inline then you get told to change your decision. I said MANY times, NO! Put me in the witness box. I will NEVER sign my name to a report for political purposes.
Lead them to Christ.
It works!
Yeah. I hear you.
Just down below me Dover, a gorgeous man, is talking about Hezbollah compliance. My Bros did the Haka on them. Maoris. Done and dusted.
Hi Arky. Kiaora Bro
If you’re going to talk Lebanese, make me a kebab full of garlic. Then get the bucket bong out.
Seriously! We need Arky to post cars pulled apart. How can you live this shite.
I may have missed it.
Did Cassie write a wall of words?
Same Jew victim crap.
Different day.
And I am a Jew. Hated by many.
I just can’t do your victim shit, Cassie.
Yes, you got on a bus. You witnessed stuff.
You aren’t a German-Jew though.
You have no fecking idea what my people suffered.
I hate token Jews.
Stop this slander please Ellie. I won’t engage here with you again, but I only wish you well in regaining good mental health.
Ellie, please stop this. Cassie is a valued commenter here. She and I and other Cats went to the protest about anti-Semitism in the Domain this year. We take this seriously. We don’t slander Jewish people; all Jewish people are badly affected by October 7th and its aftermath.
I think you are in psychosis (again, for the information of those newbies here) and that you need to seek help for that. Coming in here and raking over old coals in disgraceful ways does your mental health no good. Please desist.
The Lebanese government is ineffectual because it has been weakened by decades of war and destruction. Given that, it was in no position to disarm Hezbollah, and practically, its not in its interests to do so anyway. The Iranians support Hezbollah and the latter receive it because its in their mutual interests. The same applies between Hezbollah, Syria, and the Shia-militias in Iraq; they are each others strategic depth. They understand that they either all hang together or are all hung separately.
Check out the body language of this ‘Professor’. Pay attention to his hip movements.
Something is not right with this bloke.
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Charlie Kirk Destroys Socialist Professor
Should have asked Charlie Kirk (whoever he is) if he believes in supporting veterans through pensions.
That’s socialism (taking taxpayers money, and giving it a defined group).
Hang about – same applies to the age pensions.
Then there’s public hospitals and schools.
But wait – there’s more.
The taxpayer actually pays for the military.
I don’t know about the US, but Australia is obviously a socialist country, because all this stuff happens here.
Who’d have thunk it….
He looks like he has a butt plug that is slipping a bit. The movement is from him clenching his quoit and abdominal muscles trying to keep it in.
Is he really one of those that write their thesis about themselves? If so it’s tragic in the level of self absorption involved.
I think it focuses on Vietnam and particularly the conscript experience.
Numbers was a conscript who served in Vietnam.
I didn’t know that!
Mutual interest in self defense against other barbarous Muslims or to act on Iran’s impulse to destroy Israel? Sounds like the latter.
It gets better, or worse depending on who’s side you’re on.
“Mutual interest in self defense against other barbarous Muslims or to act on Iran’s impulse to destroy Israel? Sounds like the latter.”
Yep plain garden variety jihad.
If you are interested to know what is in the jabs then recent Substack articles by Rebekah Barnett and Dr Phillip Altman are interesting but very concerning.
Intro from Rebekah article.
BREAKING: DNA contamination in Australian mRNA Covid shots up to 145 time regulatory limit, report showsThe first independent testing of Australian vials confirms findings from the US, Canada and Germany, highlighting that oncogenic and genomic integration risks are a global concern”
This testing has been done in connection with a court case and the article explains the significance of the case including an undeclared conflict of interest by the Judge (aka the GMO case). The Judge said a Dr who had taken the vaccine and jabbed his own patients had no standing to bring a case about the content of the jabs. Threw case out without hearing anything from Drs side.
Dr Altman’s page has a few recent interesting articles but one concerns a recent letter to the PM about the results of the testing. Letter organised by MP Russell Broadbent and other Drs etc can be seen in article. The letter has also been copied to all MP’s.
The TGA as expected is not concerned about the research and is saying not conducted properly. It is interesting to note no lab in Australia was willing to do the testing. Presumably as might affect funding or Government business.
As Dr Altman points out the proposed Misinformation Bill specifically mentions anything that relates to harmful comments about the efficacy of preventative medicines. This could include using social media to spread information about the letter just sent to PM. See also his article about the Monkey Pox vaccine and WHO.
Have seen quite a few copies of letters sent by Drs and the few good politicians on this issue to PM, Health Ministers and TGA over past few years. Have also seen how politicians from both sides protect the TGA and Federal CHO in Senate Estimates.
I am a big boy and have seen a lot. However the “willful blindness” by our so called health leaders regarding a huge amount of negative research on vaccines is scary to see. Even when they can see the public has switched off taking more boosters they still keep insisting safe and effective and want people of all ages to be constantly taking vaccines.
Take some time to read some of this articles and contact your MP or local Senator to express some concern. The Freedom Speech Union web page does have a guide.
For those not paying attention to the Misinformation Bill it also includes comments on referendums and even the economy. The Government via ACMA gets to decide the truth and imagine how that would have been used during Voice referendum.
From the actual study …
I don’t understand this because COVID is an RNA virus. It has no DNA. One author, using a protocol he designed but has not been validated by others. I’ll pass. Oddly, a veterinary college?
The MIT study makes sense because it argues for reverse transcriptase in our cells causing write back from the RNA. That is to be expected. The critical question being how often does Reverse Transcriptase do that? Also from an evolutionary perspective why does RT even exist in multicellular animals? Does it mean every time we get an infection our DNA is contaminated?
