First stated by a short lived leader of a party/street mob during the French Revolution, I gather.
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Monty and Adam Bandt. Peas in a pod.
Yep, where’s PETA when you need them?
One would have thought watching racial politics playing out in the US would be enough of a warning.
Headline in the Australian news site.. Reynolds sues commonwealth over Higgins $2.4m payout debacle Ah, this is going to go…
FMD!
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Kaitlin:
Spring Breakers Fail American History Trivia
That’s a civil knowledge education disaster. I bet they know their pronouns.
Dr Lott on why citizens should have guns and why the wallopers can’t protect the citizenry:
At The Federalist: Study: Concealed Carriers Do A Better Job Of Stopping Active Shooters Than Police
With that in mind this example from the good people of Sydney catching a muzzie murderer:
(17) Andrew Denney on X: “Just witnessed incredible bravery from members of the public and ?@FRNSW? officers chasing down a man on a stabbing rampage in Sydney’s CBD. He is now under arrest. ?@7NewsSydney? https://t.co/wNKatejHVp” / X
Chasing him down at 1200fps would have been better.
Or a crossbow bolt if you want the medieval touch.
If the Coalition continues with the ‘play it safe’ strategy, another three years grazing in the opposition pastureland awaits
One hopes that Dutton has a string of excellent DOGE-like policies he will trot out every four to five days in the last three weeks of the election campaign, to startle voters and win them over…
That might work except for the fact that three quarters of the Liberal caucus are LINOs. Vote 1 PHON.
‘We’ll do it’: One Nation pledges to ‘force’ next government to dump net zero (Sky News mainpage headline, 21 Mar)
Vote PHON?
I recently resigned because they refuse to even vote against the free speech bill.
Fukkem.
Family First 2nd preference LNP.
Also most people will have already voted well before the election
Cost of living, cost of housing, confiscatory taxation, attacks on the real economy, high immigration (including centrelink migration). Those are the issues.
….. and the neglect of our military.
Submarines and F45s are important but we need yuge stocks of the boring stuff – trucks, fuel, artillery and plenty of shells, massive stockpiles of anti shipping, antitank and anti aircraft missiles,
30,000 more soldiers and another 100,000 well trained and equipped militia.
Not sure what the job market is like at the moment but don’t think i’d like to be looking for one atm.
Roughly 80% of the jobs created in the past three years are in government. In other words, the socialist federal government is now actively crowding out the private sector with artificial government jobs.
Phony baloney non jobs
And that is how the Marxist massage the Unemployment Rate.
There was full employment in the Soviet Union.
Rebecca Kesby of the BBC decided to go a few rounds with Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation regarding the imminent cancellation of the USA Education Department.
Burke was full-bottle on the history of that department, only founded in about 1980, and the results being dismal despite all the money spent since then. As in Australia, education is more a state matter, and the US feds contribute nothing valuable apart from rampant unionism/leftism.
Lindsey Burke was so well versed and ready for all the specious arguments put by Kesby that the exchange had to be terminated – but too late, her backside had been served up on a plate well before the “we’re out of time” face saver materialised.
BTW, what ever happened to the UAP- is that down the memory hole now? Where does it leave Ralph Babet?
Erdogan’s palace.
Get freaking load of the room the Erds met with the German frump. He deserves to be “putsched” for the decor alone. This region has the worst taste of anywhere else in the world.
I can’t figure if the golden sofa has a clock in the middle the back rest.
The Sultan’s palace?
B John, he had it built for himself the cost ran to millions of dollars.
My God.
And I thought Gaudy Saudi was overdone.
Whoops billions of dollars.
But not out of his own pocket, we can be sure.
USAID?
VDH’s series of exposes in the Ivy League has been an eye opener:
Plus of 50% of the student body are foreigners. Majority muslim.
In many colleges less than 10% of the student body are white US males. Worst case Stanford, Georgetown, Columbia and of course, Howard.
Plus of 50% of the faculty are foreigners, mostly muslim. The faculty sets it’s own employment standards. The faculty sets courses and standards, unsupervised.
So why have Islamic students doing Islamic studies taught by an Islamic faculty in America? The US taxpayer saves taxpayers in Islamic countries the expense of constructing and operating an academy.
Terrorist organisations favour Ivy League graduates.
Probably a similar ratio here, if not worse.
And in both places, none of the full fee paying foreign students will ever fail or be expelled for bad behaviour.
Or ever go back home. Once students are accepted into an Australian university they have permanent residency.
The reason is that they get to mix socially with the spoilt brats of the upper classes, who are too stupid to know they’re being politically groomed.
Somewhat like the old Russian proverb:
“If you can’t mix with the ruling classes, make sure your children go to school with theirs.”
i taught a professional course in a GO8 university.The last graduation ceremony I attended, only one of the graduands was Caucasian.
Dutton is not going to win with a small target strategy. It’s too close. Small target works when the electorate has the taste for change and the government is very much on the nose.
Plenty they can do, launch Fed Court action against Home-a-Court to clarify his shenanigans, rinse and repeat broken promises i.e. Power prices, immigration failures, cost of living, weakness to China, ATSI extortion attempts via the bench, union corruption etc etc etc…
This stuff resonates, yet I have heard very little. Get that the whole media complex is completely in the tank for Albo but they can start getting combative there. Generate headlines say if someone like Mark Riley asks a gotcha throw it back to him with a permutated quip about his offer to Gillard “Is there anything we can do to help PM?” Sam pisspot Maiden another. I don’t see any Liberal politician out there that can as SJBP used to say feed the chooks. Last politician I could think of would be Keating with this trait.
So far all I’ve seen is Dutton being led by the narrative the Government & media want to pursue. It’s the road to hell and he will be challenged after if he loses by likely someone even wetter.
LNP, like all conservatives, except Trump, Melonia and the tyro from Argentina, are gutless twerps. But they’re a country mile in front of the commies and bastards of the liars, filth and courtie’s dildo girls.
good name for them- sounds like something I’d come up with 🙂
I will never vote for the ex-cop. The bedrock of free speech is the foundation from which all other rights flow. The bald zombie doesn’t support this right. He lurked on the sidelines during the referendum until Price and Mundine turned it around—mostly Price. He has to go.
Have some standards and don’t play ‘halvies’ anymore.
Most important thing is to kick anal out. It’s essential- if the new guy doesnt tick all the boxes, it’s still a massive improvement and mean s the country may survive.
The punters aren’t convinced just how bad these lunatics are. They need 3 years more of hard labor.
If the result is marginal, it would mean the libs wouldn’t have control of the senate and we’re basically left in limbo. Let them fcking wreck everything they touch even more. Hopefully, there will also be a better leader than the bald zombie.
Fraid so. Sad for the innocents, but a hard lesson is needed.
Poisoned chalice.
