Very good.
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- WolfmanOz at the Movies #100
“unlikely to get anything radical through both houses”. The shambles may be just what Anal agrees to. This is a…
Abbott was to me our worst PM since I’ve been here. 1979. He had the chance and fluffed it. All…
Once upon a time you could usually only see these assorted weirdos such as “the bearded lady” at Fairs and…
Perhaps Attila should have prayed a bit more….
I’ll be interested to see if this comment on Janet A’s article gets though.
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Do they still teach the Western canon at La Trobe?
Shame it wasn’t a rich and relevant culture.
Groundhog day for thousands of years
Not that “rich and relevant cultural heritage”.
And just exactly what engineering skills did the aboriginals gift to this nation? They hadn’t even progressed to boiling water.
I read about Indigiknee knowledge in Jim Cooks Journals, where he detailed the Sydney Harbour bridge. Cook was embarrassed when he showed his K1 chronometer to the assembled natives. One of them rolled up his sleeve to check the accuracy on his Rolex Submariner. This is an accurate picture as much as the course at La Trobe is.
Cook didn’t have a chronometer for his first voyage, that is why he had to rely on the natives GPS readouts to correct his calculations.
Yes, I did know it was’t till the second voyage but thanks for the info aout the GPS, come in handy at the next quiz night.
How can a culture be relevant to an engineering degree when at the point of contact with the outside world it didn’t even know how to boil water? This is purely an expression of power by the academic class, you will bow down to our religion or you will not get a job. How are they different from communists or islamists?
Exactly Crossie, they’re not.
These stupid one hour courses are compulsory for teaching staff as well. I was expected to do one called “Consent Matters”. It was full of homos doing homo stuff. I said that it was an insult to Islam and they left me alone. Just a hint of Islam is enough to terrify the average Uni bureaucrat. They are even too scared to ask if you are a Muz or not. Christianity does not have the same looming terror.
I could say the same to those pushing this garbage at La Trobe.
Look in a mirror.
Amen to that!
James Cook was so embarrassed to find the locals in Oz had invented the steam engine that he refused to put anything about it in his journals.
All those regional rail lines, at first carved in wood from trees, were there.
Well ghast my flabber – it was accepted!
The doggies get another win.
Appeals Court Clears Way For DOGE To Access Data At 2 Agencies (9 Apr)
Biden judge gets the egg-on-face treatment from the appeals court.
The world seems to be in the middle of a civil war with the elites who are so enraged at their advice not being followed that they are lashing out wildly. Climate catastrophism is another issue where populations are not following orders. In Australia we also have the indigenous “culture” being pushed on all or you get a fail mark in education and no jobs for you.
Julian Hill goes the Bowen Supercilious Dickhead route about Gas Policies.
We know that state Labor governments have locked up gas.
@TheEXECUTlONER_
This woman was a paid protester at a Hands Off Protest. She details what she had to do to get paid.
They told her not to wear anything MAGA and she could not wear red. So she wore a black shirt and jeans. They also told her she would get paid if she brought a sign. Again, nothing MAGA. So she brought a “everyone deserves an education sign.”
They told her she had to march around. At the end, in order to get paid, she had to answer a 8 question questionnaire. She said the questions did have right and wrong answers and if you wanted to get paid, you had to answer them correctly from a liberal mindset.
Share this everywhere as I keep seeing people say that no one was paid. They were definitely paid.
I’m still waiting for some investigative journalism on the mob equipped with thousands of dollars of professionally made props who dogged the Pell court hearings etc.
Don’t report it – DO IT
Probationary staff. Ridiculous that this should even be an issue.
Trump doesn’t have to reinstate fired federal workers, Supreme Court rules
More good news.
US Supreme Court Sides With Trump (For Now) In Fired Federal Worker Case (9 Apr)
It’s only a stay pending a decision by the 9th Circuit, but it is encouraging that Scotus acted positively towards Trump’s emergency request.
@JDVance
Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen.
Pettiness is the perfect descripter. He is a sulky child. A lifetime devoted to perverting democracy has ended in humiliation. Good!
Funny how the legacy media, including our own, want to harp on about tariffs and anti-Musk/DOGE protests, but have nothing much to say about what they are achieving.
Incoming… DOGE Team Makes Huge Discovery.. to Be Revealed Soon: WH Spox | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
Jo Nova –
Trump goes gangbusters on coal power and coal mining to supply AI energy demand
“In the last twenty years 770 coal turbines have been switched off in the US, and Donald Trump wants to turn as many back on as he can.