One other thing Dover. The self defense stuff is codswallop that you’re either biting into or making up.
This is a map of Lebanon mapping out the various and sundry religious groups. The Hez, which are shite (without the e) are the tail end of the country bordering with Israel. They are at the least risk from Syrian groups.
The various Christian groups around them don’t offer that much trouble unless they’re attacked themselves.
The Hez are a terror group intent on doing Iran’s bidding in the area, which is to destroy Israel.
More pagers coming.
Charlie Kirk’s channel:
Charlie Kirk and Vivek Ramaswamy Take on Woke Mob at the University of Pittsburgh
In Afghanistan women aren’t allowed to see male doctors, they also aren’t allowed to study.
I guess western medicine is just for men there.
Can only hope islam will one day implode.
https://x.com/SaraWahedi/status/1837551037961347331?t=Lfx5W6QJl6I3n5dn5HvzbA&s=19
You’re missing one relevant group here, the GAE. By the late 2000s, they had given up on Assad and wanted to topple him. Cue the ‘Arab Spring’ and the emergence of Al-Nusra in Syria in 2011 in the immediate chaos. If you’re Alawite, Christian, Druze, or Shia in Lebanon or Syria this presents a nightmare scenario. That’s just one example.
Good tunnels
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1837933015520964817?t=ff2lOI3ZweOWJM1La-PRpw&s=19
Anyhow.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1838071040276095274?t=GHi016xgpyvoGHcDCL8QfA&s=19
Of course, it’s the GAE. How could I forget.
8,000 missiles were locked and loaded, all pointing south. Turns out, the Hez must’ve had a little GPS mix-up because they got their north and south completely mixed up.
Shatterzzz there were some great goal over the weekend, pity for you Toon could only manage one of them.
Fair bit of internal politics going on at Toon at the moment and it’s spilling on to the pitch .. Howe in strife with a coupla the admin directors over transfers & team selection .. Been a problem since Amanda Staveley left as she alwayz backed him .. Started Trippier even tho he wants out so not a good sign .. Howe is getting a bit like “Arnie” been there too long and becoming very predictable to opposition managers ….
I think middle-of-the-table will be a win-win for us this season …….
You didn’t notice that big patch of blue/ purple in the north east? Even if you set that aside, are you telling me they have to wait until Al-Nusra defeated the SAA, travelled across the border, and murdered their way through the Christian and Druze communities to their immediate East before putting up a defense in the South? Honestly.
No, I’m telling you that the vast bulk of their intent was and has always been Israel. This is something you want to play away and ignore because it doesn’t agree with your now formed opinion.
But I agree, it was the GAE’s fault the Hez began to fire rockets into Israel after Oct 7th. As well as the pagers, the GAE sent the Hez faulty GPS devices.
So you missed the areas in the north east.
Still, where have I said that it has nothing also to do with Israel in the South? I never presented it as an either/ or. Again, why would Hezbollah disarm in 2006 given the earlier history in which the IDF occupied areas of the south for nearly 2 decades and having just now fought them to a ceasefire in 2006? As a matter of prudence, it just doesn’t make sense that they would.
Omission with deliberate intent appears to give you the chance to insert ” where have I said” line. It’s getting a little old now.
Here: This is an open letter from the Hez leadership explaining their most important objective and why 8,000 missiles have been lobbed against Israel.
But hey, it’s the GAE’s fault.
I didn’t ‘deliberately omit’ anything. In the comment you were responding to I was explaining the mutual interests of the various countries none of which excluded their disposition towards Israel. Further, you won’t even admit to failing to see that Hezbollah isn’t only in the South, nor that it wouldn’t be in its interests to ignore instability in Syria.
That letter was written in 1985 while they are still under occupation. It’s entirely unsurprising.
Woodchop goes soft
“This is the first year the competition used a softer wood than jarrah, after bushfires and a halt to native logging made native hardwood scarce”
Perth Now.
The Claremont show hosts the world championship according to the august journal.
Test
Rumour heard today.
KAP seat in danger round Townsville.
2 things. Crap preselection (Come on down Maggie Ryder an absolute pathetic choice, only she has connections from McKinley shire and Townsville city council).
Also preferences going to the ALP that have pissed off conservatives. Hinchinbrook may go blue again.
LNP odds firming up this way…
Voting for the Katters might as well vote ALP.
Beautiful afternoon. Go into front yard to play with the doggos.
aaaaargh! First brown snake of the season.
Of course, the Chihuahuah Foxie cross wanted to kill it.
Holding back a raging dog and holding down a snake with a rake so I can slice off its head, made for an interesting afternoon. 😀
A sharpened post hole shovel, with a long handle, is the finest device ever invented for killing snakes.
Four foot long piece of 8 gauge fencing wire or the same length of a thin whippy tree branch.
Mine is 5 ft of number 8 twisted, never fails.
Got one of those as well.
Oi you lot, they are endangered protected species, dontcha know!
Go for it.
I have to buy a couple more sturdy rakes and, as Zulu said, long handled shovels. I like to have a pair of each at every door.
“A pair of each at every door” – Standard equipment, when we “had the farm.”
Won’t somebody think of the sharks and snakes?
Short answer: no.
I asked my BIL (farmer) what his preferred method of dealing with wriggly brothers was – it was a numerical answer: 410. So I got one.
Rule 12 Guage
In Silver Lining news:
Energy entrepreneur says Australia’s solar and battery boom is a ‘clear and present danger’
Amazingly enough, Energy Renaissance assembles Chinese made Li-ion cells into battery packages in a Giga Factory in Tomago. His batteries are apparently resistant to naughtiness.