FFS I don’t need any more lessons. I’ve seen this pure, high and mighty approach before when the Climate Sceptics announced they would preference the liars ahead of the SFLs. Howls of outrage and arse tightening indignation followed from the tut tutters here. Politics is a shit fight run by shitheads; it’s the best we’ve got and you if get on your high horse you’ll see a minority liars gov’t run by the filth. There will be no coming back from that and no further fuking lessons to be learnt.
Hold your nose if you must but the point is to stop the filth controlling things. So vote for duttie.
Dutton’s support for Net Zero may well be the promise that kills the Coalition’s chances of winning.
Never mind the utterly ludicrous comparisons with Trump, he is far too Labor-lite in my opinion.
Apart from the issue of anti-Semitism and his support of Israel.
Ben Harvey: Members of Australian Z Special Unit performed heroic acts that defy beliefBen HarveyThe West Australian
Sun, 23 March 2025 2:00AM
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“For five years he had been a frontline soldier, fought in four campaigns, seven major battles, one major rearguard action and innumerable patrols and ambushes. He had been sunk at sea, strafed and bombed from the air, been wounded, suffered malaria, dengue and sand-fly fever, and amoebic dysentery.”
Author Paul Malone’s neat summation of Roland Griffiths-Marsh’s war record in the book Kill the Major will make most men feel bad about themselves.
His heroics during World War II, and the ailments that bedevilled him as he fought first the Germans then the Japanese, put to shame the accomplishments and struggles of most men.
Incredibly, by the time the war ended he was still barely 22 years old. Griffiths-Marsh had hijacked his older brother’s identity to enlist in the AIF in 1940, aged 16.
He served in Africa and New Guinea before playing a central role in one of the most extraordinary missions of the Second World War.
On March 25, 1945, Griffiths-Marsh and seven other commandos parachuted into the dense jungle of central Borneo.
Three weeks later they were joined by more plane-loads of soldiers from Australia’s newly formed Z Special Unit, which was the precursor to today’s Special Air Service Regiment.
The 42 men were in Borneo to gather intelligence on the Japanese Imperial Army ahead of what would be the biggest amphibious landing ever undertaken by the Australian military.
The seven months the Z Specials spent in Borneo before and after Australia’s invasion of the island was like one long, harrowing chapter from Heart of Darkness.
They were vastly outnumbered and greatly outgunned by the Japanese and the threat of a gruesome death was ever-present.
They had little food and were plagued by the same malaria, dengue and sandfly fever, and amoebic dysentery that Griffiths-Marsh endured.
Tropical ulcers on their legs and feet made marching through the jungle a special agony.
When not relaying enemy movements back to headquarters, or fighting for their lives, the Z Specials recruited local tribesmen to take the fight to the Japanese.
They trained native warriors to fight with rifles when ammunition was available and watched as they used blow-darts when it wasn’t.
Through the delirium of hunger, sickness and fatigue, the Australians saw natives decapitate writhing Japanese bodies, in a grisly reminder that they were fighting alongside actual headhunters.
As supplies ran short some of the men actively plotted the murder of their commanding officer, British Major Tom Harrisson (a would-be mutiny that informed the title of Malone’s book).
By the end of the war this small band of commandos had taken control of 41,000sqkm of terrain, killed more than 1000 enemy soldiers and forced the surrender of some 400 more.
It’s a little-known but astonishing fact that the Z Specials continued fighting well after Emperor Hirohito’s surrender speech on August 15, 1945.
The men defied an order to leave Borneo because two Japanese companies, which had refused to acknowledge the surrender, were terrorising the local tribes who had helped the Australians.
The war may have officially ended with the signing of surrender documents aboard the USS Missouri on September 2 but in Borneo it continued until October 31.
Even more astonishing than these secret peacetime battles is the fact every one of the 42 men who parachuted into the jungle eight months earlier survived.
All of them went home.
On Tuesday, 80 years after that secret guerilla war began, parachutes will again be seen floating towards that the jungle canopy near Sarawak, in what is today part of Malaysia.
The commemoration of Operation Semut will feature Malaysian ministers and defence force officials. Importantly, descendants of the indigenous warriors, who were awarded medals for their fighting, will be present.
The re-enactment of the parachute drop suggests the people of Borneo understand the significance of Z Special Unit better than Australians do.
Hopefully this column corrects the balance a little.
The Borneo guys the Z Special Unit trained liked to take heads.
They collected a lot of Japanese heads…
I do wonder what the shades of these heroes would make of today’s Gen Z, not using capital letters, because that practice is confrontational.
Not confrontational, but it’s frigging annoying, as well as the mark of a pretentious twit.
Anyone who does this is a wanker – and an irritating wanker at that.
Excellent – I’ve just bought the book on that operation.
My Dad and his brother landed at Balakpapen in 1945.
There was a time when RAN craft were named after places like that.
My Neighbor 102 years old Landed there also in 1945, He is the last Man standing of the 2/27th Bn, 2nd A.I.F.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/21/three-schoolboys-charged-raping-young-girl-supermarket-car-park-22769915/
We can now be sure they are muslim. So turn up at my door and arrest me, you appeasing bastards.
Rochdale, huh?
No prizes for guessing their religion.
For Cats with Foxtel, on her new Saturday night show on Fox News (Foxtel channel 608), Lara Trump has Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino coming up. Scavino has been with Trump since POTUS 45 days and is said to be the brains behind the brilliant Trump social media output.
Hey Cronkite:
Is my theory on the lawfare against the administration broadly correct?
Seeing that the strategy in each of these cases is generally similar: that is, imposing temporary restrictions on the executive branch. If the SCOTUS picks up even one case and hands down a decision that clearly states the limits of the judiciary to impose itself on executive authority, and the rights of the executive, all or nearly all of these cases would fall in one fell swoop.
Yes, but Roberts, Barrett …
I don’t think Roberts would dare try to restrict the executive branch given the blatant lawfare we’re witnessing. In my opinion, Roberts is playing politics. He’ll side with the left on smaller issues to suggest impartiality, but he leans hard right on the matters that truly count. Take the decision on presidential immunity, for example.
Look, I’m just speculating here, but my judgment is that Roberts is deeply political, but when push comes to shove, though, he sides with the Right.
Correct. But my preferred tactic would be for Trump to ignore the judicial embargoes and let the scrumps do their own appealing. He also has to impeach a few of the judges. He should also be digging up as much dirt as possible on all of them, particularly roberts. Remember the dickless bastard is very demorat leaning and amy kunty hates Trump.
Trump is still making one fundamental mistake. He is not concentrating on getting control of the media. It’s a problem everywhere. In Australia if palmer had a scintilla of sense he would not be spending another $100 mill on getting his fat arse into parliament but buying media outlets and targeting a few key seats.
The Fat Bastard believes his own bullshit.
The media is out there filling the heads of voters with sawdust.
Plenty they can do, launch Fed Court action against Home-a-Court to clarify his shenanigans, rinse and repeat broken promises i.e. Power prices, immigration failures, cost of living, weakness to China, ATSI extortion attempts via the bench, union corruption etc etc etc…
agree
Very unlikely that a Federal Court suit would even get to oral submission stage before the election. Apart from the problem of stating a cause of action.
