This is the way to go green.
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One acre of hemp produces 25 % more oxygen than one acre of forest and guarantees a cellulose supply that is approximately twice as high.
One acre of hemp grows within 6 months, while a forest grows for decades before it is harvested.
By making hemp paper, we could save millions of hectares of forest every year.
Hemp can be used in textile production, construction and even as bio-fuel.
As with all things, produce it and its value will be reflected by its demand. Which will be very low.
Thus of course, industrial hemp will require government to ban the production of wood based paper, as hemp paper is shit in comparison.
that is even before you get into the regular surveillance requirements etc as industrial hemp advocates also tend to be quite happy to try and grow mull in the middle of it.
You’d think that government which originally made it illegal, would realise it has instead made the problem worse by its meddling. Perhaps government should just piss off and let the market sort itself out.
So how’s that War on Drugs going you stupid, stupid people?
The good old days, some people yearn for them.
No thanks, imagine living like that.
I suppose if you know no better it may not sound too bad, until you find out how the other half lives.
Not talking about the spinning of course.
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In 1904, a mother in rural Ireland was captured teaching her young daughter how to use a spinning wheel, passing down a centuries-old tradition that had been an integral part of Irish life for generations.
The changes that girl would have seen had she lived to 75 years.
Awesome.
She would have sent her first husband off to the Great War, her children – any that survived the Depression – off to the second.
Heard of the first manned flight, flown to the US to see her great grandchildren in a 747.
Seen her first ‘talkie’ as a mother of 7. Heard the Beatles on the first satellite broadcast between the US and GB on a Television set.
KevinM
January 7, 2025 4:50 am
Mark Twain and the man, John T. Lewis, who was the inspiration for Huck Finn’s Jim.
There is a nice story about him, he saved the life of three women when their carriage horse bolted, facing quite a danger to himself in the process.
KevinM
January 7, 2025 5:09 am
Don’t say anything.
KevinM
January 7, 2025 5:46 am
You’d think this sort of thing can’t happen in modern aircraft.
The Australian Medical Association’s push to shoehorn climate change into medical education is not only misguided but dangerous for Australian patients.
Medical students should be dedicating their time to mastering the fundamentals – nutrition, physiology, anatomy, psychology, and biochemistry.
Diverting their focus to climate change risks producing doctors who are half-baked in core competencies and wholly unprepared to deal with the pressing health crises of their patients.
A doctor’s primary duty is to save lives, not to pontificate on carbon footprints.
Turning medical students into a pack of brainwashed progressive greens is going to further erode the image of the profession.
A doctor’s primary duty is to save lives, not to pontificate on carbon footprints.
Oh dear boy! Dr’s are fully owned employees of the government now …. their primary duty is to (puts on best Forest Gump voice) “do whatever you tell me to sir…
The COVID mismanagement by government has given the image of doctors a terrible beating. Now they want Chris Bowen’s hobby to finish the job.
JC
January 7, 2025 6:36 am
And of course humans take Ai to the most obvious place where it’s needed the most: gambling.
Several online betting platforms, for example, offer “micro bets,” which allow gamblers to bet in real time throughout the game — who gets the next touchdown or makes the next tackle, whether the next play will be a run or a pass. AI companies like SimpleBet (recently acquired by DraftKings for $195 million) have automated processes that allow the maximum number of possible micro bets to increase by an order of magnitude. No longer bottlenecked by the capabilities of human sportsbook odds calculators, every moment of a sports game can be turned into a wager. Won your bet that Lamar Jackson would throw on 2nd and 10? Why not bet again that he’ll scramble for the first down on 3rd and 3?
Physical casinos are also looking to harness AI for efficiency gains. nQube, a Canadian startup run by a physics professor, uses machine learning to optimize the placement of slot machines on casino floors, profiling players and the performance of one-armed bandits individually and collectively — replacing an older generation of floor-manager intuition and basic analysis. Some of nQube’s findings have been counterintuitive: It turns out that removing the total number of slot machines can often increase the casino’s “win,” if the machines are arranged in a way that redirects players to games where they’ll make larger bets.
I reckon the word has gone out to the “Community Leaders”. The Dems have decided that the “street theatre” is not effective anymore.
Farmer Gez
January 7, 2025 7:04 am
Musk merely points out the hard truths rather than the soft perceptions.
Farage represents an impotent protest vote. He’s not up to the task of pulling apart the undemocratic and permanent over-class set up by Blair and his clawing internationalists.
He was up to the task of skewering the remainers tho
calli
January 7, 2025 7:07 am
What have Musk’s comments on the UK actually achieved?
Concentrated support for Farage
Highlighted the plight of Tommy Robinson
Lifted the rug on the enormity of pedophile Pakistani gangs and response of institutions
While sneerers in the UK can yap all they like about those rough men from across the ditch, their tightly held prestige is in tatters. This is a disgrace of galactic proportions, one that should topple governments and put so called “respectable “ people behind bars.
As for the perpetrators, Faustus makes an excellent point. There are thousands of these pedophiles still at large, unpunished. And it may well be that they are known to police but are somehow untouchable by virtue of their religion and ethnicity.
I wonder if it was also a misdirection. Last week it was all about Elon giving Farage’s party $100M for the next election. Nobody is talking about that now.
Starmer is desperate because @elonmusk has put his incredible crimes against children in the GLOBAL spotlight! Everything Keir says at this lapdog press conference is a lie! It is Starmer that officially killed hundreds of thousands of police investigations in to children being trafficked and raped. Tommy Robinson NEVER called for street violence! And the lies go on and on…. Starmer and his pedo cult are all going DOWN!!!
Lavrov explained how the global trend towards green energy shouldn’t come at the expense of investments in traditional energy, which could lead to “shocks in energy markets and aggravation of the problem of energy poverty.” He also strongly implied that the prevailing view on climate change is inaccurate and therefore possibly being politicized. Here are his exact words:
“It is implied that CO2 emissions create a greenhouse effect, which in turn leads to global warming. It is concluded that if CO2 emissions are limited, there will be no increase in temperature or it will not happen as quickly. At the same time, we as professionals must take into account that not all scientists adhere to such assessments.
There is also a ‘school of thought’ whose representatives, using specific facts and very convincingly, show that climate change is a cyclical process, and, therefore, the significance of the anthropogenic factor in the calculations of supporters of the ‘fight against climate change’, to put it mildly, is greatly exaggerated.”
This is about the first time I’ve heard Lavrov or anyone in the Russian government express this position as distinctly as this. Hitherto they seem to have been happy to let the progressive West commit economic suicide.
What an ugly age we have lived through and are still struggling to escape. Every scientific certainty was turned on its head, every moral convention was inverted and every economic practice was dropped. Ironic that the land of Lysenko are more attuned to truth than we are.
4 years ago today the FBI sent at least 26 paid federal assets into a rally of patriots
Provocateurs cut plastic fencing and urged the crowd up onto the steps of the US Capitol
The Capitol Police then open fire on a peaceful crowd
vr
January 7, 2025 7:30 am
Diverting their focus to climate change risks producing doctors who are half-baked in core competencies and wholly unprepared to deal with the pressing health crises of their patients.
Medical malpractice premiums are bound to rise.
Damon
January 7, 2025 7:34 am
When I was learning Science, it was axiomatic that a change n input would result in a measurable change in output. Apparently not any more. After all the billions spent on ‘net zero’ and other fairytales, exactly how much has the temperature dropped? Not even a tenth of a degree. Not much of a return on investment.
But, but, but it’s not just about global warming anymore. It’s much broader than temperature. Haven’t you noticed there’s been more floods in outer Mongolia and fewer hailstorms in the PNG highlands? Get with it comrade!
You are being too kind! If one believes the babble of the MSM, every succeeding year has been much worse than ever, in terms of “heat”, floods, fires, cyclones, drought etc, all caused by Climate Change, and all leading to calls for More Action.
He should be described as the Extreme Left Communist who protects Pakistani child rape gangs
Rosie
January 7, 2025 8:12 am
Pundits on Twitter like Louise Perry talk about ‘racists’ as though it’s a pity ‘they’ got to the grooming gang narrative first.
Of course smearing the working classes is like breathing for elites.
Elites mix with higher educated professional immigrants, if they mix with them at all.
They haven’t had immigrants foisted on their communities, been exposed to the bad and ugly that is too much of muslim culture.
An Arab account on twitter talks about council stacking, infiltratration of the police forces, public housing bribery, single parents being pushed to the back of the housing queue, sharia no go zone’s, taking over the streets for public prayer, the removal of references to Christmas, Easter, even the Three Little Pigs in schools, oh and the rampant sexual abuse of minors while the real racists, Pakistani Muslim men, were allowed to prey on Sikh and English children with impunity.
I cannot imagine what it would be to grow up working class English in Luton.
Tommy Robinson could.
If only he had a posh accent.
People might have listened to him.
Rosie
January 7, 2025 8:12 am
I stand with Islamophobics.
Zippster
January 7, 2025 8:15 am
Justin Trudeau has officially resigned as Prime Minister of Canada.
North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown on Western culture infiltrating the hermit kingdom.
Dictator Kim Jong-un has declared that serving the sausage was an act of treason, The Sun reports, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the US.
People caught selling or cooking hotdogs face the prospect of time in the country’s infamous labour camps
Ok I’m not a fan of hotdogs, they’re bland and boring. But being sent to a labour camp for possessing one is a bit over the top even for Norkistan.
The old Soviet Union had a similar attitude to denim jeans and pop music, these were often smuggled in at great risk. The rulers know that it starts with something inoffensive and before you know it the whole culture has changed. Like it starts with prayers on streets and ends with mass rapes of English children.
Does that include real woofers or just the sausage
Boambee John.
January 7, 2025 8:20 am
In terms of covering up crimes, what Der Sturmer has been accused of in terms of covering up child sexual abuse is far, far, worse than anything CDL Pell was accused of doing.
When can we expect a Fork Orners session by Louise Milligan? Followed by a book written on ABC time, using ABC resources, and promoted by Their ABC?
Crikey, exposing and discussing the mass rape of young, white working class English girls is deemed ‘far-right’ by the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
Crikey, being upset and outraged about the mass rape of young, white working class English girls is deemed ‘far-right’ by the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
Crikey then, I’m far-right, far-far-far-far-right and you know what, I’m bloody proud of it.
And don’t think for a moment that the slug from Grayndler, Pong, Burqa, Islamist Husic and all the other merry comrades in Labor and the Greens would behave any differently to the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
That’s why Islamophobia was chosen for this purpose. There is nothing irrational about fear of Islam.
Not accurate, but sounds very baaaaad.
Rosie
January 7, 2025 8:26 am
“You literally only ever hear working class accents fighting for these girls because every middle class person in the UK is totally paralysed by fear at the thought of being called “racist”.”
40 years of evidence btw.
I cannot imagine what it would be to grow up working class English in Luton. Tommy Robinson could. If only he had a posh accent. People might have listened to him.
Nailed it.
Douglas Murray has a posh accent. People listen to him.
Knuckle Dragger
January 7, 2025 8:30 am
North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hotdogs as part of a crackdown
…Labour’s progressive Malthusians want Brits trapped in their homes like cattle in pens, their daughters available as sex chattel to soothe the rowdy immigrant population’s soul, and their sons – who aren’t incarcerated for waving British flags or Xweets protesting the same – as sanitation and maintenance drones for Labour’s ruling elites.
What a fine country.
RTWT, it’s an excellent and disturbing rant. I can’t see how the UK can survive another 4 years of Labour.
Last night, sitting on my couch watching a documentary, caressing my Burmese cat and sipping some nice Grenache wine, I received an unhinged text from an ex who’s now a friend.
This man has severe and rabid Trump derangement syndrome. It’s a psychological condition. He only gets his news from the ABC, even though it annoys him, he reads the SMH and Guardian and despite, since October 7 2023, he’s taken to reading The Oz and he’s had quite a few epiphanies, he still froths about Donald Trump.
Well, I put my documentary on hold and read the text. I was left both cold and furious. He knows I’m a Trump fan but he composed the text without even saying ‘hello Cassie’ or ‘how are you, Cassie’, no, no, no, he just went for the jugular, knowing I like Trump……
‘we think Trump’s despicability can’t sink any lower. And yet witness his whinging that US flags will stay at half mast (as per convention) for Jimmy Carter when he’s inaugurated on January 20. F*ck him.