Other than from energy terrorists like Bowenbollah.
That’s a keeper.
(I’m normally reticent to equate non-violent subjects with armed conflict, for fear of diluting the latter, but at some point we need to acknowledge that given all the resources our governments have access to, they CANNOT be ignorant of the likely outcomes of their policies).
Heating up.
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Agenda Free TV:
Israel Hezbollah Fighting – LIVE Updates & Breaking News Coverage (Fears of War in Lebanon)
Did they catch the large strikes in Lebanon in the last hour? Do they have more feeds than the three currently?
Not sure. He did just post the latest air strike footage from 40 minutes back. Stevo is constantly flicking through various feeds.
Thanks.
Talking to an old mate I was reminded of how much I despise Islam and its crazy eyed adherents.
Working on our project in Northern Pakistan I palled up with the local doctor. In reality he was after equipment and medicines, but he was a nice bloke.
One afternoon I snuck down to his hovel with a flask of whisky intending that we be sinful for a few hours. He had studied in Singapore and was partial to a drop.
A crazy eyes raggie appeared at the door demanding medicine for his woman who was sick (as the doctor said, he was probably pissed off that she couldn’t finish the ploughing).
Of course crazy wouldn’t allow an examination or even an interview. The doc gave him some aspirin. He said that any specific medicine risked killing her if issued blind. If he refused any treatment, crazy could return with his rifle. I later learned that she died and crazy had to get another one.
Good job being a doc in crazystan.
All this talk about Lebanese. When working in south-west Sydney we had the most parolees on our books, in the state of NSW.
Not sure what the common denominator was.
And during Ramadan we had to show respect. Didn’t matter they were on parole for rape and murder.
Let them report when they want to.
Monitoring device on. Charged.
Hey, hi. Go about your day.
Bring back Roger Rogerson
I am too old school. Tis why I retired early.
Sancho and knuckle dragger, instead of downticking me, speak to me.
Ellie stop trying to make people be friendly to you. They won’t be while you are not well, and this is not the place for your aggressions.
(1) Saturday Night Live racist Superman joke. #funny #shorts#humor #hilarious – YouTube
Respect to Israel. They give warning in advance to civilians to GTFO. The other side does no such thing.
I disagree.
Which is Hez’s most important enemy and hate the most?
Admit what, that the map I presented shows a couple of small red blobs nearby and you’re now trying to make hay of this, ignoring the fact that the larger ethnic groups, like Christians and Druze, are no real threat to them. This is delusional.
So what, even if it was written at the same time as the US constitution, it’s still valid. They attacked Israel yet you make excuses or gloss over this reality as though it didn’t occur and come up with some bullshit about the “GAE”.
Go on, offer an opinion about the above.
Muslim in America rubbing out women.
More muslims in the West asap please.
https://x.com/murica1stmuslim/status/1837732485460877695?t=l9SVxxxSt6d8rJlyJgkYsw&s=19
Tie between Israel and US.
Are you incapable of reading? I never said the Christians or Druze in Lebanon were a threat to Hezbollah. Go back and read what I said.
Exactly.
I’m out for the evening so auto-moderation is in effect. Just in case.
Context?
Sometimes we take the best aspects of our country’s institution for granted.
One of the clearest examples of this is our “Australian Ballot”. This country has pioneered many aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century adult suffrage.
Victoria and South Australia were the first administrations (at the time British colonies) to introduce secret ballots in 1856, and that method of voting was called for many years “the Australian ballot”.
The Australian ballot spread to Europe and the United States to meet the growing public and parliamentary demand for protection of voters.
Apart from the secret ballot, so many other aspects of our system are either unique to Australia, or were pioneered in Australia.
We vote on Saturdays, and often have fundraising stalls and sausage sizzles (the famous democracy sausage) present at the booths. Voting on the weekend frees up access to the process, and is far from universal elsewhere. The Americans vote on Tuesday, for example, an historical remnant of the horse and buggy era when it took an average of three days to get to a booth at the end of the week.
Saturday, Sunday and Monday were the travelling days. It’s a commentary on the bizarre nature of US culture that the practice that made sense over two hundred years ago, remains.
It resembles the quaint logic behind their gun laws, or the lack of them.
The casual friendly atmosphere of the sausage sizzle is a reflection of our voting culture, which sees the task as being part of the responsibility of citizenship, but at the same time something that is socially enjoyable. We don’t take ourselves seriously enough to vote with either fervour or long faces.
The votes are counted by hand, for simplicity, and there are scrutineers present. When I was younger I often worked as a polling clerk. The pay was good, and the atmosphere congenial. It was not unknown for opposing scrutineers to share transport to and from the booth, and perhaps a cold ale afterwards, if voting was done before closing time. In small bush booths, this was always possible.
Preferential voting is another positive aspect of our system. To win a seat you need 50% of the vote plus one. You rank the candidates on your ballot paper from one to whatever. The votes are sorted according to first preferences, and then counted.
If no candidate has sufficient votes to have an absolute majority, the votes of the candidate with the lowest number of votes are distributed according to their second preferences. This process continues until one candidate has 50% plus one.
Some candidates will win their seat without any need to distribute preferences, but for those who have to go to preferences, this process means no one is disenfranchised.
Many don’t understand how the system works, but if they took the time to examine it, and the principles it’s based on, they might appreciate the respect it pays to every voter. Preferential voting together with the compulsory ballot, means nobody is disenfranchised.
Voter suppression is a non-issue, unlike many other countries, including the USA, where it remains a problem.The Queensland Electoral Commission practice of mailing out voter IDs to people on the electoral roll is designed to facilitate the process, and counter claims of fraud, which have been largely influenced by American trends.
