No Sandgropers, Geraldton Pool Report not filed. Looking back at the Thursday OT it seems Arky had an early start. Disregard my jive and Tom’s toons are gonna podium. Don’t see that too orften.
Just some news from Hobart where some schools are going a bit loony.
Prestigious girls school Collegiate apparently has some girls who identify as cats. The dunderheads running the place, instead of giving the girls a good slapping and getting their parents in, have put trays of kitty litter outside the classroom because “inclusive”.
Sensible parents, paying heaps in fees, are dragging their girls out and trying to enrol them at Fahan, another posh school, which is swamped with applications.
And it seems to be contagious as down the Southern Outlet, at Kingston High, they also have girls who identify as cats.
The dunderheads there have gone one better though. Erected scratching poles outside the classroom.
I’m not making this up. Comes from family members who have kids at the schools. .
Some of our women folk have gone mad, they need to be medicated back to sanity.
If not sanity – and here I have my doubts that it can be done – then institutionalise them.
No psychiatrists, just put them all in an asylum, and let them sort themselves out.
While we give them attention, they can never get well.
I have no more patience for the feeble minded, overly protected children in women’s bodies.
Interesting book in the side-bar. The Globalist Satanists (Woke, Climate Change, Gender mutability, Covid tyranny; to name a few of their hideous creations) really want to get their claws into Russia.
They thought it was Game Set Match after the fall of the USSR and puppet Yeltsin installed, gobbling up former state controlled industry and what not for 1% of actual value.
This was 30 years ago now and they didn’t quite have their EU ducks in a row, nor former Eastern Bloc puppets set up for such an audacious scheme. The greedy rarely employ patience.
Then Vlad and Russian patriots appeared. Ran a lot of these fiends out of town. Jailed others. Poisoned the odd turncoat.
Tell me this Sergey Lavrov isn’t a badass defender of Mother Russia.
Now it is Vlad and Serge vs. a Globalist installed puppet regime in Ukraine fronted by a camp former B grade actor/comedian.
Don’t know this gent, one of his articles popped up in my feed.
I agree with his sentiments and I hope when all the hostages are returned living or dead, then Israel will unleash the mightiest fury and revenge that will deter the savages for a long time from tying to pull the same trick again.
Inshallah, or whatever.
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • January 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families.
Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals.
Interesting. Sonia Sharp, ex Rotherham, then head-hunted by VIC Govt here in 2012(!) then moved on again when the original Rotherham report came out 10 years ago (VIC Govt inquiry found ‘no problem’ with their hiring process of her). Now looks to be a partner at EY here, according to her bio providing ‘shrewd’ advice to governments on people services and Covid recovery. (The above is all factual)
KevinM
January 18, 2025 5:27 am
Now something a bit different.
Seen this before but it’s apposite re the situation in LA.
That would have to be most impressive dendrobium I have ever seen. The only trouble with that orchid is the flowers are short lived compared with other orchids.
The best one I ever owned lived in a bucket-sized black plastic pot which was split at the sides. It lived in a corner on concrete against two brick walls. It got blisteringly hot in summer, I doubt that anything else other than cactus would have survived there.
I hosed it every couple of days in summer, ignored it in winter, never fertilised it. In return I got several magnificent sprays of gorgeously scented flowers every year.
I’ve owned thousands of plants over my lifetime, but will never forget that one.
Grandson didn’t water mine, which has produced faithful flowers for years now against my neglect.
It was only a little thirsty when we returned yesterday.
Amazingly tough plants. Beautiful flowers.
KevinM
January 18, 2025 5:33 am
Still stuck on Woodstock, and please don’t tell me this isn’t from there!
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Woodstock 1969 was a landmark music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
Originally planned for Wallkill, New York, it moved to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm, where it became a symbol of the counterculture movement. Over 400,000 people attended, despite logistical challenges, including food shortages and inclement weather.
The festival featured legendary performances by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Santana. Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” became one of the most iconic moments in music history.
Woodstock was a testament to peace and music, embodying the ideals of the 1960s hippie generation.
Though initially a financial disaster, its cultural impact solidified its status as “Three Days of Peace and Music.” It remains a defining moment in music and social history, symbolizing unity, artistic freedom, and the power of youth culture.
Bloody cold on our arrival in Sydney yesterday morning.
Freezing wet, windy, and the only difference to Delhi’s weather was there was no pea-soup fog of pollution and mist like the one that closed Delhi airport the day before and made our flight from Jaipur very delayed.
This fortnight 189 years ago naturalist Charles Darwin went to Bathurst, lamenting how “rancorously divided into parties” we Australians were “on almost every subject”.
Back then our convict beginnings were regarded by the “better classes” as social sewage. The divide did not end there. It was Protestant versus Catholic, Irish versus English, pastoralist versus Indigenous, emancipist versus free settler versus squatter.
Read diatribes of today’s modern influencers calling on followers to burn down “English” trees and Australian flags and you would think the only people who colonised this scrubby island were shipped in from Downton Abbey in cloche hats and silk gloves. The reality is that early convict settlers, as Lt. Col. David Collins described them in his Account of New South Wales, were “lean and emaciated”, dying on boats as they rowed to shore, “both the living and the dead exhibiting more horrid spectacles than had ever been witnessed in this country”.
Hardly an invading army.
The NSW Colony was 70 per cent Protestant and 25 per cent Catholic by 1891. But more than 290 different creeds called her home.
The disparate diaspora, now calling themselves Aussies, in 1891 hailed from Barbados, India, Malta, France, Russia, Siberia, Denmark, Syria, Greece, Arabia, Persia, Siam, China, Zanzibar, Brazil and Peru, each on the hope the colony would be better than where they came from.
Most of us then though were siphoned from the swamp of the UK’s criminal classes, a third of the colony unable to read or write.
Darwin saw the convicts serving free settlers. “How thoroughly odious to every feeling to be waited on by a man who perhaps was flogged from your representation the day before for some trifling misdemeanour,” he wrote.
If Darwin thought we were trouble-plagued then, imagine what he’d think of us now.
Pale women in Bondi are on Instagram mourning Invasion Day and identifying as Indigenous.
Segments of corporate Australia are encouraging employees to work on the Australia Day public holiday to be “culturally sensitive”.
Meanwhile the state government has spent Christmas madly changing regulations to racially divide us on where we can bushwalk or camp and how many fish we can catch.
Our government during Governor Macquarie’s time at least attempted to placate division, not create it.
Instead, the NSW Department of Primary Industries put a new draft regulation on public exhibition while everyone was flat out with Christmas, to “create specific cultural fishing limits which are independent of recreational fishing limits”.
Under these changes, the recreational fisher of Greek or Italian descent is limited to collect, for example, two Murray Crayfish and allowed possession of four, while the Aboriginal Cultural Fisher is entitled to four Murray Crayfish and possession of eight. Different rules for different heritages doing the same thing.
Another sneaky NSW Government move under the blur of holiday festivities was NSW Parks deciding to extend the closure of Mount Warning until 31 December 2025 “for cultural reasons,” with fines threatened to folk from the wrong heritage, or even being in the right tribe but the wrong sex.
Mount Warning, whose closure knocks out about $1 million of business for locals a year, joins Uluru, the Grampians, and, as Senator Gerard Rennick called out this week, the Arapiles in Victoria as public land paid for by Australians that Australians are banned from if they ticked the wrong heritage box on the Census.
Of course in Darwin’s day, like Indigenous Australians, the convict class were dehumanised.
Starving first fleet convicts documented: “I was chained seven weeks on my back for being out getting greens and wild herbs.”
Chained for foraging while starving. Now, with preclusions on fishing. Australia, as an experiment, of sick prison ships filled with the dying, should have been a dead letter.
That is why Australia Day is celebrating not how we began, but what we have become.
“Farewell Australia, you are a rising child, and doubtless some day will reign a great Princess in the South: but you are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect,” Darwin ended his diary.
“I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.”
Darwinian evolution never thought Australia would become what it has.
Lifter:
Biden and Trump who managed to find common ground to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza
Leaner:
The clique of corporates virtual signalling against Australia Day while raking in millions from people who would like to celebrate
MINNS STEPS UP WHERE HIS FEDERAL COLLEAGUES FAIL AND FAIL AGAIN
Here is a lesson on how to be leader forever.
When Phebe Furneaux courageously spoke out about her home invasion by juvenile delinquents who bashed her in her Tamworth home last week, Premier Chris Minns did not ignore her story.
Instead, he put his own pen to paper. Enclosed with a two-page official letter addressing her concerns was a handwritten note: “Phebe, I’m truly sorry you had to go through so much pain. These attacks are abhorrent, and I will do all I can to confront these things. Chris.”
In a few strokes, Mr Minns revealed the yawning dissonance between the NSW Labor leadership and the gelatinous federal offering, such as Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, who refuse to grant those who are being hurt by his solar and wind energy fantasy an audience, a meeting, or even a simple note of acknowledgment.
Or Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, serving up a transparent blancmange of condemnation when racists unleash firebombs on people’s homes.
Politicians in Australia don’t need to fear attacks like that in Sydney’s East yesterday with no reprisal. Cabinet ministers deemed to be at threat, and most especially Prime Ministers, are granted not just 24/7 bodyguards, but the A Grade league of personal security.
If such a racially charged attack occurred near any place a PM rested his head, the AFP would not be receiving jelly-spined statements like those Mr Albanese espoused for Jewish targets, where he buckpassed to the states and the courts, the magistrates and some other man in the middle.
What stops him from calling his Labor colleagues, Police Minister Yasmin Catley or Mr Minns himself to lay the slab of a concrete justice system which protects victims rather than abusers, whether that’s teens attacking vulnerable women or racists attacking Jewish families?
Most ADH disordered children/young adults I know are just that – they’re annoying, but not only are they annoying, they’re selfish and manipulative. The problem is that they are very good at manipulating people into supporting their excuses. That’s why, when you stop one from being a little shit, they immediately dial it up to 15, and demand support from their protector.
Then they stand back, continue the hysterics while gloating about the two adults they’ve manipulated into fighting.
They love having that power.
Notice how the hysterics generally fade after they grow up?
That’s because people just won’t have anything to do with them. Instead they hide the hysterics and manipulate others quietly – because manipulation is now part of their personality.
It’s how we train a population of sociopaths that need medicating.
My friend’s old aunt as a teacher all her life said she never saw ADHD kids. Letting them be little shiites from the start is all it takes. What I’ve seen is self indulgent parents with their children imitating them. Children are naturally manipulative, natural survival of the species.