Well, gosh, crikey, was I taken aback. His text reeked with both self righteous idiocy and naivety. Now, as many of you know, I am not one who is ever lost for words however I decided not to respond immediately and so I watched the rest of the documentary and only then did I respond as follows (I also dispensed with any courteous ‘hellos’)….
Gosh, I haven’t been following that story about flags, I’ve been more interested in the story that over 250,000 white working class girls in the UK were groomed and gang raped by Pakistani Muslim males….and this has been covered up by the UK establishment because they were anxious not to be smeared and labelled as “Islamophobic’. But you probably won’t see this reported on the ABC
I waited another ten minutes and then continued….
‘No fan of Jimmy Carter who became quite hostile to Israel and openly anti-Semitic in the years and decades after he was thumped electorally by Ronald Reagan. Carter was a weak and pathetic POTUS. Okay, he oversaw the Camp David accords but that was only because he was in the company of two truly great men……..Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
I then waited another ten minutes, and sent him a link to a JNS piece from a few days ago which chronicles how Jimmy Carter didn’t just dislike Israel, he also disliked Jews.
Needless to say there’s been silence since I returned serve.
The Carter presidency went by in a kind of blur for me. I was recently married and going hell for leather paying off and renovating our first home – a “renovator’s special” circa 1914 that people would pay millions for these days.
My only real memories are – peanut farmer, relatives who were crooks, the Beirut hostages, the oil crisis. And then he was gone.
Subsequently, the usual “foundations” and Habitat for Humanity. And that peculiar photo of the Carters hunched in chairs with the enormous and obviously photoshopped Bidens.
I just got back from a delightful breakfast with three fairly conservative teenage grandchildren.
They weren’t embarrassed when I called out my pleasure to a man at a nearby table wearing a pro-Trump T-shirt, and they were interested in what he had to say when he came over for a brief chat.
Baby steps towards normalcy…..
Eyrie
January 7, 2025 8:56 am
“I intend to resign as [Liberal] Party leader, as Prime Minister [of Canada] after the party selects its next leader.”
Pity he won’t off himself. Sepukku would be nice but any method will be acceptable, Justine.
Why wait, Justin? What possible difference would it make if he was PM or not for a few days? The country might actually get a breather before some other Justin-copy was sworn in as PM.
I have a machete in my Cyclone Emergency Box that I could blunt especially for the occasion.
Wally Dalí
January 7, 2025 9:03 am
We should not suffer any man to live who gets sexual pleasure despite, or because of, their victims being brutalized, or manipulated, or underage.
I’m serious, they should not be on the street, they should not be in the gene pool. Public executions are the only way. We dishonour everything we hold dear if we do not prosecute r*pe to the ultimate degree.
And if we can bring back the death penalty for these psychopaths- and they’ll always be with us, some cultures more than others obvs- we can impose life behind bars for anyone who assists, ignores, or apologises for them.
Islamophobe means fear of Islam. It doesn’t mean hate of Islam although that could be a consequence. Why is a fear of Islam so worrisome ? It’s a religion that aspires to jihad and war. Why should I not have a fear of it and its adherents?
The word has shifted in meaning. Having a “phobia” means an irrational fear of something or someone.
This blurring of the meaning can be traced back to “homophobia”, a slur against anyone who disapproved of same sex relationships. The new usage is purely political and I’m not having a bar of it.
They can jam their “Islamophobia” slur where the monkey jammed his nuts.
Top Ender
January 7, 2025 9:07 am
From the Oz:
Police have hauled a man before the courts after he allegedly threatened passers-by outside two Sydney synagogues.
NSW police arrested the 20-year-old alleged offender late on Monday night, with officers set to testify he leaned out a car window in the north Sydney suburb of St Ives to make a gun gesture at two men, the second of whom was standing outside a place of worship.
The threats were alleged to have taken place at 12:30pm on Saturday along Link Road, with officers from Kuring Gai Police Area Command arresting the man at his North Turramurra home. He was charged at Hornsby Police Station with stalk or intimidate intend fear physical harm.
He has since been granted conditional bail, and is set to appear at Hornsby Local Court on January 29.
Where he will be told don’t be naughty and now go.
He’ll be on the roll at the court. Then we’ll know. If, at 20, his name is still suppressed, then we’ll know something else. And that something will be that the Rum Corps has taken a leaf out of the UKPlod’s book.
Shirley, they have degraded themselves to Gin Corps now,
Roger
January 7, 2025 9:14 am
Starmer keeps digging. What is he trying to hide?
How dare Starmer reject a public inquiry into Muslim grooming gangs
Laura Perrins, The Conservative Woman, 6th January, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer claims that politicians who are calling for a statutory inquiry into grooming gangs are ‘jumping on a bandwagon of the far right’. In a press conference this morning (about the NHS, obviously, with his shirt sleeves rolled up, obviously) the Prime Minister not only rejected calls for a full public inquiry into the grooming scandal, or more accurately the Muslim child rape, trafficking and prostitution scandal, he also insulted politicians who believe such an inquiry is needed. It was a disgusting slur against anyone who has problems with the systematic brutalisation of 11-year-old girls.
To quote Sir Keir in full: ‘It is something about the nature of our politics because once we lose the anchor that truth matters in the robust debate we must have, then we are on a very slippery slope and when politicians, and I mean politicians, who sat in government for many years are casual about honesty, decency, truth and the rule of law, calling for inquiries because they want to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, then that affects politics because a robust debate can only be based on the true facts and that is why this is actually an important point about our politics, not about what anybody may or may not say on Twitter.’
A few things. First, it is noteworthy that this press conference was not about the child gang rape scandal but about the NHS, which in itself tells you all you need to know. As I have said before, there are very few subjects that get the lectern treatment: Far Right Thugs get the lectern treatment, the NHS gets the lectern treatment. How and why young white girls were raped and brutalised by gangs of Muslim men while authorities stood by is not worthy of the lectern treatment. This tells you all you need to know about Labour’s political priorities.
Second, how dare he? How very dare he say that calling for a proper statutory inquiry into the biggest scandal in British history, namely Muslim gangs of men raping, trafficking and prostituting thousands of white working-class girls, some as young as 11, around the country, while police forces looked the other way, is ‘jumping on the band wagon of the far right’. Yes, there have been inquiries before. There was the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse by Professor Alexis Jay, but that was a much broader inquiry into sexual abuse by the Catholic church, Anglican church and others.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) launched an inquiry in 2014 after it was revealed that at least 1,400 girls in the South Yorkshire town were abused between 1997 and 2013. The Times reported: ‘An eight-year investigation into multiple police failings during the Rotherham sex grooming scandal was condemned as a disgrace after its final report revealed that no officers have been dismissed . . . The IOPC’s resulting Operation Linden investigation examined 265 allegations against 47 police officers by 51 complainants, most of them abuse survivors. It upheld 43 of the complaints and ruled that 14 officers “had a case to answer” for misconduct or gross misconduct.’
One unnamed officer was said to have told the mother of an exploited child that it was a ‘fashion accessory’ for Rotherham girls to have an ‘older Asian boyfriend’ and that she would ‘grow out of it’.
And there were other local council inquiries and safeguarding reviews. But as Sir Keir Starmer well knows – he is a human rights lawyer who normally cannot get enough of inquiries – this is very different from an inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005 where people are called to give evidence under oath.
Starmer says that ‘robust debate can only be based on the true facts’. Ok then, genius, order an inquiry into the rape gangs, and any possible misconduct by police officers under the Inquiries Act 2005 and we will get to the facts. As a bonus, all your human rights lawyer buddies will be quids in for years.
Why is Starmer dragging his feet over a public inquiry? As a rule, politicians normally can’t wait to order an inquiry. They demand inquiries over anything. We have the current ridiculous UK Covid-19 Inquiry which will tell us at the end of it all that we should have locked down harder and earlier.
There is an Undercover Policing Inquiry. There is the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry, ‘an independent Inquiry into the circumstances of Dawn Sturgess’s death in Salisbury on 8 July 2018’.
There is the Independent Inquiry relating to Afghanistan ‘to investigate the “deliberate detention operations” conducted by the British armed forces in Afghanistan between the period of mid-2010 to mid-2013 to determine whether any of the circumstances around any unlawful killings were covered up at any stage’.
This is to name just a few. But for some reason, for some unknown reason, Sir Keir Starmer is refusing to hold a 2005 Act public inquiry into the sodomising and rape of working-class white girls. They are not worthy of this human rights lawyer’s time and attention, it seems. Don’t you know there is a Far Right Thug out there tweeting something mean? You know as well as I do that the Old Bill will be down on them quicker than you can say ‘Mind how you go’ to a Muslim rapist who is receiving a sex act from a minor in his car. (Yes, that happened.)
No, nothing to see here, says Starmer, we have had all the itty bitty inquiries into these pesky white girls and their abuse that we need. (My words, not his, just to be clear.) Starmer said, in full: ‘There have been a lot of reviews including localised reviews, including into Oldham for example, the mayor of Manchester did his review, and the Jay report was intended to look at the different types of exploitation that went on. It was a comprehensive review . . . This doesn’t need more consultation. It doesn’t need more research. It just needs action.’
Don’t play me for a fool. Sir Keir Starmer KC knows better than anyone that none of these inquiries are the same as a 2005 inquiry with proper terms of reference, focusing on Muslim rape gangs and any possible police corruption, with the power to call witnesses who must give evidence under oath.
Starmer doesn’t want an inquiry because he knows awkward things come out in inquiries. Facts. Truth. Logic. And often liberal beliefs can be slayed. No one is going to push Diversity is our Strength, or say that Britain has experienced an ‘integration miracle’, in the words of that half-wit Fraser Nelson, after such an inquiry, I reckon.
No British Prime Minister wants to start unravelling the myth of integration or asking some tough questions about the Islamic faith. That could lead to the kind of facts and truth a Prime Minister could do without, thanks very much.
The girls who were raped, sodomised, tortured and brutalised by Muslim rape gangs deserve a public inquiry. It is disgraceful that Starmer is refusing to order one. And it is disgusting to label those who call for one as ‘far right’.
It seems that the only time a human right lawyer rejects a public inquiry is when it is about Muslim grooming gangs.
I’ve been subject to about 100 dB all morning from seven hungry bluefaced honey eaters. They can’t feed on nectar because of the rain, so they’ve been coming to the Cafe instead. Very loudly!
I hope my neighbours won’t complain to council.
lotocoti
January 7, 2025 9:15 am
Browsing through the list of Oldham Councillors, I’d like to think the decision to flick pass the enquiry into rape gangs to the Home Office was made because somebody there realised the greater public wouldn’t have confidence a Council run one.
Wally Dalí
January 7, 2025 9:16 am
I’ve got to say I’ve always felt very worried about how I can watch something like Game Of Thrones or Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (which was rubbish, but i digress) and then compartmentalize it and walk away.
But the true details of the UK Paki R*pe Syndicates are too hard to ignore. And worse than the worst fever dreams of Martin or Larssen.
It would be wise to take a leaf out of the playbook of mega minds like Christopher Pearson and Tommy Robinson, crossed with the bonehead tactics of Say Their Name- like I’ve advocated beginning every press conference by reading through the names of the victims of the Oct 7 atrocities, read through a list of the names and ages of the English children.
Nos_Pullum
January 7, 2025 9:27 am
Just saw the front page of the SMH online.
Apparently vandalising cars outside a synagogue with the phrase F@#& The Jews is now only an “alleged Sydney antisemitic incident”.
Last night, sitting on my couch watching a documentary, caressing my Burmese cat and sipping some nice Grenache wine …
Gasp! A cat?
JD Vance warned us about people like you.
Kel
January 7, 2025 9:29 am
Digging another hole
The Albanese Government has reportedly burned its bridge with Israel so badly that a top Labor minister is packing their bags to fly to the Middle East for diplomatic repairs.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is set to travel to Israel within weeks to mend the relationship between the Albanese and Netanyahu governments.
Tension has mounted between Israel and Australia in recent months after a spate of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attacks across Australia — including the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne, and the repeated vandalism of cars and properties in a Sydney suburb well-populated by Jewish people.