I’m old enough the remember the Gerrymander that persisted in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era. On average, the Country Party needed only 7,000 votes to win a seat, compared with 12,800 for a typical Labor seat. That was remedied in 1989 through the Fitzgerald reforms, but it had successfully kept a Coalition government in power for decades.
The Electoral Commission reviews boundaries every five years, and because the AEC is a commission, and not an elected body, political influence does not apply.
So the Australian ballot is a bastion of our democracy.
Long may it remain.
WARNING: Your reply will be noted and given to the relevant authorities after the Revolution.
LOL. Bridge for sale.
Compulsory preferential voting ensures that many voters are forced to vote, after distribution of preferences, for candidates they wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.
It is a massive failing in the system.
Any system that enables Adam Bandt or Albanese or Lambie or Zali Steggall or Matt Kean to be within a light year of political power is objectively evil.
First thing to do is take away women’s suffrage. Then anybody under 30 unless they register for combat roles in the defence force for at least two years. Then bureaucrats.
The farmers friend.
National Farmers Federation (NFF) ex-pres Fiona Simpson on the board of Matt Kean’s Climate Change Authority and now NFF CEO Tony Mahar picked by Bowen to be the new Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner.
The NFF had been on the nose with farmers for some time. They’ve joined the ranks of captured institutions in the Canberra style.
A cynic might aver that this is corruption, Australian style.
It’s done in the open behind a cloak of respectability while journalists turn a blind eye.
A realist might counter that we’re just a shallow talent pool and the scum collects at the top.
I just read about Tony Mahar, scum bag toe rag.
Wasn’t that why West Australian Farmers Federation split?
I had no idea. I thought that they had been cleaned out.
Erase anything positive that I have said anput them.
What is frightening is how successful a creep like Keane has been at secretly perverting these organisation. This bitch has taken members’ money, lied to them and then sold them out. The Left dark web of subversion is incredibly successful.
I was never a member, preferring the Cattlemens’ Association because they are more specific and members would never allow woke or political stunts.
But I had been convinced that the NFF had reformed, naive me.
The rot in the NFF started in the 1990s, when the then head (Farley?) negotiated with Keating on Mabo.
Then suddenly turned up on the Native Title body.
Yeah naa. Nice punt though. They just hate Jews like their Iranian puppet masters.
I partially disregarded your response, as it was yet another attempt to sidestep the glaring issue. The “large blue patch” adjacent to Israel is exactly what we’re talking about, and you know it. The area in question—the one you’re well aware of—is unfortunately pressed right up against Israel. This is where the missiles targeting Israel are being fired from, 8,000 of them since October 8th last year. Stop pretending otherwise.
You’ve left me many questions that I answer, so stop avoiding the last one I left for you. This.
Go on, offer an opinion about the above.
The Electoral Commission reviews boundaries every five years, and because the AEC is a commission, and not an elected body, political influence does not apply.
Until you scum started infiltrating everything. You think we haven’t noticed? Bugger off you loony old fool.
If only politicians paid some respect to voters.
“The Electoral Commission reviews boundaries every five years, and because the AEC is a commission, and not an elected body, political influence does not apply.”
Let me have a go at drawing the boundaries and I bet I can change the
results and still be within guidelines.
The boundaries should give an election result that closely matches the two party preferred vote. They do and they don’t.
The VEC has created a very odd map in Melbourne where the Lib seats look like a stripe across the city and the big wins for Labor don’t correlate with the 2PP numbers. Exhaustive preferential in Vic, so it should be the tippy top in Number’s wonder world of democracy.
I wish I had that much faith in the APS.
Lebanese Shia architecture, ground floor living, first floor cruise missile launching pad.
Might explain the proliferation of flat roofed mansions.
There I was thinking they were just the simple retirement dreams homes of Australian Lebanese.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1838112060934082689?t=hYlChLwxpZ76cpxt-U1vhw&s=19
WATCH: Monica Smit ordered to pay $250K after WINNING unlawful Covid arrest case
A bloody disgrace. The Police and Judiciary are out of control.
The B’s new movie about Jan 6 looks a hoot:
Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust
Yellowstone tourists blamed for ruining pristine color of park’s ‘Morning Glory’ thermal pool: ‘Thousands of coins’
https://nypost.com/2024/09/22/us-news/yellowstone-tourists-blamed-for-ruining-parks-morning-glory-thermal-pool-thousands-of-coins/
Indolent
September 23, 2024 5:31 pm
WATCH: Monica Smit ordered to pay $250K after WINNING unlawful Covid arrest case
She will be liable for the costs after she refused their offer. This is standard procedure during litigation: if one side offers a settlement and the other refuses but still wins but gets settlement of less than they have their costs up to the refused offer and the other side has their costs after the refused offer.
The process is the punishment. VicPol probably knew they would lose and made a pathetic offer she would refuse.
I hope there is some legal avenue that will help her but I fear only the fact of being vindicated will be all she will have to console herself with.
Sorry Roger I linked the wrong comment.
https://x.com/Haqiqatjou/status/1837665892483919998?t=IIxQQL4_DhvSy-kpglgaTg&s=19
Totalitarian Playbook: UN Votes on ‘Pact for the Future,’ Pushing Totalitarian Agenda and Threatening Sovereignty with Digital Controls and Radical Climate Mandates
Now had the young women been goats it would have been ok Rosie.
Arab American Democrat Mayor Endorses Trump: He Is the ‘Right Choice’ for President
Keir Stormer seems to be doing well. From the Guardian no less.