Any moment now President Trump is expected to sign an executive order that will boost coal mining, keep old coal power stations running and restart shuttered coal plants. The word is that the US government will define coal as a “mineral” which allows him to use presidential wartime authority to speed up approvals for coal mines, and to bypass environmental red tape and even prioritize exploration and mining on federal lands.
US agencies will be told to rescind any policies that aim to “transition away from coal” or “otherwise establish preferences against using fossil fuels”. The country with the largest known coal reserves in the world is now planning to increase coal exports.
Furthermore Trump will ask the Energy Department to consider whether coal should be listed as a ‘critical mineral’ — something described as a ‘coveted status’ which activates even more emergency powers.”
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/trump-goes-gangbusters-on-coal-your-data-centers-will-be-powered-with-coal/
Feds forked over $4.6B for new furniture since 2020 — despite just half of employees showing up for work: watchdog
@zerohedge
The yuan is absolutely disintegrating. Expect 8 handle if tariffs go live at midnight.
@Mar50cC5O
Seven so-called Republicans want to strip the Commander-in-Chief of the tools he needs to fight economic warfare in real time.
Because nothing says “tough on China” like needing Mitch McConnell’s approval before taking action.
And here’s the kicker:
None of them have offered a better plan.
No vision. No solutions. Just more red tape, delay, and globalist appeasement.
This isn’t about oversight. It’s about control. These Senators are terrified of Trump’s effectiveness, because it exposes their weakness.
Could these senators be worried what DOGE is going to find about them?
If it’s in the budget it has to be spent or it gets cut the following year.
Crazy government waste that happens here also.
It was known as “use it or lose it” and nobody checked how it was spent.
Of course it’s all due to climate change.
Wonder, has it never happened before?
/note the very deliberate use of the names
Visited the Alice regularly, gave it the miss last time due to some troubles there.
Lhere Mparntwe (Todd River)
After over 3 months of little to no rain and the hottest 100 days ever in Mparntwe Alice Springs’ recorded history with the average maximum temperature of 40 degrees from December 1 to 20 March 2025, the rain is extremely welcome.
March was also the hottest on record.
Extreme weather events like extreme heat and heavy rainfall events are increasing in their frequency and intensity due to global heating and climate change.
The burning of fossil fuels and the ongoing industrialisation of land (historically by countries in the global north), is driving global heating today.
The respite this rain and these storms bring is adored and brings with it a town-wide celebration of public space and the river! Happy picnicking, strolling and playing.
Show me your working…
Are you asking me?
I simply re-posted an item from my inbox, if you read the intro you can see I disagree.
No, silly 😀
Whoever wrote it.
When lay people spout this stuff ask them to prove it.
They’ll usually fall back to an argument from authority (“the scientific consensus”), which is a fallacy you can then dismantle in a couple of steps by pointing out that scientists can be wrong and scientists can also lie or be influenced by group psychology.
Which brings you back to asking them to prove the statement by citing the evidence…which they won’t be able to do.
Then they might think twice before spouting it again.
lol. Hairy destroyed his relationship with my sister for a year or so by demanding real evidence for her assertions. She couldn’t provide any, and he could provide lots of counter evidence to her claims.
It does not make for happy familial relationshps though.
If your own family won’t tell you …
Qantas magazine I note has also adopted these bs names in some of their articles as well.
Does this include constructing large scale intermittent solar and wind generators and the associated transmission lines?
Silly question, of course not, those are sacred offerings to Gaia.
Wouldn’t it be rather courageous to picnic on the Todd River bed these days?
Courageous? Odd spelling for suicidal.
‘March was also the hottest on record.’ Mmm? March max mean for Alice Springs this year was 35.1C. Highest for March on record was 37.2C in 1880. Also beaten in 1896, 1914, 1942, 1943, 1951,1980, 1986, 1992, 1999, 2017, 2019 and 2023.
@Theswampmonitor
BREAKING: President Trump & @PeteHegseth just FIRED Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield.
Here’s a report on her priorities as a leader of the U.S. Navy:
“Just before the cake-cutting at the end of the Women’s Equality Day observance, Chatfield said she was pleased that the cake was decorated in purple, the color that represents a joint environment — many services working together.
