Haven’t been biking over the last week .. wasn’t enjoying it .. sooo spending time in the “park” that masquerades as my back garden ..
The weeds have started waving “mercy” placards …… LOL!

Piers Akerman:

This is the season when most of us wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to all men, but this message isn’t ringing in Canberra.

With a raging degree of anti-Semitism not seen in Australia since Hitler’s sympathisers marched through Melbourne in the 1930s, and a government determined to assist the enemies of the only democracy in the Middle East, the dove of peace has flown elsewhere this Christmas.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Cabinet cabal have shown a shocking inability to differentiate between good and evil in supporting two anti-Israel propositions at the UN in recent days.

To cheers from the remnants of the barbaric terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah, Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s mouthpiece at the UN, Australia’s ambassador to the UN, James Larsen, a career diplomat, read out a statement to the General Assembly demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, not tied to any release of Israeli hostages, and lacking any requirement that Hamas be removed – while calling for the UN’s highly suspect Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA, to be given unhindered access to Gaza.

Larsen’s speech would have been approved – if nor written – by Wong’s office but I wonder whether the ambassador felt sick when delivering a message lauded by terrorists in their ratholes and by their supporters in Australia.

Did he consider resigning rather than forever being identified with this vote? As a former ambassador to Israel, he would have been well aware that Israeli intelligence has been critical to preventing terrorist attacks on Australian civilians and military personnel.

Under Albanese and Wong, Australia’s diplomatic efforts have been directed to protecting terrorist sympathisers in Ramallah and Gaza, and the UN’s designated Palestinian aid organisation, UNRWA, which has been shown to employ dozens of terrorists, some of whom participated in the October 7, 2023, murderous attack on Israeli civilians.

One UNRWA official even held hostages in his apartment before they were rescued in a daring Israeli operation.

Will Israel help us prevent terrorist attacks in future or will it stay schtum?

Not one of the majority UN nations that we voted with has played such an important role in our security as Israel, and certainly North Korea, Russia, China and Iran aren’t in the habit of protecting our back.

Yet the supine Albanese government has hidden behind the amoral facade that we were participating in a consensus vote along with Five Eyes partners the UK, Canada and New Zealand.

Nine nations, including our vital security ally, the US, voted against the UN’s predictable anti-democracy resolutions.

To his credit (whether it was written for him or not), Larsen did say Australia had “reservations” about the wording of the resolutions but voted for them because it was committed to ending the suffering in the Palestinian enclave.

“The current situation in Gaza is catastrophic, the human suffering unbearable,” he said. “Israel must take urgent action to alleviate this humanitarian crisis, in line with the binding orders of the International Court of Justice.”

Where he got it wrong, or Canberra did, was in claiming the ICC’s orders were binding when, in fact, the ICC has no jurisdiction in the dispute and in failing to note that any suffering in Gaza is entirely due to its elected terrorist government’s unprovoked attack on Israeli citizens.

Australia also failed to demand the return of the remaining hostages held by the terrorists when it supported an unconditional ceasefire.

Voters will remember this as a sell-out of Australian values to win the votes of Muslims living in key Labor electorates. Add this issue to the cost-of-living crisis, skyrocketing electricity bills, the lunatic policy of unreliable wind and solar energy, and a Labor loss looms at the election.

That would make for a happy New Year, I’ll be back in January.

More evidence of the great American reversal.

George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay $15 million to settle defamation suit

ABC News will pay $15 million as a charitable contribution to a Trump presidential foundation and museum

Will, they can try to hide the settlement, but ultimately the MSM will be unable to. Trump, as president, has the biggest podium in the world now, and I’m sure he’ll bring it up when it’s convenient. He’ll torture them.

It’s more than just Tony Burke’s voters. The problem for Labor is that the far-left wing of their party is rabidly antisemitic. That is a lot of votes.

I may have said this here before. My experience is that anti-semitism is strongly associated with the mentality that favours the Left wing view of the world.

You would think that therefore the Left would sympathise with Jewish communities everywhere since they have historically been one of the most persecuted peoples across the world.

But no. The reason for this anomaly is the Leftist obsession with a view of the world that simplistically categorises people into “the oppressed” and “the oppressors”. Because they also define Jews as economically prosperous (they rarely see prosperity as the consequence of industriousness, education or intelligence), they automatically define them as “the oppressor”.

Astonishing, I know, but I have noted it in anti-Semites repeatedly. What also amazes me is that this limited view of the world is avowed by intelligent people. Some also think terrorism is the product of poverty (!). I once remarked to a Leftie who said that – “If that were the case, most of India would be terrorists”. He just laughed. Most fly into a fury when thus challenged.

Knuckle Dragger

 December 15, 2024 11:47 am

Slow, yet impressive progress (the Hun):

One of Australia’s most respected sporting clubs in Melbourne Storm will no longer hold regular Welcome to Country ceremonies.