I was about to jump for the Granville train as it was moving out of Parramatta Station, when someone closed the door my face. Most people on that carriage were killed.
The following train pulled in, and there was announcement that due to a derailment there would be no trains to or from the city that morning.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb is tipped to retire before the end of the year, but in the short-term she is faced with a number of crucial personnel decisions that will shape the force for years to come.
After a brutal three years in the role that has included everything from a fatal Taser cover-up saga and a gin gifting scandal, to securing a historic deal to pay police recruits and putting domestic violence on the national agenda, multiple sources say they think the state’s first female top cop will call it a day in the second-half of 2025.
Nothing in there about the application of laws to protect Jews.
And a media manager for the top cop? Give me a spell.
What we need is a law to make the plods use existing laws. Do I need put SARC or not. Why do we need more laws when the existing ones are not enforced.
Your classic utterly incompetent cat’s bum mouth Karen promoted way beyond her ability. Excellent foil for the equally incompetent Yassie Catlady, Minnimax’s police minister.
Catlady, by the way, is the member for Swansea – the seat once held by that Labor great Milton Orkopoulos. Milton the Molester, moreover, was not from the clerical fascist NSW Right but from the Left faction.
Winston Smith
January 18, 2025 7:41 am
It certainly looks like we are living through “The Crazy Years” of Heinleins timeline. The worry is what came after.
calli
January 18, 2025 7:52 am
If Darwin thought we were trouble-plagued then, imagine what he’d think of us now.
Different men, different perspectives. My great great grandfather, who was also with Darwin, saw nothing but possibilities. He returned to Australia post haste once the voyage was concluded.
Darwin, of course, nestled back into the bosom of the aristocracy and the life of a gentleman.
I loved that picture Kevin M posted of the Mitchell residence in the Rocks. It was almost brand new when those two men, one rich the other poor, first saw it as they entered Sydney Cove. To the master, it would present as an ugly amalgam of classical and colonial, to his servant, a princely dream.
As for Catholics vs. Protestants…my predecessor was a good Chapel man. His house, once he settled, was next door to the Church of England. He planted a row of pines to cancel his view. Those trees are there to this day. 😀
An old friend once attended the wedding of a young female cousin. One of her elderly Presbyterian great aunts, who was going deaf and didn’t know how loud her voice was, said to her sister in a ‘whisper’ that echoed all over the church: ‘He’s a nice boy. I don’t mind him being Chinese. But did he have to be a Catholic?’
The cost of Nut Zero is a key part of the implementation of Cloward-Pliven.
Black Ball
January 18, 2025 7:54 am
A sort of follow on from Knuckle Dragger and his acknowledgements of all types of afflictions, Herald Sun:
Tennis Australia is facing calls to embrace a full Australia Day celebration as part of next week’s men’s final.
The Australian Open will again play down the national day with plans only to fly a flag and play the national anthem as part of subtle Australia Day celebrations on January 26 after stripping back almost all formal recognition of it in recent years.
Former tennis player and newly appointed deputy leader of the Victorian Liberal Party, Sam Groth, called for tournament organisers to celebrate the day properly.
“Australia Day should be celebrated at the Australian Open,” he said.
“I’ll be celebrating, and there is no better way to celebrate the very best of Australia than with the eyes of the country and the world on our largest major sporting event.”
The Herald Sun has been told tournament organisers considered a return to a more comprehensive celebration as latest polling showed a major shift in public sentiment toward the national day.
However any celebration will mirror previous years and will see local artist Beau Woodbridge perform the national anthem to coincide with the men’s singles final next Sunday night.
But other festivities will remain shelved despite dedicated days to promote sponsors Emirates (January 14) and Kia (January 19) as well as All Abilities Day (Jan 21), Women’s and Girls’ Day (January 23) and Pride Day (January 24).
The Australian Open has removed almost formal recognition of the national day in recent years amid a push to change the date of Australia Day.
This week a poll indicated a shift in attitudes, particularly among young Australians, to return to celebrating the country’s history on January 26.
The Australian Open was heavily criticised last year for its lack of formal acknowledgment of Australia Day.
While the national anthem was still performed before the men’s final last year, Tennis Australia said it wanted to focus on celebrating women’s tennis on January 26.
“We are mindful there are differing views, and at the Australian Open we are inclusive and respectful of all,’’ Tennis Australia said in a statement.
“We acknowledge the historical significance and deep spiritual connection our First Peoples have to this land, and recognise this with a Welcome to Country on stadium screens prior to both the day and night session daily.’’
Tennis Australia was contacted for comment.
FMD. They are mindful of differing views but are against a majority of Australians that want Australia Day to remain.
And if Uncle Somekhunt pops up anytime hereon, I’ll spew. Remember Craig Tiley said that flags of countries can’t be flown if a player from them isn’t in the draw. So no Aboriginal flags should be flown.
When you thought you couldn’t hate our elites more, they just drop more dingleberries
However any celebration will mirror previous years and will see local artist Beau Woodbridge perform the national anthem to coincide with the men’s singles final next Sunday night.
Remember Craig Tiley said that flags of countries can’t be flown if a player from them isn’t in the draw. So no Aboriginal flags should be flown.
Smooth! Since comedy has been outlawed people do the next best thing on the internet like this. No wonder our betters want to censor it into extinction.
I’d prefer the Australian Open was abolished, given what an embarrassment it’s become over the last decade or so. As for the stupid knobheads at Cricket Australia, don’t get me started.
BTW, has anyone heard any collectivists crapping on about “keeping politics out of sport” lately? Yeah, me neither.
Meanwhile the Wong Chap and the KRudd is trying to kiss arse after they backed the wrong horse/nag in the Presidential Cup two horse race …
Saturday Tele:
RUDD IN MAKE UP BID WITH TRUMP
TOM MINEAR 18 Jan 2025
Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd met Donald Trump last weekend in a bid to build a positive relationship with the president-elect, after his allies suggested he may not last in the top diplomatic post.
It is understood the brief meeting – the first one-on-one engagement between the pair since the former prime minister became Australia’s ambassador almost two years ago – took place at Mr Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In what was believed to be a positive and normal exchange, Dr Rudd conveyed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s good wishes and said he and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were looking forward to attending his inauguration in Washington DC next week.
Mr Albanese earlier revealed Dr Rudd had “direct contact” with Mr Trump during the transition after he won November’s presidential election in a stunning political comeback.
“That is a good thing that that has occurred,” the Prime Minister told the ABC of the talks.
“That has been very positive.”
During last year’s election campaign, Mr Trump fired an extraordinary broadside at Dr Rudd, saying he had heard he was “a little bit nasty” and “not the brightest bulb”.
The former president had been asked in an interview about the former Labor leader’s attacks on him prior to his appointment as the ambassador, including calling Mr Trump “nuts”, “the most destructive president in history” and “a traitor to the West”.
“If he’s at all hostile, he will not be there long,” Mr Trump told GB News.
Nothing to do with Aboriginal advancement. It’s all about wrecking the nation economically and socially. What planet do these sports administer kunts live on? Planet Marx I suppose.
Police Commissioner Karen Webb is tipped to retire before the end of the year, but in the short-term she is faced with a number of crucial personnel decisions that will shape the force for years to come.
That could not be right, an incoming Police Commissioner can appoint their own aides and sideline others. I am sick and tired of the sour grapes politicians, Police Commissioner is a political appointment, who want to leave land mines for their successors. Says it all about them, they can’t do their jobs but certainly can leave a bureaucratic nightmare behind them.
Indolent
January 18, 2025 8:28 am
Looks like this class of nominees has learnt how to push back.
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: “Will you help me reunite children with their parents who were separated by Trump’s family separation policy?”
KRISTI NOEM: “What I’m alarmed by is the over 300,000 children that went missing during the Biden administration.”
BLUMENTHAL: “Let’s put aside the labels and what happened in the past. There are still 1,000 children who were separated and waiting to be reunited. I’d like your commitment to continuing the effort to reunite them with their parents.”
NOEM: “Well, I can’t put aside 300,000 children. Keeping families together is critically important to me and to this country. I’m concerned about Laken Riley’s family and that they no longer have her… We will uphold our laws and make sure we are doing everything we can to keep children safe from the trafficking and drug epidemics.”
JUST IN – EU Commission is demanding “internal documents” about algorithms and “authority access” to specific programming interfaces of Elon Musk’s platform X — n-tv
Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton urge their fellow Americans to get the Covid vaccine. These former Presidents have not been charged with felonies, unlike Donald Trump.
I think they have fought off inundation (by the sea and ABC/BOM crap) so far.
Can’t answer your question exactly as the area now has been redeveloped with a marina and high rise.
Much of the stone wall in the picture was still there about 25 years ago and was still quite a distance from the imminent disaster then.
When I lived in Redcliffe (north of Brisvegas) and was a young man just entering the geography faculty at UQ in the mid 80’s, the Redcliffe City Council did some coastal reclamation works and built some nice stone breakwaters to protect them.
They had asked the UQ geography faculty for advice as they were worried about sea level rises.
I think the question came up in class as some idiot raised the climate / sea level rise BS.
The lecturer (obviously pre-idiocy days) said, “I just smiled and told them, you’ll be right.”
All the breakwaters are still there and there has been no discernible change in sea levels. Even with the flagrant war on Gaia /SARC Off.
Tom
January 18, 2025 8:51 am
Having ridden shotgun on Malcolm Turnbull’s mission to destroy the Liberal Party, then surfed the Incredible Luigi into government as one of Labor’s green fleas, the loony left media is now worried that populist democracy is about the break out in Australia. The Guardian: Dutton might once have been ‘unelectable’, but that may change if he draws Labor into a race to the right.
PS: lefty journalists loathe democracy — especially Trumpian democracy — as it cuts them out of the loop as information filters for the public when they’re making up their minds about issues.
Only after the effects of their stupid voting patterns came back to them personally.
Before then they were comfortably Left because virtue signalling.
Life is hard – especially for the stupid and overly virtuous.
Had lunch with some blokes.
The ADF loses more than eighty thousand <strike>man</strike> person days to Mandatory Annual Awareness Training.
Nothing grinds the gears more, of someone who’s served four decades free of any subordinate garter snapping allegations, than the annual reminder that snapping the garters of a subordinate is a bad thing.
Just some news from Hobart where some schools are going a bit loony.
Prestigious girls school Collegiate apparently has some girls who identify as cats. The dunderheads running the place, instead of giving the girls a good slapping and getting their parents in, have put trays of kitty litter outside the classroom because “inclusive”.