Electoral volatility is something Stormer shouldn’t take lightly,
CPV is rubbish and until QLD goes back to OPV I am stuck with ranking people on the ballot I wouldn’t urinate on fire… I despise that.
There is room for improvement.
I only like numbering all the boxes so no snivelling apparatchik fills in the rest as they please. I also take my own pen into the booth now.
I don’t trust them at all.
Snap, see my comment at 1933. I should have scanned down.
Vote Cock & Balls 1
Thanks.
Splendidly.
He’s got a gifts for influence crisis and a personal credibility crisis and people are complaining that he’s depressing the economy with oodles of new red & green tape.
Not to mention that people are complaining he’s depressing them!
A pall of gloom has come over the land, as when the Puritan parliament banned Christmas.
You can’t have real democracy while women retain the vote.
What you have instead is something like a cross between an episode of Oprah and a fox raid on a chook house.
If I can kill a snake, I can vote. nyah
Sure, but can you distinguish between your personal wishes and the good of the country?
Australia:
USA:
UK:
Women only have rights because men put their bodies on the line to protect said rights. At some point, the systematic oppression against men will be so great that there will be virtually no left-wing men at all. Good luck to women trying to retain their vote (or any other rights) when that’s the case.
Tucker interview with J.D. Vance
JD Vance: The New Opposition Party, Saving Rural America, & Why Trump Seeks Advice From His Gardener
Very interesting. JD Vance can expertly deal with policy and get his point across. Someone should suggest to him that he tone down the arm movements in a long interview, as it can be distracting. But a minor point. Go JD. If they get Trump he has ensured that his legacy will continue in JD.
Exactly
https://x.com/amjadt25/status/1838110690256486565?t=bqIJsY_5wqN8g-goWpyYMQ&s=19
Yes. Arab wiser men know that Hezbollah are a boil on Lebanon’s backside that is causing irritation throughout the middle east. Everyone would be better off when it is lanced and gone.
Ha!
Rishi’s numbers will be depressed by the ‘proven over years’ to be a pointless twat – since he did not really do anything to stand out as leader his popularity is really just that of the party. Think of a meat pie sitting on the warmer for days: it is the same temperature throughout.
So, Der Starmerführer has in less than a year disgusted people with a loathing to an extent that the Tories took decades to cultivate.
The Tories, of course, will interpret how quickly Labour has foundered as a vindication since it took them so much longer and will re-dedicate themselves with even more vigour to shit on the people than before.
Turn up your radio.
https://x.com/Osint613/status/1838116858517406087?t=0U_hwLg1RoPlg8w1lwsuNg&s=19
Rarely in warfare have an enemy been as considerate of civilians as the IDF.
Starmer has now gone lower than Sunak.
In two months.
Enjoy the next five years Poms, you voted for this.
Keir Starmer’s popularity crashes to lower than Rishi Sunak’s in shock reversal of fortune (21 Sep)
Latest on jack smith’s persecution of Trump aided and abetted by that fat, ugly judicial hack chutkan:
‘Reckless’ Jack Smith’s J6 Paper Trial of Donald Trump (declassified.live)
Since when did our “international obligations” require the censorship of free speech ?
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 23, 2024 6:44 pm
Awaiting for approval
Mindblowing sums Australia’s First Nations ambassador to the world has splurged on limos, airport transfers from his sprawling estate and business class flights around the world
By Charlotte Karp For Daily Mail Australia
It’s amusing that a guy called Mohamed is the ambassador for aboriginal people.
Even worse I shake my head at it.
There was no first nations.
WALOS.
Apparently this is what happens when you vote in councils more concerned with politics rather than doing their core business:
Management of Victoria’s “extreme” fox population has been put under the spotlight after a spate of domestic dogs and cats were viciously mauled by the pests in Melbourne’s inner suburbs.
Victorian pet owners are demanding action to tackle the “extreme” fox population after a spate of attacks on beloved household dogs, cats and small pets.
Foxes are considered one of Australia’s “worst pest animals”, believed to be the primary cause of the decline in small mammal species in the country, according to the state government.
But while considered a serious threat to livestock and wildlife in Victoria, it remains a landowner’s responsibility to eradicate pests, including foxes, from their own properties.
Now in the depths of breeding season, residents of Melbourne’s inner suburbs are demanding a higher-level crackdown on the fox “plague”, surfacing a major debate: Should responsibility ultimately lie with local government, state government, or with property owners?
A Boroondara resident argued their local council should “accept responsibility for the issue” and develop their own management of fox populations after a fox brazenly stalked their tiny griffon bruxellois dog walking around the yard.
Footage shared by 3AW’s Jacqui Felgate shows the owner’s second dog quick to come to its pal’s rescue, running at the fox to try and scare it away.
But the fox wasn’t easily deterred, sneaking around from another side of the yard and launching itself at the tiny pup before attempting to drag it away.
The second pooch once again swept in to the rescue and scared the fox away.
The owner said it wasn’t the first time a fox had set its sights on pets in the neighbourhood.
“Our neighbours recently encountered a similar situation where a fox tried to take their toy poodle from their backyard,” the owner told Jacqui Felgate, as shared to her Instagram.
“The dog survived but had to receive vet treatment at considerable expense. There have also been other reported attacks of small dogs in our neighbourhood.
“Response from council has been underwhelming to say the least with council acknowledging the issue but failing to offer an effective solution to manage fox populations that are residing on council land.”
Boroondara Council confirmed to the Herald Sun the limited options it had to address the fox population.
