NSW might not be quite as bad as Victoria, but by jingo its pretty close.

I have recommended elsewhere that the NSW Police motto should be changed from the now clearly outmoded ‘Culpam poena premit comes’ (Punishment swiftly follows crime) to one adapted from something the Emperor Tiberius supposedly said – ‘Let them hate me, so long as they fear me’.

We get:

Oderint nos dum metuant nos

When Robert Peel created the police in London he recognised that they could only really operate with the consent of the community. The public would heed, the public would help. They had to trust the police officers and believe that they meant to benefit the people of the community.

I think the various police forces have squandered that good will. We have seen them too often attack the public with seemingly no qualms whatsoever.

That is the image they have now.

I don’t like what I see as real crime or the people that commit them. But after seeing police manhandling people to pull masks on their heads or pepper-spraying old women already on the ground, I less identify police with justice.

The Farmers are Rising Up

Check this out!

These two are living the dream. Filmed up North In West Oz. I don’t know where exactly.

The squid meal Fran cooked up … I’ll take notes. I have not had squid in ages.

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Strick and Fran.

Camping On The Ocean in Remote Australia

“He Is WORSE Than Anyone Could Anticipate” | Keir Starmer Sent 470 Delegates To COP 29

The Democrats are Falling Apart Before Our Eyes

Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism

For all his flaws and dysfunctions, Trump has served as a catalyst — forcing the old establishment to confront its contradictions. His presidency underscores the emergence of a new paradigm where sovereignty, national interest, and the desire to be free from technocratic control increasingly take precedence. Crucially, this shift should not be viewed merely through the simplistic lens of left vs. right; rather, it is best understood as a more fundamental moment — a quasi-spiritual reckoning for the West, grappling with the kind of moral order that will define its future.

This conflict pits two competing visions against each other: on one side, an authoritarian framework — a top-down, imposed order championed by a transnational, anti-democratic administrative state; on the other, a resurgence of sovereignty, a defence of human agency, and a return to the values of freedom and self-determination. As articulated through these movements, sovereign internationalism attempts to redefine international engagement by affirming national interests and independence rather than subjugating to unelected global bureaucracies.

RTWT

No prizes for guessing which vision Albanese & Co. [& Starmer] are backing. Otoh, I don’t think the Gliberals grasp what’s at stake at all; they are the contemporary iteration of Donald Horne’s second raters.

Jordan Peterson’s Thoughts on Trump’s Election

Tim Blair:

Australian malcontents are always importing terrible ideas from the United States.

Global warming panic, identity politics, electric vehicles, theatrical anti-Trumpism, the notion that blokes can have babies – these all kicked off in the US before landing here.

This trend extends even to online abuse. When local leftists sneer at their social media opponents, they often use US-derived insults, referring for example to people who live in their “mum’s basement”.

By and large, of course, Australian houses don’t have basements. It is worrying that our leftist friends, who grew up in Australian houses, evidently never noticed this.

So they import another Americanism and force it into an Australian circumstance. Sort of like Aboriginal rap music – or that Raygun lady’s kangaroo-hopping, culturally-appropriating attempt at break dancing.

But Australia is taking its revenge. Instead of importing pointless embarrassment, we’re proudly and successfully exporting it.

Americans are now participating in Australian-style “welcome to country” ceremonies.

Their versions are called “land acknowledgments”, but they otherwise seem just as earnest and procedural as our original presentations – which have been a traditional Indigenous ritual since 1976, when a welcome to country was first performed by TV presenter Ernie Dingo and musician Richard Walley.

For those who doubt the historical depth of this compelling origin story, 1976 was the same year that Abba’s Fernando was Australia top-selling single. Ancient times. The Dreamtime’s dawning. Before most Aussie families even had colour TV

“Land acknowledgments have become increasingly common nationwide over the past few years,” the US National Public Radio network reported in 2023.

“Many mainstream public events — from soccer games and performing arts productions to city council meetings and corporate conferences — begin with these formal statements recognising Indigenous communities’ rights to territories seized.”

They’re performed at soccer games and arts events. From this we know exactly what types of people are pushing these “land acknowledgments”.

Interestingly, some senior US Indigenous figures aren’t impressed by imported Australian racial rites or the way they are presented.

“If it becomes routine, or worse yet, is strictly performative, then it has no meaning at all,” Kevin Gover, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, told that NPR program. “It goes in one ear and out the other.”

This is also true here. A mate who works for a state government department in the bush is exposed to at least four or five messages every day about “paying our respects to traditional owners” and so on.

Several tribes are mentioned. In one ear, out the other; nobody can remember any of them.

It could be that the US is getting in on land acknowledgments just as Australia is getting out of them. A turning point may have occurred in April 2023, when Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton vowed to abandon welcome to country ceremonies if the Yes vote didn’t deliver an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

“I imagine that most Australians who are non-Indigenous, if we lose the referendum, will not be able to look me in the eye,” Marcia Langton told The Weekend Australian.

“How are they going to ever ask an Indigenous person, a traditional owner, for a welcome to country? How are they ever going to be able to ask me to come and speak at their conference?

“If they have the temerity to do it … the answer is going to be no.”

At the time of Langton’s vow, the Yes vote was leading in opinion polls by about 60 per cent to 40 per cent. Within a few weeks polls were level at 50-all. The No vote eventually won by more than 20 percentage points.

Marcia didn’t miss.

Here’s another kiss of doom. US popster Taylor Swift, whose endorsement of Kamala Harris didn’t stop her losing to Donald Trump, last week decorated the stage at a Canadian show with a sign saluting “the Mississaugas … the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Chippewa, and Wendat … the First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples”.

Good for them. But here’s the fun part. When left-leaning white shame-spreaders profess their guilt and pity to Native Americans, they do so in the apparent absence of recent crucial information.

They’re showing profound reverence for … Trump voters.

“Nationally, a whopping 65 per cent of Native American voters went for Trump,” New York’s City Journal reported last week. Politico observed: “In the Great Plains, the Mountain states, across the Southwest and even in North Carolina, Trump delivered standout gains.”

It’s time for a new ceremony. Welcome to Trump country.

Outstanding as usual.