Progressivism is now all about tolerating and giving legitimacy to absurd and dangerous fetishes and contagions. Be it a cock in a frock insisting, in his gruff male voice, that he’s a real woman and that he should be able to flash his female lesbian cock to all women, be it adolescent school girls wagging school and shouting the genocidal fetish of ‘Free Palestine’, or be it a group of affluent Collegiate girls meowing about kitty litter and Whiskas and insisting to us all that they’re really truly cats, one thing is clear, we live in absurd times.
This kind of lunatic female hysteria is well documented, it goes back thousands of year and it’s been chronicled many times. Salem was one such manifestation, unchecked unhinged adolescent attention seeking female hysteria of ‘witches’ lead to the deaths of 19 innocent people.
Every parent should pull their child out of Collegiate but clearly some of the parents are tolerating this fetish/contagion. I suspect the problem begins in the home but the school should exhibit more sense and if I were a parent of a girl I’d yank my child from the school and more importantly, I’d yank my dosh, and place both child and dosh elsewhere!
A manipulative mother influences and raises a manipulative daughter, both of whom understand the dynamic to a greater or lesser degree, but the upshot is a household in emotional chaos which transfers onto some of the grandkids. And the husband stands back and watches the family burn down because he has no freaking idea of how to deal with the sheer mindless, viciousness of it all.
An observer of this sort of situation for nearly 50 years, where one daughter is like the mother the other not. The combination of two grandmothers manifested in the granddaughter has created a monster.
be it adolescent school girls wagging school and shouting the genocidal fetish of ‘Free Palestine’, or be it a group of affluent Collegiate girls …
Had those girls lived in certain parts of England such as Oldham or Rotherham in the last 20 years or so their enthusiasm for a “free Palestine” would be considerably muted.
Is. The parents in this instance. – the school should tell the parents unless the child’s stops behaving like an idiot – their out- lostthei friends , connections, social standing an saying loudly in public “ I go to Collegiate”
Tom
January 18, 2025 9:46 am
Why do the Americans stage presidential inaugurations in January — Washington DC’s coldest month?
That’s as mad as Cricket Australia moving the Brisbane Test to mid-December because no-one checked the climate averages. (December is the middle of the tropical wet season and last year’s Brisbane Test ended in a draw because it was almost rained out).
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feelthebern
January 18, 2025 9:46 am
Two of the terrorists that Hamas want released but Israel want to veto are Marwan Barghouti & Ahmad Sadaat.
Neither are Hamas (or weren’t when they were jailed).
Barghouti was a big wig in Fatah.
Maybe this has something to more to do with the internal pali stoush in the west bank.
What a puss filled sore pali politics is.
In London overnight a group of Jews held a vigil for Kfir Bibas, who turned two years old yesterday.
Before the vigil even began a progressive Islamist Nazi shouted ‘Free Palestine’ and accosted Jews at the vigil. And of course, the politicised two tier London Plod stood back and did nothing.
The UK Is finished.
In good news, I read this morning that the utterly hideous Hogarthian gin hag, Karen Webb, might be moving on. Good riddance to the hag.
Bespoke
January 18, 2025 10:21 am
Delivering the sentence on August 26, 2024, Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis highlighted Harper’s “gender dysphoria” and experiences with “transphobia” as mitigating factors, and appeared to accept the defense’s argument that he only committed the abuse to be “validated … as a woman and a sexual person.”
Darwin liked the n-word.
Also thought they were not on the same level as europeans.
Surprised they didn’t kick him off twitter & de-bank him at the time.
feelthebern
January 18, 2025 10:23 am
Biden thinks he can amend the US constitution by proclamation.
He really does think he’s an emperor of sorts.
Legislation passes the House.
Passes the Senate.
President signs it.
Ends up in front of SCOTUS and doesn’t throw it out.
What does Trump think he can do with TikTok apart from slow walk the implementation of the ban.
For many years, I’ve regarded the settlement and development of Australia as being rather wonderful and incredible. Just last October I was at the old Cooktown Convent. What a fine ornate, heart and soul building. All materials carved out of the bush or shipped in. The men who made that happen are giants. Compare and contrast to the small and mean gaggle of dons, lawyers, pubic serpents, pollimuppets and journalists that dis this country and the people who built it and still keep it running.
Couldn’t agree more. The Australia I knew and loved as child in the mid twentieth century was a fine country, with strong cities and proud towns each vying to create a suitably commendable public built expression of their pride, often from the generosity of subscriptions by citizens. This was a valued heritage from the time when Australia rode home on the back of the golden fleece.
lotocoti
January 18, 2025 10:37 am
Jaysus.
There’ll soon be feckin’ Oirish writing their own Ulster Covenant.
Josh Hawley is outstanding and one to watch in the GOP ranks. He was instrumental in the Laken Riley Act against illegal scum; and here he is eviscerating some piece of shit brought in by the demorats who were opposing this act:
Juvenile crime falls 76 per cent following Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation’s job training initiative.Sarah CrawfordThe Kimberley Echo
Thu, 16 January 2025 5:56PM
A youth organisation that gives young people food and meaningful work is taking credit for a dramatic drop in juvenile crime in the East Kimberley town of Wyndham.
While crime continues to plague communities across the Kimberley in Wyndham all offences have been tracking downwards for several years.
Burglary, stealing and property damage have particularly dropped off since 2018 when Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation began, especially crimes involving juveniles.
Between January 1 and November 21 last year only six youths were charged with burglary, stealing or property damage offences compared to 26 young people in 2023. That is a crime reduction of 76 per cent.
Over the Christmas and New Year school holiday of 2023-2024 Wyndham was the only town in the Kimberley which recorded no crime.
Meanwhile these school holidays only a car, some alcohol and a pair of Crocs shoes have been stolen from the town of around 940 people.
Cardboard Joe the ice cream man and beach snoozer didn’t do that. The scum string pullers put them in front of him to sign. they are still around, and will have to be dealt with at some stage. Obama is cuddling up to save his own skin.
The government wants Australians to believe the Palestinian Authority is like a house that has been beautifully renovated and is ready to go. Just move on in, all the work’s been done.
Wrong; it remains the ultimate fixer-upper.
The most powerful proof of this is something I found down the rabbit hole and it has been hidden in plain sight but you won’t hear Albanese or Wong talk about this. That would give the game away.
The Palestinian Authority, the same PA they think should be granted legitimacy, is actually paying off the Hamas terrorists who took part in the depraved slaughter of October 7, 2023. You heard me.
Many of you will be aware of the so-called pay-to-slay policy under which financial rewards are provided to the families of Palestinians who commit acts of violence against Israeli civilians. Known as the Martyrs Fund, it was started by the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the 1960s. It was and remains a financial safety net for terrorists. Don’t believe me? Under the (now) Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners and Released Prisoners Law, the more Israelis killed, the longer the jail time, the greater the financial payment – for life. That’s the history, now for the present. The same PA to which Wong and Albanese have hitched Australia’s cart has not so quietly extended the pay-for-slay program to the families of the October 7 Hamas terrorists.
Just pause and process that for a moment. As The Wall Street Journal editorialised almost a year ago to the day, “Palestinian Authority law requires the October 7 terrorists to be compensated financially for a massacre well done”. The PA in its own suite of various communications (all quite readily available for those who fancy a look for themselves) doesn’t differentiate between Hamas October 7 terrorists and civilians killed in the course of the war.
Of course, what this means is that you and I, and taxpayers from all over Europe and North America, will help pay the bill. And our government thinks the PA is ready and deserving of being legitimised.
The same PA that has overseen the chaos, radicalisation, slaughter and subjugation of its own people; hasn’t held an election in 20 years; failed to control the spread of Hamas, which by all reports is now preparing to rebuild as soon as the ceasefire kicks in.
There are no rights for minorities (memo to Queers for Palestine, there are very few living queers in Palestine), and as a woman in the West Bank? Your testimony in court legally is worth only half that of men, and that is just the beginning.
As for how they do politics, just this week Fatah activists threatened to break the legs of political activist Mustafa Barghouti, a medical doctor born in East Jerusalem who was a former presidential candidate. His crime? Criticising the PA and calling for fresh elections.
I met Barghouti last year in Ramallah and he spoke passionately about a one-state solution (yes, one state). He dares to call for democracy and is threatened with abhorrent violence, and this is the norm under the PA.
Federal Labor has backed these chaos-mongers to run Gaza after the war and acts as if statehood is some kind of cure-all. This is the con. This is the great fraud Albanese and Wong are attempting to commit against the Australian people.
They say that statehood now is not only the right thing to do, it’s the fair thing to do. The PA is ready. What a lie.
And what a disgrace because what it also powerfully demonstrates is that neither Albanese nor Wong actually cares about quality of life for ordinary Gazans, for people in the West Bank, for minorities, women or the children whose education by UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is poisoned by a curriculum that fuels radicalisation and hatred of Jews.
They don’t care if anything materially changes or not. If quality of life improves. If democracy lives or dies.
Every Israeli I have met dreams of a two-state solution, but few have confidence there is a genuine partner for peace. Can you blame them? Even this week, again rockets have rained down from Yemen and Gaza.
As the ceasefire was announced, Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya responded by praising the October 7 massacre as a major achievement that would be taught with pride to future generations of Palestinians. He went on to say that the next step is to rid Jerusalem of all Jews. These are public statements being made before the world, and our government doesn’t want anyone to know it. This ceasefire deal doesn’t even require Hamas to be dismantled.
If this government cared about more than ideology it would demand accountability. You want statehood? Full and equal rights for minorities. Reform pay-for-slay so that it is a true social safety net, not a terrorist incentive scheme. Hold free and fair elections. Give women the same rights and agency that women in Australia enjoy.
Demand it. Make it clear. Create a pathway and do not deviate. Anything less is simply rewarding a corrupt, violent, dysfunctional regime that has never given anyone cause to believe it is a genuine partner in the journey towards peaceful coexistence.
In his highly polished “I’ll have a buck each way, thanks” media statement about his trip to Israel, Dreyfus referenced HV “Doc” Evatt, the Labor attorney-general and High Court justice who steered Australia’s vote at the UN in support of the creation of the state of Israel. The chutzpah of it. Labor’s foreign policy position on Israel has been praised by Hamas. I wonder what Evatt would have to say about that.
Let Islamic nations of the Abraham Accords and the Saudis pay for all of the reconstruction. They know how to deal with Islamic radicals. Our soft nations don’t. We shouldn’t put forward a cent for Gaza or any other reconstruction. Let Islamics come forward now. Not our business at all.. The West should bow right out of it. We in Oz might offer Israel a helping hand back to full economic throttle with some special trade deals though.