Breach of Federal election law re registration of parties?
“Lining His Own Pocket”: Democrat Senator Caught Sneaking Taxpayer Dollars into His Family’s Pocket Gets Obliterated for being “Epitome of Washington Corruption”
What the WA election showed was a large swing against the Liars. Almost universally it did not flow to the Lieborals. State elections aren’t Federal elections but I would expect a similar dynamic to emerge. Federal Lieboral polling is not approaching election winning numbers.
US makes $5 billion in one day through ‘golden card’ program for immigrants
“According to forecasts from the administration of US President Donald Trump, this initiative could bring in $5 trillion if 1 million cards are sold.”
How to reduce the Feral Guv’ment Debt quite quickly.
What a clever idea. And more investors for the USA.
Dutton, get with the Programme. How about something like that for Sunny Australia.? Of course it could never work here as Dutton is way too ‘limp wristed’.
Cheaper electricity anyone?
OK.
Let me construct the parameters for the “Productivity” Commission modelling to get the “right” answer. Key assumptions are:-
1. Redundancies are all voluntary, and are heavily weighted towards long-serving employees (i.e. costly payouts);
2. Those taking the package are largely “essential employees” and require x% backfilling with new employees or consultants with a fee add-on to employment cost of y%. Play with variables x and y to arrive at the answer on this post-it note.
3. Calculate impacts over 12 month budgetary cycle, so that redundancy payouts weigh heavily against a relatively short period of savings.
Alternatively, you could work on DOGE type assumptions:-
1. Redundancy by management selection;
2. No replacements
3. Calculate net savings over 3-5 years.
It used to be a very useful entity and well respected. Of course, the Liars have completely corrupted it now. Everything they touch turns to shit. All they want are echo chambers.
About 2 years behind Treasury, which is about as useful as the BOM these days.
Back in the early 1990s, when the ADF had significant numbers of redundancies, rumour had it that one of the Services focussed its on “well reported members who have limited chance of future promotion” (paraphrased).
In other words, keep both the best and the dross, and pay off maaates in the middle.
I knew a bloke who has 25 years service in the RAAF and was still an A/C ………..
Unions always used to have a “last on, first off” deal. Meaning the old grifters kept their jobs, the newbies were sent off.
Either way you look at it, Sancho, neither of those old policies works for an organisation, the DOGE way makes more sense.
JD Vance lands new role in RNC as Republicans back him for 2028 run
Vance perhaps knows he needs to use some of his time to keep educating himself more fully behind the scenes, especially get to know any new people he will have to work with in 28-32 and possibly 36. I’m certain he will have Usha thinking about this already, if they as a family are happy to proceed. Big ask with three little children, but hopefully life will have calmed down somewhat by then.
Anyway, instead of talking about sacking pubic serpents, better to talk about tax cuts. Who the hell is advising Dutton?
Indeed. Put forward tax cuts, leaving the public service efficiencies and redundancies needed to fund them unspoken in the background.
The Labor Party.
“There is no secret that the Labor Party is a socialist party. This is stipulated clearly in its constitution. Be under no illusions about the party simply being a political alternative, it is a diametrically opposed ideology to that of the Liberal and National coalition and to any citizen who truly values the inherent rights, freedoms and privileges of a democratic system of governance in which representatives are charged to administer the will of the majority on any given issue.”
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SCOOP: The DOJ is exploring potential criminal charges against former U.S. Institute of Peace officials who attempted to block the Trump administration’s leadership changes at the federally-funded think tank.
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Barack Obama was using USAID to pretend to send money to a country for “aid” and instead laundering it to the Cayman Islands
He would then use that money to fund and train “Rent-a-Riots” for protests to overthrow governments
Sound familiar?
Mike Benz on Joe Rogan: “A scandal during the Obama USAID era. We were running a number of rogue USAID operations in Cuba at the time. — I’m simply showing the American people where your tax dollars are going and how these things are structured in order to systematically fool you and to fool Congress and to fool the White House:
— USAID pumped $1.2 billion in, and we sponsored these activist groups and these civil society organizations to learn how to use Facebook, learn how to use Twitter, lose, learn how to use hashtags, learn how to coordinate street protests so that everyone knows where to go, what street to show up on, what kind of slogans to know, to use in order to create the pro-democracy predicate for it.”
He talks about how Obama funded a Twitter clone that would be used to push propaganda in Cuba to inspire these protests and overthrow the government (Mike Benz explains how Barack Obama overthrew many governments)
“So what they did is they took the exact same thing as Twitter, same user interface, same like, and retweet button zunzunio is, is the Cuban slang word for hummingbird. So just, it means it’s it’s bird, it was the Twitter bird, the whole thing. But the whole trick about it was you have to make it look like it’s coming from the Cubans if you’re going to do this operation
— We can get into the deeper layers of this, but contractors were funded by USAID
The data would then be used for micro targeting efforts towards anti and pro government users. In Cuba, the developers aim to, at first used non-controversial content such as sports and music and hurricane updates — What was the plan the whole time? Once they built up enough subscribers, they would begin to introduce political messages through social bots and encourage dissent in this, in this astroturfing — the whole point is, once they hit a critical mass, they would create ‘Rent-a-Riots”
“You’re using Cayman Islands bank accounts. You’re saying it’s, you’re earmarking it for Pakistani aid.” But the money was never sent to Pakistan, it was sent to the Cayman Islands to fund this whole operation
All this and much more is broken down extremely well in this video. This is INSANE
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The absolute state of the UK.
If he can’t be deported then put him in a Prison. Maybe on South Georgia Island in the S Atlantic near Antarctica.
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They Had a GUN to My Head – Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss
Doc Faustus earlier in the nested comments in relation to going back to work:
Accurate synopsis. Well done
Not exactly shocking, but interesting. Like with everything else, the more detail is known the more complex things become. Broadbrush is just a synonym for ignorance.
Largest EVER Human DNA Study Just Conducted With Shocking Results!
Still no fossilised salad bowls, or rock paintings of carrots being hunted?
The Vegan will be unhappy.
Actually they’re always unhappy.
They need meat.
Lovely, lovely, glorious meat.
Trump’s Economic Revolution: Destroying British Economic Predators – Saturday Wrap-Up – Mar 22, 2025
Dutton needs to pull out of the Paris Agreement as it is now a meaningless gesture, even for alarmists. At a minimum he should phase out the renewable subsidies and let them compete on their own. The money saved can be used to bolster the grid with extra gas and coal whilst the framework for nuclear is established and a mixed grid approach adopted. This will also put downward pressure on the power prices.
He won’t. Dutton is owned. Primarily by his donors and the WEF.
Someone as gormless as him doesn’t get this far unless they are owned.
So why did he flag nuclear? Was it to keep him busy with a more expensive strategy than coal. I am trying to understand the logic if there is any logic to it all. I must say, I too am losing faith in his ability to do anything but squander a major opportunity. Also do we know whom his donors are? I know Turnbull baled the Libs out with a big chunk (possibly loan) at some stage.