“The only course of action available to council is to destroy dens given the danger associated with shooting foxes in urban settings and the risk to other animals when using poisons,” a spokesperson said.
“If all landowners including the state government focused on destroying dens, it may make a difference but is unlikely to eradicate the fox population.
“The Victorian Department of Agriculture has responsibility for foxes under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994. Under the Act, red foxes are declared as established pest animals. The Act requires all landowners to take responsibility for foxes, including fox dens located on their land.”
Residents from numerous Victorian council areas, including Nillumbik, Kingston, Whittlesea and Bayside, have shared similar concerns on the lack of action being taken to address the fox population.
“I’m having the same problem with the Kingston council as a fox jumped the fence and was in our backyard at 2am trying to get our bunny. We reported to the council and they said it’s not their responsibility and to contact the body corporate. The body corporate told me to contact the RSPCA,” one person wrote on Instagram.
A resident of Bayside City Council said when she complained of a neighbourhood fox, she was told to catch it herself — despite the council insisting locals report sightings of foxes along the foreshore or within parks and reserves.
“Fox baiting and trapping programs have been difficult to undertake in Bayside due to the numbers of unrestrained pets roaming at night, and the risks of their poisoning. Rapid re-invasion occurs after control measures are implemented,” it states on its website.
But not all Victorians are on board with frustrated pet owners, some saying pets should be locked inside while foxes freely roam neighbourhoods.
“Leave foxes alone and keep your pets indoors,” one wrote.
“If you cull all the foxes, you’ll probably end up with a rabbit explosion,” another told 3AW.
Wildlife rescuer Krysti Severi had sympathy for the foxes.
“It’s not their fault they’re here. Brought over for sport! They’re surviving any way they can,” she said.
The state government currently offers a $10 bounty reward for fox scalps, acknowledging the population is “beyond eradication”.
“Effective, long-term control of established invasive species such as foxes and wild dogs is best achieved when everyone in the community is working together,” Agriculture Victoria stated on its website.
Nah. Third, behind politicians and bureaucrats.
Up the bounty to $100 and see what happens.
In a couple of years Victoriastanis will have eaten them.
Of all the people to attack, why Cassie, who is also one of the best commenters here? There is no purpose to this gratuitous attack. Keep in mind that if he happens again and I see it, you’ll be running off back to the furniture store feeling sore and sorry for yourself like last time. Leave her alone. Don’t do it.
Yes, JC. Yesterday I said the same thing in reply to this slander by Ellie.
Cassie is a top commenter and Jew on Jew hatred is incomprehensible.
Get lost, Ellie.
Wow, I hope this mess is the end of Pesutto’s career. What a slimeball.
Veteran Liberal MP accuses John Pesutto of claiming Moira Deeming ‘organised’ for Nazis to attend Let Women Speak rally (Sky News, 23 Sep)
The Liberal Party in Viccostan will be infinitely better off when he goes away to tend his cactus plantation.
Should responsibility ultimately lie with local government, state government, or with property owners?
Property owners. Bleedin obvious.
Every owner- hell, every ground-floor resident- should immediately be issued with 9mm pistols, five-cartridge clips, leave it up to the operator’s discretion as to hollow points or dum-dums.
Should also be carried in a hip holster when going to the park, kids’ footy, or oh I dunno, the weekend demo.
Heck yeah. And mask wearers are fair game.
Wally, either a .223 with a 15 round mag, or a 9mm with similar.
I’d prefer the .223 so the kids can join in. 9MM is better suited to adult hands and footy matches/Gay parades.
I second that JC. Cassie is def one of the best posters here.
3rd it. A great commentator anybody would love to have supporting them “in the trenches”. She has a fighting spirit one can not but help admire.
4th it. Well said – I enjoy Cassie’s posts on this blog.
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Because females are destroying the West.
Arky
September 23, 2024 7:01 pm
Reply to Pogria
Sure, but can you distinguish between your personal wishes and the good of the country?
Australia:
USA:
UK:
Yeah, it’s mobile phones. Messes with the minds of young women. Doesn’t affect young men.
Arky,
my parents lived through WWII. When that was over, they escaped the Dictatorship their country had become and came to Oz.
I have never been left-leaning or Green in my entire life.
Do you want an arm wrestle? 😀
“Customers don’t deserved to be treated like fools by the supermarkets.”
Nor by governments, by “health authorities”, and particularly by the MSM who are often as bad as any of the above.
If it wasn’t for chicks, there would be no Labour or Democrat governments across the entire West, and the left would have had to completely reframe their policies and arguments to take account of logic and practicality.
Instead they get away with feelings, lies and groupthink.
If it wasn’t for chicks, you wouldn’t be here.
(Unless you don’t have a mother)….
We are all for women having babies moron. They just shouldn’t vote.
In case you didn’t know, women are capable of having babies even if they can’t vote. It’s biology. You wouldn’t understand given you think men can get pregnant.
Manhunt for Aboriginal elder Jimmy Everett who refuses to face charges in ‘colonial court’Matthew Denholm
2 hours ago.
Updated 27 minutes ago
An Aboriginal elder charged over an anti-logging vigil faces fresh arrest and jail after continuing to claim “colonial” courts have no jurisdiction over him or other “First Nation’s law keepers”.
Jim Everett-Puralia Meenamatta, an Indigenous writer and activist, on Monday failed for a second time to show up in court on a trespass charge over an anti-logging action by the Bob Brown Foundation.
“Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) law is in country, and I am obligated to protect country as a law-keeper,” said Mr Everett, 82.
“Palawa law in country is pre-eminent to Tasmanian and Australian law because no government has made any agreements with First Nations to become Australian citizens.