Agree Liz. I can’t see Trump agreeing to bankroll any of it without meaningful strings attached.
Roger
January 18, 2025 10:58 am
‘A fifteen-minute stroll north from the European Commission HQ in Brussels, where you can safely smoke indoors in one of many Turkish-run coffeehouses is roughly the point that you realise that the authority of the Belgian state is wearing thin, right in its own backyard.
Less than a decade since the airport bombing by ISIS militants, Brussels in 2025 has a front-row seat for a new disturbing norm within Western Europe: at the intersection between criminality, local politics, and multicultural oversaturation.
A vortex of narcoterrorism and embryonic Islamic populism is opening up and consuming the institutional remnants of the flatlining Belgian state with the repercussions reshaping the very social texture of the city.’
Predicting the future.
Some streaming show over the next year or so will have a story line where a generic Republican from central casting inspects young girls genitals to “enforce the Trump act”.
Similar to how shows like House of Cards, Homeland, Orange is the New Black, Blacklist, SVU all zigged and zagged to write anti Trump administration narratives into bizarre story lines.
Trump supporters need to protest this stuff before it gets written.
Fire the writers of it, and remove the funding.
Black Ball
January 18, 2025 11:20 am
Rich black fella asking for more? Hun:
Former ABC News Breakfast host Tony Armstrong has pushed back against racist online trolls, after he was criticised for throwing his weight behind a campaign calling for Australians to recognise and redistribute the wealth gained from the nation’s colonial past.
The First Nations Future’s #WealthBack campaign aims to raise at least $400,000 for projects in Indigenous communities through “weekly or monthly” recurring donations.
“The continuous impacts of colonisation have created unequal ground within Australia, where settlers continually benefit economically from the colonisation of First Nations people and lands. The effects have meant that non-Indigenous people have disproportionate power and access to wealth and resources,” the campaign’s website reads.
“It is time for all people in Australia to take responsibility, redistribute wealth and invest in First Nations communities creating intergenerational change.”
The 35-year-old media personality shared his support for the campaign in a social media post on Thursday, with the caption: “Reckon it’s time everyone starts redistributing ayy (sic).”
Armstrong received backlash for the post, with one person saying: “This smug turd is annoying”, while another called him “A f**ing ego w**ker”.
He shared other similar “shit” posts that featured racist comments.
The former AFL player clapped back in a separate post on Friday evening, revealing he was “really angry” about what had unfolded.
“I don’t often share stuff that comes my way. I normally just let it go, because I don’t wanna make a fuss, which is cooked in itself,” he wrote.
“This post is to show a snippet of some of the shit that’s come my way in just the last 24hrs. I know some people will look at this and think I need to get over it or think that they’re just words from people who don’t matter.
“But it hurts & I’m sick and tired of it. People are feeling really comfortable just being flat out racist without any real ramification. This is nothing new to me, but sometimes it gets ya. Today it did.”
Armstrong left the ABC’s breakfast program in October but continues to host series on the network, including Eat The Invaders.
Last year he was nominated for Gold Logie, after two successful years where he won the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter in 2023 and Best New Talent in 2022.
What he’s really saying is that black fellas, don’t go to work, don’t get an education. You are downtrodden souls at the hand of whitey and they need to pay you for your troubles.
Quite evil in reality.
Another foul concoction by the ABC and AFL. What really pisses me off is the moronic contempt for people who actually work coupled with their sense of entitlement. Never heard of this deadshit until now.
Why is he using a Scottish surname? Why not go back to his clan name. It must be written down somewhere by indigenous archivists. I would note I mean their marbled libraries, not our records.
They could start by redistributing the money we’ve already given them each year that seems to have pooled in the accounts of the ‘Big Men’ to buy multiple properties and cars and choppers etc.
Yep, up to $40 billion a year in todays dollars for the last few decades – I want to see that trillion dollars or so fully accounted for before any further payments are even mentioned.
Audit the abo industry and publish all findings and points of waste / corruption. RC into s3xual abuse of children in abo communities naming names and locations.
THEN try to tell us we need to donate more than the $30Billion annually confiscated from workers pay and spent on the poor indigenes.
Lauded within the ABC as he is seems to have gone to his head. Clearly unable to read the room post referendum.
JC
January 18, 2025 11:23 am
CBS Evening News
The Supreme Court on Friday voted unanimously to uphold a new law that would lead to a ban on the social media platform TikTok, clearing the way for the widely popular app to shutter in the U.S. as soon as January 19.
Biden, a senior Biden administration official said, is not taking executive action, but is “stating an opinion that it is ratified.”
“He is using his power of the presidency to make it clear that he believes – and he agrees with leading constitutional scholars and the American Bar Association – not that it should be, but it is the 28th Amendment of the Constitution,” the official added.
But legal experts contend it isn’t that simple: Ratification deadlines lapsed and five states have rescinded their approval, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school, prompting questions about the president’s authority to ratify the amendment more than 50 years after it first passed.
Biden is leaning on the American Bar Association’s opinion, the senior Biden official said, which “stresses that no time limit was included in the text of the Equal Rights Amendment” and “stresses that the Constitution’s framers wisely avoided the chaos that would have resulted if states were able to take back the ratifying votes at any time.”
[Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan], who would be responsible for the amendment’s publication, said in a December statement alongside Deputy Archivist William Bosanko that the amendment “cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions,” pointing to a pair of conclusions in 2020 and 2022 from the Office of Legal Counsel at the US Department of Justice that affirmed that ratification deadlines were enforceable.
CNN reached out to the National Archives for guidance on what the archivist plans to do, and was directed to Shogan and Bosanko’s prior statement, calling it a “long standing position for the Archivist and the National Archives.”
Stumbling down the stairs: a perfect final flourish for a degenerate Administration.
When even the archivists cry, “You’re not the boss of me!”
Miltonf
January 18, 2025 11:30 am
No doubt of course that the left here is trying to start a race war seeing that they are devoid of ideas and just copy the American left. Devoid of ideas but full of spite and malice.
The non-ABC, non-AFL punters have never heard of him.
Just another DEI appointment.
Tintarella di Luna
January 18, 2025 11:43 am
No doubt of course that the left here is trying to start a race war seeing that they are devoid of ideas and just copy the American left. Devoid of ideas but full of spite and malice.
If it weren’t for the ABfnC this would get no traction — it’s only that the rest of the Australian media is also bereft of ideas that it copies and pastes the ABfnC’s bullshit. If the ABfnC disappeared racism would disappear ?
Roger
January 18, 2025 11:44 am
“The continuous impacts of colonisation have created unequal ground within Australia, where settlers continually benefit economically…”
After nearly 250 years we’re still “settlers.”
Keep pushing this divisive rhetoric and watch your popularity & career dive, mate.
At least we are not ‘Invaders’. Or is that only when it suits them?
Sometimes I wish we were invaders. Then they would have no rights to anything.
And to paraphrase something I think ZK2A once mentioned, “Never has there been such a pathetic defence of sovereignty by a people that were so utterly and totally defeated.”*
I recall the gist of what he said. Apologies if I misrepresented him or got it totally wrong.
I get your point after reading the quote again. I just read it as us being descendants of settlers.
Perhaps in return we should refer to them as “3rd Wavers”? More accurate perhaps?
Dr Faustus
January 18, 2025 11:46 am
Gemma Tognini, via Mak Siccar:
And what a disgrace because what it also powerfully demonstrates is that neither Albanese nor Wong actually cares about quality of life for ordinary Gazans, for people in the West Bank, for minorities, women or the children whose education by UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is poisoned by a curriculum that fuels radicalisation and hatred of Jews.
They don’t care if anything materially changes or not. If quality of life improves. If democracy lives or dies.
Truly horrible, amoral people, without the slightest blush of shame. They care about managing the Labour Left and influencing the Greens’ vote. That’s all.
If Australia does not visit harsh electoral punishment on these political robots, we are all in a bad way.
As the ceasefire was announced, Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya responded by praising the October 7 massacre as a major achievement that would be taught with pride to future generations of Palestinians. He went on to say that the next step is to rid Jerusalem of all Jews.
It will be a miracle if the ‘ceasefire’ holds long enough for Hamas to hand over 32 hostages.
The roadmap is crystal clear – there are many, many more Khalil al-Hayya’sleft to kill. If I was an Arab financier, I would be slow-walking any reconstruction funding into the (literal) toilet of Gaza.
Dare accepted. More punchable head; Steve Smith or Sam Konstas?
Tony Burke, by a mile. Then Bowen
Bowen for mine.
Murray Watt
Monty
Creepy painting that BTW. Another one keen on rangas.
Life is but a short dream
No Sandgropers, Geraldton Pool Report not filed. Looking back at the Thursday OT it seems Arky had an early start. Disregard my jive and Tom’s toons are gonna podium. Don’t see that too orften.
Fourth I think
Second.
Just some news from Hobart where some schools are going a bit loony.
Prestigious girls school Collegiate apparently has some girls who identify as cats. The dunderheads running the place, instead of giving the girls a good slapping and getting their parents in, have put trays of kitty litter outside the classroom because “inclusive”.
Sensible parents, paying heaps in fees, are dragging their girls out and trying to enrol them at Fahan, another posh school, which is swamped with applications.
And it seems to be contagious as down the Southern Outlet, at Kingston High, they also have girls who identify as cats.
The dunderheads there have gone one better though. Erected scratching poles outside the classroom.
I’m not making this up. Comes from family members who have kids at the schools. .
Lock the toilets and insist the kitty litter be used. Play silly games …
Not the first of it. Look up “meowing nuns”.
Cats get the attention that the girls probably crave.
Some of our women folk have gone mad, they need to be medicated back to sanity.
If not sanity – and here I have my doubts that it can be done – then institutionalise them.
No psychiatrists, just put them all in an asylum, and let them sort themselves out.
While we give them attention, they can never get well.
I have no more patience for the feeble minded, overly protected children in women’s bodies.
A good Bex.
Is the point that if the cat-identifiers don’t defecate in the litter tray, they be called out as fakes, an then expelled?
Abso fkn lutely
That would make a good website. Particularly in Japan or Germany.
Same thing happening at schools in Melbourne, I assume elsewhere too.
Not making it up – yep. This is fur real.
If not registered with the Council get the ranger in and lock em up,then have them spayed or put down.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 89
Interesting book in the side-bar. The Globalist Satanists (Woke, Climate Change, Gender mutability, Covid tyranny; to name a few of their hideous creations) really want to get their claws into Russia.
