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“Growth in employment in the non-market sector is actually good,” Guv Bollocks drooled on Thursday.

Safe hands.

Record state spending will only prolong the pain for borrowers

Simon Benson, The Australian, 3rd December 2024

One undeniable fact will be evident in Wednesday’s national accounts. Whatever growth there is in the economy will be almost entirely due to a mad rush of government spending, both com­mon­wealth and state. The highest quarterly numbers as a share of the economy on record, no less. This model of state intervention is unsustainable in the long term. The political dividend is equally question­able…

Questionable indeed.

The Guardian is very perplexed that their latest poll shows voters don’t appreciate Lucky Jim’s economic management, despite wages growth officially now creeping ahead of inflation.

That might be because nobody outside the public service is seeing any wage growth and they’re worried about their job security as business insolvencies hit a record high this year.

People just don’t appreciate having it so good.

How will they continue to scam their Western suburbs ‘militants’?

I wonder if that jig is up.

Latest news is that Jamal Rifi’s “Friends of Burke” has recruited Bob Carr to help turn the tide of anti-Labor sentiment among certain enclaves in Watson.

Carr left state politics almost 20 years ago when most of the Muslim hotheads would have been in primary school.

Interesting involvement of Australia in the recovery of the last SpaceX flight:

1 Dec 2024 #starshiplaunch #ift5 #starship

The recovery of SpaceX’s Ship 31 (S31) from Starship Flight 6 has provided an interesting glimpse into the evolving landscape of reusable space technology. While initial expectations pointed to Booster 13 (B13) being the first vehicle recovered, recent updates have spotlighted S31 as the pioneer, marking a milestone for SpaceX’s reusability goals. This article delves into the details of the mission, the recovery process, and the implications for the future of the Starship program, drawing insights from the mission’s timeline and associated analyses.

Flight 6, launched on November 19, 2024, from SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch pad, saw S31 and B13 working together in a demonstration of the company’s reusable spacecraft systems. Powered by 33 Raptor 2 engines at full throttle, the stack’s liftoff was quicker and smoother than earlier missions, thanks to optimized engine performance. After stage separation, B13 executed a boost-back burn but was diverted to the Gulf of Mexico for a soft water landing instead of a tower catch due to last-minute anomalies in tower health checks. Meanwhile, S31 continued its mission, performing a flawless in-space relight and controlled atmospheric reentry before splashing down in the Indian Ocean. The precision of these maneuvers reflects SpaceX’s growing expertise in managing complex orbital flight systems, even as challenges remain with recovery operations.

The recovery of S31 was conducted with the help of two Australian-based vessels, Limitless and Bhagwan Renegade. These ships were pre-deployed near the anticipated landing site and monitored S31’s splashdown before initiating a 27-hour observation period. By November 23, Limitless had transported several recovered components to Exmouth Port, Australia. Among the salvaged parts were intact Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPVs), which showed no visible damage, indicating their potential reusability. A significant quantity of heat shield tiles was also recovered, most notably from S31’s nose cone. These tiles, which remained remarkably intact through the spacecraft’s fiery descent, are a testament to the effectiveness of recent design changes. SpaceX’s decision to glue the tiles rather than pin them appears to have enhanced their durability, further validating the upgrades made to the vehicle.
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Additional unidentified parts, tightly packed for transport, were also recovered and sent to Australian research facilities for preliminary examination. These components are likely to undergo detailed analysis at SpaceX’s Starbase in Texas. This data will be instrumental in refining the design and performance of future Starship prototypes. However, the ultimate goal of recovering S31 as an intact vehicle remains unfulfilled. Despite Bhagwan Renegade’s return to port equipped with towing equipment, there was no trace of S31’s main body. This suggests that either the spacecraft sustained significant damage during splashdown or logistical challenges prevented its full recovery. Even so, large segments of the vehicle, such as its nose cone, payload bay, flaps, and engine sections, may still hold salvageable value, adding to the wealth of data collected.

Michael Warner is a sports writer for the Hun. File under closing the gate after the horse has bolted:

Only the permanently outraged would have taken offence when an AFL umpire attended a private, post-season “characters of the 2000s” party in an Osama bin Laden mask.

Predictably, it triggered an investigation (and a one-match suspension) at AFL HQ where the game’s administrators have tied themselves in knots conforming to the era of identity politics, moral grandstanding and radical left ideology.

But recent world events and last year’s failed Voice referendum reflect how a growing majority have had enough of progressive lectures and the rise of divisive social agendas and their endless demands.

Persistent Welcome to Country ceremonies, Pride rounds, pre-match knee-dropping and race-baiting doesn’t unite Australians – it creates a growing level of resentment, turning us against each other.

The AFL would do well to follow other corporations in disbanding their DEI department headed by its so-called “executive general manager of inclusion and social policy”.

Football’s capture by the woke movement has always reeked of hypocrisy.

The AFL is currently defending itself vigorously against a racism class action led by Indigenous North Melbourne great Phil Krakouer. But how does that correlate with its public undertakings to believe all First Nations players?

It’s hard to espouse your private view when preaching the complete opposite

It’s like how the league waved its finger at the Hawks while releasing themselves from future liability during the botched Hawthorn racism probe.