Why would he need to fly to Israel to fix a problem here? Albo knows how to do it he is just not prepared to take action, there is an election to win in south western Sydney.
Figures
January 7, 2025 9:35 am
How on Earth could anybody possibly believe that Dreyfus could ever fix anything?
The only viable strategy he might make is to say that the Labor Government’s hatred of Israel isn’t actually singling them out as it hates Australia just as much.
Year after year at this time, our nation enters a debate on whether we should change the date of Australia Day from January 26 which marks the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia.
It was also the arrival of generations of genocide.
January 26 marks the start of the massacres, oppression and systemic exclusion of First Nations people in their own lands.
Using this date as the date on which we celebrate our nation is a continual oppression of First Peoples.
It’s a celebration of invasion, the rape of First Nations women, the murders of Aboriginal people, of atrocities.
It’s a celebration of the Stolen Generations, of segregation, of control over Aboriginal people and breaches of our human rights.
When the British arrived in Australia, the land was declared terra nullius, meaning land belonging to no one. This was a lie.
The High Court overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius in the Mabo High Court decision in 1992, recognising the land was inhabited by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people all along, tens of thousands of years before those 11 ships entered Sydney Cove.
So why are we continuing to celebrate that anniversary as a benign “arrival” instead of recognising it for the invasion that it truly was?
And why do we continue to celebrate the beginning of a genocide, the most serious of crimes?
The date must change.
It’s not much to ask. Just a simple shuffle on the calendar.
But some would prefer to continue to oppress First Nations people by celebrating their dispossession; celebrating the ravaging of their land for economic gain at the expense of Aboriginal lives.
Every year we have this argument. Every year we see the same assortment of headlines and contrasting opinion pieces.
Companies announce their support of a change, in the name of inclusion.
Then they backtrack, pressured by the noisy minority into cowardice.
It is infuriating.
My whole life, I have watched as my people are kicked and trodden on and our respectful request for a date that includes us is ignored and ridiculed.
It is so upsetting.
As soon as the New Year’s Eve fireworks fall silent, it’s game on again.
It leaves us battered and bruised before the new year has a chance to begin.
Ironically, it’s this hurtful and damaging debate that brings most airtime to First Nations people and issues.
We’re forced to come forward to defend our request for a new date, to justify why we should be included in the celebration of Australia’s nationhood. It’s exhausting.
Our elected leaders can put an end to the merry-go-round. They have the power to make the change and leave a positive legacy.
Keeping the date on January 26 shuts Indigenous Australians out. That’s not what this country should be about. Celebrating genocide is not what this country is about.
Changing the date needs to go to the top of the agenda.
If it doesn’t, year after year you can look forward to me giving my two cents in a column like this one.
Choosing a new date for us all to celebrate is more than a symbolic action.
It would be an act of peace, inclusion and respect. EmmaGarlettis a legal academic and Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
EmmaGarlettis a legal academic and Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
But of course she is a professional aboriginal, I never doubted it. Enjoying all the advantages, privileges and luxuries of the new world whole heaping calumnies on it. For that sort of mind-twist you need an academic.
If she had her way and still lived in her pre-European society she would be mistreated by every male in her tribe and then left to die when she could no longer keep up with everyone. There is nothing worse than an ingrate.
Something else this smart indigenous woman forgets is that every society and every civilisation on Earth began as a nomadic one and then evolved to better its people. This woman and similar thinkers are evolution deniers.
Could it be the case that any person claiming to be of or from multiple aboriginal tribes is by definition a product of European culture because previously they could belong to one tribe only?
The swapping of tribes only happened when children were captured and adopted or when a girl was abducted in a raid – and they then belonged to their “ new” tribe – do I have this correct?
Something else this smart indigenous woman forgets is that every society and every civilisation on Earth began as a nomadic one and then evolved to better its people. This woman and similar thinkers are evolution deniers.
Crossie, are you confusing progress in material conditions with biological evolution? Aboriginals are Homo sapiens, like us.
Emma Garlett:
A Proud Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman, wearing Traditional clothing, and having Traditional Hair Product courtesy of the Traditional Beauty Salon, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Nothing like the women and girls whose heads I sutured outback, and when I’d finished, looked for old sutures that hadn’t been removed from the previous beatings.
I must admit that using blue colored suture material instead of black made that job a little easier.
Complete and utter whinging rubbish. Go away, the majority of Australians disagree with your skewed black armband view of history, and reading this miserable essay demonstrates why.
This is always crazy: Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
Old and busted – disparate warring tribes
The new hotness- multiculti mixed race yuppie hyphen-people!
…proof of evolution in Aboriginal culture after all.
Despite being a spaceman, Musk’s feet are firmly planted on Earth, and he seems to have a soft spot for the underdog.
I don’t particularly like Robinson on a personal level—fraud, name change, and all—but what’s happened to him is a fcking travesty and shouldn’t be tolerated.
Musk is also helping that actress suing Disney because she was let go for her political opinions.
Has to be transactional. 🙂
I don’t particularly like Robinson on a personal level—fraud, name change, and all
Name the fraud.
Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (né Yaxley; born 27 November 1982),
I’d change my name too if I had to spell it out as often as he must have.
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Black Ball
January 7, 2025 10:04 am
Clare Armstrong in the Daily Telegraph:
The ghosts of elections past are threatening to derail elections future for Anthony Albanese, who is running out of time to remind Australians who he is and what Labor stands for.
After firing the starter’s gun on the first unofficial day of the 2025 campaign on Monday with a blitz of regional Queensland seats, it quickly became apparent the Prime Minister has not yet mastered the forum that so nearly cost him the election three years ago.
Standing by a roundabout in Gympie just off the Bruce Highway in Queensland, a road for which Labor had just committed $7.2 billion worth of safety upgrades – ostensibly a good news story – the PM soon became irritable at some of the questions from journalists at the press conference.
When one reporter asked whether Labor’s use of the slogan “build back better” – in this context meaning to rebuild road sections so they are more resilient to severe weather – had been pinched from the campaign of outgoing US President Joe Biden, Mr Albanese lost his cool.
He rejected the question and suggested it had been written by the Liberal National Party.
“You should be cautious about just reading out things that are sent from the LNP,” Mr Albanese replied.
It was a bizarre response.
Firstly, there was a perfectly logically explanation for the use of the phrase.
But more significantly, by jumping to the conclusion of conspiracy between journalists and his political opponents, Mr Albanese showed his enduring weakness: an inability to rein in the glass jaw during media appearances.
Putting aside who even cares where the question came from, his snappy responses and apparent inability to see in the moment how his answers are coming across to the public are increasingly getting the PM into hot water.
It’s how he ends up getting dragged for days on issues like accepting Qantas upgrades, playing tennis after a synagogue was firebombed, or showing up at the Australian Open when Alice Springs was in crisis.
In his hurry to clap back at a journalist – and to be fair, Opposition leader Peter Dutton can also be guilty of this – Mr Albanese frequently misses the opportunity to get in front of an issue and give a response that speaks to community sentiment.
For the PM, the origins of the approach can be traced back to that crisp Autumn morning in Launceston on the first day of the 2022 election.
The events of that half-hour press conference by a playground on the bank of the Tamar River went on to define Mr Albanese’s entire campaign.
Unable to recall the cash rate or unemployment figure, the aspiring PM came across as ill-prepared and unconfident on economic issues.
The characterisation was harsh, but only months earlier Scott Morrison had been lampooned by the media – and Labor – when he couldn’t recall the cost of a loaf of bread or petrol, so the “do you know what ‘xyz’ is” line of questioning was not without precedent.
A few hours later, a rattled and forlorn looking Mr Albanese gave his explanation to the press gathered around him during a walk through the Devonport mall.
“Earlier today I made a mistake,” he said. “I’m human. But when I make a mistake, I’ll fess up to it and I’ll set about correcting that mistake. I won’t blame someone else, I’ll accept responsibility, that’s what leaders do.”
His honesty did not stop the gaffe leading the 6pm news bulletins that night or the newspaper front pages the next day, but it was a refreshing response in the world of politics, which is dominated by spin and refusal to admit wrongdoing
Fast forward to 2025 and what Mr Albanese still doesn’t seem to have figured out yet is that while he is very much “human” and he is right to view the Australian public as generally fair minded and reasonable, being leader of this country generally makes you the exception to the rule.
Yes, Australians may theoretically understand why someone might want to buy a home with their fiance, or day I say, make good on a promise to the kids and go on holiday to Hawaii, but when you’re the PM the same rules just don’t apply.
Of course, no self-respecting member of the public gives a toss about a reporter copping a serve from a politician – if anything they tend to cheer it on.
But what is missed by Mr Albanese is the opportunity to speak through the media and reach the fair-minded Australians who are out there wondering who to vote for.
Still the case Ayr to Proserpine in long stretches, patchy in places Prosy to Mackay.
South of Sarina unsure but I’d say Marlborough stretch would be another blackspot.
South of Gladstone, last time I was down that way doing a couple of field mapping projects, nil real issues from Childers south.
Townsville to Mossman apart from a blackspot near the coast road along Wangetti Beach isn’t too bad.
Go west of the divide and yeah. Nuffin, even in some small towns.
That said I’d take a good road over mobile service any day. Quicker you traverse those areas quicker the better. Bad roads gets you into a situation I had last year nursing a blown diff seal, because of the Gregory Developmental rd, from Clermont to Roma before I could get anyone who could fix it within the day.
Ran the motorhome up the Bruce from Gin Gin to as far as Cooktown for 20 years. After the cyclones the roads were and still are superb. There are a few spots that require attention but the improvements have been outstanding .
Roger
January 7, 2025 10:21 am
…what is missed by Mr Albanese is the opportunity to speak through the media and reach the fair-minded Australians who are out there wondering who to vote for.
Any Australian contemplating a vote for Labor after what has transpired over the last three years is hardly fair-minded.
I assume you are talking about the Sydney Arts Graduates heading toward the streets of Canberra paved with gold?
For Gods sake, don’t give them a lift.
Roger
January 7, 2025 10:38 am
Courier-Mail readers poll: Rate the Bruce Highway from Brisbane to Cairns
Even the ABC is unimpressed by Albanese’s announcement, reporting that the injection of $7.2bn in funding would “eventually take the highway to a minimum three star safety rating” and noting that “the RACQ warns the Bruce Highway upgrades will take decades and that there is no “end point” due to population growth.”
Once again it is demonstrated that Albanese’s Australia is one where infrastructure can’t keep up with immigration, driving us backwards.
I was traumatised to see a photo of putrid Blanchette. But at least if she is spending her time playing with the Hollypedos she is not here sneering at us.
No doubt she will be back for the elections to give directions to her subjects. Vile creature.
They both told me that they were relieved to retire, because the Commonwealth Public Service is now full of Indians, who practice nepotism on a grand scale.
…anyone care to buy a service station with pumps that are a bit dodgy/product put into the wrong tanks?
There were 1400 identified child victims in Rotherham alone – and thousands more in dozens of other cities. By the prosecution evidence from the limited convictions of groomers, victims were typically subjected to rapes from multiple men – and sometimes 5 or 10 at a time.
This is why I asked yesterday that a Class Action be brought by the victims. To flush out these rapists, their protectors, and other victims.
But will anyone in class conscious Britain dare risk it?
I think they might Doctor. I’ve not seen so many people so angry in Britain. They’ll need good lawyers and finance, but I wonder if the Free Speech Union might get the ball rolling. After all, cancel culture and cover ups are a denial of free speech.
it would be a bit like the Subpost masters and mistresses.
This is exactly how the Left should be taken down.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2025 11:08 am
This is why I asked yesterday that a Class Action be brought by the victims.
No chance. The Pommy courts are fully captured by the Left, and special people will remain special.
The Five, apart from the Judge, are back and in this 11 minute segment show once again why Gutfeld is far and away the best social and political commentator bar none:
And re: the Farage and Elon/Tommy controversy. The tell for me is that Farage did not agitate about the mass muzzie rapes and the only reason this foul stain has been revealed is due to Elon. As skinzy as he is, at the end of the day Farage is still establishment. Elon doesn’t give a rat’s arse.