They thought it was Game Set Match after the fall of the USSR and puppet Yeltsin installed, gobbling up former state controlled industry and what not for 1% of actual value.
This was 30 years ago now and they didn’t quite have their EU ducks in a row, nor former Eastern Bloc puppets set up for such an audacious scheme. The greedy rarely employ patience.
Then Vlad and Russian patriots appeared. Ran a lot of these fiends out of town. Jailed others. Poisoned the odd turncoat.
Tell me this Sergey Lavrov isn’t a badass defender of Mother Russia.
Now it is Vlad and Serge vs. a Globalist installed puppet regime in Ukraine fronted by a camp former B grade actor/comedian.
Shakespeare was onto shit.
Johannes Leak.
Brutal.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks Tom. Leak continues to nail it.
Don’t know this gent, one of his articles popped up in my feed.
I agree with his sentiments and I hope when all the hostages are returned living or dead, then Israel will unleash the mightiest fury and revenge that will deter the savages for a long time from tying to pull the same trick again.
Inshallah, or whatever.
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by Alan M. Dershowitz • January 17, 2025 at 5:00 am
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion…. The kidnapping was a crime. And the extortionate demand was an additional crime.
When a terrorist group “negotiates” with a democracy, it always has the upper hand. The terrorists are not constrained by morality, law or truth. They can murder at will, rape at will, torture at will and threaten to do worse. The democracy, on the other hand, must comply with the rules of law and must listen to the pleas of the hostage families.
Especially complicit, with blood on their hands, are supporters of Hamas on university campuses who chant for intifada and revolution. Also complicit are international organizations, such as the International Criminal Court, that treat Israel and Hamas as equals.
Once more, with feeling:
Negotiate?
There is always the “Fifth Element” negotiation style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TyxxLHfBwE
Very good M Steyn
Interesting. Sonia Sharp, ex Rotherham, then head-hunted by VIC Govt here in 2012(!) then moved on again when the original Rotherham report came out 10 years ago (VIC Govt inquiry found ‘no problem’ with their hiring process of her). Now looks to be a partner at EY here, according to her bio providing ‘shrewd’ advice to governments on people services and Covid recovery. (The above is all factual)
Now something a bit different.
Seen this before but it’s apposite re the situation in LA.
Big men can pick up heavy weights. Women can’t.
Seen it in heaps of airports recently. 20kg in each hand.
Celebrate the difference and say thank you to a man, ladies.
I know green thumbs can do wonders, but nature does it best with no effort.
That would have to be most impressive dendrobium I have ever seen. The only trouble with that orchid is the flowers are short lived compared with other orchids.
Awesome – one of my favourite plants.
The best one I ever owned lived in a bucket-sized black plastic pot which was split at the sides. It lived in a corner on concrete against two brick walls. It got blisteringly hot in summer, I doubt that anything else other than cactus would have survived there.
I hosed it every couple of days in summer, ignored it in winter, never fertilised it. In return I got several magnificent sprays of gorgeously scented flowers every year.
I’ve owned thousands of plants over my lifetime, but will never forget that one.
Grandson didn’t water mine, which has produced faithful flowers for years now against my neglect.
It was only a little thirsty when we returned yesterday.
Amazingly tough plants. Beautiful flowers.
Still stuck on Woodstock, and please don’t tell me this isn’t from there!
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Woodstock 1969 was a landmark music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York.
Originally planned for Wallkill, New York, it moved to Max Yasgur’s 600-acre farm, where it became a symbol of the counterculture movement. Over 400,000 people attended, despite logistical challenges, including food shortages and inclement weather.
The festival featured legendary performances by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Santana. Hendrix’s rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” became one of the most iconic moments in music history.
Woodstock was a testament to peace and music, embodying the ideals of the 1960s hippie generation.
Though initially a financial disaster, its cultural impact solidified its status as “Three Days of Peace and Music.” It remains a defining moment in music and social history, symbolizing unity, artistic freedom, and the power of youth culture.
It started to go pear-shaped after the Rolling Stones Altamont concert Kevin.
That’s not Woodstock,
It’s an English festival c. 1972.
You can tell from the trees and the fashions and the pasty-faced girls. Ditto most of the last set – maybe one was from Woodstock.
And the drugs.
You forgot the drugs, man.
Great achievements of 2024.
Glenelg SA in the distant past.
Is it the coldest January evah in Sydnah?
Don’t expect the media to do a song and dance about it.
Yes, I wore socks and winter pyjamas to bed.
Bloody cold on our arrival in Sydney yesterday morning.
Freezing wet, windy, and the only difference to Delhi’s weather was there was no pea-soup fog of pollution and mist like the one that closed Delhi airport the day before and made our flight from Jaipur very delayed.
No sunny Sydney return for us.
Dunno – but it was the coldest in 15 years in the UK. -18.9C on the 11th.
Agreed. Doesn’t look like a duck to me.
They sure weren’t looking for one in Los Angeles when Hell came a-callin’
Today’s Saturday Tele:
LOOK HOW FAR WE’VE COME, AND CELEBRATE
Vikki Campion
18 Jan 2025
This fortnight 189 years ago naturalist Charles Darwin went to Bathurst, lamenting how “rancorously divided into parties” we Australians were “on almost every subject”.
Back then our convict beginnings were regarded by the “better classes” as social sewage. The divide did not end there. It was Protestant versus Catholic, Irish versus English, pastoralist versus Indigenous, emancipist versus free settler versus squatter.
Read diatribes of today’s modern influencers calling on followers to burn down “English” trees and Australian flags and you would think the only people who colonised this scrubby island were shipped in from Downton Abbey in cloche hats and silk gloves. The reality is that early convict settlers, as Lt. Col. David Collins described them in his Account of New South Wales, were “lean and emaciated”, dying on boats as they rowed to shore, “both the living and the dead exhibiting more horrid spectacles than had ever been witnessed in this country”.
Hardly an invading army.
The NSW Colony was 70 per cent Protestant and 25 per cent Catholic by 1891. But more than 290 different creeds called her home.
The disparate diaspora, now calling themselves Aussies, in 1891 hailed from Barbados, India, Malta, France, Russia, Siberia, Denmark, Syria, Greece, Arabia, Persia, Siam, China, Zanzibar, Brazil and Peru, each on the hope the colony would be better than where they came from.
Most of us then though were siphoned from the swamp of the UK’s criminal classes, a third of the colony unable to read or write.
Darwin saw the convicts serving free settlers. “How thoroughly odious to every feeling to be waited on by a man who perhaps was flogged from your representation the day before for some trifling misdemeanour,” he wrote.
If Darwin thought we were trouble-plagued then, imagine what he’d think of us now.
Pale women in Bondi are on Instagram mourning Invasion Day and identifying as Indigenous.
Segments of corporate Australia are encouraging employees to work on the Australia Day public holiday to be “culturally sensitive”.
Meanwhile the state government has spent Christmas madly changing regulations to racially divide us on where we can bushwalk or camp and how many fish we can catch.
Our government during Governor Macquarie’s time at least attempted to placate division, not create it.
Instead, the NSW Department of Primary Industries put a new draft regulation on public exhibition while everyone was flat out with Christmas, to “create specific cultural fishing limits which are independent of recreational fishing limits”.
Under these changes, the recreational fisher of Greek or Italian descent is limited to collect, for example, two Murray Crayfish and allowed possession of four, while the Aboriginal Cultural Fisher is entitled to four Murray Crayfish and possession of eight. Different rules for different heritages doing the same thing.
Another sneaky NSW Government move under the blur of holiday festivities was NSW Parks deciding to extend the closure of Mount Warning until 31 December 2025 “for cultural reasons,” with fines threatened to folk from the wrong heritage, or even being in the right tribe but the wrong sex.
Mount Warning, whose closure knocks out about $1 million of business for locals a year, joins Uluru, the Grampians, and, as Senator Gerard Rennick called out this week, the Arapiles in Victoria as public land paid for by Australians that Australians are banned from if they ticked the wrong heritage box on the Census.
Of course in Darwin’s day, like Indigenous Australians, the convict class were dehumanised.
Starving first fleet convicts documented: “I was chained seven weeks on my back for being out getting greens and wild herbs.”
Chained for foraging while starving. Now, with preclusions on fishing. Australia, as an experiment, of sick prison ships filled with the dying, should have been a dead letter.
That is why Australia Day is celebrating not how we began, but what we have become.
“Farewell Australia, you are a rising child, and doubtless some day will reign a great Princess in the South: but you are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect,” Darwin ended his diary.
“I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.”
Darwinian evolution never thought Australia would become what it has.
Lifter:
Biden and Trump who managed to find common ground to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza
Leaner:
The clique of corporates virtual signalling against Australia Day while raking in millions from people who would like to celebrate
Too many other good points to highlight.
Vikki Campion cont’d.:
MINNS STEPS UP WHERE HIS FEDERAL COLLEAGUES FAIL AND FAIL AGAIN
Here is a lesson on how to be leader forever.
When Phebe Furneaux courageously spoke out about her home invasion by juvenile delinquents who bashed her in her Tamworth home last week, Premier Chris Minns did not ignore her story.
Instead, he put his own pen to paper. Enclosed with a two-page official letter addressing her concerns was a handwritten note: “Phebe, I’m truly sorry you had to go through so much pain. These attacks are abhorrent, and I will do all I can to confront these things. Chris.”
In a few strokes, Mr Minns revealed the yawning dissonance between the NSW Labor leadership and the gelatinous federal offering, such as Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, who refuse to grant those who are being hurt by his solar and wind energy fantasy an audience, a meeting, or even a simple note of acknowledgment.
Or Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, serving up a transparent blancmange of condemnation when racists unleash firebombs on people’s homes.
Politicians in Australia don’t need to fear attacks like that in Sydney’s East yesterday with no reprisal. Cabinet ministers deemed to be at threat, and most especially Prime Ministers, are granted not just 24/7 bodyguards, but the A Grade league of personal security.
If such a racially charged attack occurred near any place a PM rested his head, the AFP would not be receiving jelly-spined statements like those Mr Albanese espoused for Jewish targets, where he buckpassed to the states and the courts, the magistrates and some other man in the middle.
What stops him from calling his Labor colleagues, Police Minister Yasmin Catley or Mr Minns himself to lay the slab of a concrete justice system which protects victims rather than abusers, whether that’s teens attacking vulnerable women or racists attacking Jewish families?
Oh yes Vicki,
a handwritten letter from Pretty Boy Minns-ome will make all the difference when your home is invaded and you are violated.
Please Mr Minns-ome, can I have a letter too?