“Our diversity is our strength,” she said, adding that the secrets are how to get the best out of each person and how to make sure that none of their talents is wasted. “Finding a way to be respectful of the differences is where our growth is.”
Chatfield summed up the importance of equal rights by quoting Slide 35 of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute’s informational presentation on Women’s Equality Day:
Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment can unlock human potential on a transformational scale.”
Bit more on the Admiral’s sacking ……..
BREAKING: Per report, Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield refused to put up POTUS & SECDEF pictures in NATO HQ. Also held an “all hands” where she said “we will wait them out 4 years”
She wasn’t an admiral, she was an activist.
And promoted for the sake of appearances.
Chatfield. Perhaps a relative of Scabbie Shitfield.
Equally unimpressive so, would not be surprised. 😀
@catturd2
The Left are emotional unhinged children.
He’s using the opportunity not just for tariffs but for general deal making.
@_johnnymaga
BREAKING: Trump announces South Korea is coming to the negotiating table on tariffs
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The DOJ revealed that Trump assassin Ryan Routh tried to buy military weapons from Ukraine to kill Trump, including a ROCKET LAUNCHER.
Routh asked the Ukrainian Military for a “Stinger or RPG to take out Trump” because Trump would be “Bad for Ukraine”
Routh goes on to say the weapons of war — that are paid for and supplied by the US military — get lost “all the time on the battlefield” and no one would miss them.
Has Ukraine illegally smuggled US weapons to kill other world leaders or State enemies?
Most importantly, the Ukrainian Government KNEW about the Trump assassination in advance!?!? Did they warn anyone? This is absolutely massive.
No wonder Trump is pissed off with Ukraine. I think they are screwed.
Jonathan Turley on lefties throwing the toys out of their prams.
The American Jacobin: How Some On The Left Have Found Release In An Age Of Rage (8 Apr)
Whole Foods is a lefty cult supermarket, so it’s fun that lefties are now shoplifting from it as a protest of something. Well lefties be a tad careful. If you start a civil war the other side has about 300 million firearms and is well trained to use them.
CNN’s Harry Enten Shares Latest Poll On President Trump: “He Ain’t No Lame Duck… He’s a Soaring Eagle!”
If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt DEMOLISHES Dems Over Newfound Opposition to Tariffs Using Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s Own Words – “Nancy Pelosi Can Thank President Trump”
The Bee
Analysts Clarify That Trump Is Only Responsible For The Stock Market When It Goes Down
The NYT hedging its bets. This is an excerpt from a paywalled article.
Stop Freaking Out. Trump’s Tariffs Can Still Work.
Last week’s “Liberation Day” marked a kind of D-Day in the effort to reorder the international economic system. That reordering is desperately needed to address the system’s imbalances, which have led to deindustrialization and annual trillion-dollar trade deficits for the United States. But remember, far from striking World War II’s decisive blow, D-Day was just the start of the European campaign. Eleven months of vicious fighting followed, with more than 100,000 Americans killed before victory was secured. With the tariffs, too, success or failure depends on what happens next, and the nation will have to bear real costs while the outcome hangs in the balance.
The breadth, speed and severity of President Trump’s actions, which he finalized only shortly before the Rose Garden announcement, sparked immediate panic across markets and among allies. The airwaves filled with dire predictions as people scrutinized the sources and sizes of the numbers, the strategy and even the legal authority. Amid the hysteria, fair concerns have also emerged about what the plan lacks: time for companies and governments to respond, permanence for those tariffs intended to shift investments and a clear vision of the goals and how to reach them. But there are simple steps the administration could take now to correct course and move from its embattled beachhead into a sustainable forward position.
The 10 percent global tariff — a foundational permanent policy, which has already taken effect, and which carries a tolerable cost — is the right starting point. Congress should vote it into law as soon as possible. That would confirm its permanence and also provide substantial tax revenue that could help Capitol Hill solve some of its budget math problems. A bill to this effect,…
All too true.
@bennyjohnson
Rep. Tim Burchett Says The Deep State Sees President Trump as Expendable, Allowed Assassination Attempts to Happen To Get Rid of Him:
“These guys never should have been able to get near him.. Deep State collusion. To them, Trump is expendable and they want to expend of him.”
