schools need to bring back the cane.

Not on my watch.
Half a century ago corporal punishment was dealt out by sadists and weak teachers on boys, up until we were big enough to say ‘No, you’re not doing that to me’.

Whereupon the discipline issue either vanished, or was passed to parents – where it belonged in the first place.

And yes the muslims coined the name ‘ kaffir lime’.

Back in the day when Thai food was the up-and-coming flavour of the month, I had a job in a Thai restaurant* and thought the owner said kaffir larm leaves – and would wax lyrical to diners about the exotic herb that ‘made the dish’, the larm…. Nor had I or any of the eager punters heard of jasmin rice and garnished my explanation of its qualities with my surmise – quite incorrectly it turns out – that it was rice cooked in jasmin tea.

*The food they ate out the back was divine, not all of it hot. One pork dish tasted like it had been cooked in top notch green tinged oaten hay. I have never come close to replicating it.

Opposition Senate Leader Simon Birmingham says Anthony Albanese must declare whether he acted “on behalf of Qantas” during the government’s recent decision not to allow more Qatar Airways flights into Australia.

This comes amid mounting pressure on the Prime Minister about his relationship with former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce. Mr Albanese has repeatedly dodged questions on whether he solicited free flight upgrades in direct communications with Mr Joyce.

“Here’s a question Anthony Albanese should answer today – did he or his office ever engage with the Transport Minister or her office on the Qatar flights decision?” Senator Birmingham told Sky News.

“Did, in fact, he exercise his prime ministerial authority or his office do so on his behalf to interfere to protect Qantas and to ensure that Australian aviation customers were given less choice and greater costs?

“Because that’s what this all comes down to.

“If you’re having a debate about indeed the influence, it is also whether that influence was used and exerted by the Prime Minister in terms of protecting, potentially, Qantas’ interests and he’s never given a straight answer on that. That’s really where he should be pressed to give a direct answer. Did he ever actually act, as Prime Minister, recently on behalf of Qantas?”

Oz

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant posted on X a photo of Qassem, writing: “Temporary appointment. Not for long.”

Qassem’s acceptance speech:

‘Uh. I’d like to thank the Shura Council which consists of my ex-wife, landlord I haven’t paid in five years, as well as three of my sons impatient for their Qatar townhouse inheritance.’

Calli I don’t think anyone Trump included had any idea how rotten the us body politic was. We are all wiser. I didn’t realise how rotten Howard was either.

There was some corporal punishment at my Catholic primary school but zero at my girls Catholic secondary school.
The boys schools used the cane though
The only teachers who dished it out at the primary school were female married lay teachers, never the nuns.
Parents knew whether or not the teachers at the schools they sent their children to hit children if they didn’t condone it, the children wouldn’t be there.
Corporal punishment was also used in state schools. The Beaumaris enquiry stated primary school children were belted, caned, strapped, even kicked by male teachers.
Times have changed.

To splitting Queensland hell yeah.

Cut in two, round Gladstone north. That way Queensland could have the Ag and NQ the mining. As for as a port Townsville could be expanded just need a shedload of dredging the sand flats south of Ross creek mouth. Airports, 2 international rated ones with again Townsville and Cairns. Cairns currently runs most of the commonwealth bureaucracy and Townsville the present Queensland state. Everything’s there just within the state framework atm.

No effing way to absorbing the territory, that would just set up another perpetually left dominated state and there’s enough of those now.

Even with the demorat cheating Trump looks good. Red Eagle’s latest analysis:

Republicans Are CRUSHING Democrats in Early Voting!

cohenite, the problem with your boy at Red Eagle is that he ran exactly the same content in 2020, and his predictions got smoked. He forecast Trump to win with 290 EVs.

Lovely that you get to hear comforting reassurances to make you feel better, but he is treating you like a sucker.

Well this will be a first if true.

Just heard a rumours of a few unsolicited texts going out to a selection those on the Queensland electoral roll, one accusing LNP being Nazis and another saying something about him under Newman. All regional so far from central and north. I know one has already contacted QEC asking if they have been hacked.

I haven’t received anything but be interesting of some skulduggery is going on and a pathetic indictment of how polarised/entitled to power some are now.

Lysander

 October 30, 2024 1:03 pm

WALLET WIZARD!!!!

