This is an excerpt from John Pesutto’s Parliamentary profile. I have underlined certain passages for a purpose. See my questions below:

Prior to entering Parliament, John operated his own legal practice and corporate advisory firm. He was also a Senior Fellow at Melbourne University’s School of Government while regularly appearing on TV and radio to discuss current affairs. During much of this time, he wrote a fortnightly column for The Age. The main passions and priorities John has as a member of Parliament are good governance, evidenced by government decisions being based on integrity, transparency and honesty, multiculturalism and diversity – providing opportunities for all, managing all the State’s resources to provide for our community’s current needs while also leaving for future generations a Victoria that is in better shape than that which we inherited, and delivering for the electorate of Hawthorn.

Given that the judges decision holds in the finding against him, can John Pesutto still practice as a lawyer?
Hasn’t Mr. Pesutto contradicted his own tenets of integrity, transparency, honesty, providing opportunities for all?

Profile link https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/john-pesutto/

Gee I think leprechauns riding unicorns are running rampant in Ireland.
So the governments of Ireland, Spain and Norway have declared Palestine a country!
What a joke they are.

Appointment of first full ambassador from Palestine approved by GovernmentJilan Wahba Abdalmajid to become full envoy after carrying out role of ‘ambassador — head of mission’
The Government has approved the appointment of the Republic of Ireland’s first full ambassador from Palestine, Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, giving effect to the decision in May for the Republic to recognise the Palestinian state.
Formal diplomatic relations between the Republic and the state of Palestine were established on September 29th of this year through an exchange of diplomatic notes.
Last month, the government of the state of Palestine formally notified the Department of Foreign Affairs of its intention to change Palestine’s representation here to a resident embassy under the Vienna Convention.
It had been represented in the Republic by the Palestinian mission, headed by Dr Wahba Abdalmajid who carried out the role of “ambassador — head of mission”.

The upgrade in status of the Palestinian mission to that of a resident embassy means that the diplomatic mission will now enjoy the full range of privileges and immunities applicable under the Vienna Convention.
Ireland is also due to have its presence in Ramallah in the West Bank upgraded from a representative office to a full embassy.

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Following recognition of the state of Palestine by Ireland, Spain and Norway in May, ambassadors from the three European countries were summoned to the Israeli foreign affairs ministry.
The diplomats were shown a previously unaired video of the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7th last year in a move that was criticised sharply at the time by Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
Following recognition of the Palestinian state, Israel’s government recalled its ambassador to Dublin Dana Erlich “for consultations” and has said subsequently that she will not return until relations between the two states improve substantially.
The Israeli government has criticised Irish Government positions and statements as “unfriendly and not in the spirit of bilateral co-operation”. 
The souring in diplomatic relations between the two has also been marked by a spat between President Michael D Higgins and Israel after he accused the country of distributing a letter he sent congratulating the new president of Iran following his election.
Israel also recalled its ambassador to Norway and threatened to recall its ambassador from Spain after they recognised Palestine. 

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The Irish Government has indicated its intention to progress legislation banning trade in goods sourced from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories — although only once it has substantially been amended as it is not in accordance with EU law, nor with the Irish Constitution, according to advice from Attorney General Rossa Fanning.
The Republic has also said it would no longer award contracts for military goods to Israeli arms companies, but the Coalition has stopped short of expelling Israel’s ambassador despite calls from the Opposition to do so, citing the importance of keeping diplomatic channels open.

Munich radio station Antenne Bayern just had a news update on the Magdeburg Christmas Market terrorist attack. 11 dead. The chief of the Sachsen-Anhalt state police is calling it a terrorist attack, not dancing around it like Karen from NSW.

Is it just a coincidence that Pesutto has effectively split the Libs and nobbled them from effective opposition whilst providing a magnificent media diversion away from major failings in the corrupt and bankrupt State of Victoria? If he was setting out to sabotage the Libs he couldn’t have done a better job. As for those in the party that aligned with him, I sincerely hope their donations dwindle, they are ostracized in their electorates and social circles and that if they continue to the next election they are punished at the ballot box.

Michael Smith has footage of the murdering scrote speeding through the crowd.
The filthy scrote then steps out of the car and lays on the ground waiting to be arrested.

Much pre-planning went into this horror.

Teenage male of indeterminate heritage stabbing little girls to death in Croatia.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/knife-attack-croatian-school-leaves-7-year-old-dead-6-people-wounded-police-say

Two weeks since the Vic Synagogue terrorist firebombing.

Is the Vic Opposition Leader all over the papers demanding to know why VikPol haven’t mad any progress with the investigation?

Is his house-nlgger Southwick demanding answers?

Who will I vote for? Do I have to just spoil my ballot?

Why is Victoria so fncked?

Spent all day at the Grampians fire yesterday. Its a real biggie and continues to run towards Halls Gap which will be very much under threat in the next day or 2.

From the post by ZK2A @ 09:17…..