He went nuclear because he knew it would fail, but in failure draw attention away from the renewables scam.
That’s the way bureaucracies work.
More from The Spectator Australia –
Our nuclear winter continues under blackout Bowen –
Jonathan Moran
19th of March, 2025
“Australia stands at a crossroads, and the decisions made today will determine the nation’s economic and energy future for generations to come.
The blind ideological pursuit of renewables at the exclusion of all other energy sources is not only reckless but economically ruinous. A pragmatic, technology-agnostic approach – one that embraces nuclear, gas, and coal alongside renewables – is the only path to energy security, affordability, and sustainability.
Yet, under the watch of Blackout Bowen, Australians are being subjected to spiraling costs, unreliable supply, and a government unwilling to acknowledge the flaws in its own plan. If this government refuses to course-correct, then Australians must be prepared to hold them to account at the ballot box – before the lights go out for good.”
Not necessarily true in my book.
Given the full cycle opportunities, Australia would be mad to ignore nuclear energy – but for government stupidity, we should already have a couple of nukes and a nascent fuel/reprocessing industry.
But it will take 15+ years to sort through the regulatory and IAEA issues, do lawfare, select a location, do lawfare, select technology, tender for works, do lawfare, and construct while doing lawfare.
In the meanwhile, gas is expensive and will get more expensive as conventional resources decline and CSG becomes more expensive to produce. Australia therefore needs to become very, very devout believers in HELE coal.
Renewables are with us. Arguably the best way to handle them is as battery driven swing producers – removing merit priority, obliging them to bid commercially against baseload coal, and putting the project sponsors on the same footing as State enterprises (ie no tax*, no deductions, do your best).
.* Why, you ask, provide any benefit to these far king vampires? A combo of international politics, support for Australia’s tattered sovrisk, and the need to maintain the bastards in the power system to cover the variable daily load.
The damage has been done. I blame the media.
Lizzie earlier on the matter of drux in hospitals.
The protocols are for two reasons:-
1. to prevent pilfering of desirable or saleable drugs* by entering them on a patient’s chart and pocketing them. Not foolproof if the second witness is in on the scam.
2. to limit legal liability in cases of incorrect dosing.
It is frustrating when you have to take something before eating and your hospital gruel is getting cold whilst you wait for a nurse to turn up and unlock your drux and find someone else to sign it off.
I did query this in the case of rapid acting insulin … “I do the calcs on carbohydrate and inject it myself, as I will have to do at home in two days time, but it is under lock and key here”.
…
* Morphine is soooo 2024. Ketamine is my new favourite. Right up until the point where the IV stand turns into a python and the ceiling starts melting.
Excellent news that Musk is finally initiating legal actions against those who call him a Nazi.
Australian politicians need also to be unforgiving against those who slander them.
Aboriginals continually casualy call people racist. They must be sued if genuine debate is to occur. They have plenty of money, they are good for the penalty.
Elon Musk looks set to launch a lawsuit against CNN after a former Demonrat senator, Jamaal Brown calls him a “thief” and a “Nazi” on air:
‘Lunatic’ Democrat claims Elon Musk is a ‘thief and Nazi’
Hope CNN goes broke.
Good. Die legacy meja die
Amen.
Yes, I saw that. The fat, black pig is a POS and even the lefties in DC couldn’t stand him and voted him out. Brown is the rat who threw the fire alarm in the house of reps.
I had forgotten that that was him.
No doubt that was a delaying tactic; his excuses were extremely lame, but the fire alarm was clearly labeled as such.
Setting off the alarm when there was no fire is actionable, but he got away with it.
Baby duck slaughterer (and ‘mental ‘elf’ grifter) stays in the bin (the NT News):
And:
Chasing it. You bastard. At least it wasn’t a wombat.
But, during the bail application:
Typical – and, I may add – learned behaviour, because this is now the stock standard response for these idiots, but only when they’re captured.
He’s next up before the beak in May. Baby ducks may now, for the moment, sleep safe.
Why the honorific of ‘Mr’?
Mr ..? the media, usually, refers to a 19 years old as a child .. surprised they didn’t “protect” his name due to age …..
The LNP? This LNP?
The LNP voted the hate speech laws in to shut Aussies up using legal force. The LNP stood by nodding approvingly and funding the worst thuggery in Victoria during covid. The LNP are signed up to the extortion of millions of Australian families through the climate change hoax. The LNP are all on board with the Big Australia multi culti immigration catastrophe that’s been going of for decades. Never put to a vote. The LNP does and says nothing about the LGBTQI assaults on our kids, families and Christian way of life.
The LNP has a warehouse full of fks it does not give for our inherent rights. Because we have no inherent rights. That should be crystal clear to any thinking person.
The only things the LNP are interested in concerning winning gummint is ministerial salaries & additional “freebies” .. Nuttin’ involving Oz or the vote-herd matters ………….!
Agreed. It is a totally shit choice. But who do want in the reps: rub and tug and his merry band of retards PLUS the filth and the dildo girls OR a gutless bunch of snoggers who can be worked on.
Put it this way: Jacinta or faruqi?
Re Dutton and Battin being ex cops, I’d rather have an ex cop than another effing lawyer.
The only appeal Dutton and Battin have is that they are in opposition to the 2 most horrid Govts in Australia. The appeal however ends there.
You might note that neither of these 2 ex-cops has spoken a word of criticism about the atrocious police thuggery in Vic during covid. That should be a marker as to what they really think of citizens.
Mate I want anal gone. Then we can work on Dutton. The same way I wanted Miles gone.
Police recruiting wasn’t always as grim as it is today. But you were never looking at the cream of the crop.
A pulse the only prerequisite these days. In WA, cheap way to get FIFO Poms for the mines.
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Or a campus trot
Dover has been expressing concern about the abolition of the US Deparment off Eddycashun.
“But who will handle student loans?”
Fear not.
I predicted it would simply go to Treasury.
It seems it is going to the Dept of Small Business.
Ploblem solve.
Educational standards have plunged in the U.S. since it was introduced by Carter in 1979.
Good riddance.
And our department should go the same way, taking the curriculum development mob with it.
I spent a couple of days in (spit) Canberra with an equesterian granddaughter.
Skyfire was on and the F35 flew a demo. Jisus! I thought the A4 was the noisiest machine ever created, but the F35 vibrates the universe. How can such power be contained and controlled?
The other notable outcome of that trip is that my days of driving a horse float are OVER. Bloody torture for you and other road users.
Bons, these are the things you must endure for the grandees. I just wish MY granddaughter took up equestrian sport. She chose damn rowing instead!
I was mad on horses (grew up in the country & rode my pony to school) and bought my daughter a pony when she was eight. She thought it was “dirty” and wouldn’t put her fingers in its mouth to take the bit when “bridling”. So I put my hopes in the grandees – but neither was interested in horses.