Straight out of the Peter Beattie mea culpa hand book.
Mini-man is just copying what Trump has done.
The difference is, Trump follows through.
Y
She’s pretty naïve if she thinks that’s how it played out.
Sancho that is my thought as well.
Funny how the corpse found those atrophied “peace” muscles once the sh*t was being readied for the fan.
Yep. Once the result was in, secure enough, and the future under Trump was going to happen, they all started to get very amenable.
Funny, that.
An excellent column by Brendan O’Neill about the explosion of ADHD diagnoses in both children and Adults.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/17/you-dont-have-adhd-youre-just-annoying/
Nails it Progria.
Most ADH disordered children/young adults I know are just that – they’re annoying, but not only are they annoying, they’re selfish and manipulative. The problem is that they are very good at manipulating people into supporting their excuses. That’s why, when you stop one from being a little shit, they immediately dial it up to 15, and demand support from their protector.
Then they stand back, continue the hysterics while gloating about the two adults they’ve manipulated into fighting.
They love having that power.
Notice how the hysterics generally fade after they grow up?
That’s because people just won’t have anything to do with them. Instead they hide the hysterics and manipulate others quietly – because manipulation is now part of their personality.
It’s how we train a population of sociopaths that need medicating.
My friend’s old aunt as a teacher all her life said she never saw ADHD kids. Letting them be little shiites from the start is all it takes. What I’ve seen is self indulgent parents with their children imitating them. Children are naturally manipulative, natural survival of the species.
Brendan is a journalistic treasure.
Today are the anniversaries of the Landing of the First Fleet, and the Granville Train Disaster.
I remember one of them. ;D
I was about to jump for the Granville train as it was moving out of Parramatta Station, when someone closed the door my face. Most people on that carriage were killed.
The following train pulled in, and there was announcement that due to a derailment there would be no trains to or from the city that morning.
Not your time Diogenes, fortunately.
Were you overseas for the train crash?
Dad joke? lol.
Daily Telegraph:
Nothing in there about the application of laws to protect Jews.
And a media manager for the top cop? Give me a spell.
Why wait? Retire now and spare us her sour face at useless press conferences.
What we need is a law to make the plods use existing laws. Do I need put SARC or not. Why do we need more laws when the existing ones are not enforced.
Go grrrl
Your classic utterly incompetent cat’s bum mouth Karen promoted way beyond her ability. Excellent foil for the equally incompetent Yassie Catlady, Minnimax’s police minister.
Catlady, by the way, is the member for Swansea – the seat once held by that Labor great Milton Orkopoulos. Milton the Molester, moreover, was not from the clerical fascist NSW Right but from the Left faction.
It certainly looks like we are living through “The Crazy Years” of Heinleins timeline.
The worry is what came after.
If Darwin thought we were trouble-plagued then, imagine what he’d think of us now.
Different men, different perspectives. My great great grandfather, who was also with Darwin, saw nothing but possibilities. He returned to Australia post haste once the voyage was concluded.
Darwin, of course, nestled back into the bosom of the aristocracy and the life of a gentleman.
I loved that picture Kevin M posted of the Mitchell residence in the Rocks. It was almost brand new when those two men, one rich the other poor, first saw it as they entered Sydney Cove. To the master, it would present as an ugly amalgam of classical and colonial, to his servant, a princely dream.
As for Catholics vs. Protestants…my predecessor was a good Chapel man. His house, once he settled, was next door to the Church of England. He planted a row of pines to cancel his view. Those trees are there to this day. 😀
An old friend once attended the wedding of a young female cousin. One of her elderly Presbyterian great aunts, who was going deaf and didn’t know how loud her voice was, said to her sister in a ‘whisper’ that echoed all over the church: ‘He’s a nice boy. I don’t mind him being Chinese. But did he have to be a Catholic?’
Lithium battery facility on fire. https://www.fireengineering.com/firefighting/massive-fire-burning-at-worlds-largest-battery-storage-facility-in-ca/
Bowen placing these batteries throughout the countryside. What could possibly go wrong?
Some disaffected Farmer putting a FMJ into one or two.
I’ve been loathe to even mention that, Grey Ranga.
I wonder if this will make a few people stop and think about the cost of Nut Zero?
Probably not.
The cost of Nut Zero is a key part of the implementation of Cloward-Pliven.
A sort of follow on from Knuckle Dragger and his acknowledgements of all types of afflictions, Herald Sun:
FMD. They are mindful of differing views but are against a majority of Australians that want Australia Day to remain.
And if Uncle Somekhunt pops up anytime hereon, I’ll spew. Remember Craig Tiley said that flags of countries can’t be flown if a player from them isn’t in the draw. So no Aboriginal flags should be flown.
When you thought you couldn’t hate our elites more, they just drop more dingleberries
Would he be related to Todd Woodbridge?
Son of Todd
Yes. His son. Mini-me of Todd in the looks department.
They are so stupid.
Here is a fantastic marketing opportunity – a huge barbie featuring our magnificent food, wine and beer, flags, art, music – I could go on.
Instead, they shrink into corners in case somebody criticises them.
Quite apart from the patriotism angle, the whole marketing team should be fired. Not to mention the senior management who went along with it.
What would Paul Hogan say?
This speaks for itself.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/how-far-weve-fallen.html
Dingleberries or a big pile of steaming poo. Going by the smell I know which.
Smooth! Since comedy has been outlawed people do the next best thing on the internet like this. No wonder our betters want to censor it into extinction.
No, Tennis Australia is only mindful of a view that excludes mine.
Sleazy bastards.
I’d prefer the Australian Open was abolished, given what an embarrassment it’s become over the last decade or so. As for the stupid knobheads at Cricket Australia, don’t get me started.
BTW, has anyone heard any collectivists crapping on about “keeping politics out of sport” lately? Yeah, me neither.
Would make more sense to drop ‘Australian’ from the Australian Open.
@myhiddenvalue
Tucker Carlson: “I would never go to a doctor who was still lying about COVID because that’s a dangerous person. That’s an immoral person and a dangerous person.”
Biden Unilaterally Declares Changes To The US Constitution With Two Days Left In Office
And Harris –
Community Note – derp.
And Harris again –
Pills or booze?
Pills or booze? Embrace the power of “and”.
Pills or Booze?
Probably both.
Meanwhile the Wong Chap and the KRudd is trying to kiss arse after they backed the wrong horse/nag in the Presidential Cup two horse race …
Saturday Tele:
RUDD IN MAKE UP BID WITH TRUMP
TOM MINEAR
18 Jan 2025
Australia’s ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd met Donald Trump last weekend in a bid to build a positive relationship with the president-elect, after his allies suggested he may not last in the top diplomatic post.
It is understood the brief meeting – the first one-on-one engagement between the pair since the former prime minister became Australia’s ambassador almost two years ago – took place at Mr Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In what was believed to be a positive and normal exchange, Dr Rudd conveyed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s good wishes and said he and Foreign Minister Penny Wong were looking forward to attending his inauguration in Washington DC next week.
Mr Albanese earlier revealed Dr Rudd had “direct contact” with Mr Trump during the transition after he won November’s presidential election in a stunning political comeback.
“That is a good thing that that has occurred,” the Prime Minister told the ABC of the talks.
“That has been very positive.”
During last year’s election campaign, Mr Trump fired an extraordinary broadside at Dr Rudd, saying he had heard he was “a little bit nasty” and “not the brightest bulb”.
The former president had been asked in an interview about the former Labor leader’s attacks on him prior to his appointment as the ambassador, including calling Mr Trump “nuts”, “the most destructive president in history” and “a traitor to the West”.
“If he’s at all hostile, he will not be there long,” Mr Trump told GB News.
The smarmy greasy little shit that Rudd is. Tell him to eff off Donald.
What an embarrassment the Rat in the Toilet Brush is.
Grab him by the pu**y?
Nothing to do with Aboriginal advancement. It’s all about wrecking the nation economically and socially. What planet do these sports administer kunts live on? Planet Marx I suppose.
@EndWokeness
The White House just released this video bragging about how they made diversity, inclusion, equity their top priority
Daily Telegraph:
That could not be right, an incoming Police Commissioner can appoint their own aides and sideline others. I am sick and tired of the sour grapes politicians, Police Commissioner is a political appointment, who want to leave land mines for their successors. Says it all about them, they can’t do their jobs but certainly can leave a bureaucratic nightmare behind them.
Looks like this class of nominees has learnt how to push back.
@KanekoaTheGreat
RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: “Will you help me reunite children with their parents who were separated by Trump’s family separation policy?”
KRISTI NOEM: “What I’m alarmed by is the over 300,000 children that went missing during the Biden administration.”
BLUMENTHAL: “Let’s put aside the labels and what happened in the past. There are still 1,000 children who were separated and waiting to be reunited. I’d like your commitment to continuing the effort to reunite them with their parents.”
NOEM: “Well, I can’t put aside 300,000 children. Keeping families together is critically important to me and to this country. I’m concerned about Laken Riley’s family and that they no longer have her… We will uphold our laws and make sure we are doing everything we can to keep children safe from the trafficking and drug epidemics.”
Trump’s swearing-in will move inside the Capitol Rotunda because of intense cold weather
Certainly lessens the likelihood of a sniper assassin. Of course, there will still be insiders like Capital Policeman Byrd who killed Ashli Babbit.
“Capital Policeman Byrd who
killedmurdered Ashli Babbit.”—and who got paid several thousand dollars for doing so.
Finally. It took long enough.
The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report
Note the word “chief”. They must have a whole slew of them.
@mrddmia
The FBI’s chief DEI officer just got renamed as the chief HR officer.
These are the shell games the outgoing administration are playing.
President Trump is picking much better people this time.
They won’t get duped again.
We’ve seen something of the sort before.
@JDunlap1974
New footage shows J6 ” protester ” being un handcuffed and first bumped by Capitol security ……SETUP?
Watch this and tell me this wasn’t an inside job.
When the most severe censorship was in place they were as happy as clams.
@disclosetv
JUST IN – EU Commission is demanding “internal documents” about algorithms and “authority access” to specific programming interfaces of Elon Musk’s platform X — n-tv
@FreeThinkerFit
Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton urge their fellow Americans to get the Covid vaccine. These former Presidents have not been charged with felonies, unlike Donald Trump.
@MichelleMaxwell
We finally have some Republicans with some spine.
Glenelg SA in the distant past.
Has the sea level risen in 2025?
I think they have fought off inundation (by the sea and ABC/BOM crap) so far.
Can’t answer your question exactly as the area now has been redeveloped with a marina and high rise.