“Because of this, the colonial court of Tasmania has no jurisdiction over my actions to protect Palawa law in country.”
Mr Everett has a warrant out for his arrest and faces being remanded in custody.
However, police must first find him – and that could involve travelling to his home on the remote, Aboriginal-owned Bass Strait island of Cape Barren.
He said he could not attend the Hobart Magistrates Court as ordered because this would be tantamount to accepting its jurisdiction.
Tasmania Police confirmed it had issued a fresh warrant for Mr Everett’s arrest after his failure to appear in court on Monday.
It did not say whether police would go to the time and expense of trying to retrieve him from Cape Barren Island, nor whether it would consult the island’s Indigenous land managers before doing so.
The trespass charge relates to Mr Everett’s presence in a logging coupe in the Styx Valley, northeast of Hobart, on March 19.
“The court has no jurisdiction over me as a First Nation law keeper, and the government must eventually acknowledge that First Nations are not Australian citizens, and that the ongoing destruction to our lands, seas, waterways, and sky country must be addressed in a treaty,” he said.
Is Mr Everett aware that those falsely claiming to be “First Nations law keepers” are subject to tribal punishment – having both legs broken with a stone club?
When he surrenders his Medicare card I’ll take him seriously.
When he gives up any claim to welfare or a pension, I’ll take him seriously.
There are no real aboriginal in Tasmania that boat sailed with Truganini.
Pity the Oz article isn’t open to comments..
I have primary school classmates who were whiter than me and lived in no bullshit aboriginal families. Truganini was the last full blood not the last aboriginal descendant. As you know, I know.
This grub but… if the law doesn’t apply to him it does not protect him. ?
This is standard procedure during litigation:
Then “standard procedure” is bullsh*t and should be ignored.
Someone takes a yuge government department/qango/union to court: if said blob portion thinks they’re in the right, with their massive amount of advice, security, legislative allies and chance of retroactive arse-covering- see Dr Duk’s waltz around the ACT court fer example-
-and they lose-
they should all lose their jobs, especially the union-retained lawters who should be debarred to boot, because corrupt and/or incompetent, and have their assets garnished for every cent of compensation and costs for the winning litigant.
An offer to settle shouldn’t even come into it. Plead guilty, Blobtard, or change your plea mid-trial and hope for a speedy wrap-up to minimise your exposure.
The whole field stinks of a fit-up where the little man gets bled out for the horsehair class.
Brown’s a revolting old turd. I’ve always loathed him with whiney sanctimonious voice.
Indolents clip above about “international obligations” is only short but makes a strong point about what is going on.
Anal’s nomenklatura certainly living it up on the taxpayer dime. Treating them with complete contempt but that’s the canbra way. Real in-your-face stuff.
“Because of this, the colonial court of Tasmania has no jurisdiction over my actions to protect Palawa law in country.”
Take him out the back and bash his brains in with a stick.
As much tradition as he can handle, and more.
Or launch a night raid on his house while everyone is asleep, spear and kill all the men and boys and take the womenfolk as chattel.
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The Palawa were the race in this country destroyed in a genocide.
It’s amazing how this simple historical fact has become lost in the forgetory.
A race lost in a genocide? So there are none left?
Righto, then, carry on …
Jesus, Moll. Have you seen the relatives?
Not even scullery maid class.
Oho. I see.
This local screecher is, to paraphrase the eternal words of the people responsible for Little Britain, ‘the only Jew in the village’.
It’s a remarkable extension of the ‘I am more Catholic than you’ arguments of previous years.
I will also contend at this juncture that some people become some other people’s ‘my people’ not because there is a deep, multi-generational lineal connection, but because it’s fashionable.
Also to receive attention and/or undeserved sympathy.
Yeah righto. Be interesting to see where this goes.
Re numbers ode to Australian voting, the big failing of the system is compulsory preferential voting. This ensures that many voters are forced to vote, after distribution of preferences, for candidates they wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire.
It is a massive failing in the system.
Not too bad here in NSW since we can exhaust.
Of course the problem with that is after you’ve put a 1 in front of your preferred candidate, without recording preferences as I did in the council election, some naughty person in the counting room could surreptitiously add a 2 to the Labor party candidate if they have a handy pencil. Of course that would never happen. Of course.
You’ve obviously never worked in a counting room.
I’m in the same boat.
CPV keeps the same rubbish politicians we have now in power. Like NSW we should be able to exhaust.
Though I will say having a beer with Phil Thompson this weekend for the LNP he is a good dude.
Instead of pursuing the futile quest of placating chick voters, right of centre parties should concentrate on trying to capture the entire male population.
Don’t you know bolt ons are trending lower? Preferred size is now B or C cup.
You forgot the $10k a week and two (hot) women in every bed.
But I like the antinagging laws – a fine touch there, Arky. And perhaps the scolds bridle could make a fashion comeback?
Sheesh, k’Everett’s 82.
How long is he going to survive hiding in the scrub, with nothing but sharp sticks and a wallaby skin?
/sarc
“Keir Starmer Is Now In HIDING” | Reform UK’s Richard Tice SLAMS Labour Government
I’ve been outmanouvreded’d by wifey.
Have a standing order that I won’t go to see the same band twice, meaning to get out to the grassroots more and avoid the stadium re-runs and 25th Album Anniversary circuit. The other night, she asks-
“Did you ever see The Whitlams?”
…off I go on a reminiscence about a Kenyan chick who went to see them three nights in a row playing Scarborough Tav (I think) in 1996…
next thing, I’m meant to be going with the damn Book Club Couples group date, and it’s in a card-only wanky microbrewery too.