Vicki, rowing is a fine sport — especially for a chick. Think of it as marathon running sitting down with the added benefit of strengthening the whole body with intense cardio. It’s a sport for alpha women.
Long as her name is not Sally.
Just watch out for the coccyx pain. Women rowers do get it a lot.
I’d like a reference for that.
As time goes by I know we spent heaps on horses for our kids, but it gave them something special, and they all love them to this day.
Towing is only difficult if you don’t have a powerful tow vehicle.
Long time since I put liberals at no. 1. Voted informal when trumble was pm. Trumble was also beyond the pale. Absolutely nothing to recommend him her it.
Voted informal when gladishocklian was premier too.
Discussion on the previous page led to this response.
Thinking on this, I wondered what would be the reaction in Beijing to an order from our Department of Defence for 100,000 English language copies of Mao’s On Guerilla Warfare, each with a Defence foreword stating that these are provided to Australians as guidance for resistance against an invasion.
There was actually a series of six handbooks, by Ion Idriess, published during Wobbly Wobbly Two on “The Australian Guerilla.”
But he is not the one whose eyes need to water.
Nice touch. Why should we be any less trouble for a superior force than Vietnamese villagers or tribesmen from Afghan?
Taking into account that the chinks probably won’t follow any Geneva convention of course.
From the Hun.
Quite irresponsible financially’: City of Melbourne spent $140k spruiking ‘yes’ vote during Voice referendumThe City of Melbourne has copped fierce backlash after the total amount of ratepayer funds it spent spruiking a ‘yes’ vote in the 2023 Voice referendum was finally revealed. See the shock figure.
while dirty, greasy, dangerous CBD rots
Will anything change?
I’m assuming that figure is just the hard receipts.
If you took into account the hours of “work” from the council staff that were comandeered by the humbuggers- and they’re famously fatly paid- it’d be millions.
For Perth/WA cats, girl at work said Belmont in Perth is ‘Hellmont’- really that bad?
More or less. Lots of the Eastern Suburbs pretty ordinary.
Nothing wrong with Belmont, if you don’t mind the odd home invasion, or your car being stolen.
That goes for much of the East. Wouldn’t say Belmont is any better or worse.
I spent a lot of my rehab in East Vic Park which has pockets of quite gentrified places. And 300m down the same road would be a block of 1960s houso walk up flats. One of which went up in flames one night which was quite exciting.
What about the ‘booka?
I would say the same but north. Perth is pretty homogeneous IMO.
I’m starting to believe this is the only way the missus could find her car keys
gotcha- thanks guys
Winston Smith
March 23, 2025 11:42 am
Reply to Steve trickler
Repeat:
It’s definitely “HI MOM” and the backseater has a girl nickname “Skirt”.
https://youtu.be/4Nqx3Ho58rA?t=452
Are you lot looking at this on a phone or something?
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I changed the spelling to MUM from MOM on purpose.
Anyway, have a good day bloke.
That’s cool, but I put ‘MOM’ because that’s what was printed – going for accuracy instead of humour…
Wow this is sloppier than normal for News.com. Rhiannon Lewin allegedly was an editor for a year and a half for ch 7. However this esteemed “editor” couldn’t even do what took me 10min to do. Check her claims, quite possibly cut & pasted off SM. Article:
https://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/parts-of-queensland-and-northern-nsw-warned-of-wet-weather/news-story/7bf5eaf2639d5f2bf021f44a7cd1dd9d
OK her claim:
Residents in northern New South Wales as well as much of Queensland are bracing for yet another bout of heavy rainfall as they continue to clean up from the destruction of ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred.
Then a paragraph later this self described editor says this:
Flood watch warnings are in place for parts of the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers and Gulf of Carpentaria Rivers, as well as minor flood warnings for the Herbert, Tully, Murray, Ross, and Bohle Rivers.
I’m taking the dumb blonde bimbo didn’t even check how far the closest of these is to Brisbane. Answ: Lake Eyre Basin at 1000km. Bohle river next closest at around 1400km. Also a quick peruse of rainfall forecasts from Coffs Harbour to Cairns has NSW Nth Coast, to the Fraser Coasts getting next to nothing in the next week, worst day has 0-25mm which has a high margin of error. Capricorn, to the Cassowary Coast going to get bulk rain with flooding rain Townsville north.
This is what passes as an experienced journalist these days. In safe hands.
She’s a graduate of the Mutley Skool of Jismists.
Jounalists are ideologically blinkered, conceited morons with zero curiosity/interest in the world.
Rhiannon Lewin is a passionate storyteller for 7NEWS.com.au in Sydney Rhiannon previously worked as a cooperate journalist for not-for-profit Youth Off The Streets.
Saw that. Storyteller indeed…
‘passionate’ must be the most overused word in the world of jobs
Never hire anyone who uses that word. He/she/it is a walking liability.
Damn good advice, Johanna.
what’s a cooperate journalist?
Pretty much any journalist working for MSM.
“Hi PM how can we help?”*
Mark Riley after Gillard’s successful challenge to Rudd.
@GovRonDeSantis
For years, Florida has been trying to return federal funds to the federal government due to the ideological strings attached by the Biden Administration—but they couldn’t even figure out how to accept it. Today, I met with @elonmusk and the DOGE team, and we got this done in the same day. Other states should follow Florida in supporting DOGE’s efforts!
About That French Scientist Who Was Denied Entry Into the US…
Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’
Federal judges are on the payroll of China, CCP, Mexican drug cartels. Wanna bet?
Interesting revelation in a Ynet article
https://www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/article/yokra14303894 [ google translate link ]
When you read the article, who do you think was the source of the quotations? Was it Herzi Halevi or was it Gadi Eisenkot?
Who cares?
It’s evidence of a possible war crime by Netanyahu, so the question of whether it is from a reliable witness seems pertinent.
“Jordan Peterson: Something BIG is About to Happen in the UK!!”
things will get worserer first
Dr. John Campbell
Government and corporate deception
Now they are outright lying.
Labor claims energy prices have come down by 25 per cent (Sky News mainpage headline, 23 Mar)
Amazing. They think we’re idiots like they are.
Only in a parallel Universe. No basis to reality whatsoever.
This should be thrown back at ‘Laybore’ by the Coalition during this upcoming Erection Campaign.
It’s a ‘No Brainer’ Dutton. Get those size 12 boots on and start kicking.
The same mindset where what’s her name announces new houses even if they haven’t or never will be built.
In the AFL, Geelong and Melbourne are this year’s amateurs — both beaten/thrashed this weekend by cellar-dwellers (St Kilda and North Melbourne). Avoid them like the plague in your footy tipping.