But why has the CPI increased at a reduced rate in the September Quarter, from 1% increase to 0.2% increase.

Behold:
Electricity prices fell 17.3 per cent in the September quarter; “The introduction of the 2024-25 Commonwealth Energy Bill Relief Fund (EBRF) rebates and State government rebates in Queensland, Western Australian and Tasmania from July drove the fall this quarter.” 

Transport: “The main contributors to the fall were Automotive fuel (-6.7%), Motor vehicles (-0.8%) and Urban transport fares (-2.1%). Urban transport fares fell (-2.1%) due to cheaper or free public transport initiatives by state and territory governments. Initiatives effective within the September quarter 2024 were Brisbane with 50-cent fares from 5 August, Darwin with free bus fares from 1 July, Canberra, from 20 September, with free public transport as the city transitions to a new public transport ticketing system and Hobart with half-price fares, which was effective from 1 June.”

All that lovely government money, freshly printed just for you. It’s free!

Quick! To the Batmobile! Something must be done!

Network 10 newsreader Narelda Jacobs has claimed she was refused an empty table in a Melbourne café that was subsequently offered to a “white man”.

The veteran journalist anchors the network’s flagship 10 News First program at midday and was the first Aboriginal and first openly lesbian newsreader in Western Australia.

Sky

At Yass on final leg from Cooktown to Melbourne. Bright and fresh spring day compared to hot and steamy.

Australia’s deputy chief medical officer during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Coatsworth said having people lose jobs over vaccine mandates “really did erode trust” while speaking on Today on Wednesday morning.

“When we – I’m looking at myself here because I was part of this apparatus – were pushing vaccine mandates and people were losing their jobs because they weren’t taking the vaccine, that really did erode trust.”

The Chief Health Officer of NSW has served in this capacity since 2007. I saw her on TV midyear advising all to get their COVID vaccine booster. She has survived seven NSW premiers and is now on her eighth. No way she is going to lose her job.

Anthony Albanese’s Qantas upgrade controversy reveals big problem with PM’s biggest strength | Samantha Maiden
Maybe politics isn’t the PM’s strong suit after all. It’s not like this is Canberra’s only travel scandal, writes Samantha Maiden.

The conventional wisdom about Anthony Albanese over the years has often settled on the notion that he was never a public policy genius, but he is good at politics.

Remember, this is the bloke that was Australia’s longest serving transport minister, preferring to cut ribbons for new roads and wander around in hangars with then Qantas CEO Alan Joyce rather than take on a new portfolio, even when he was briefly deputy prime minister under Kevin Rudd’s second coming.

But the Prime Minister’s week from hell, courtesy of the Qantas flight upgrade furore, hints at a harsher assessment.

It’s an assessment that first came into view during his less than stellar performance on the 2022 campaign trail.

He was prone to stumbling over silly gotcha questions about interest rates posed by young reporters who were reading from their mobile phones while trying to memorise their bosses’ questions.

He was not good at campaigning and it’s an open question after this week if he is really that much good at politics.

What he has been the recipient of is extraordinary good luck, which granted him the Labor leadership after Bill Shorten misguidedly wanted it straight after the 2013 election.

Mr Albanese’s predecessor would have been wiser to wait but he wasn’t and the rest is history.

The Tortoise beat the Hare.

That put Anthony Albanese in the box seat to win the 2022 election after voters wanted Scott Morrison put in the bin after Hawaii and other adventures.

And now here we are, watching in real time as his replacement ties himself up in knots trying to explain why there’s nothing to see here with this Qantas story, just as Scott Morrison said there was nothing to see here about his Hawaii holiday while bushfires raged.

It’s hard not to feel a twinge of sympathy for the Prime Minister, who has become so desperately out of touch with the real world after nearly 30 years in politics that he thinks this is all normal.

He really doesn’t seem to have a clue.

Imagine for a moment if Treasurer Jim Chalmers was routinely offered membership of a secret bank lounge where he could hang out with all the other politicians and their wives drinking French champagne and score interest rate deductions and other freebies and it was all organised by the big banks’ government relations lobbyist.

Now imagine he said that was all very nice, very demure, and not a problem at all because everyone is doing it so it’s fine.