Much of the stone wall in the picture was still there about 25 years ago and was still quite a distance from the imminent disaster then.
When I lived in Redcliffe (north of Brisvegas) and was a young man just entering the geography faculty at UQ in the mid 80’s, the Redcliffe City Council did some coastal reclamation works and built some nice stone breakwaters to protect them.
They had asked the UQ geography faculty for advice as they were worried about sea level rises.
I think the question came up in class as some idiot raised the climate / sea level rise BS.
The lecturer (obviously pre-idiocy days) said, “I just smiled and told them, you’ll be right.”
All the breakwaters are still there and there has been no discernible change in sea levels. Even with the flagrant war on Gaia /SARC Off.
Having ridden shotgun on Malcolm Turnbull’s mission to destroy the Liberal Party, then surfed the Incredible Luigi into government as one of Labor’s green fleas, the loony left media is now worried that populist democracy is about the break out in Australia. The Guardian: Dutton might once have been ‘unelectable’, but that may change if he draws Labor into a race to the right.
PS: lefty journalists loathe democracy — especially Trumpian democracy — as it cuts them out of the loop as information filters for the public when they’re making up their minds about issues.
TikTok ban starts on Sunday.
@catturd2
Democrats are panicking now because they know they’ll lose 90% of the youth vote for this. They thought this would force an American buyer but it didn’t work.
The clique of corporates virtual signalling against Australia Day while raking in millions from people who would like to celebrate
No government contracts from a Dutton government.
It certainly looks like we are living through “The Crazy Years” of Heinleins timeline.
The worry is what came after.
The Green religion is filling in for the Rev. Nehemiah Scudder.
I vaguely remember Revolt in 2100. Was that the same story?
This liberal is seeing red after decades of California misrule meant my house burned down
Only after the effects of their stupid voting patterns came back to them personally.
Before then they were comfortably Left because virtue signalling.
Life is hard – especially for the stupid and overly virtuous.
The modern leftard.
Financially comfortable, smug and anti-Semitic.
Biden Goes on Screaming Tyrannical Rant About Unilaterally Declaring a 28th Amendment to the Constitution – Even Though It Wasn’t Ratified
Had lunch with some blokes.
The ADF loses more than eighty thousand <strike>man</strike> person days to Mandatory Annual Awareness Training.
Nothing grinds the gears more, of someone who’s served four decades free of any subordinate garter snapping allegations, than the annual reminder that snapping the garters of a subordinate is a bad thing.
More Than 300 Scientists, Physicians Sign Online Letter Supporting RFK Jr. For HHS Secretary
Leak’s cartoon today is breathtaking.
Yes. The Victorian Govt will just be grateful they weren’t singled out.
If the inauguration is going to be moved indoors, where does it leave all the foreign dignitaries? Out in the cold?
We can but hope.
Maybe they can watch a live stream on X/Twitter?
Rudd and Pong will be outside. 😀
It would be a bold move for him to keep it small and donate the huge amount raised the disaster relief.
Phil
Just some news from Hobart where some schools are going a bit loony.
Prestigious girls school Collegiate apparently has some girls who identify as cats. The dunderheads running the place, instead of giving the girls a good slapping and getting their parents in, have put trays of kitty litter outside the classroom because “inclusive”.
Progressivism is now all about tolerating and giving legitimacy to absurd and dangerous fetishes and contagions. Be it a cock in a frock insisting, in his gruff male voice, that he’s a real woman and that he should be able to flash his female lesbian cock to all women, be it adolescent school girls wagging school and shouting the genocidal fetish of ‘Free Palestine’, or be it a group of affluent Collegiate girls meowing about kitty litter and Whiskas and insisting to us all that they’re really truly cats, one thing is clear, we live in absurd times.
This kind of lunatic female hysteria is well documented, it goes back thousands of year and it’s been chronicled many times. Salem was one such manifestation, unchecked unhinged adolescent attention seeking female hysteria of ‘witches’ lead to the deaths of 19 innocent people.
Every parent should pull their child out of Collegiate but clearly some of the parents are tolerating this fetish/contagion. I suspect the problem begins in the home but the school should exhibit more sense and if I were a parent of a girl I’d yank my child from the school and more importantly, I’d yank my dosh, and place both child and dosh elsewhere!
Coz here’s a fact, dosh talks.
A manipulative mother influences and raises a manipulative daughter, both of whom understand the dynamic to a greater or lesser degree, but the upshot is a household in emotional chaos which transfers onto some of the grandkids.
And the husband stands back and watches the family burn down because he has no freaking idea of how to deal with the sheer mindless, viciousness of it all.
An observer of this sort of situation for nearly 50 years, where one daughter is like the mother the other not. The combination of two grandmothers manifested in the granddaughter has created a monster.
Maybe announce at a school assembly that the large, hairy, poorly groomed school groundsman is now identifying as a tomcat?
Are the girls going to be desexed and have identity chips inserted in their skin? Will they be kept locked in their house?
Had those girls lived in certain parts of England such as Oldham or Rotherham in the last 20 years or so their enthusiasm for a “free Palestine” would be considerably muted.
If they want to be cats, feed ’em fried mice.
Why fried? Raw ones are more natural.
Yes, but mice rhymes with rice.
Is. The parents in this instance. – the school should tell the parents unless the child’s stops behaving like an idiot – their out- lostthei friends , connections, social standing an saying loudly in public “ I go to Collegiate”
Why do the Americans stage presidential inaugurations in January — Washington DC’s coldest month?
That’s as mad as Cricket Australia moving the Brisbane Test to mid-December because no-one checked the climate averages. (December is the middle of the tropical wet season and last year’s Brisbane Test ended in a draw because it was almost rained out).
Two of the terrorists that Hamas want released but Israel want to veto are Marwan Barghouti & Ahmad Sadaat.
Neither are Hamas (or weren’t when they were jailed).
Barghouti was a big wig in Fatah.
Maybe this has something to more to do with the internal pali stoush in the west bank.
What a puss filled sore pali politics is.
Too soon?
Lol!
It’d be unfortunate if the final meal fed to those paleosimians being released by Israel included polonium sprinkles.
I wonder what he’d think of England.
Sounds like a toxic snob to me.
In London overnight a group of Jews held a vigil for Kfir Bibas, who turned two years old yesterday.
Before the vigil even began a progressive Islamist Nazi shouted ‘Free Palestine’ and accosted Jews at the vigil. And of course, the politicised two tier London Plod stood back and did nothing.
The UK Is finished.
In good news, I read this morning that the utterly hideous Hogarthian gin hag, Karen Webb, might be moving on. Good riddance to the hag.
This is so f%%ked up.
Lawyers
Darwin liked the n-word.
Also thought they were not on the same level as europeans.
Surprised they didn’t kick him off twitter & de-bank him at the time.
Biden thinks he can amend the US constitution by proclamation.
He really does think he’s an emperor of sorts.
His “puppet-masters” are the serious problem.
LA Mayor Karen Bass’ office hit with scandals over hush money, bribes and accusations of ‘legalized corruption’
Who knew the DNC reps would do this?
snork!
>dubblesnork!<
Legislation passes the House.
Passes the Senate.
President signs it.
Ends up in front of SCOTUS and doesn’t throw it out.
What does Trump think he can do with TikTok apart from slow walk the implementation of the ban.
@BasedMikeLee
Deeming a proposed, but unratified amendment into existence as part of the Constitution isn’t just lawless
It’s anti-constitutional
Biden’s gone off the deep end—far more so than I ever expected
Is it bitternes or alzheimers. Probably both.
It’s his handlers.
Cocaine withdrawal – his ‘pharmacist’ won’t give him any, and that worthless pile of shit son of his won’t share.
@gatewaypundit
CBS Considering Settling $10 Billion Lawsuit by Trump For Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Interview with Kamala Harris
Shirley that is a blatant attempt to interfere in the election result? Or not?
Apparently NOT when the entitled left does it.
Pure situational ethics.
@IanJaeger29
JUST IN: Kevin O’Leary says he’s offering $20 Billion to buy TikTok.
For many years, I’ve regarded the settlement and development of Australia as being rather wonderful and incredible. Just last October I was at the old Cooktown Convent. What a fine ornate, heart and soul building. All materials carved out of the bush or shipped in. The men who made that happen are giants. Compare and contrast to the small and mean gaggle of dons, lawyers, pubic serpents, pollimuppets and journalists that dis this country and the people who built it and still keep it running.
Couldn’t agree more. The Australia I knew and loved as child in the mid twentieth century was a fine country, with strong cities and proud towns each vying to create a suitably commendable public built expression of their pride, often from the generosity of subscriptions by citizens. This was a valued heritage from the time when Australia rode home on the back of the golden fleece.
Jaysus.
There’ll soon be feckin’ Oirish writing their own Ulster Covenant.
What does an Oyrish-Pakistani accent sound like?
If I’m not mistaken even the WH has conceded Biden’s statement has no legal force.
Another painting, another ranga!
Josh Hawley is outstanding and one to watch in the GOP ranks. He was instrumental in the Laken Riley Act against illegal scum; and here he is eviscerating some piece of shit brought in by the demorats who were opposing this act:
Josh Hawley FLIES OFF THE HANDLE at despicable Democrat for doing the unthinkable
Juvenile crime falls 76 per cent following Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation’s job training initiative.Sarah CrawfordThe Kimberley Echo
Thu, 16 January 2025 5:56PM
A youth organisation that gives young people food and meaningful work is taking credit for a dramatic drop in juvenile crime in the East Kimberley town of Wyndham.
While crime continues to plague communities across the Kimberley in Wyndham all offences have been tracking downwards for several years.
Burglary, stealing and property damage have particularly dropped off since 2018 when Wyndham Youth Aboriginal Corporation began, especially crimes involving juveniles.
Between January 1 and November 21 last year only six youths were charged with burglary, stealing or property damage offences compared to 26 young people in 2023. That is a crime reduction of 76 per cent.
Over the Christmas and New Year school holiday of 2023-2024 Wyndham was the only town in the Kimberley which recorded no crime.
Meanwhile these school holidays only a car, some alcohol and a pair of Crocs shoes have been stolen from the town of around 940 people.
I’m sceptical.
Are we talking about reported crime, or people are just not bothering any more?
Bongino on the obvious:
Biden Is Destroying The Country On His Way Out (Ep. 2402) – 01/16/2025
And here is a list of the disgusting old pervert’s last minute executive orders:
How lame-duck Biden has tried to trip up Trump on way out the door — with 32 executive actions
This is the left: destroy the country when they’re in power; and destroy it before they lose power.