As for starmer, that bastard should be publicly castrated.
When I first tried to raise this rape gang scandal over a decade ago, I was accused by the Guardian of exploiting it for political gain. They should hang their heads in shame.
Compared to the main highway servicing my recently vacated property, the Gregory Development Road from Charters Towers to Emerald, the Bruce Highway is an autobahn.
It is a major rural route that carries a lot of traffic, mostly heavy vehicles. In parts it is so warped that to maintain a line requires a significant speed reduction.
The road was originally constructed by Joh in support of one his son’s get rich quick schemes. Parts of it haven’t been touched since.
This road services the area that keeps QLD afloat financially but is a long way from Brisbane and so is ignored. The Govt’s only interest in this mining and cattle money making machine is revenue. Why would they return any of that wealth by building safe roads? There are very few voters and no tourists. Shaddup and pay peasants!
Around Auguthella, the road is crook that my DVD player skips and jumps. It’s an aftermarket Kenwood jobbie with 5x oversampling.
Three years ago, it was so bad, I had a (L) retinal detachment from the corrugations/potholes in one section.
Stuck to 75/80 km/hr with underinflated tyres in the hope it didn’t repeat on the way back.
The bastards will shoot them all – even the dead – before the hand over.
Can’t people see the yo yo propaganda effect here?
Raise the relatives hopes, the dash them, raise them, then dash them.
When is Israel going to start executing the terrorists they’ve captured and been proven to indulged in the mass rapes and murders? All of these are capital crimes in a war zone.
Megyn Kelly thrashes it on her podcast. She absolutely loathes it.
Bungonia Bee
January 7, 2025 11:33 am
On December 6, 2024, Senator Tom Cotton (Republican of Arkansas) introduced a bill in the Senate to replace “West Bank” in all federal documents with “Judea and Samaria,” noting, “The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria go back thousands of years. The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel.” His bill matches a House bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Claudia Tenney, Randy Weber, and Anthony D’Esposito. Yes, they are the Jewish names but also the world’s. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted for Resolution 181, a.k.a. the Partition Plan, a document that referred to “Samaria and Judea.” There was no reference in it to any territory called “West Bank.” Inventing the ‘West Bank’ – American Thinker?
Bungonia Bee
January 7, 2025 11:38 am
Albo’s going to have to try harder to sound like a leader. Complaining about Dutton and the coalition “saying no” too often is weak and anti-democratic.
Not sure who thought it was a good idea to send Albo out into regional Queensland, even with $7bn of potential borrowings. The Liars need to be in KRudd 2.0 mode and filling sandbags. Albo’s glass jaw on display apparently.
The fact is that by setting themselves so firmly against Tommy, Nigel and Tice alienated a hell of a lot of voters, some of whom began asking: is Nigel leading a real revolution, or is he just controlled opposition? Tice’s “all of that lot” putdown drew furious comments online: “Tice & his demonization of Tommy is making me consider revoking my membership.” “Richard thinks he can have a grass roots movement without the grass roots.” “The problem is, if they keep saying we don’t care about Tommy, they actually don’t care about freedom of speech.”
Nigel decried the grooming gangs’ predations – but instead of admitting that these predations are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon, rooted in the doctrines of Islam, he spoke about “the mass rape abomination.” Sorry, but to dodge the real issue in this way is cowardly and useless.
Elon’s tweets:
If it’s acceptable for British politicians to kneel for George Floyd, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to tweet about the victims of British rape gangs? If it’s acceptable for Labour to send 100 staff to the US to campaign for Kamala, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to opine on British politics? If it’s acceptable for Labour’s leading politicians…to slander Trump as racist, why is it not acceptable for Americans to criticise British politicians for the systemic betrayal of British children? If it’s acceptable for Westminster elites to praise Biden/Kamala, why is it unacceptable for American elites to praise Farage?
Roger
January 7, 2025 11:44 am
Albo’s going to have to try harder to sound like a leader.
Tall order.
Perhaps the luvvies at NIDA should offer him a few lessons in the dramatic arts.
That is outstanding work by Matt Goodwin showing how disgustingly biased the establishment -media, politicians, bureaucrats and the law – is when they did nothing about the muzzie rapists.
Very well done, Matt.
But there’s a very ugly truth slowly sticking its head above the grave of British society – and it’s one labelled “Class”.
Bruce of Newcastle
January 7, 2025 11:54 am
Albo’s going to have to try harder to sound like a leader. Complaining about Dutton and the coalition “saying no” too often is weak and anti-democratic.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has awarded Justin Trudeau high praise after the Canadian PM announced his resignation. … “I regard him as a personal friend, but he is a great friend of Australia.”
Yeah Albo with more friends like Trudy we wouldn’t need enemies.
Assistant Trade Minister Tim Ayres says successive Liberal and National Party governments in Canberra have “failed” to fund the Bruce Highway.
Hey Tim, I seem to recall that Labor ran Queensland for the last 9 years until very recently, and you’ve been running the nation for the last three years. Yet your ancient predecessors are to blame for the Bruce Hwy being a goat track? Pull the other one son, it has baseball bats on.
They HAVE funded the Bruce, spending money where Qld asked.
extra lane between Sunshine Motorway and Caloundra,
extra lane between Caboolture and Steve Irwin Way,
extra lane between Northlakes and Deception Bay Rd plus
massive bridge works at Deception Bay Rd required by the widening of D’Bay Rd
Gympie Bypass.
I’ve only been as far north as Bundaberg, and the stretch Gympie to the turnoff is abominable, just as the Pacific Highway was before the Feds threw billions at it.
Warwick
January 7, 2025 12:00 pm
My 86yr old mother rang and said her car insurance was going from $1342 to $1611 with Budget Direct. Last year I checked and the $1342 was around the market. This year I checked and GIO was $723.11 and the policy was better in a few respects. Slightly lower excess, slightly higher insured figure and windscreen damage protection.
I cannot understand it but will take it. Please shop around
Has she considered Australian Seniors Insurance? A big advantage with them is the ability to get a premium based on the estimated number of km to be driven over the coming year. If your mother doesn’t drive much she could save a lot of money. I changed over from RACQ a couple of years ago, and my premium halved.
My car insurance with Woolworths is based on the klm you do in a year . It is cumulative so based on 6000 K per year my policy over a few years has remained almost static . We still have about 15000 KLM up our sleeve this year due to only local use.
Winston Smith
January 7, 2025 12:05 pm
Roger January 7, 2025 9:14 am
Starmer keeps digging. What is he trying to hide?
The only thing that any sort of halfway adequate explanation of his behaviour is that he was a customer of one of these gangs of rapists. Not a five quid an hour customer, but a very high level customer of a gang that is now pulling his strings. I cannot think of any excuse that allows his continued denial of the abuse to continue. And if that’s the case, how many other members of the aristocracy are ensnared? An Epstein Gang, perhaps?
I’m wondering how far the political expediency goes.
There have been too many quiet noises from the cupboard holding the skeletons of Epstein, Randy Andy, etc.
It deserves a looksee.
But I shudder to think of the social conditions that will have to emerge before there is a genuine inquiry into those mysterious rattles from the cupboard.
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2025 12:09 pm
Rosie
January 7, 2025 11:18 am
Hamas made a list. Could by fake news.
“Hamas refused to say who on the list was still alive”.
Err … if they’re dead, they’re not hostages.
Old Lefty
January 7, 2025 12:11 pm
I wouldn’t pay for the Sydney Morning Herald on principle but have just seen a neighbour’s copy. On the front page is an article about misconduct (of all types) by state school teachers and principals. The latest stats 268; teachers, 52 school execs and 59! principals under investigation, 25 teachers and one principal sacked for sexual misconduct) come, so the report reads, ‘five years after a damning auditor-general report found major flaws in the way public school teachers are monitored across the state’s 2200 public schools.’
So, yet again, where was the Gillard-McClellan royal commission in all of this? Keir Starmer didn’t invent two-tiered justice.
Old Lefty, it would be wise to get a couple of copies of the Sydney Morning Herald, for mundane purposes like lining the cockatoos cage, the dog kennel, and next time there’s a date roll shortage.
Roger – respectfully – would you allow any of the British Parliament/Aristocracy, to babysit any of your children?
I’ve seen far too many of these “Pillars of Society” and what they get up to when they aren’t being watched like a hawk.
Dunny Brush
January 7, 2025 12:18 pm
At least this rape scandal has rendered the term “white privilege” risible. Throw it back in progressives’ faces.
Kel
January 7, 2025 12:21 pm
Finally
An influential Labour Party group has broken with the Prime Minister to back calls for a national inquiry into the grooming and rape gangs.
The Blue Labour outfit said that a new inquiry was necessary to “give voice to the many thousands of forgotten victims,” in what they described as “the worst series of atrocities that have taken place in Britain since the war”.
hamass and all the other mussie groups are experts in extracting the maximum despair from the hostage families. Dead or alive the psychological effects are very similar
We are forever hearing the luvvies talking about closure for families of missing and presumed murder victims, The same applies to families of hostages.
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Vagabond
January 7, 2025 12:22 pm
lotocoti January 7, 2025 9:15 am
Browsing through the list of Oldham Councillors, I’d like to think the decision to flick pass the enquiry into rape gangs to the Home Office was made because somebody there realised the greater public wouldn’t have confidence a Council run one.
There are enquiries and there are enquiries. Don’t forget how in the Democratic People’s Republic of Victoriastan we had an enquiry into the lockdowns. The commissioner was hand picked by the ALP and had no power to cross examine under oath i.e making witnesses subject to a charge of perjury. She sat politely listening to a conga line of liars claiming that they couldn’t remember anything.
If either the Oldham council or the British government is forced into holding an enquiry, it will be very similar. Don’t expect and earth shaking results.
calli
January 7, 2025 12:23 pm
Roger, a quick glance at lotocoti’s link to one Council was quite suggestive.
Family members, associates may have been involved. An excellent motivation to suppress too many questions. In some cultures, the crime is less bad than the exposure.
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Vagabond
January 7, 2025 12:29 pm
Figures January 7, 2025 9:35 am How on Earth could anybody possibly believe that Dreyfus could ever fix anything?
There’s a Yiddish expression which translates as someone or something being as useless as cupping a corpse.
That will describe Dreyfus’ efforts perfectly. I’m sure the Israelis can recognise a class traitor when they see one. Albo might as just as well send Wenny Pong for all the good Dreyfus would do.
I still fully expect Dreyfus to be swallowed by the Brittany Blob at some point. Being the AG when that $2,4m payment was made was not a career enhancing moment.
Boambee John.
January 7, 2025 12:30 pm
So why are we continuing to celebrate that anniversary as a benign “arrival” instead of recognising it for the invasion that it truly was?
Because if it is recognised as an “invasion”, then by High Court ruling, Native Title was extinguished by said invasion.
Silly j’ismists (BIRM).
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 7, 2025 12:31 pm
Q- Why is the Labor party opposed to the live sheep trade?
A – They are afraid too many of their supporters will end up on the ships.
Barry
January 7, 2025 12:35 pm
I think Starmer and his cronies are rightly terrified of the civil war that would break out if the law was equally applied to the Mohammedans. They would riot, prompting counter-strikes from the oppressed white working class – all leading to widespread bloodshed. They’d rather continue with the quiet replacement strategy that led to a darkie PM.
What price “non-discriminatory immigration” now? Like many leftist policies it all turns into shite down the track.
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2025 12:38 pm
Cronkite at 11:38:-
Elon’s tweets:
If it’s acceptable for British politicians to kneel for George Floyd, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to tweet about the victims of British rape gangs?
If it’s acceptable for Labour to send 100 staff to the US to campaign for Kamala, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to opine on British politics?
If it’s acceptable for Labour’s leading politicians…to slander Trump as racist, why is it not acceptable for Americans to criticise British politicians for the systemic betrayal of British children?
If it’s acceptable for Westminster elites to praise Biden/Kamala, why is it unacceptable for American elites to praise Farage?
I was just about to post on what I thought was motivating Musk when I saw this, particularly the boldedsection.
I think that, along with EU f-ckwits threatening to regulate and ban X-Twatter and fine Musk his entire net worth times pi r squared, has fired him up.