Five MPs would again need to petition for another extraordinary party room meeting in order to move a spill.
Pesutto has been contacted for comment.

The problem with the SFLs in Victoria is that, because they’ve been in “opposition” for so long, they have become comfortable in that position of employment.

No one seems to have the desire and fire in the belly to govern and fix the problems caused by the corrupt Andrews regime. They don’t even provide any real opposition to the government.

And those who supported Deeming at the vote yesterday are too timid to make a public stand against the little shit Pesutto. They can’t even nominate an alternative leader of the Party.

Pesutto is gone, just a matter of when.

OpenAi claims to have achieved AGI with ChatGPT Orion o3

What is ‘Karen’ about being unhappy about receiving 4 years out of date chocolate and used lip balm?
No matter what the person might be like, that’s not the spirit of Christmas.

The terror doctor was presenting as ex islam and an Israel supporter on social media.
He also claimed, in threats made to another user, that he was a member of the Saudi military opposition.
She, I think it was a she, reported him. And of course now I can’t find the comment.
Of course naughty muslims have been known to committ acts of terror to expiate islamic sins, that was the case with the Nice truck attacker.

Tom

 December 21, 2024 10:03 am

British cartoonist Bob Moran updates his website only infrequently, but his celebration of Trump’s victory is superb.

I don’t think you’ve read that one right, o Cartoonmaster.
Moran is trying to pin pericarditis and myocarditis-based heart attacks on Trump, or Trump’s cheer squad, because the God Emperor kicked off Operation Warp Speed.
*I don’t think it sticks- Trump never advocated leapfrogging safety or consent, and he certainly didn’t have much inkling of the corruption and greed of Fauci, CDC, Johns Hopkins, Pfizer, Oxford-AZ or the boxfresh Moderna.

It’s nonsense, of course, but the privations and cruelty of the Covid response rotted many, once balanced brains. 

Trust once lost is very hard to get back.

CNN Reveals “Troubling” Poll: American Trust In Vaccines Is Plummeting (21 Dec)

Not helped by the widespread move to mRNA – which is something RFKjr has sounded off on. By contrast this week he said he had no problems with polio vaccine – which is an old style killed-virus vaccine.

I don’t know that there has to be a rule that directors follow the plot of a book exactly.

Of course not. Dorothy’s slippers would never have been red! 😀

But the odd departures do not further the story and they change the characterisation. Jackson left out Tom Bombadil and Farmer Maggot because they didn’t progress the story much, but instead put in a corny tension between Arwen and Elrond, a bizarre dream sequence, and a legion of elves who decide, out of the blue, to fight for Rohan.

The worst was the demeaning of noble Faramir. Someone who was inserted into the original as a foil for his valiant, flawed brother and a re-imagining of the great Elf-friends of the First Age.

I don’t know that there has to be a rule that directors follow the plot of a book exactly

In the book First Blood, Colonel Trautmann blew Rambo’s head off in the final scene.

Had he done that in the movie, the opportunity for three sequels would have been lost.

Sydney Morning Herald’s opinion

Leaked War Memorial files show ructions over war crimes exhibit, ‘interference’
Nick McKenzie

The director of the Australian War Memorial told its curators to seek guidance from the senior manager of the company funding the defamation action of war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith as the institution grappled with how to acknowledge the special forces war crimes scandal.

Leaked files from within the memorial reveal it considered a proposal for a small panel, less than two metres wide with four exhibits, to deal with the story of how two dozen Australian special forces soldiers, including Roberts-Smith, came to be accused of involvement in at least 39 executions in Afghanistan.

A senior curator wrote in a May 2023 email that she was advised by memorial director Matt Anderson to consult two veterans appointed to the War Memorial council who were “likely to have strong opinions on how (or even if) the Memorial presents the story of war crimes allegations”.

One of the two Australian War Memorial council members to be consulted regarding the proposed war crimes exhibit is named in leaked documents from 2023 as former SAS commander James McMahon.

At the time, McMahon was also the chief operating officer of the Kerry Stokes family-backed private equity firm, Australian Capital Equity, which spent many months funding the failed defamation case launched by Roberts-Smith against this masthead, which ultimately exposed his involvement in four unlawful executions of prisoners and civilians.

The second person is former soldier and Victoria Cross recipient Daniel Keighran, who is not associated with the firm.

There is no suggestion by this masthead that McMahon, who could not be reached for comment and who stepped down from the council in June, was ever opposed to the memorial publicly documenting the war crimes scandal. However, his leadership of the Stokes-backed firm and his former senior role at the SAS may have given rise to conflict of interest perceptions among memorial staff.

The premise of Roberts-Smith’s failed legal action was that Australian soldiers who revealed war crimes to the media and the Brereton inquiry were lying, a claim ultimately dismissed by the federal court in its judicial ruling that the testimony of soldiers who served alongside the war hero had proven he had murdered and brutalised Afghans. Roberts-Smith was unsuccessful in his attempt to sue this reporter and two others, as well as this masthead, for defamation.