To rub salt in the wound, Primal Scream are playing Freo Prison very close to my birthday, to boot…. but unfortunately, Bobby Gillespie in a long-term Keffiyeh Karen, and I can’t bear to have my illusions shattered by the chance of a Raghead R*pe Gang onstage apologia.
Great band, but like Anthony Hopkins observed of actors, musician are very often very stupid people.
Shine on!
For noncognoscenti that was of course referring to this awesome track.
I’m a great fan of backing singers and guitar solos!
Has this been posted here yet?
“Exploding Pagers – a Few Memes from the Arab World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axXwoPRWkNc
Several memes already seen but a few new ones (for me). I also like the alternate channel name: Granniopteryx.
Seem mining boom on YouTube is back.
Outta here…
Hey Arky,
can your missus and daughter read, English? haw…
Ssssshh.
giggle,hehehehehe
Won’t say a word, promise.
Old Cat-spectre Sparty doing good stuff on his Substack:
Riddle me this.
At great fanfare, the ACCC is taking Coles and Woolworths to court for “fake discounts”.
Take this example described in the Australian and all over SkyNews:
The price of Oreos in October 2022 was $3.50. The following month the price went up to $5.00 and was discounted the following month again to $4.50.
So over the course of 2 months the price went up $1.00 and it is presented as a discount.
Well I await for the evidence to be presented showing how much Nabisco increased their prices before Woolworths “imposed” a discount on them.
However … notwithstanding … be that as it may …
Let’s consider this.
The Commonwealth government jacked up income tax because of bracket creep. It jacked up all sort of fees and fines. Both “gouging” consumes.
It them gives money back, less than it takes of course, via electricity rebates and other middle class welfare.
What’s the difference? Economically nothing. Morally worse. Woolworths does not demand you thank them nor does it threaten to put you in jail if you don’t shop with them.
Where’s the ACCC? Where’s the outrage?
The CEOs of Coles, Woolworths and Aldi aren’t up for election.
And your point is?
Daily Mail has article up about the expenses of the First Nations Ambassador. Mentions his travel, hotels and to which countries etc.
However this was the stand out sentence to me.
“The documents did not detail any excursions to remote Indigenous communities”
He has done well out of being at the top of this food chain. Nice $2.4m home shown in article.
They’re an Ambassador. Have you ever been to a cocktail party at Wadeye?
Plenty of Molotov Cocktails, spears, axes, cross bows etc.
It’s forgettery.
You’re welcome.
As with all of the claimed “genocides” of Australian indigenes, the (fairly weak and generally unorganised) attempt was a failure.
Great skills used to expose these scum. Playing Frank Sinatra- I’ve got you under my skin through the speaker on the CCTV would have been fun.
No words need to be spoken.
A great way to mess with their heads. W*nkers.
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Scambaiter
Scammers PANIC When I Speak Through Their CCTV Cameras!
I understand your confusion, because I speak chick.
You thought when I said revoke women’s votes, I said “revoke Pogria’s vote”. Which would be stupid because I assume you don’t vote green.
Rest assured, that with Arky’s policy to remove the female vote, your not voting would be counteracted by around 1.25 chicks not voting for the greens or teals or a labour lawyer, therefore allowing you to relax at home on election day, righteous in the knowledge that your time is more valuably employed otherwise and all the better for living in a true democracy.
bugger, I don’t speak chick.
All I read was blah, blah, blah.
Alright let’s try logic.
A hypothetical.
Say there is 2 referenda, to be taken consecutively.
Referendum 1: Revoke the female vote.
Referendum 2: Completely destroy Australia and sell the bits off to the highest bid.
If the polls state that 90% of chicks will vote yes to referendum 2.
Do you vote yes in the first referendum?
It was men who worshipped comparative advantage and sold off the country. It is still predominantly men doing that.
It comes down to this: the politician thinks about the next election, the statesmen thinks about the next generation. (James Clarke). Politicians on both sides traded off the future so they could obtain asset sale monies to bribe voters at the next election. No doubt some believed it was the right thing to do but obviously moving into a service based economy was going to create path dependency problems.
The logic, Arky, is irrefutable.
FFS, I absolutely detested the shitlams. We used to encounter “Freedo” quite often in Newtown, including patronising his nightclub “il Globo” just down the road from the Sando. One of the funniest reactions we ever got out of him was when a mate at the time said to him, “Hey Freedo, do you know you look exactly like Skasey?” Needless to say, Freedo was horrified.
As always, the best way to treat these pompous knobheads is to ridicule them. Hates it, they do.
Freedo?
ACCC is today monstering Colesworths despite their profit margin of 1-2%. Gouging!
Paging Jim Chalmers! Oh wait, he’s in China.
I saw that and thought, how much would we be paying of groceries were once again the corner shop? A lot more, I am sure. I also remember when I was a teen and we were poor and deep in debt and had to buy at the company store (Bennett and Fisher who became Dalgety’s who became Landmark who ?) A tin of Sunshine milk was $20.00. You could buy the same for $3.50 in the supermarket but we had no cash. A cruel, cruel time.
Perfect for the scammers captured in the clip above.
Frank Sinatra (Live) – I`ve Got You Under My Skin
No, I came to escape the chicks, but once I arrived I realised they have them here too.
The cover of Australian Post and Pix should have been a hint. Honestly, I just wasn’t thinking.
Quite an endorsement crew she has here.
Musk
Absolute classic.
Gerry Rafferty – Right Down the Line (Lyric Video)
Ditto.
Enough of the unhinged victimhood.