There is a lot of hidden coccyx pain and ongoing distress around that is unrecognised, hence for shy types I suggest here a useful website for those who are, or who know, sufferers. http://www.coccyx.com is a useful source of validated medical information and case stories of over 2000 people sharing their experiences of coccyx pain. You get hints also of how to manage the post-op period: Under guidance, I have made myself a stand-up computer platform of an old bed-table placed on my desk, works a treat. And following advice on the site, I got Hairy to gladwrap my bum so that I could have a shower and wash my hair. That worked well too, thought I felt rather like a Steggles Chook. 🙂
Coccyx pain is not a simple thing and causations can vary enormously, hence it is important to get a proper diagnosis. One thing to note is that if a genuine fracture or dislocation is shown on MRI (gold standard) or on a sitting/standing xray then as one recent man opting for coccigectomy notes, much messing around with other treatments before you accept the necessity of surgery is basically ‘voodoo’. You are not going to really fix a fracture by palliative means and it can flare up years later. That was my view, after several attempts at injections under anaesthesia and then physiotherapists doing invasive poking around. My coccyx had three broken bits floating around unconnected due to my heavy landing on ice in 2023. To fix it, get it out.
That said, lesser and more arcane spinal and muscular problems might be fixed by the voodoo. Who knows? Do what suits you, but the tales on that website suggest many people eventually turn to surgery after years (it took me two years but that’s because I wanted to use injections to temporarily halt pain so I could travel).
Modern surgical techniques have improved greatly too, which also matters.
Not many surgeons attempt this operation even today, as it had a poor reputation in the past. It is ideally best done, as mine was, by a top experienced spinal neuro-surgeon not some blundering amateur. Most GP’s still just tell sufferers to take anti-inflammatories and put up with it, which is not a long-term solution.Because this is spinal surgery many people still shy away from it, and GP’s can encourage that. Mine gave me all sorts of completely unwarranted warnings about going ahead, but so far all is well and going to plan with none of her suggested dire consequences.
Reminds me of being told to give up HRT because of the hopeless Nurses Study years ago. A lot of feminists going bananas about being ‘natural’ I decided, and I’ve never regretted keeping on HRT. This is Mrs. Hairy, said one nurse I overheard during shift hand-over. l She is a very healthy 82 year old, in for ..etc etc. Thank you, HRT.
Great to see a good outcome Lizzie.
Very glad to hear the op went well Lizzie.
I hope that is the end of it.
I broke my coccyx in two places when I was seventeen. 400 kilos of horse rearing over backwards and crashing on top of you tends to do that. 😀
Also, fifth lumbar vertebrae and tail bone.
I healed well, the advantages of youth. Have not had any problems with those bits since. I did break my tailbone again a few years later. Another crazy horse!
May as well add collarbone, twice in a week. Lol. Horses again. 😀
You’ve been lucky, Pogria, and as you say, there are advantages in bone healing when young.
I’d advise avoiding horses in your later years, lol.
I gave up horseriding in Iceland about six years ago after experiencing the special ‘toit’, the ‘gait’ of the Icelandic ponies. Bone shattering, even with, at that time, an intact coccyx.
OUCH! 😀
Tell the truth Lizzie.
It was a butt-lift op, wasn’t it?
Do you normally like to live so dangerously?
He’ll get his when I ask him how his penile implant is going.
Where does Gentle Reader go when we all learn that “ little sancho” is now “Rampant Panzer”?
I doubt I’ll ever need to know quite so much about the coccyx, but thank you Lizzie, for the enlightenment. Best wishes for speedy healing.
Steggles chook? Teal voter.
lol
Good to hear of you on your feet Lizzie. Nephew recently had cancer removed from his coccyx. Has to change jobs coz can’t sit for too long. Lots of driving.
Sorry to hear that Ranga. Yes, coccyx pain really does have to have a proper diagnosis. Cancer is the worst of it, hope they got it all and he has a good outcome.
Probably not Lizzie, had half his bowel removed and bits in his lungs too. Waiting to see where next.
Sorry guys, that URL is wrong. Use this one, which takes you to the proper owner of this useful coccyx site. Anyone who ever has a coccyx problem would be well advised to chase through this link. Invauable stuff. Jon Miles is the site owner, and he is NOT selling anything, unlike that link I used above, with a dot com tag.
https://www.coccyx.org/jonmiles.htm
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Good you’re back with us Lizzie. Excellent news.
Rock Doctor, or any of our Cat weather experts, is the weather in northern Australia still got a good chance of being affected by Tongan under water volcano. At the time there was speculation that affects would last for years
Yes. Atmospheric RH and SH levels are still above normal.
Others here well more qualified than myself but my take from reading on it at the time.
5-10 years from what I read at the time. The water vapour put up was expected to raise temperatures by 1.5deg, something even the GW alarmists even admitted.
Also Tongan volcano added to 10% humidity to the normally dry stratosphere. Effects we really don’t know but are finding out.
I don’t know about NT weather but the Tongan volcano effect seems to be slowly dissipating.
Bugger, I’ve been quite enjoying the climate these last few years.
Me too. Never had a better garden.
Many denied that it was a thing. How could it not be?
It looks like a nice lump of rain is coming toward Barcaldine from the NW, but I’ve a feeling it’s going to veer off to the north.
I’ll close up a few windows just in case.
Thanks everyone for your input. Just based on my own experience over the years I think that it is still influencing weather particularly in the southern hemisphere. The Mt Pinatubo eruption changed weather and gave us spectacular sunsets for years.
It’s been said that “it’s easier for the base to get a new elite than it is for the elite to get a new base”.
I’m not so sure.
We’ve been putting up with the uniparty for over 20 years while the uniparty have been importing new uniparty voters at over 250k per year, recently up to half a million per year.
So we can’t get a new elite and the elite are getting themselves a new base!
How dare you disbelieve our elite class!
Albanese govt ‘considerably’ reducing net overseas migration (Sky News mainpage headline, 23 Mar)
More blatant lying.
There’s a quote, I think it was from Brecht and went something like –
“The people have failed us, they must be dismissed and a new people appointed.”
Not sure exactly who or what he was referring to, but it seems to apply to the current west’s ruling elite. They decided we’d failed them by the end of the 60s and have worked assiduously to replace us ever since.
Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’
It is a no brainer that this was all planned which makes it a conspiracy. Doesn’t the US have something like “Conspiring to pervert the course of justice”?
Do you think part of the plan in issuing so many EOs across the board was to tempt those judges into this reaction, allowing then the legislation to seem required? 3D chess etc.
I understand that because it seems to be covering multiple states, the RICO Act is coming into play.
Cross fingers.
Here’s a fun and sweet clip.
Before my time, but I still enjoy the simplicity.
Enjoy. 😀
Last night I attended a lecture given by an American Jewish academic from NYC visiting Sydney. It was enlightening because this man had first hand knowledge of the Columbia encampments, he witnessed them. It was sobering. However despite this I was glad to hear him speak passionately about the need for free speech because free speech is the best way we can tackle bad speech and particularly Jew hatred. American Jews understand the importance of free speech, Australian Jews much less so.
Add to that Australians in general.
Agree.
Since most American Jews reflexively vote Democrat, I doubt it.
I make no judgement and throw no stones, necessarily.