Cardboard Joe the ice cream man and beach snoozer didn’t do that. The scum string pullers put them in front of him to sign. they are still around, and will have to be dealt with at some stage. Obama is cuddling up to save his own skin.
Coffee time up here in God’s own country.
Liebor is truly evil.
Labor is trying to pull a huge con job on us on Palestine
Gemma Tognini
The government wants Australians to believe the Palestinian Authority is like a house that has been beautifully renovated and is ready to go. Just move on in, all the work’s been done.
Wrong; it remains the ultimate fixer-upper.
The most powerful proof of this is something I found down the rabbit hole and it has been hidden in plain sight but you won’t hear Albanese or Wong talk about this. That would give the game away.
The Palestinian Authority, the same PA they think should be granted legitimacy, is actually paying off the Hamas terrorists who took part in the depraved slaughter of October 7, 2023.
You heard me.
Many of you will be aware of the so-called pay-to-slay policy under which financial rewards are provided to the families of Palestinians who commit acts of violence against Israeli civilians. Known as the Martyrs Fund, it was started by the Palestine Liberation Organisation in the 1960s. It was and remains a financial safety net for terrorists. Don’t believe me? Under the (now) Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners and Released Prisoners Law, the more Israelis killed, the longer the jail time, the greater the financial payment – for life.
That’s the history, now for the present. The same PA to which Wong and Albanese have hitched Australia’s cart has not so quietly extended the pay-for-slay program to the families of the October 7 Hamas terrorists.
Just pause and process that for a moment. As The Wall Street Journal editorialised almost a year ago to the day, “Palestinian Authority law requires the October 7 terrorists to be compensated financially for a massacre well done”.
The PA in its own suite of various communications (all quite readily available for those who fancy a look for themselves) doesn’t differentiate between Hamas October 7 terrorists and civilians killed in the course of the war.
Of course, what this means is that you and I, and taxpayers from all over Europe and North America, will help pay the bill.
And our government thinks the PA is ready and deserving of being legitimised.
The same PA that has overseen the chaos, radicalisation, slaughter and subjugation of its own people; hasn’t held an election in 20 years; failed to control the spread of Hamas, which by all reports is now preparing to rebuild as soon as the ceasefire kicks in.
There are no rights for minorities (memo to Queers for Palestine, there are very few living queers in Palestine), and as a woman in the West Bank? Your testimony in court legally is worth only half that of men, and that is just the beginning.
As for how they do politics, just this week Fatah activists threatened to break the legs of political activist Mustafa Barghouti, a medical doctor born in East Jerusalem who was a former presidential candidate. His crime? Criticising the PA and calling for fresh elections.
I met Barghouti last year in Ramallah and he spoke passionately about a one-state solution (yes, one state). He dares to call for democracy and is threatened with abhorrent violence, and this is the norm under the PA.
Federal Labor has backed these chaos-mongers to run Gaza after the war and acts as if statehood is some kind of cure-all. This is the con. This is the great fraud Albanese and Wong are attempting to commit against the Australian people.
They say that statehood now is not only the right thing to do, it’s the fair thing to do. The PA is ready. What a lie.
And what a disgrace because what it also powerfully demonstrates is that neither Albanese nor Wong actually cares about quality of life for ordinary Gazans, for people in the West Bank, for minorities, women or the children whose education by UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is poisoned by a curriculum that fuels radicalisation and hatred of Jews.
They don’t care if anything materially changes or not. If quality of life improves. If democracy lives or dies.
Every Israeli I have met dreams of a two-state solution, but few have confidence there is a genuine partner for peace. Can you blame them? Even this week, again rockets have rained down from Yemen and Gaza.
As the ceasefire was announced, Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya responded by praising the October 7 massacre as a major achievement that would be taught with pride to future generations of Palestinians. He went on to say that the next step is to rid Jerusalem of all Jews. These are public statements being made before the world, and our government doesn’t want anyone to know it. This ceasefire deal doesn’t even require Hamas to be dismantled.
If this government cared about more than ideology it would demand accountability. You want statehood? Full and equal rights for minorities. Reform pay-for-slay so that it is a true social safety net, not a terrorist incentive scheme.
Hold free and fair elections. Give women the same rights and agency that women in Australia enjoy.
Demand it. Make it clear. Create a pathway and do not deviate. Anything less is simply rewarding a corrupt, violent, dysfunctional regime that has never given anyone cause to believe it is a genuine partner in the journey towards peaceful coexistence.
In his highly polished “I’ll have a buck each way, thanks” media statement about his trip to Israel, Dreyfus referenced HV “Doc” Evatt, the Labor attorney-general and High Court justice who steered Australia’s vote at the UN in support of the creation of the state of Israel. The chutzpah of it. Labor’s foreign policy position on Israel has been praised by Hamas. I wonder what Evatt would have to say about that.
I understand it is illegal to provide aid or finance to a terrorist organisation.
Unless you are the government, of course.
EVERYTHING done by governments is “legal”, just ask them.
Leftist governments get total latitude, just because……………
Let Islamic nations of the Abraham Accords and the Saudis pay for all of the reconstruction. They know how to deal with Islamic radicals. Our soft nations don’t. We shouldn’t put forward a cent for Gaza or any other reconstruction. Let Islamics come forward now. Not our business at all.. The West should bow right out of it. We in Oz might offer Israel a helping hand back to full economic throttle with some special trade deals though.
Agree Liz. I can’t see Trump agreeing to bankroll any of it without meaningful strings attached.
Brussels’ Tammany Halls
How narcopolitics and Islamo-populism are reshaping the EU capital
Thomas O’Reilly
“Multicultural oversaturation”…the tipping point at which a rising sub-culture flexes its muscles against the weak host culture.
That tipping point is at around TEN percent.
Jimmy Dore on the trans athletes ban.
(ex Israel he’s still on point, on Israel he’s a demented loon).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W62L0CrmmBs
Predicting the future.
Some streaming show over the next year or so will have a story line where a generic Republican from central casting inspects young girls genitals to “enforce the Trump act”.
Similar to how shows like House of Cards, Homeland, Orange is the New Black, Blacklist, SVU all zigged and zagged to write anti Trump administration narratives into bizarre story lines.
Trump supporters need to protest this stuff before it gets written.
Fire the writers of it, and remove the funding.
Rich black fella asking for more? Hun:
What he’s really saying is that black fellas, don’t go to work, don’t get an education. You are downtrodden souls at the hand of whitey and they need to pay you for your troubles.
Quite evil in reality.
Another foul concoction by the ABC and AFL. What really pisses me off is the moronic contempt for people who actually work coupled with their sense of entitlement. Never heard of this deadshit until now.
Why is he using a Scottish surname? Why not go back to his clan name. It must be written down somewhere by indigenous archivists. I would note I mean their marbled libraries, not our records.
I understand he was raised by his settler mother after his indigenous father didn’t hang around for the hard slog of raising a child.
You’d think there might be some “learnings” in that.
I think Bill Leak Snr has covered that one off.
They could start by redistributing the money we’ve already given them each year that seems to have pooled in the accounts of the ‘Big Men’ to buy multiple properties and cars and choppers etc.
Yep, up to $40 billion a year in todays dollars for the last few decades – I want to see that trillion dollars or so fully accounted for before any further payments are even mentioned.
You suspect Geoff Clarke is merely the tip of a very large iceberg. $40bn disappearing every year is a lot to keep track of.
It’s the Democrat Way writ large.
Audit the abo industry and publish all findings and points of waste / corruption. RC into s3xual abuse of children in abo communities naming names and locations.
THEN try to tell us we need to donate more than the $30Billion annually confiscated from workers pay and spent on the poor indigenes.
Do what you like with your own money, but leave mine alone on this issue.
There is plenty of money to fund aboriginal improvement already floating around the sector.
Use it properly for a change.
Lauded within the ABC as he is seems to have gone to his head. Clearly unable to read the room post referendum.
When or has Hiden signed this into law?
April 2024.
I hope Trump is going to assign the SS detail that was supposedly protecting him when he was shot to the Thief nolonger in chief.
If I’m not mistaken, even CNN concedes that Biden is a hideous old scrote, overreaching on his way out of the door:
Stumbling down the stairs: a perfect final flourish for a degenerate Administration.
with a squashed turd in his undies.
There goes brunch.
When even the archivists cry, “You’re not the boss of me!”
No doubt of course that the left here is trying to start a race war seeing that they are devoid of ideas and just copy the American left. Devoid of ideas but full of spite and malice.
What’s that sound?
Last year he was nominated for Gold Logie, after two successful years where he won the Bert Newton Award for Most Popular Presenter in 2023
how is that possible considering the ABC’s ratings?
The Logies are now the equivalent of the AFI awards or whatever they are called now.
The meja drinking its own bath water
Most popular with his maaaates in Their ABC?
The non-ABC, non-AFL punters have never heard of him.
Just another DEI appointment.
If it weren’t for the ABfnC this would get no traction — it’s only that the rest of the Australian media is also bereft of ideas that it copies and pastes the ABfnC’s bullshit. If the ABfnC disappeared racism would disappear
?
“The continuous impacts of colonisation have created unequal ground within Australia, where settlers continually benefit economically…”
After nearly 250 years we’re still “settlers.”
Keep pushing this divisive rhetoric and watch your popularity & career dive, mate.
At least we are not ‘Invaders’. Or is that only when it suits them?
Sometimes I wish we were invaders. Then they would have no rights to anything.
And to paraphrase something I think ZK2A once mentioned, “Never has there been such a pathetic defence of sovereignty by a people that were so utterly and totally defeated.”*
We’re invaders on 26th January.
The settler term is just as offensive.
I get your point after reading the quote again. I just read it as us being descendants of settlers.
Perhaps in return we should refer to them as “3rd Wavers”? More accurate perhaps?
Gemma Tognini, via Mak Siccar:
Truly horrible, amoral people, without the slightest blush of shame. They care about managing the Labour Left and influencing the Greens’ vote. That’s all.
If Australia does not visit harsh electoral punishment on these political robots, we are all in a bad way.
It will be a miracle if the ‘ceasefire’ holds long enough for Hamas to hand over 32 hostages.
The roadmap is crystal clear – there are many, many more Khalil al-Hayya’s left to kill. If I was an Arab financier, I would be slow-walking any reconstruction funding into the (literal) toilet of Gaza.
Are there any “innocents” in Gaza apart from the hostages?
NO.
continuous impacts of colonisation
like sit down money and a reliable food supply? Sounds like the mental vomit out of the modern ‘academy’.