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Bruce of Newcastle @ 11:41 am

Bloomberg Flubs Data For Bombshell Report That Only 6% Of New Corporate Hires Are White (29 Dec)

Bloomberg publish a (visually) clever statistical analysis of the triumph of DEI that explains the “flub”. The 6% is based on the Top 100 companies who are obliged to report DEI – so very for from representing the US population.

The statistics are however highly revealing:

Asians are massively over-represented in the professions and managerial demographics;

Blacks and Hispanics massively over-represented in the peon demographic.

And, separately reported, women of all shades are not benefiting from DEI.

Safe to conclude that as social engineering policies go, DEI is a far cup on stilts. Perhaps not a surprise that companies are unwinding.

Also Bruce:

DEI at work. I said yesterday that was the reason the white guy with straight As couldn’t get a job.

Not sure who the white guy with straight A’s was, but I’d guess there’s just a possibility that there is a back story behind his apparent unemployment.

How a Steam Locomotive Works (Union Pacific “Big Boy”)

incredible engineering

‘Mr Dutton, how do you respond to Mr Albanese’s claims that you are not fit to be Prime Minister?’

…

‘Look, I’d like to be perfectly clear that the Liberal Party is not interested as to whether Jodie Haydon has an unregistered car and wears Spanx.’

I remember the time the left targeted then PM Abbott’s youngest daughter.

They can’t help themselves.

Unsurprised this latest scandal involves Victorian Labor, easily the grubbiest in the country the last ten years or so.

‘Mr Dutton, how do you plan to revive the economy?’

…

‘This is not the time to mention Tanya Plibersek’s husband, who is a convicted heroin trafficker.’

the way

Thanks everyone for your input about my crown.
all spot on. My mouth has become swollen as my cheeks are resting against my teeth.
thanks mem and duck – spoke to my dentist tonight and it may be a mis alignment or root canal. The crown was put in about 6 mths ago – I has discomfort since then but now it’s painful.
have to sit down while the pulsating waves of pain decline.
thanks team cat – really appreciate your replies – overwelhming really.

Roger

December 30, 2024 5:58 pm

   Gin isn’t my drink…

Any port in a storm.

Not a heavy spirit drinker, but quite partial to Bols gin.

I mentioned this story yesterday but this version from Sky News is worthwhile because of the serve Duniam gives to Albo and Bowen:

Jonathon Duniam tears into Labor’s green energy ‘zealotry’ after $2b offshore wind proposal application gets withdrawn (30 Dec)

German company Skyborn Renewables and Australis Energy withdrew their application for the almost $2b South Australian offshore wind farm known as the Kingston project this month without explanation, according to The Australian.

The dwindling output of wind projects sparked outcry from shadow environment minister Jonathon Duniam who lambasted Labor’s green energy approach.

“What is it gonna take for these people to drop their relentless zealotry?” Mr Duniam told Sky News on Monday evening.

“They’re wedded to green ideology, which is not achieving any of the things they promised or said that it would or any of the things that we actually need which is a lower set of power prices across the country and a functioning economy.

“They’re doing everything they can to stop it and… (Energy Minister) Chris Bowen has no idea what he’s doing and the government is all at sea on these kinds of issues.”

He highlighted high power prices that continue to plague Aussies struggling with cost-of-living woes and the difficulties the nation faces in bolstering energy supply.

He goes on a fair bit more, which I won’t put up for reasons of length. But nice barbs Mr Duniam! I didn’t realize the cancelled wind farm was an offshore one, which suggests the companies pulled out because it wasn’t going to be economic.

just obeying orders

They’re shameless.

Labor hints at ‘Mediscare’ campaign ahead of New Year’s Day welfare increases (Sky News, 31 Dec)

Labor has hinted at reviving its ‘Mediscare’ campaign after Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the Coalition would dismantle the national health insurance scheme and decrease wages.

These tired lies are getting well past their use by date. In fact they were past their use by date in the last five Federal elections. But Labor just keeps trotting them out again every time. You have to wonder when the voters will wise up.

More on defunding moron academics.

What if every pet was vegan? Here’s how much it would help the planet (Phys.org, 30 Dec)

I calculated the environmental impact of meat-based pet food based on this information. Then I asked what would happen if the entire world population of pet dogs and cats ate plant-based alternatives instead.

The results (summarized here) shatter the assumption that it is just people who need to change their diets for the sake of the environment.

Every time you think you’ve seen the dumbest possible science paper another even dumber one comes along. Here’s who he is:

Andrew Knight

Adjunct Professor (Animal Welfare), Murdoch University and Griffith University,

Wow can we breed ’em in this country or what!