However, it would appear that the anti-semitic, conspiracy theory-laden Lollipop Blog has slowly rolled itself to the roof of an 80-storey building, after which it has wheezed and gasped its way to the edge, and then – with a terminal sigh – tipped itself off.
And landed, in the immortal words of some internet post of which the origin I cannot remember, in the manner of ‘a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup’.
No loss.
How interesting. I stopped looking at the anti-Semitic cesspit yonks ago, it became a site Goebbels would have been proud of. But now that I know, it makes sense because a few days ago a commentator appeared here who I think used to regularly post on the Lollipop blog.
I bailed quite a while ago when the anti-Semitic thugs moved in.
That said, in earlier days it was quite good. There were some excellent guest posts from a guy who had worked in remote Aboriginal communities, for example.
Adam didn’t have the bandwidth to monitor it, or he didn’t care – I dunno. But props to him for trying in the beginning.
Running a successful blog is not for the faint of heart, or the time poor.
Lollipop Blog?
Anything to do with Homer Whatshisname or “Steve from Brisbane”?
Dash-Cat
It became apparent very early on that it was going to be a total “international bankers” fest.
Which is why I bailed very quickly.
Must say thanks again to Dover for keeping the cat going. Best source of news and opinion in the country.
Did anybody ever post on monty’s attempt at the Cat?
God, that’s horrible.
This is one of those occasions where editing’s cheating.
of which the origin I cannot remember
Try:
of long forgotten origin
That is the kind of writing up with which I will not put.
You must be almost as old as I.
I bailed quite a while ago when the anti-Semitic thugs moved in.
Equally so, I am losing my enthusiasm for public events that support my interests. It is now inevitable that every event is captured by pretend blackfellas. The last one I attended had the (mostly family) attendees saying “who are these arseholes, we are not here to listen to this crap”.
Oraginisers unfortunately lack the courage (understandably) to tell these taxpayer funded gangbangers to FO.
Nah.
He owns it.
He was told several times about disgusting anti-Semitic shit and nothing changed.
I’d like to know where those insulting and dishonest pros-
‘on whose land we meet’
‘we pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging’ etc etc.
were written (white man stuff btw)
Some fetid hall of academia? Some canbra office?
Black, or to be more technical, Aboriginal privilege.
It’s times like this I miss the insights of Faulty.
I am sure he would have found something in the recent release of JFK papers connecting the Deakin Telephone Exchange to the dastardly deed.
Number’s Bob and Popular Front, at ten paces usually livened up the place.
Speaker Johnson Reveals House Plans to Limit Abuses of Activist Judges and ‘Expose the Worst Offenders’https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/speaker-johnson-says-house-will-work-limit-abuses/
Stop planning and start bloody well doing!
Time to form a committee.
That’ll let them know we mean business!
And write a stern letter, then they will be serious.
Zactly.
If one has no intention to follow through then don’t mention it.
Miltonf
March 23, 2025 7:52 pm
Must say thanks again to Dover for keeping the cat going. Best source of news and opinion in the country.
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Yep. Rita at Sky News checks up this place everyday,
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/03/easy-when-you-want-it-to-release-the-hostages-give-up-your-weapons-and-commit-to-peace.html
One of the Pali’s bawling “When will all this ever end?”
It’s difficult to talk rationally to someone with an IQ of <70 because of the inbreeding, but here’s my answer – “You will get peace when you return the hostages and stop trying to kill the Jews. You know, like you promised?”
well if she doesn’t she should
Yep. There’s a great deal of sanity, sense and thought gets into these pages.
‘Phenomenal’: Donald Trump takes ‘firehose’ to US universities
For some reason I thought Trump’s golden visa program meant you had to invest US$5 million in the US. But no, the 5 biggies is the actual fee to the US Government. Talk about pay to play. Apparently there are 1000 applications.
I’m looking at an EB5 which requires only a million investment. Houston, I think.
Sad about antisemitic cat. Haven’t been there for months had a look just now, last post on the 7th March.
Oh well.
Someone’s annoyed I called it antisemitic cat?
You won’t be able to sleep tonight.
West Australian rabble-rouser Tash Peterson uses her feminine charms to try to convert men into vegans.
https://nitter.poast.org/v_ganbooty/status/1829758348142788894#m
I must stay strong against assaults from this Vixen of Low Vitamin B12.
Tash Peterson crashed the judging of the cattle at the Perth Royal Show some years ago. She was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the pants and heaved over the fence. The identity of her evictor was an open secret in agricultural circles, but nobody had seen nuffin, so they hadn’t.
WA election 2025: Liberals to claim Kalamunda as Basil Zempilas set to become Opposition LeaderThe “West Australian.”
From the comments in that link – simple and succinct:
Look, the rig’s okay (as opposed to the head) but you just know that as soon as the trap opens it will be waaaay more drama than it’s worth.
Next.
How long do you have to go without meat to get a shag? If it’s more than a day it’s not worth it.
Well , there is more honesty in that Party Political Broadcast than in most of them.
West Australian rabble-rouser Tash Peterson uses her feminine charms to try to convert men into vegans
She will be stuck on her back for a long time doing her ‘only fans’ thing to raise the cash to payoff damages in a deformation court case that went against her and her boyfriend:
Vegan activist Tash Peterson, partner to pay Perth vets $280k in defamation row
By
Jesinta BurtonNovember 25, 2024 — 3.12pm
In a judgment handed down on Monday, Supreme Court Chief Justice Peter Quinlan ruled Peterson and her partner Jack Higgs had used “provocative language” that carried defamatory imputations during a heated confrontation with Dr Kay McIntosh and Andrew McIntosh at their Bicton Veterinary Clinic that was shared to the prominent vegan’s 84,000 Facebook followers.
From memory, a GoFundMe , on behalf of the Veterinary Clinic raised a reasonable sum, but Peterson raised thirty seven shillings, three and sixpence halfpenny from hers.
I would believe that Zulu. I got the odd youtube commenters (not one of them had anything good to say about her and her antics) thing of her every now and then and it was always her gate crashing and making a right c**t of herself at a restaurant or a country show where the kids were looking at baby farm animals. The best vids were when she railroaded. Forcefully.
She claimed to be making $40,000 per month from OnlyFans.
That is phenomenal. How. On. Earth.
EXCLUSIVE Scientists who discovered ‘vast city’ underneath Egypt’s Giza pyramid reveal new secrets about mysterious structures
Erich von Däniken, come on down!
There’s a name from the past!
Always wondered where the Illuminati had their secret lair.
Students and academics have criticised Monash University’s PhD law course, which forces students to critique their thesis based on Marxist, feminist, critical race and queer theory, as one student claimed they were “expected” to include “critical law theory” in their black letter law thesis, and said the approach was “destroying legal academia”.
It comes as Macquarie University’s vice-chancellor ordered a review of its law school practices after students said their course had become hijacked by a political ideology that was damaging to their education, with revelations law students faced the threat of failing one part of an exam if they performed an underwhelming acknowledgment of country.