I differ on the point of “slow” progress.
I liken this to the crack in the dam wall, or the heavy train reaching the top of the climb. Once it goes over the top it will gather momentum. Apart from the alienation of the support base, I am guessing that this is now starting to become more than loose change from an expense standpoint. The GBNDU* sets out a scale of charges, with a Weccum to Cunnry listed at $400-$750 (food and drinks additional). But do you reckon major sporting codes are paying $750, drive away, no more to pay?
I will bet that it started out at $500, then suddenly jumped to $1500-$2000 without any discussion (who would be the racist who would query the bill?), then the food and drink clause would be interpreted as “corporate box for the bruddas and Ubers to and from”.
I would be surprised if major codes are getting out of it for under $7-$8k a game.
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*GBNDU – Gumleaf Burners and Nappy Dancers Union.

Andrew Bolt making heads explode:

We’ve had two flashing signs in the past week that Australians have had it with dividing us by race, even if Labor still doesn’t get that its game is up.

The latest is the decision by the Melbourne Storm NRL club to drop regular Welcome to Country ceremonies for being exactly what they are – too divisive.

Treating non-Aboriginal Australians as strangers in their own country was always a racist and idiotically destructive idea.

The last welcome I heard, at a Telstra event last month, was by a guy as white as me who even babbled about his Scottish ancestry before having the hide to tell us an Aboriginal maxim he’d imagined – for whites to “go away, come back another day”.

This politics of racial division is so obviously dumb and unpopular that last week Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said no to Australia being a three-flag nation.

That was the other sign: Dutton declaring he’d stand in front of just the Australian flag, and not the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ones as well.

Yet Labor still doesn’t get what even the wokest corporates have learnt the hard way – that playing the race card is now likely to get you a hard smack from Australians sick of being disparaged and divided in a country that seems to be splintering into ethnic tribes.

On Sunday, for instance, Victoria’s Socialist Left Labor government confirmed it had killed off the traditional Australia Day parade as too – ha! – divisive, just when it’s needed more than ever.

Meanwhile, ministers of the Socialist Left Albanese government abused Dutton for saying we should fly just one flag to unite us, rather than three to divide.

“Peter Dutton is once again proving himself unfit to be prime minister,” sneered Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy.

Dutton was “looking for division”, snapped Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a hypocrite who’d bitterly divided Australians with his referendum on the Voice – his thankfully defeated plan to divide us by race in the Constitution and create an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament.

The leftist Sydney Morning Herald even ranted that “Dutton has shown callous disregard for community harmony”, accusing him of “disgusting, divisive short-term politics”.

Note the Newspeak. Dutton opposes Labor’s divisive race-politics, yet is branded “divisive”. Dutton wants us to unite behind our national flag, yet is accused of attacking “community harmony”.

Talk about the Left projecting. And talk about Labor forgetting a government’s duty is to stress what unites, not encourage what divides.

That’s even more so when we’re now importing half a million strangers a year, many from cultures at odds with our own, and at a time when many of us are financially struggling.

No wonder a lot of Australians are nervous, telling pollsters we’re heading in the wrong direction.

We’ve got Muslim radicals preaching Jew hatred, a synagogue firebombed, Aboriginal extremists torching the Old Parliament House and demanding “sovereignty”, and about 180 councils so ignorantly ashamed of our past that they won’t hold Australia Day citizenship ceremonies.

Hasn’t Labor read the room? Last year Australians voted against its Voice. They then smashed Woolworths with a consumer boycott when it banned Australia Day merchandise. And two weeks ago they took less than 24 hours to crush the slow-to-learn Australian Venue Co when it likewise tried to ban Australia Day celebrations at its pubs.

This is now Labor’s fatal weakness. It will go the way of Woolies if it does not drop its politics of racial division.

Take the Victorian government’s ban on Melbourne’s Australia Day parade.

“January 26 means different things to different people,” a spokesman wittered.

But so what if some activists claim to be distraught by the day?

Why should this government trash our national day and our nation just for them?

Yes, it’s trashing our nation, too, and here’s the test.

If it’s so upset to hold Australia Day on January 26, anniversary of the landing of the first white convict settlers, then let Labor name the alternative date that would have it celebrate this great nation under just one flag.

It never does. But let me suggest one. If Labor can’t celebrate on January 26, then switch Australia Day to the only other day that makes sense: October 14.

That’s the anniversary of the day Australians voted against the Voice. The day we voted to go on together as one people, united and equal.

Isn’t that worth celebrating? More than that: isn’t that something we badly need to?

Nice trolling.

Isn’t 26 January also the date Australians ceased being British subjects, and became Australian citizens?

Correct. January 26 1949. The Australia Act was passed in September 1948 and came into force on Australia Day 1949.

Australian town’s dreams of having a ‘net-zero’ grid results in rolling blackouts lasting for days

Go Fund Me, for the baby that was bashed in Alice Springs has raised over $50,000.

An aboriginal baby?