Your afternoon read over coffee or a NYE beverage.

Comments appear to be positive. However, whilst there could be positive aspects of decisions being made by residents, it seems to me that financially it is taxpayers money just being recycled, unless those who are paying house rent are employed by private (non-government related) enterprise. I can’t see how they can be economically independent particularly with restricted tourist access. Moreover, many skilled workers and supplies will need to be externally sourced. Great partnership with Barker College though.

I’m optimistically sceptical.

Gunyangara town lease a model for economic independence

The first Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory to take control of its own town lease is being touted as a model for economic independence and potentially individual home ownership.

Gunyangara in the northeast Arnhem Land reached a milestone this month when its 300 residents collectively made the final repayment on a $2m commonwealth loan, three years ahead of schedule. The coastal community – situated on Gumatj land – reached a historic 99-year lease arrangement in 2017, signing a town lease agreement that makes its residents – not the government nor the Northern Land Council – the decision-makers about how land is used in Gunyangara.

This has had a simplifying effect. It has also meant things get done faster. While Aboriginal communities in other juris­dictions have battled bureaucracy for years to secure tender for projects, Gunyungara has established its own school, built its own houses, opened a timber mill that employs residents and used rents from the houses to employ a town maintenance crew of four locals. 

From the initial $2m advance payment from the commonwealth, the people built a residential complex of four units for elderly women then used land use payments from the township – a sort of rent to repay that loan in full within seven years.

Gumatj leader Djawa Yunu­pingu said the historic lease arrangement – the first of its kind here when it was signed in 2017 – provided security of tenure over local land so the community and its residents could “live in the modern world”.

“It allows us to focus on local priorities and get straight to the point with land-use issues,” Mr Yunupingu said. “It puts decision-making in our hands, and we can act with purpose because we want to see our town and our people prosper on their own land. 

“Every block of land in Gunyangara is now leased, and we’ve created an environment that supports increased economic and community development.”

While this was the first NT township lease on Aboriginal land to be controlled by traditional owners, two others have followed – the Mirarr people of Jabaru now control their own lease as do the people of Groote Eylandt.

Gumatj leaders say they want to help their people to continue to build their economic independence, creating the environment for individual home ownership.

The Northern Land Council at first opposed Gunyangara’s proposal but ultimately supported it.

Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy said the Albanese government was committed to working in genuine partnership with NT land councils, traditional owners, local communities and the executive director of township leasing so that traditional owners could make their own decisions about meeting social, cultural and economic needs.

“The Township Leasing Model is a practical way of empowering traditional owners to take control of local decision-making about the use of their land and generating business development opportunities through secure tenure that doesn’t compro­mise Aboriginal ownership of the land,” Senator McCarthy said.

“This kind of outcome at Gunyangara only happens with the building of relationships between land councils and traditional owners, and I congratulate everyone involved.”

Opposition Indigenous affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she believed Gunyangara was a blueprint. “I have long advocated for systems of dealing with land that reduce the need for Indigenous Australians to depend on the government,” the NT senator said. 

“Leases like this play a vital role in providing the opportunity for Indigenous Australians to be homeowners on their land. 

“Keeping Indigenous Australians locked out of home ownership is akin to keeping them in socialist enclaves; it is no way to empower a person to stand on their own two feet. There is significant benefit in leases being controlled by traditional owners through smaller corporations as opposed to vesting power in a few large land councils.

“There are many other changes needed with respect to native title and land rights legislation in Australia, however these leases are a helpful tool towards economic independence.

“Indigenous Australians in regional and remote communities are often our most marginalised, therefore implementing these kinds of leases across the country would go a long way to empowering our most vulnerable.”

The people of Gunyangara run the township through the small Aboriginal corporation they control, Ngarrariyal. 

Land use payments go to Ngarrariyal for community benefit, which has so far included grants to the community’s junior school Dhupuma Barker. The school, formed in a partnership with the prestigious Barker College in Sydney, has had strong early academic results.

The community’s next project is a building at the local sports oval for recreation activities, indoor sport and meetings. It will also be a cyclone shelter if needed.

The agreement that gave Gunyangara people control over their township was 10 years in the making. There were early talks between Mal Brough, Indigenous affairs minister in the Howard government, and famed Gumatj clan leader known in death by his last name Yunupingu. 

The proposal languished until 2014, when then prime minister Tony Abbott visited Gunyangara and talked with Yunupingu. The Coalition then changed the NT land rights act to allow traditional owners to control leases over their own townships.