Monash PhD students are required to complete 120 hours of compulsory research skills training in part from “critical legal studies, international law and theory, feminism and philosophy”. The Australian understands Monash Law’s Critical Legal Studies looks at the relationship between law, power and politics.
Lecture slides, seen by The Australian, note CLS is “concerned with theory” that includes “Marxism, postmodernism/poststructuralism; feminism; queer theory; critical race theory; critical disability theory”. Students are told to “note the intersections between these groupings”.
At the end of the unit, The Australian believes, students are provided with a reflection task and asked to consider to what extent (if any) critical legal studies (or critical legal method) intersects with their research; and to reflect on the implications of these perspectives on thesis topics.
One student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said in the process of completing CLS, “it was made quite clear to me that you were … almost expected to include something like this in your thesis, regardless of what the topic was.”
The student said compulsory critical legal studies was not included in the enrolment process but they were met with “surprise” when they told supervisors that “I won’t be critiquing the law on the basis of any of these theories in my thesis”.
“I was told by my supervisors that I needed to do this and there was this expectation that you needed to have all these theories … in your PhD. This is what would be expected by examiners. That was a great concern to me because why should this be in a PhD on … any black letter law topic?” they said. “And if this is expected by examiners, then are we just saying that this is what legal academia has become, and there’s actually no room for this legal research anymore.”
The student said this “expectation” would undermine rigorous legal analysis. While they believed other students “probably didn’t think it was appropriate … it was not a place where you could ask that sort of a question.”
On the back of the saga at Macquarie Law School, the student said “Victorian universities are … a whole step worse when it comes to this, in my experience”.
The student, having studied at other institutions, said they had never “seen such an obvious attempt to infiltrate all of academia with this ideology as I did at Monash. My big concern with this happening at a PhD level is that it is destroying legal academia.
“And the academy plays a very, very important role in the broader legal system. And if, at the level of which are meant to be conducting rigorous research and adding to the body of legal academic work for the purpose of building the legal system or clarifying very important questions of law, we’re going to lose that entirely.”
A lecture slide for the CLS unit titled “Theoretical influences in brief: Marx” states that a central idea of CLS is that “law is embroiled in perpetrating the status quo that is unjust; that maintains inequalities, in which some are oppressed”.
Another “theoretical influence” is American gender studies scholar Judith Butler, and through this lens, students can look at “law as a type of … discursive practice in which we produce ‘who we are’, e.g. criminals, stereotypes of women in family law cases, etc”.
Sydney University Law Professor Emeritus Barbara McDonald said she would advise students to “get a different supervisor if that’s not the approach (they) wanted to take. If it’s part of a broader course on different approaches to research, then maybe you can’t object to that. But if you’re required to do a whole course on critical legal studies, well, quite frankly, I wouldn’t have enrolled there because I would’ve thought I won’t understand what they’re talking about most of the time. That’s probably a reflection on me.”
“There are many different ways of looking at aspects of law,” she said. “I always tell students there’s no one way to answer something. There are different ways. And you might have a high distinction answer taking one approach and another taking a different way … I don’t think they should be any straight jacket.”
A spokesperson for Monash University said: “Critical analyses of texts have been taught in law schools for many years and are part of basic doctoral training for PhD students to support their research theses.”
Oz
Sorry – should have been in italics
Senior acadenic doesn’t know the difference between a strait jacket and a straight jacket (whatever that is).
Her inability to recognise academic tyranny is hardly surprising, Those who climb the greasy pole in academia value neither merit nor principles.
Real scholars get trampled or ignored in this environment.
As one era of junkscience fades, a new one emerges, especially with regard to food:
The notion that artificial colourings are inherently evil is right back to the primitivist greenie playbook. Plenty of ‘natural’ substances are harmful. It;s superstitious nonsense.
True, but Americans are inclined to believe anything, no matter how improbable or ridiculous.
“there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.”
Asimov
Candace Owens has stated that she doesn’t need to read anything, she can just tell is something is right or wrong.
39% of USA citizens believe in creationism.
Been so, this infestation of lawyers in politics has to end. 185 prices of legislation to say to the tuck shop ladies “you can’t add food colouring to your fairy bread.”
RFK Jr. tells food leaders he wants artificial dyes removed from food products before he leaves office – ABC News
@akafaceUS
BREAKING: This is the list of influencers being paid by the DNC.
Every single person on this list is on salary, receiving payments from the DNC to promote left-wing propaganda.
Just because someone’s name isn’t included here doesn’t mean they aren’t being paid. This is only one list.
I blacked out the section that shows where they live.
This list was provided to me by an extremely trustworthy source within the organization.
@WallStreetApes
It was ALL a lie. The real reason USAID was in Africa
Former African Union Ambassador to the United States, Arikana Chihombori-Quao:
“They’re using that open access, sounding humanitarian, to constantly destabilize governments”
“We need to understand the real reason why USAID is in Africa, and not just USAID, but other NGOs They are coming in claiming that they’re introducing grassroots initiatives that are going to help the people, and so they use that as a way to go into the most remote parts of Africa. When you look at it on paper, it all looks really good, but they’re actually wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
“The American taxpayer needs to know the billions of dollars that are being given to USAID. A fraction is making it to the people”
“They’re using that open access sounding humanitarian to constantly destabilize governments. I can tell you right now, the majority of African leaders, and not just African leaders, but leaders in the developing world are celebrating the exit of USAID.
If you think about it, their sole purpose, for example, filling in the gaps in healthcare and education, where is the change? Show me one country that USAID was in and education improved. Show me what country where USAID was in and healthcare improved?”
They laundered our money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ZfMxE_8Og
Andrea Bocelli – “Nessum Dorma.”
“Sliante” to all you mob.
I’m punishing the single malt. My accountant reckons I owe the Australian Taxation Office a touch over eighty thousand quid.
I’m forming a new political party. Self funded retirees should be exempt from paying income tax.
I’ll join if the party also bans duty on cigars.
I’m with you.
The idea that your income is taxed all through your working life, and then your retirement stipend is make-believe income in the greedy eyes of the taxman, is bogus.
All the more so when in retirement, a compulsory draw-down of super forms pure stimulus to the economy- ie feeds someone elses’s income.
Trying to find Mum a recscue dog. A liitle one.
The RSCPA ended up to not be a option The two fat pigs behind the counter wanted to know everything about me.
F*ck that! I snapped ….what the f*ck are you going to with the doggies? You’ll put a needle in them before I fill in the forms.
My final comment to them was do not give dietary advice to anyone.
I’ll find a doggie….brother is in action.
Was told once that not suitable to rehome a dog rescued from an aboriginal camp – there are many socially stunted individuals in the animal welfare industry, using the hi-viz vest of virtue to mask their inner defects.
There are also some in the animal welfare sector who use the term charity very loosely but in fact are money making ventures operating under the guise of charity to get tax exemptions and seek donations. The sector needs to be thoroughly “doged”.