The proposal about how the memorial should present the war scandal contains no mentions of Roberts-Smith or his actions. Instead, it envisages that the story of the “most disgraceful episode” in Australia’s military history could be presented to the public via a piece of abstract art called Reckoning by Kat Rae and which would hang above a small glass cabinet containing a redacted copy of the November 2020 Brereton inquiry report into war crimes, a copy of the 1949 Geneva Conventions that outlawed war crimes and a small card bearing the instructions for Australian soldiers about when they can lawfully open fire.

Senior staff stressed in internal correspondence that the way it dealt with the “contentious” and “controversial” subject of war crimes should also highlight how “the overwhelming majority of SOTG [special forces] served honourably”.

“The SOTG mission is a significant one in understanding the Australian experience of war in Afghanistan and should not be told purely through the lens of these allegations,” another internal document states.

“It is important to convey that the allegations refer only to a small minority.”

The memorial has a cabinet on public display with Roberts-Smith’s uniform, celebrating his status as a Victoria Cross recipient. In September 2023, it added an 84-word plaque to the display that stated that Roberts-Smith was found to be “involved and complicit in unlawful killings” but “has not been charged” and is appealing.

The leaked documents also revealed concerns among memorial staff that public relations issues could arise as a result of their response to the war crimes scandal.

The senior curator suggested Anderson would be the “appropriate person to be stating the Memorial’s position” to present the war crimes scandal to the public and to respond “to any push back”. Another senior memorial staff member is recorded in the files as flagging the need for a strategy “when members [of the war memorial council] object” to the proposed Afghanistan war crimes display.

The leaked files also warn that Anderson’s support of the memorial’s role in acknowledging the war crimes scandal had led to “conservative commentators in the media saying that ‘Matt Anderson aided and abetted the Taliban’.”

Anderson is also recorded telling his memorial colleagues that some veterans “have said ‘don’t you dare’” catalogue the scandal, while other veterans “have said you must”.

In a statement, Anderson said: “The Afghanistan galleries are being curated and informed through many hours of research, stakeholder consultation and engagement.

“The Brereton Report will be placed in context; Afghanistan was Australia’s longest war and there are many stories to tell.”

The leaked files also include a damning and confidential June 2024 internal staff welfare report that separately details how some memorial employees had raised concerns about “a perception of increased interference” from select members of the all-powerful memorial council in the “professional decisions” of memorial staff. Staff had questioned whether “the personal motivation of some Council members … could be indicative of conflicts of interest”.

The council oversees the War Memorial and typically comprises senior business figures, ex-politicians, academics, veterans and defence leaders. Among the council’s most influential recent members were war crimes sceptics and Roberts-Smith backers billionaire Kerry Stokes and ex-defence minister Brendan Nelson.

Stokes stepped down as council chair in April 2022, while Nelson left the memorial in late 2022, after which former Labor leader Kim Beazley was appointed AWM chair.

The leaked staff welfare report, which was based on interviews and workshops with 180 War Memorial staff between March and June, also detailed serious internal concerns about under-resourcing, “fatigue, burnout, and staff attrition”, and how “profoundly increased workloads” were leading to “collective exhaustion” amid the ongoing $550 million memorial redevelopment.

“To meet the workload demands, staff reported working overtime (early mornings, late nights, weekends) without remuneration and often without acknowledgement” resulting in “impacts on health” and staff feeling “unable to complete tasks to the standard they would normally achieve”, the report concluded.

Veteran investigative journalist and war historian Chris Masters, who has previously worked with the memorial as a curator and who exposed Roberts-Smith’s war crimes in reports for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, called on the Australian War Memorial to stop shying away from the war crimes scandal and “do what it is supposed to do and simply tell the truth – that war brings out the worst in us as well as the best in us”.

“I can’t see why they can’t balance the story of compassion and cruelty, which is the enduring record of war,” Masters said.

The associate director of the Human Rights Law Centre, Kieran Pender, who has worked with military insiders who helped expose war crimes, said the memorial should embrace the role of the brave soldiers who became whistleblowers, calling it “an important part of Australia’s war history”.

Historian David Stephens also called for the memorial “to make brave decisions on difficult issues, like war crimes in Afghanistan and the Frontier Wars in Australia. Too often it comes up with bit-both-ways ‘decisions’ which satisfy no one, except perhaps the most rusted-on veterans and certain shock jocks.”

 the most rusted-on veterans and certain shock jocks.

Oh Lord I hate dons.

I just “love” how the ABC rephrases and morphs the facts to suit its leftist bent.

But those behind Mr Pesutto point to the fact she was ultimately expelled from the party room for suing Mr Pesutto, not for attending the anti-trans rights rally or her association with organisers.

No. She didn’t sue until she was expelled
No. It wasn’t an anti-trans rights rally it was a pro-women’ rights rally
The ABC seems to on his side. Now, I wonder why that is?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-21/vic-liberal-party-analysis-meeting-moira-deeming-john-pesutto/104751736