I am reminded of the TV series “Absolute Power” where the Stephen Fry character (Charles) asks his business partner (Martin):-
Charles :- “What am I not, Martin?”
Martin :- “You are not to be f-cked with, Charles.”
Charles :- “Precisely.”
Starmer is finding out that Musk is not to be f-cked with.
Not a Stephen Fry fan, but Absolute Power was brilliant. John Bird was a standout.
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2025 12:43 pm
So, yet again, where was the Gillard-McClellan royal commission in all of this?
State institutions were specifically excluded by the Terms of Reference. In other words, it was a stitch-up.
Roger
January 7, 2025 12:47 pm
I think Starmer and his cronies are rightly terrified of the civil war that would break out if the law was equally applied to the Mohammedans.
There is no doubt a fear of civil unrest but in fact the law has been applied to a majority of the offenders who now languish in prison.
What the British public is missing is an inquiry that takes into account the political side of the whole affair, including the politicisation of the various police forces involved.
There is no doubt a fear of civil unrest but in fact the law has been applied to a majority of the offenders who now languish in prison.
Could you clarify that for me as I appear to be a little confused by what you are implying.
Sancho Panzer
January 7, 2025 12:51 pm
Roger
January 7, 2025 12:47 pm
I think Starmer and his cronies are rightly terrified of the civil war that would break out if the law was equally applied to the Mohammedans.
The law has been applied to a majority of the offenders.
Has it, though?
How many have been jailed for more than five years?
Against a background of hundreds or thousands of gang rapes over 20-30 years?
I strongly suspect a few fringe players have been shoved under the bus when it got too hot, and most ring-leaders are still plying their trade, albeit a little more carefully.
Wally Dalí
January 7, 2025 12:53 pm
Following on from my observation that people of aboriginal genetic heritage are only ever identified as proud hyphen-people when it’s a success story or a lecture- never when it’s a story of crime-
-why are people of aboriginal genetic heritage always hyphen-people? You never hear of someone being a straight single First Nation.
Posited answers-
-entry into British Australia completely busted open the tribal micro-clans
-multiple First Nationses are nominated to make the omission of a non-First Nationses genetic heritage less noticeable
Whilst not alive, the corpses of dead Jews held by the Nazis in Gaza are ‘hostages’ of a sort.
On October 7 2023, not just content with raping, decapitating, murdering and kidnapping, the Nazi Gazan scum also took the bodies of dead Jews they had just butchered back into the shithole that is Gaza. And since then, of course, many more Jews held hostage in Gaza have died.
Jewish religious law dictates we give our dead a proper Jewish funeral, so that the souls of the dead can finally find peace. The tragedy of the Holocaust is that millions of victims don’t have a resting place, the ashes and bones of Jewish men, women and children are scattered across Europe.
I and every other Jew want those Jewish bodes held in Gaza returned. Their families need to say Kaddish.
Designed from its inception to target the Catholic Church and to get Pell.
Another spectacular failure of the new Abbott government in 2013, one of its first actions should have been to widen the terms of the royal commission. But instead Tone and co played nice.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom..
This is the way to go green.
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One acre of hemp produces 25 % more oxygen than one acre of forest and guarantees a cellulose supply that is approximately twice as high.
One acre of hemp grows within 6 months, while a forest grows for decades before it is harvested.
By making hemp paper, we could save millions of hectares of forest every year.
Hemp can be used in textile production, construction and even as bio-fuel.
As with all things, produce it and its value will be reflected by its demand. Which will be very low.
Thus of course, industrial hemp will require government to ban the production of wood based paper, as hemp paper is shit in comparison.
that is even before you get into the regular surveillance requirements etc as industrial hemp advocates also tend to be quite happy to try and grow mull in the middle of it.
You’d think that government which originally made it illegal, would realise it has instead made the problem worse by its meddling. Perhaps government should just piss off and let the market sort itself out.
So how’s that War on Drugs going you stupid, stupid people?
“twice as high..”
I see what you did there!
The good old days, some people yearn for them.
No thanks, imagine living like that.
I suppose if you know no better it may not sound too bad, until you find out how the other half lives.
Not talking about the spinning of course.
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In 1904, a mother in rural Ireland was captured teaching her young daughter how to use a spinning wheel, passing down a centuries-old tradition that had been an integral part of Irish life for generations.
The changes that girl would have seen had she lived to 75 years.
Awesome.
She would have sent her first husband off to the Great War, her children – any that survived the Depression – off to the second.
Heard of the first manned flight, flown to the US to see her great grandchildren in a 747.
Seen her first ‘talkie’ as a mother of 7. Heard the Beatles on the first satellite broadcast between the US and GB on a Television set.
Mark Twain and the man, John T. Lewis, who was the inspiration for Huck Finn’s Jim.
There is a nice story about him, he saved the life of three women when their carriage horse bolted, facing quite a danger to himself in the process.
Don’t say anything.
You’d think this sort of thing can’t happen in modern aircraft.
A Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) crew member died of brain damage resulting from lack of oxygen.
The medical profession, not content with their disastrous performance during the Covid fiasco, is now doubling down on stupid.
Climate change dogma gripping Australia’s medical classrooms risks producing doctors ‘half-baked in core competencies’ (Sky News, 7 Jan)
Turning medical students into a pack of brainwashed progressive greens is going to further erode the image of the profession.
A doctor’s primary duty is to save lives, not to pontificate on carbon footprints.
Oh dear boy! Dr’s are fully owned employees of the government now …. their primary duty is to (puts on best Forest Gump voice) “do whatever you tell me to sir…
The COVID mismanagement by government has given the image of doctors a terrible beating. Now they want Chris Bowen’s hobby to finish the job.
And of course humans take Ai to the most obvious place where it’s needed the most: gambling.
Article is here
Daily Express readers aren’t listening to Elon:
POLL: Should Nigel Farage be replaced as Reform leader? (6 Jan)
Should Nigel Farage be replaced as Reform UK leader?
Yes 12%
No 86%
Dont know 2%
Maybe Musk could put up an X poll and see what his followers think.
Yes, it did seem like a rather discordant call from Musk
Well he’s formally won the election.
Congress Certifies Trump’s Presidential Victory Without Objection (Newsmax mainpage headline, 6 Jan)
Not sure why we aren’t seeing any Antifa ferals and suchlike. Things are remarkably quiet after all the histrionics up until the election.
Wait until Inauguration Day.
After the hysteria about the so-called “insurrection” last time, the leftards couldn’t risk a repeat this time, with them as the insurrectionists.
I reckon the word has gone out to the “Community Leaders”. The Dems have decided that the “street theatre” is not effective anymore.
Musk merely points out the hard truths rather than the soft perceptions.
Farage represents an impotent protest vote. He’s not up to the task of pulling apart the undemocratic and permanent over-class set up by Blair and his clawing internationalists.
He was up to the task of skewering the remainers tho
What have Musk’s comments on the UK actually achieved?
Concentrated support for Farage
Highlighted the plight of Tommy Robinson
Lifted the rug on the enormity of pedophile Pakistani gangs and response of institutions
While sneerers in the UK can yap all they like about those rough men from across the ditch, their tightly held prestige is in tatters. This is a disgrace of galactic proportions, one that should topple governments and put so called “respectable “ people behind bars.
As for the perpetrators, Faustus makes an excellent point. There are thousands of these pedophiles still at large, unpunished. And it may well be that they are known to police but are somehow untouchable by virtue of their religion and ethnicity.
Class Action Suit now!
Winston puts down his shit stirrer paddle until the next opportunity.
🙂
Blizzard.
They only come out in fair weather.
I imagine the noodle armed and purple haired rolled over in bed, scratched their behinds and thought…nup.
money. Not being paid to demonstrate anymore because the money trail could lead back to….
Hopefully there will be prosecutions for funding past riots, and damage caused.
Meme
Hillary looks like she lost weight and maybe even had a face lift.
In my view, Musk is stirring the pot to see what bobs up.
I wonder if it was also a misdirection. Last week it was all about Elon giving Farage’s party $100M for the next election. Nobody is talking about that now.
“Green New Scam”
@EricLDaugh
#BREAKING – JUSTIN TRUDEAU: “I intend to resign as [Liberal] Party leader, as Prime Minister [of Canada] after the party selects its next leader.”
Replacement elections to happen in the near future.
“If I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option.”
@RealAlexJones
Starmer is desperate because @elonmusk has put his incredible crimes against children in the GLOBAL spotlight! Everything Keir says at this lapdog press conference is a lie! It is Starmer that officially killed hundreds of thousands of police investigations in to children being trafficked and raped. Tommy Robinson NEVER called for street violence! And the lies go on and on…. Starmer and his pedo cult are all going DOWN!!!
Russia doesn’t believe in climate fairies.
Lavrov Elaborated On Russia’s Approach To The Global Systemic Transition (7 Jan)
This is about the first time I’ve heard Lavrov or anyone in the Russian government express this position as distinctly as this. Hitherto they seem to have been happy to let the progressive West commit economic suicide.
Never interrupt your enemy etc. in practice.
What an ugly age we have lived through and are still struggling to escape. Every scientific certainty was turned on its head, every moral convention was inverted and every economic practice was dropped. Ironic that the land of Lysenko are more attuned to truth than we are.
Musk on the madness of Kier Starmer’s Britain
@JackPosobiec
4 years ago today the FBI sent at least 26 paid federal assets into a rally of patriots
Provocateurs cut plastic fencing and urged the crowd up onto the steps of the US Capitol
The Capitol Police then open fire on a peaceful crowd
Medical malpractice premiums are bound to rise.
When I was learning Science, it was axiomatic that a change n input would result in a measurable change in output. Apparently not any more. After all the billions spent on ‘net zero’ and other fairytales, exactly how much has the temperature dropped? Not even a tenth of a degree. Not much of a return on investment.
But, but, but it’s not just about global warming anymore. It’s much broader than temperature. Haven’t you noticed there’s been more floods in outer Mongolia and fewer hailstorms in the PNG highlands? Get with it comrade!
Ah yes, but you dont understand what victory looks like ….(tucks more filthy taxpayer lucre into pocket)
This is what the current government actions are about.
You are being too kind! If one believes the babble of the MSM, every succeeding year has been much worse than ever, in terms of “heat”, floods, fires, cyclones, drought etc, all caused by Climate Change, and all leading to calls for More Action.
He is the poison.
@OliLondonTV
British PM Keir Starmer finally speaks out about child r*** gang scandal and attacks what he calls the ‘far-right.’
“When the poison of the far-right leads to serious threats to Jess Phillips and others, then in my book a line has been crossed.”
So, verbal attacks on a political animal.are unacceptable, but child sexual assault is not worth investigating. Got it.
Der Starmer is a vile piece of pond scum.
The sound that Starmer can hear faintly in the distance is that of Tumbrils.
He is a frightened man and frightened men do stupid things.
How long will it be before Der Sturmer is being described as the “embattled PM Starmer”?
about the same time as it takes for him to have “the full support of his cabinet and party room”
He should be described as the Extreme Left Communist who protects Pakistani child rape gangs
Pundits on Twitter like Louise Perry talk about ‘racists’ as though it’s a pity ‘they’ got to the grooming gang narrative first.
Of course smearing the working classes is like breathing for elites.
Elites mix with higher educated professional immigrants, if they mix with them at all.
They haven’t had immigrants foisted on their communities, been exposed to the bad and ugly that is too much of muslim culture.
An Arab account on twitter talks about council stacking, infiltratration of the police forces, public housing bribery, single parents being pushed to the back of the housing queue, sharia no go zone’s, taking over the streets for public prayer, the removal of references to Christmas, Easter, even the Three Little Pigs in schools, oh and the rampant sexual abuse of minors while the real racists, Pakistani Muslim men, were allowed to prey on Sikh and English children with impunity.
I cannot imagine what it would be to grow up working class English in Luton.
Tommy Robinson could.
If only he had a posh accent.
People might have listened to him.
I stand with Islamophobics.
eat sh!t and die!
Be funny if he was run over by a truck in his retirement that would be karma
Secret sausages.
Kim Jong-un’s bizarre new ban for North Koreans (6 Jan)
Ok I’m not a fan of hotdogs, they’re bland and boring. But being sent to a labour camp for possessing one is a bit over the top even for Norkistan.