He would be rightly laughed out of town. People would lose their collective minds.

And yet Mr Albanese’s brain has become so warped and mangled by spending half his life catching planes to Canberra on the taxpayer dime that he seriously thinks getting freebie upgrades for private holidays from Qantas from economy to business is normal and fine because he declared it.

He wants to split hairs about whether he rang the CEO directly, or if there’s a hotline his staff called, or whether he was just offered it and how is he to say no?

For heaven’s sake, he was the transport minister. Does he lack even the most basic of insight to see why this pisses people off?

It’s clear enough the Prime Minister doesn’t think he was influenced by all this influence peddling in any way.

And maybe he wasn’t. But that’s not the point.

The point is that it stinks to high heaven and the fact the Prime Minister can’t smell the proverbial being metaphorically left in large piles all around the Lodge is a serious concern.

Does he need to see a nose doctor? And gosh, Tony Burke is awfully quiet right now. Remember what happened to Tony?

Four years ago he repaid $8600 of taxpayer money he spent flying his family to Uluru under “family reunion” travel for a holiday in 2012, eight years after the flights were booked and several years after questions were raised.

In theory, family reunion travel was meant to be about flying your missus or mister to Canberra but somehow it was worked out you could “reunite’ anywhere and so bugger it, he did it in Uluru after a work trip. Totally within the rules.

The issue first blew up when Labor pursued then Speaker Bronwyn Bishop over her $5000 Geelong helicopter flight to attend a Liberal Party fundraiser.

Back then the Liberals were whispering all the same lines that Albanese’s mates like Queensland’s Murray Watt have been whispering this week, which is something along the lines of “Sssh Be careful, Be careful, because we are all doing it and you will be in trouble too.”

And so Tony Burke led the attacks on Bronwyn Bishop and then the Liberals went to the disclosures chum bucket and found out he had used family reunion travel to do the Uluru trip.

It is said that he never claimed family reunion travel again.

Not because he wasn’t allowed to but because he didn’t want to put his family or himself through the drama again.

“After further reflection he decided the costs associated with his family’s travel did not meet community expectations so he repaid it,” a spokesman said

In other words, he learned his lesson.

But right now, the Prime Minister hasn’t learned his lesson. He says anyone mentioning the perks for his fiancee and son are attacking his family.

But life has a way of teaching us the lessons we would rather not learn the hard way.

And one way or the other the Prime Minister is about to work that out.

Daily Tele

It seems someone needs to reiterate the old ” Caesers wife” tale to the filth of Cabraaagh
Not only is it enough to be not corrupt, but the appearance should be avoided as well.

Small goblins and witches for freedom!

Chinese Police Detain Shanghai Residents for Defying Halloween Costume Ban (29 Oct)

A Taiwanese-born bar owner said he was contacted by the police and told “there were to be no Halloween activities, no displays, and nobody in weird costumes, on pain of them shutting the bars down.”

“It was so sad,” the bartender commented.

Shanghai, a city of great financial importance with extensive international connections, has been the scene of civil disobedience a few times in the recent past, including demonstrations against dictator Xi Jinping’s abusive coronavirus lockdowns.

Some revelers tried taking their costumes to nearby cities, only to discover they were also enforcing costume bans. A resident of southern China calling himself “Chen” – everyone speaking to foreign media requested anonymity – told RFA the Chinese Communist Party has come to fear masks and costumes as signs of rebellion.

“The costumes they wear express dissatisfaction, and such dissatisfaction can easily evolve into a demonstration,” Chen said.

I wonder if the CCP will ban carved pumpkins? It’s gotta happen.

I was caned with a 3ft long blackboard ruler when I was 6. Sisters of Mercy. I’d been at the new WA school for 4 days.

My goodness they could be cruel I can still hear the resounding the thump on the back of a girl in my class (5th class), reverberating through her chest, delivered by our then temporary teacher, Sister Generosa — if ever there was a mis-naming this was it.

Happy Birthday, Zulu. Now here’s a thought…

BoN, or others who researched renewables.

Is this true?

Wind turbines are net negative. There would be no point building them if they only achieved net zero. The energy payback is typically under a year.

I don’t know enough to rebut this claim,but it seems like too short a time frame even if true.
There are other things to consider than the energy return, surely?