In the year of the Voice they couldn’t bring themselves to reveal that not one but two secret reports had cleared former Hawks officials Alastair Clarkson, Chris Fagan and Jason Burt of devastating claims of racism.

The two reports went into a lead box and were buried, leaving us all to ponder whether a culture of systemic racism had indeed thrived at Hawthorn during the club’s golden premiership era of 2008-15.

Then there’s their love of the gambling dollar.

It was AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder who pushed the clubs to reduce their dependency on poker machine revenues, only to oversee a boom in the code’s lucrative relationship with sports betting companies.

As pokies baron Bruce Mathieson put it, it’s like saying gin is bad but vodka’s good.

You can only laugh when betting odds are plastered across the AFL website alongside the Indigenous place names of match venues. The Wurundjeri Cup brought to you by Sportsbet.

When a practising Muslim AFLW player sat out the league’s annual Pride Round because the rainbow-themed uniform did not represent her faith, the league could only explain that inclusion was a complicated matter.

Complicated like how one club pockets massive sponsorship dollars from the state-owned airline of Qatar, where homosexuality is banned and openly gay men and women face dire consequences, while its players slip on rainbow socks in matches.

Remember the furore when six Manly rugby league players from the Pacific Islands refused to wear a pride jersey on religious grounds? They were heavily condemned, so why not the Muslim AFLW player?

Rampant illicit drug-use is also tolerated within football, where some AFL club doctors conducted secret match-eve tests to ensure cocaine-addled stars don’t risk suspension under the world anti-doping code. So drugs are in, but poor taste costumes are out.

And what about the devastating scourge of concussion?

The league’s very own head-knocks tsar was exposed in an international plagiarism scandal, while in coronial inquests and concussion court cases the AFL plays hard ball to minimise its liability from suicides and debilitating brain injury, which would be fair enough if they didn’t carry on about how compassionate they are to everyone else who suffers in society.

The rules of wokeism don’t allow for debate (or even the views in this column), but a growing number of fair-minded Australians know that the nation’s biggest sport has been an active participant in the overreach of the DEI age.

Lol had the misfortune of watching the ladies grand final just gone. Old mate ‘Uncle’ Somekhunt again doing what he’s done many times before for the leagues. Must be on a good wicket.
Also went to watch Bulldogs and Brisbane at Marvel. Had the ludicrous vision of the great Bontempelli with some war paint shite on welcoming us to Naarn, or however you say it.
And morons, inclusion isn’t hard. It’s everyone with their own beliefs or its nothing. Just get on with it fer phuck sake

The West’s Glaring Blind Spot for Muslim Madness and Islamic Insanity

Maybe gauge the public mood on cost of living etc before belching brain farts:

A proposed $3 fee on cash withdrawals from Commonwealth Bank branches for some customers has been paused in response to national fury.

The sub heading of the article on the Daily Telegraph site.
The banks are the same as the AFL. Head to their ATM and have a look at the ads on it. Scant representation of white people unless female but a great deal of variety of other ethnic backgrounds.
Same as the ads on tv.

‘Bimbo Trudeau’: Douglas Murray brands Canadian PM a ‘narcissistic little playboy’

Teachers direct and closely monitor students’ learning – a reversal of the failed fad of “student-directed learning’’ that expected students to “lead their own learning journey’’.

It is hard to believe, as the decades slip by, but it is over five decades (at least) since Australian Teachers’ Colleges abandoned “teacher-directed” teaching in favour of “student-directed” learning. I recall the dismay I felt when my grandchildren began school.

Grandparents’ Day revealed the full catastrophe. Little ones sitting around a central table teaching each other as the “teacher” ….”facilitated” learning. No text books even as they progressed into the final years of “primary” learning.

Granddaughter had no trouble, as she is quite a brilliant student. But grandson struggled. Yet no remedial learning available in the public system at that time.

Britain is going nuts. WTF happened to the place? You can’t blame immigrants with this crap going on as it’s not them.

Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards is a man. Why do women allow this?

Ranga, the pardon, has totally screwed up the Demons. If Trump plays the next couple of years well, the Demons could end up as a rump of a party. This hangs on the ability of the GOP to close up the cheating. This is so 1980 with the Reagan win.
PS, as we get closer to the 20th Jan, Hiden will pardon other members of the family too. This is going to be fun to watch.

Dover, you really need to get off Russian Bot Central and take a clear-eyed look at the situation. The Ukraine war will end because the Trump administration will instruct President 87% and Ukraine that it will end. This war is essentially a stalemate for all intents and purposes. Suggesting that 87% has the upper hand is pure delusion.
According to The Oz, approximately 40% of Russian government spending is going toward the war effort. The cost of living has increased by 25% since the war began, and the Russian central bank rate is sitting at 21% in an attempt to prop up the rubble. This has pushed lending and mortgage rates to a staggering 28%, with another central bank hike expected in January. The rubble has taken a beating and will likely continue to do so. Many businesses in Russia are on variable-rate loans, meaning they could soon face interest rates nearing 30%. Labor is, unsurprisingly, in short supply for obvious reasons. 🙂
If the Trump administration demands a ceasefire, it will happen.

Then there’s Iran. If the hostages aren’t released, Iran is going to get hit harder than Tyson in his prime.