Knuckles won’t be expanding the empire to Norkland.
The old Soviet Union had a similar attitude to denim jeans and pop music, these were often smuggled in at great risk. The rulers know that it starts with something inoffensive and before you know it the whole culture has changed. Like it starts with prayers on streets and ends with mass rapes of English children.
Does that include real woofers or just the sausage
In terms of covering up crimes, what Der Sturmer has been accused of in terms of covering up child sexual abuse is far, far, worse than anything CDL Pell was accused of doing.
When can we expect a Fork Orners session by Louise Milligan? Followed by a book written on ABC time, using ABC resources, and promoted by Their ABC?
Not likely as 7nilagain only writes fiction.
Is it even reported on the ABC? There is no way I would watch them to find out.
Crikey, exposing and discussing the mass rape of young, white working class English girls is deemed ‘far-right’ by the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
Crikey, being upset and outraged about the mass rape of young, white working class English girls is deemed ‘far-right’ by the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
Crikey then, I’m far-right, far-far-far-far-right and you know what, I’m bloody proud of it.
And don’t think for a moment that the slug from Grayndler, Pong, Burqa, Islamist Husic and all the other merry comrades in Labor and the Greens would behave any differently to the sleazy, sinister, crooked, adulterer Sturmer.
Wot Cassie Said.
I AM an Islamophobe, a proud Islamophobe.
#metoo
A phobia is an irrational fear …. IMHO Islam represents a rational threat … we need a better word
That’s why Islamophobia was chosen for this purpose. There is nothing irrational about fear of Islam.
Not accurate, but sounds very baaaaad.
“You literally only ever hear working class accents fighting for these girls because every middle class person in the UK is totally paralysed by fear at the thought of being called “racist”.”
40 years of evidence btw.
https://x.com/AshleaSimonBF/status/1875966241380405638?t=tNyFIXpvR38KM17xWgeoWg&s=19
Very good point.
The speech pattern of the people protesting is a very good ‘tell’.
Would you like to subscribe to my weekly newsletter, Rosie?
All in the family.
https://x.com/G0ADM/status/1875952960104272139?t=QGySYYRQQkvqVBqNtikA-A&s=19
I cannot imagine what it would be to grow up working class English in Luton.
Tommy Robinson could.
If only he had a posh accent.
People might have listened to him.
Nailed it.
Douglas Murray has a posh accent.
People listen to him.
What manner of torture is this?
I think the Norks are running out of dogs. But don’t quote me.
It’s a horror movie but worth watching if you can handle a bit of gore.
https://x.com/Glinner/status/1875595332442321294?t=o-CqFbDLUg79ZtTKec-4Zw&s=19
Herald Sun: Lindsay Fox’s Portsea compound hit by crime spree
Will this be enough for Jacinta to make changes?
Will this be enough for Lindsay Fox to make changes to Victorian government?
Spring St on the peninsula.
The thief is lucky he did not get the Dan Andrew’s treatment….
Beege Welborn:
UK Labour Party Determined to Stomp Working Class Into Serfdom (6 Jan)
RTWT, it’s an excellent and disturbing rant. I can’t see how the UK can survive another 4 years of Labour.
Last night, sitting on my couch watching a documentary, caressing my Burmese cat and sipping some nice Grenache wine, I received an unhinged text from an ex who’s now a friend.
This man has severe and rabid Trump derangement syndrome. It’s a psychological condition. He only gets his news from the ABC, even though it annoys him, he reads the SMH and Guardian and despite, since October 7 2023, he’s taken to reading The Oz and he’s had quite a few epiphanies, he still froths about Donald Trump.
Well, I put my documentary on hold and read the text. I was left both cold and furious. He knows I’m a Trump fan but he composed the text without even saying ‘hello Cassie’ or ‘how are you, Cassie’, no, no, no, he just went for the jugular, knowing I like Trump……
‘we think Trump’s despicability can’t sink any lower. And yet witness his whinging that US flags will stay at half mast (as per convention) for Jimmy Carter when he’s inaugurated on January 20. F*ck him.
Well, gosh, crikey, was I taken aback. His text reeked with both self righteous idiocy and naivety. Now, as many of you know, I am not one who is ever lost for words however I decided not to respond immediately and so I watched the rest of the documentary and only then did I respond as follows (I also dispensed with any courteous ‘hellos’)….
Gosh, I haven’t been following that story about flags, I’ve been more interested in the story that over 250,000 white working class girls in the UK were groomed and gang raped by Pakistani Muslim males….and this has been covered up by the UK establishment because they were anxious not to be smeared and labelled as “Islamophobic’. But you probably won’t see this reported on the ABC
I waited another ten minutes and then continued….
‘No fan of Jimmy Carter who became quite hostile to Israel and openly anti-Semitic in the years and decades after he was thumped electorally by Ronald Reagan. Carter was a weak and pathetic POTUS. Okay, he oversaw the Camp David accords but that was only because he was in the company of two truly great men……..Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
I then waited another ten minutes, and sent him a link to a JNS piece from a few days ago which chronicles how Jimmy Carter didn’t just dislike Israel, he also disliked Jews.
Needless to say there’s been silence since I returned serve.
The Carter presidency went by in a kind of blur for me. I was recently married and going hell for leather paying off and renovating our first home – a “renovator’s special” circa 1914 that people would pay millions for these days.
My only real memories are – peanut farmer, relatives who were crooks, the Beirut hostages, the oil crisis. And then he was gone.
Subsequently, the usual “foundations” and Habitat for Humanity. And that peculiar photo of the Carters hunched in chairs with the enormous and obviously photoshopped Bidens.
A winning return of serve via a deep driving backhand just inside the tramlines. Game/set/match.
I was actually envisioning a rocket return straight into his mealy mouthed gob.
Burmese are the only cats, apart from big cats, tigers especially, I like. They like me too.
I just got back from a delightful breakfast with three fairly conservative teenage grandchildren.
They weren’t embarrassed when I called out my pleasure to a man at a nearby table wearing a pro-Trump T-shirt, and they were interested in what he had to say when he came over for a brief chat.
Baby steps towards normalcy…..
“I intend to resign as [Liberal] Party leader, as Prime Minister [of Canada] after the party selects its next leader.”
Pity he won’t off himself. Sepukku would be nice but any method will be acceptable, Justine.
Why wait, Justin? What possible difference would it make if he was PM or not for a few days? The country might actually get a breather before some other Justin-copy was sworn in as PM.
I have a machete in my Cyclone Emergency Box that I could blunt especially for the occasion.
We should not suffer any man to live who gets sexual pleasure despite, or because of, their victims being brutalized, or manipulated, or underage.
I’m serious, they should not be on the street, they should not be in the gene pool. Public executions are the only way. We dishonour everything we hold dear if we do not prosecute r*pe to the ultimate degree.
And if we can bring back the death penalty for these psychopaths- and they’ll always be with us, some cultures more than others obvs- we can impose life behind bars for anyone who assists, ignores, or apologises for them.
That’s pretty extreme Wally.
And an extreme position I fully support.
A good technique, “pour encourager les autres” (h/t Mark Steyn)
I am not an Islamophobe.
My disgust and dislike is well founded in truth, not irrationality.
And I will not be labeled by those who wish to destroy all I hold dear.
Islamophobe means fear of Islam. It doesn’t mean hate of Islam although that could be a consequence. Why is a fear of Islam so worrisome ? It’s a religion that aspires to jihad and war. Why should I not have a fear of it and its adherents?
The word has shifted in meaning. Having a “phobia” means an irrational fear of something or someone.
This blurring of the meaning can be traced back to “homophobia”, a slur against anyone who disapproved of same sex relationships. The new usage is purely political and I’m not having a bar of it.
They can jam their “Islamophobia” slur where the monkey jammed his nuts.
From the Oz:
Police have hauled a man before the courts after he allegedly threatened passers-by outside two Sydney synagogues.
NSW police arrested the 20-year-old alleged offender late on Monday night, with officers set to testify he leaned out a car window in the north Sydney suburb of St Ives to make a gun gesture at two men, the second of whom was standing outside a place of worship.
The threats were alleged to have taken place at 12:30pm on Saturday along Link Road, with officers from Kuring Gai Police Area Command arresting the man at his North Turramurra home. He was charged at Hornsby Police Station with stalk or intimidate intend fear physical harm.
He has since been granted conditional bail, and is set to appear at Hornsby Local Court on January 29.
Where he will be told don’t be naughty and now go.
Only his age has been stated. Does that mean every other description is too revealing?
Being arrested in that area made me think that the offender could be a scarf-wearer from a well-to-do family and the point was to protect them.
He’ll be on the roll at the court. Then we’ll know. If, at 20, his name is still suppressed, then we’ll know something else. And that something will be that the Rum Corps has taken a leaf out of the UKPlod’s book.
Shirley, they have degraded themselves to Gin Corps now,
Starmer keeps digging. What is he trying to hide?
He was DPP when Rotherham occurred.
No surprise that he doesn’t want any scrutiny.
Rhetorical question, Bruce.
But I suspect it’s more than just that.
I have decided that the best weather is the cool change after a heat wave.
What’s even better is when it’s accompanied by 15 mls of rain, no need to water the garden for a while. I think I’ll go shopping to celebrate.
I’ve been subject to about 100 dB all morning from seven hungry bluefaced honey eaters. They can’t feed on nectar because of the rain, so they’ve been coming to the Cafe instead. Very loudly!
I hope my neighbours won’t complain to council.
Browsing through the list of Oldham Councillors, I’d like to think the decision to flick pass the enquiry into rape gangs to the Home Office was made because somebody there realised the greater public wouldn’t have confidence a Council run one.
I’ve got to say I’ve always felt very worried about how I can watch something like Game Of Thrones or Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (which was rubbish, but i digress) and then compartmentalize it and walk away.
But the true details of the UK Paki R*pe Syndicates are too hard to ignore. And worse than the worst fever dreams of Martin or Larssen.
It would be wise to take a leaf out of the playbook of mega minds like Christopher Pearson and Tommy Robinson, crossed with the bonehead tactics of Say Their Name- like I’ve advocated beginning every press conference by reading through the names of the victims of the Oct 7 atrocities, read through a list of the names and ages of the English children.
Just saw the front page of the SMH online.
Apparently vandalising cars outside a synagogue with the phrase F@#& The Jews is now only an “alleged Sydney antisemitic incident”.
Cassie of Sydney
January 7, 2025 8:50 am
Gasp!
A cat?
JD Vance warned us about people like you.
Digging another hole
The Albanese Government has reportedly burned its bridge with Israel so badly that a top Labor minister is packing their bags to fly to the Middle East for diplomatic repairs.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is set to travel to Israel within weeks to mend the relationship between the Albanese and Netanyahu governments.
Tension has mounted between Israel and Australia in recent months after a spate of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attacks across Australia — including the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne, and the repeated vandalism of cars and properties in a Sydney suburb well-populated by Jewish people.
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus set to fly to Israel to fix Albanese and Netanyahu government relationship | The Nightly
Israel when he arrives in Tel Aviv should put him onto the next plane out.
Hand him over to hamarse.
Why would he need to fly to Israel to fix a problem here? Albo knows how to do it he is just not prepared to take action, there is an election to win in south western Sydney.
How on Earth could anybody possibly believe that Dreyfus could ever fix anything?
The only viable strategy he might make is to say that the Labor Government’s hatred of Israel isn’t actually singling them out as it hates Australia just as much.
This is a futile action seeing as Labor is set to lose the election. After the election the new government can start anew with Israel.
Gasp!
A cat?
JD Vance warned us about people like you.
LOL. I know!
Cassie is the exception that proves the rule.
Last night, sitting on my couch watching a documentary, caressing my Burmese cat and sipping some nice Grenache wine …
Chocolate, red or other?
We had two brothers from the same litter, a red and a chocolate.
Emma Garlett: I am sick of the date debate too
Emma GarlettThe West Australian
Tue, 7 January 2025 2:00AM
Comments
Year after year at this time, our nation enters a debate on whether we should change the date of Australia Day from January 26 which marks the arrival of the First Fleet in Australia.
It was also the arrival of generations of genocide.
January 26 marks the start of the massacres, oppression and systemic exclusion of First Nations people in their own lands.
Using this date as the date on which we celebrate our nation is a continual oppression of First Peoples.
It’s a celebration of invasion, the rape of First Nations women, the murders of Aboriginal people, of atrocities.
It’s a celebration of the Stolen Generations, of segregation, of control over Aboriginal people and breaches of our human rights.
When the British arrived in Australia, the land was declared terra nullius, meaning land belonging to no one. This was a lie.
The High Court overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius in the Mabo High Court decision in 1992, recognising the land was inhabited by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people all along, tens of thousands of years before those 11 ships entered Sydney Cove.
So why are we continuing to celebrate that anniversary as a benign “arrival” instead of recognising it for the invasion that it truly was?
And why do we continue to celebrate the beginning of a genocide, the most serious of crimes?
The date must change.
It’s not much to ask. Just a simple shuffle on the calendar.
But some would prefer to continue to oppress First Nations people by celebrating their dispossession; celebrating the ravaging of their land for economic gain at the expense of Aboriginal lives.
Every year we have this argument. Every year we see the same assortment of headlines and contrasting opinion pieces.
Companies announce their support of a change, in the name of inclusion.
Then they backtrack, pressured by the noisy minority into cowardice.
It is infuriating.
My whole life, I have watched as my people are kicked and trodden on and our respectful request for a date that includes us is ignored and ridiculed.
It is so upsetting.
As soon as the New Year’s Eve fireworks fall silent, it’s game on again.
It leaves us battered and bruised before the new year has a chance to begin.
Ironically, it’s this hurtful and damaging debate that brings most airtime to First Nations people and issues.
We’re forced to come forward to defend our request for a new date, to justify why we should be included in the celebration of Australia’s nationhood. It’s exhausting.
Our elected leaders can put an end to the merry-go-round. They have the power to make the change and leave a positive legacy.
Keeping the date on January 26 shuts Indigenous Australians out. That’s not what this country should be about. Celebrating genocide is not what this country is about.
Changing the date needs to go to the top of the agenda.
If it doesn’t, year after year you can look forward to me giving my two cents in a column like this one.
Choosing a new date for us all to celebrate is more than a symbolic action.
It would be an act of peace, inclusion and respect.
Emma Garlett is a legal academic and Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
Sounds great. I choose the date that James Cook claimed Terra Nullius for Britain: 22 August.
But of course she is a professional aboriginal, I never doubted it. Enjoying all the advantages, privileges and luxuries of the new world whole heaping calumnies on it. For that sort of mind-twist you need an academic.
If she had her way and still lived in her pre-European society she would be mistreated by every male in her tribe and then left to die when she could no longer keep up with everyone. There is nothing worse than an ingrate.
Something else this smart indigenous woman forgets is that every society and every civilisation on Earth began as a nomadic one and then evolved to better its people. This woman and similar thinkers are evolution deniers.
Anybody crass enough to point out Ms Garlett’s plight, pre settlement, doesn’t make it past the moderators.
Could it be the case that any person claiming to be of or from multiple aboriginal tribes is by definition a product of European culture because previously they could belong to one tribe only?
The swapping of tribes only happened when children were captured and adopted or when a girl was abducted in a raid – and they then belonged to their “ new” tribe – do I have this correct?
Emma, pick your date and then go about getting support for it. Then leave the rest of us alone in our Jan 26th glory.
“that every society and every civilisation on Earth began as a nomadic one and then evolved to better its people”.
It took outsiders here.
Yes, they never evolved beyond a nomadic lifestyle, regardless of Pascoe’s selective quotes.
And so it begins.
Crossie, are you confusing progress in material conditions with biological evolution? Aboriginals are Homo sapiens, like us.
Emma Garlett:
A Proud Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman, wearing Traditional clothing, and having Traditional Hair Product courtesy of the Traditional Beauty Salon, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Nothing like the women and girls whose heads I sutured outback, and when I’d finished, looked for old sutures that hadn’t been removed from the previous beatings.
I must admit that using blue colored suture material instead of black made that job a little easier.
Complete and utter whinging rubbish. Go away, the majority of Australians disagree with your skewed black armband view of history, and reading this miserable essay demonstrates why.
This is always crazy:
Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
No-one can pronounce them, let alone remember them.
?
“legal academic”.
Sixty thousands years of no such thing.
Another thing you can thank the invaders for.
I wonder how pale Emma is.
Here is a first, she’s not proud. I thought they had to be proud.
They’ve suddenly stopped accepting comments on this article..
Another Don. I despise dons.
This is always crazy:
Nyiyaparli-Yamatji-Nyungar woman
Old and busted – disparate warring tribes
The new hotness- multiculti mixed race yuppie hyphen-people!
…proof of evolution in Aboriginal culture after all.
Nobody declared Australia to be terra nullius.
Despite being a spaceman, Musk’s feet are firmly planted on Earth, and he seems to have a soft spot for the underdog.
I don’t particularly like Robinson on a personal level—fraud, name change, and all—but what’s happened to him is a fcking travesty and shouldn’t be tolerated.
Musk is also helping that actress suing Disney because she was let go for her political opinions.
Has to be transactional. 🙂
Name the fraud.
I’d change my name too if I had to spell it out as often as he must have.
?
Clare Armstrong in the Daily Telegraph:
Anyone who is wondering who to vote for is an imbecile.
A party hack since uni, the man has no intellectual curiosity, just ideological bullet points.
Thick as pigshit.
Courier-Mail readers poll:
Rate the Bruce Highway from Brisbane to Cairns
?
Excellent 0 %
Good 3 %
Fair 13 %
Poor 27 %
Disgraceful 57 %
Last trip to Qld on that goat-track mobile reception dropped out 80’s north of Brisbane.
Still the case Ayr to Proserpine in long stretches, patchy in places Prosy to Mackay.
South of Sarina unsure but I’d say Marlborough stretch would be another blackspot.
South of Gladstone, last time I was down that way doing a couple of field mapping projects, nil real issues from Childers south.
Townsville to Mossman apart from a blackspot near the coast road along Wangetti Beach isn’t too bad.
Go west of the divide and yeah. Nuffin, even in some small towns.
That said I’d take a good road over mobile service any day. Quicker you traverse those areas quicker the better. Bad roads gets you into a situation I had last year nursing a blown diff seal, because of the Gregory Developmental rd, from Clermont to Roma before I could get anyone who could fix it within the day.
Ran the motorhome up the Bruce from Gin Gin to as far as Cooktown for 20 years. After the cyclones the roads were and still are superb. There are a few spots that require attention but the improvements have been outstanding .
Any Australian contemplating a vote for Labor after what has transpired over the last three years is hardly fair-minded.
Just the j’ismists waving pom poms.
Sub-optimal timing.
Somebody at UK Labour HQ is probably thinking of opening an artery.
Robinson’s artery.
Last trip to Qld on that goat-track mobile reception dropped out 80’s north of Brisbane.
Unless near capital cities or on major high traffic highways, phone coverage in minimal in Australia.
The Kalahari Desert has better mobile coverage than most of Australia.
starlink
Before Starlink
There are dropouts along the highway between Sydney and Canberra.
I assume you are talking about the Sydney Arts Graduates heading toward the streets of Canberra paved with gold?
For Gods sake, don’t give them a lift.
Even the ABC is unimpressed by Albanese’s announcement, reporting that the injection of $7.2bn in funding would “eventually take the highway to a minimum three star safety rating” and noting that “the RACQ warns the Bruce Highway upgrades will take decades and that there is no “end point” due to population growth.”
Once again it is demonstrated that Albanese’s Australia is one where infrastructure can’t keep up with immigration, driving us backwards.
In case you missed it Fashion Notes: 11 Best and Worst Dressed from the 2025 Golden GlobesDon’t miss our Nicole. Best comment: They’re definitely all on Ozempic. Heroin chic seems to be on the comeback
That’s what Hillary Clinton it must have been using.
I was traumatised to see a photo of putrid Blanchette. But at least if she is spending her time playing with the Hollypedos she is not here sneering at us.
No doubt she will be back for the elections to give directions to her subjects. Vile creature.
Waaaay too kind!
ArthurB
January 6, 2025 8:34 pm
…anyone care to buy a service station with pumps that are a bit dodgy/product put into the wrong tanks?
….. in Hay?
Dr Faustus January 7, 2025 12:49 am
This is why I asked yesterday that a Class Action be brought by the victims. To flush out these rapists, their protectors, and other victims.
But will anyone in class conscious Britain dare risk it?
I think they might Doctor. I’ve not seen so many people so angry in Britain. They’ll need good lawyers and finance, but I wonder if the Free Speech Union might get the ball rolling. After all, cancel culture and cover ups are a denial of free speech.
it would be a bit like the Subpost masters and mistresses.
This is exactly how the Left should be taken down.
No chance. The Pommy courts are fully captured by the Left, and special people will remain special.
Just Stop Oil activists who blocked major road in rush hour spared jail (6 Jan)
Of course.
It doesn’t stop the attempt being made, and it doesn’t stop the people noticing how far the cover up extends.
I think things are changing Bruce, opening up. Everyone now dislikes the woke left and the Marxists.
The Five, apart from the Judge, are back and in this 11 minute segment show once again why Gutfeld is far and away the best social and political commentator bar none:
‘The Five’: Biden remains bitter to the end
The slimy Harold and the wicked Jessica should be jettisoned – they can’t tell the truth most days.
And re: the Farage and Elon/Tommy controversy. The tell for me is that Farage did not agitate about the mass muzzie rapes and the only reason this foul stain has been revealed is due to Elon. As skinzy as he is, at the end of the day Farage is still establishment. Elon doesn’t give a rat’s arse.
As for starmer, that bastard should be publicly castrated.
When I first tried to raise this rape gang scandal over a decade ago, I was accused by the Guardian of exploiting it for political gain. They should hang their heads in shame.
https://x.com/search?q=Farage&src=typed_query
Compared to the main highway servicing my recently vacated property, the Gregory Development Road from Charters Towers to Emerald, the Bruce Highway is an autobahn.
It is a major rural route that carries a lot of traffic, mostly heavy vehicles. In parts it is so warped that to maintain a line requires a significant speed reduction.
The road was originally constructed by Joh in support of one his son’s get rich quick schemes. Parts of it haven’t been touched since.
This road services the area that keeps QLD afloat financially but is a long way from Brisbane and so is ignored. The Govt’s only interest in this mining and cattle money making machine is revenue. Why would they return any of that wealth by building safe roads? There are very few voters and no tourists. Shaddup and pay peasants!
Sorry, emotional about this matter.
Agree 100% especially south of Belyando Crossing. Drove it last week and heading back up that way next weekend.
Carnarvon Developmental rd near Rolleston is just as bad.
Around Auguthella, the road is crook that my DVD player skips and jumps. It’s an aftermarket Kenwood jobbie with 5x oversampling.
Three years ago, it was so bad, I had a (L) retinal detachment from the corrugations/potholes in one section.
Stuck to 75/80 km/hr with underinflated tyres in the hope it didn’t repeat on the way back.
Hamas made a list. Could by fake news.
https://x.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1876206545442054261?t=mtv7JW8Wc0cPC_qXk4epfA&s=19
The bastards will shoot them all – even the dead – before the hand over.
Can’t people see the yo yo propaganda effect here?
Raise the relatives hopes, the dash them, raise them, then dash them.
When is Israel going to start executing the terrorists they’ve captured and been proven to indulged in the mass rapes and murders? All of these are capital crimes in a war zone.
Warned someone away from the trashfest already.
https://x.com/sscjusa/status/1876312826912154032?t=l0038Ta2JHvhRa34J8c_Sg&s=19
You can see the faggotry front and center of the attached image.
Thanks Rosie. Saw the trailer last night and was interested in the drama and intrigue – but certainly not now.
Megyn Kelly thrashes it on her podcast. She absolutely loathes it.
On December 6, 2024, Senator Tom Cotton (Republican of Arkansas) introduced a bill in the Senate to replace “West Bank” in all federal documents with “Judea and Samaria,” noting, “The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria go back thousands of years. The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel.” His bill matches a House bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Claudia Tenney, Randy Weber, and Anthony D’Esposito.
Yes, they are the Jewish names but also the world’s. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted for Resolution 181, a.k.a. the Partition Plan, a document that referred to “Samaria and Judea.” There was no reference in it to any territory called “West Bank.”
Inventing the ‘West Bank’ – American Thinker?
Albo’s going to have to try harder to sound like a leader. Complaining about Dutton and the coalition “saying no” too often is weak and anti-democratic.
Not sure who thought it was a good idea to send Albo out into regional Queensland, even with $7bn of potential borrowings. The Liars need to be in KRudd 2.0 mode and filling sandbags. Albo’s glass jaw on display apparently.
A very good summary of the Farage/Elon/Tommy brouhaha:
Tommy, Nigel, and Elon | Frontpage Mag
Excerpts:
The fact is that by setting themselves so firmly against Tommy, Nigel and Tice alienated a hell of a lot of voters, some of whom began asking: is Nigel leading a real revolution, or is he just controlled opposition? Tice’s “all of that lot” putdown drew furious comments online: “Tice & his demonization of Tommy is making me consider revoking my membership.” “Richard thinks he can have a grass roots movement without the grass roots.” “The problem is, if they keep saying we don’t care about Tommy, they actually don’t care about freedom of speech.”
Nigel decried the grooming gangs’ predations – but instead of admitting that these predations are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon, rooted in the doctrines of Islam, he spoke about “the mass rape abomination.” Sorry, but to dodge the real issue in this way is cowardly and useless.
Elon’s tweets:
If it’s acceptable for British politicians to kneel for George Floyd, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to tweet about the victims of British rape gangs?
If it’s acceptable for Labour to send 100 staff to the US to campaign for Kamala, why is it not acceptable for American citizens to opine on British politics?
If it’s acceptable for Labour’s leading politicians…to slander Trump as racist, why is it not acceptable for Americans to criticise British politicians for the systemic betrayal of British children?
If it’s acceptable for Westminster elites to praise Biden/Kamala, why is it unacceptable for American elites to praise Farage?
Tall order.
Perhaps the luvvies at NIDA should offer him a few lessons in the dramatic arts.
just purse your lips together and say “poof”
Albo has always been more popular with people who have never met him. In the words of another high profile Liar the mob have worked him out.
The dying media thought Least Said, Soonest Mended would work.
That is outstanding work by Matt Goodwin showing how disgustingly biased the establishment -media, politicians, bureaucrats and the law – is when they did nothing about the muzzie rapists.
Very well done, Matt.
But there’s a very ugly truth slowly sticking its head above the grave of British society – and it’s one labelled “Class”.
Labor’s latest whining is quite amusing.
Jim Chalmers slams Coalition’s nuclear plan (Sky News, 7 Jan)
Yeah sure Jim, $4 big ones? Believe anything you say.
‘Great friend of Australia’: Anthony Albanese addresses Justin Trudeau’s resignation (Sky News, 7 Jan)
Yeah Albo with more friends like Trudy we wouldn’t need enemies.
Successive Coalition governments have ‘failed’ to fund the Bruce Highway (Sky News, 7 Jan)
Hey Tim, I seem to recall that Labor ran Queensland for the last 9 years until very recently, and you’ve been running the nation for the last three years. Yet your ancient predecessors are to blame for the Bruce Hwy being a goat track? Pull the other one son, it has baseball bats on.
They HAVE funded the Bruce, spending money where Qld asked.
I’ve only been as far north as Bundaberg, and the stretch Gympie to the turnoff is abominable, just as the Pacific Highway was before the Feds threw billions at it.
My 86yr old mother rang and said her car insurance was going from $1342 to $1611 with Budget Direct. Last year I checked and the $1342 was around the market. This year I checked and GIO was $723.11 and the policy was better in a few respects. Slightly lower excess, slightly higher insured figure and windscreen damage protection.
I cannot understand it but will take it. Please shop around
I was with them once; never again.
It amazes me that Budget Direct keeps getting consumer awards.
There is a good reason they are cheap. Anecdotally their claims process is abominable.
As long as they have quirky ads on TV, that’s all that matters.
Has she considered Australian Seniors Insurance? A big advantage with them is the ability to get a premium based on the estimated number of km to be driven over the coming year. If your mother doesn’t drive much she could save a lot of money. I changed over from RACQ a couple of years ago, and my premium halved.
My car insurance with Woolworths is based on the klm you do in a year . It is cumulative so based on 6000 K per year my policy over a few years has remained almost static . We still have about 15000 KLM up our sleeve this year due to only local use.
Roger January 7, 2025 9:14 am
The only thing that any sort of halfway adequate explanation of his behaviour is that he was a customer of one of these gangs of rapists. Not a five quid an hour customer, but a very high level customer of a gang that is now pulling his strings.
I cannot think of any excuse that allows his continued denial of the abuse to continue.
And if that’s the case, how many other members of the aristocracy are ensnared?
An Epstein Gang, perhaps?
I don’t think so, Winston.
What he’s hiding is the extent to which the Labour Party at the council level and higher covered this up for the sake of political expediency.
I’m wondering how far the political expediency goes.
There have been too many quiet noises from the cupboard holding the skeletons of Epstein, Randy Andy, etc.
It deserves a looksee.
But I shudder to think of the social conditions that will have to emerge before there is a genuine inquiry into those mysterious rattles from the cupboard.
“Hamas refused to say who on the list was still alive”.
Err … if they’re dead, they’re not hostages.
I wouldn’t pay for the Sydney Morning Herald on principle but have just seen a neighbour’s copy. On the front page is an article about misconduct (of all types) by state school teachers and principals. The latest stats 268; teachers, 52 school execs and 59! principals under investigation, 25 teachers and one principal sacked for sexual misconduct) come, so the report reads, ‘five years after a damning auditor-general report found major flaws in the way public school teachers are monitored across the state’s 2200 public schools.’
So, yet again, where was the Gillard-McClellan royal commission in all of this? Keir Starmer didn’t invent two-tiered justice.
Old Lefty, it would be wise to get a couple of copies of the Sydney Morning Herald, for mundane purposes like lining the cockatoos cage, the dog kennel, and next time there’s a date roll shortage.
If you don’t look you don’t find.
No fan of the British aristocracy but I don’t think that’s it.
What he’s hiding is the extent to which the Labour Party at the council level and higher covered this up for the sake of political expediency.
If the truth was revealed, Labour – which purports to represent the working class – would be finished.
Roger – respectfully – would you allow any of the British Parliament/Aristocracy, to babysit any of your children?
I’ve seen far too many of these “Pillars of Society” and what they get up to when they aren’t being watched like a hawk.
At least this rape scandal has rendered the term “white privilege” risible. Throw it back in progressives’ faces.
Finally
An influential Labour Party group has broken with the Prime Minister to back calls for a national inquiry into the grooming and rape gangs.
The Blue Labour outfit said that a new inquiry was necessary to “give voice to the many thousands of forgotten victims,” in what they described as “the worst series of atrocities that have taken place in Britain since the war”.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-breaks-party-back-grooming-gangs-inquiry
Err … if they’re dead, they’re not hostages.
Humans who are abducted and murdered and never returned are hostages in a very real sense.
hamass and all the other mussie groups are experts in extracting the maximum despair from the hostage families. Dead or alive the psychological effects are very similar
We are forever hearing the luvvies talking about closure for families of missing and presumed murder victims, The same applies to families of hostages.
lotocoti
January 7, 2025 9:15 am
Browsing through the list of Oldham Councillors, I’d like to think the decision to flick pass the enquiry into rape gangs to the Home Office was made because somebody there realised the greater public wouldn’t have confidence a Council run one.
There are enquiries and there are enquiries. Don’t forget how in the Democratic People’s Republic of Victoriastan we had an enquiry into the lockdowns. The commissioner was hand picked by the ALP and had no power to cross examine under oath i.e making witnesses subject to a charge of perjury. She sat politely listening to a conga line of liars claiming that they couldn’t remember anything.
If either the Oldham council or the British government is forced into holding an enquiry, it will be very similar. Don’t expect and earth shaking results.
Roger, a quick glance at lotocoti’s link to one Council was quite suggestive.
Family members, associates may have been involved. An excellent motivation to suppress too many questions. In some cultures, the crime is less bad than the exposure.
Figures
January 7, 2025 9:35 am
How on Earth could anybody possibly believe that Dreyfus could ever fix anything?
There’s a Yiddish expression which translates as someone or something being as useless as cupping a corpse.
That will describe Dreyfus’ efforts perfectly. I’m sure the Israelis can recognise a class traitor when they see one. Albo might as just as well send Wenny Pong for all the good Dreyfus would do.
I still fully expect Dreyfus to be swallowed by the Brittany Blob at some point. Being the AG when that $2,4m payment was made was not a career enhancing moment.
Because if it is recognised as an “invasion”, then by High Court ruling, Native Title was extinguished by said invasion.
Silly j’ismists (BIRM).
Q- Why is the Labor party opposed to the live sheep trade?
A – They are afraid too many of their supporters will end up on the ships.
I think Starmer and his cronies are rightly terrified of the civil war that would break out if the law was equally applied to the Mohammedans. They would riot, prompting counter-strikes from the oppressed white working class – all leading to widespread bloodshed. They’d rather continue with the quiet replacement strategy that led to a darkie PM.
the bloodshed will come anyway once the mohammedans have the power
What price “non-discriminatory immigration” now? Like many leftist policies it all turns into shite down the track.
Cronkite at 11:38:-
I was just about to post on what I thought was motivating Musk when I saw this, particularly the bolded section.
I think that, along with EU f-ckwits threatening to regulate and ban X-Twatter and fine Musk his entire net worth times pi r squared, has fired him up.
I am reminded of the TV series “Absolute Power” where the Stephen Fry character (Charles) asks his business partner (Martin):-
Charles :- “What am I not, Martin?”
Martin :- “You are not to be f-cked with, Charles.”
Charles :- “Precisely.”
Starmer is finding out that Musk is not to be f-cked with.
Not a Stephen Fry fan, but Absolute Power was brilliant. John Bird was a standout.
State institutions were specifically excluded by the Terms of Reference.
In other words, it was a stitch-up.
There is no doubt a fear of civil unrest but in fact the law has been applied to a majority of the offenders who now languish in prison.
What the British public is missing is an inquiry that takes into account the political side of the whole affair, including the politicisation of the various police forces involved.
I doubt that anywhere near a majority of the offenders has faced a court.
Could you clarify that for me as I appear to be a little confused by what you are implying.
Has it, though?
How many have been jailed for more than five years?
Against a background of hundreds or thousands of gang rapes over 20-30 years?
I strongly suspect a few fringe players have been shoved under the bus when it got too hot, and most ring-leaders are still plying their trade, albeit a little more carefully.
Following on from my observation that people of aboriginal genetic heritage are only ever identified as proud hyphen-people when it’s a success story or a lecture- never when it’s a story of crime-
-why are people of aboriginal genetic heritage always hyphen-people? You never hear of someone being a straight single First Nation.
Posited answers-
-entry into British Australia completely busted open the tribal micro-clans
-multiple First Nationses are nominated to make the omission of a non-First Nationses genetic heritage less noticeable
Whilst not alive, the corpses of dead Jews held by the Nazis in Gaza are ‘hostages’ of a sort.
On October 7 2023, not just content with raping, decapitating, murdering and kidnapping, the Nazi Gazan scum also took the bodies of dead Jews they had just butchered back into the shithole that is Gaza. And since then, of course, many more Jews held hostage in Gaza have died.
Jewish religious law dictates we give our dead a proper Jewish funeral, so that the souls of the dead can finally find peace. The tragedy of the Holocaust is that millions of victims don’t have a resting place, the ashes and bones of Jewish men, women and children are scattered across Europe.
I and every other Jew want those Jewish bodes held in Gaza returned. Their families need to say Kaddish.
Let’s say “a significant number” then.
“Significant” equates to what percentage of the actual offenders?
Surely, to be significant, the number should be more than half?
Gillard-McClellan royal commission
Designed from its inception to target the Catholic Church and to get Pell.
Another spectacular failure of the new Abbott government in 2013, one of its first actions should have been to widen the terms of the royal commission. But instead Tone and co played nice.