NEC Director Hassett Says So Many Nation Phone Calls Requesting Trade Negotiations They are Struggling with Scheduling
U.S. Supreme Court Begins Dismantling Federal Judge “Temporary Restraining Orders” Against Constitutional Executive Branch Action
@MarioNawfal
WHO’S PAYING TO BURN TESLAS? DOJ & CONGRESS PROBING THE MONEY TRAIL
The Molotov attacks on Tesla dealerships weren’t just mindless rage—they were coordinated, armed, and funded.
Now, the Department of Justice is digging deeper. Investigators are pursuing not just the arsonists, but also the shadowy networks that may have financed the crimes.
The House DOGE Subcommittee has formally called on the DOJ and FBI to expose any NGOs, activist fronts, or political donors fueling anti-Tesla violence.
This is no longer about protests. It’s about domestic terrorism—and who’s bankrolling it.
As AG Bondi warned: “No one—not the foot soldiers, not the financiers—will escape justice.”
The anti-Elon mob is being unmasked. And the funders are next.
you go girl!
There was nothing “accidental” about any of it.
@MikeBenzCyber
This is absolutely insane. The Event 201 tabletop exercise playing out a bat-borne Coronavirus being released in China was held THE EXACT SAME DAY as the start of the Wuhan World Military Games: October 18, 2019.
Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases
Clearly set out in four and a half minutes.
@benz_pilled
The story of internet censorship begins with the story of internet freedom…
And that story begins with the Council on Foreign Relations.
•••
“Everything you think you know about internet freedom from when you were a kid or when you first started using the internet in the 1990s…that was basically a Council of Foreign Relations psy-op.”
–Mike Benz
@RenzTom
BREAKING: GET THE FLU SHOT AND YOU ARE 27% MORE LIKELY TO GET THE FLU!!!!
Just like the COVID jabs and pretty much any other “vaccine” it appears that the flu shot is an abject failure. In a preprint study from the Cleveland Clinic, employees that got the flu shot had a 27% HIGHER chance of contracting the flu.
The COVID shots have also shown negative efficacy in numerous studies. We said it in the summer of 2021 and no one listened but we will keep saying it to try and keep people safe – GET THE SHOT GET THE DISEASE!
I was behind two oldies in a pharmacy recently. After purchasing their goods, the pharmacist enquired whether they had had their flu shots. I happened to catch the eye of one of the oldies and winked – madly hoping that they would take it as a “get the hell out of there”. They didn’t, and said they would get their shots soon. Sigh….you do what you can…..
Outstanding
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What Would it Take to Destroy the United States?
The only question left is: who is orchestrating this?
Public serpents are unhappy.
Gov Workers Can’t Figure Out How to Work in an Office Anymore (Daniel Greenfield, 8 Apr)
RTWT, it’s a wonderful tale of woe.
Oh, No!
Anyway, …
Take a look at the people in the background. Is this still England?
Oxford Union Speech: The Only Thing Worse Than Being Censored Is This | Dave Rubin
“Then you guys sit down and have a drink afterwards and battle it out…” ha – he just insulted half his audience espec the chicks in the hijabs.
A Mess of Messrs….
So, if Mr. Hastie isn’t going to be disendorsed for his views on women in combat could Mr. Britton be re-endorsed, Mr. Dutton?
Or would that be a flip-flop too far?
Hello, Mr. Dutton…are you “listening”?
Or is it the case that the views of conservatives “don’t count”?
FYI, Hastie and Britton were 100% correct. My ‘outside’ kit in Afghanistan was 15kg of body armour, 4kg of rifle and 3kg of mags. Thats a full jerry cans worth of weight to lug about before you even start adding packs etc. Infantry soldiers carry much much more, it could easily be 50kg. I wasnt up to being a front line soldier, and even fewer women would be.
Now add in the disruptive effects of females in combat units – specifically the natural response of the enemy to target them, and your own guys to white knight them.
Seriously, even having to state that women should not be in front line combat roles is right up there with ‘there are only 2 sexes’. This should be so obvious as to remain completely unsaid.
The two roles which seem to work are as drivers and sniper teams.
Probably not tank drivers though, even though Israel and others do have lady tank drivers. The problem with that is if you have a track issue you need serious beef available to fix it.
The Aussie Army has lady tank crew now…
Catholics now outnumber Anglicans among Gen Z in the UK, study suggests
A report from the Bible Society, a U.K. charity that translates and distributes the Bible worldwide, found that the practice of Christianity in general is growing in the U.K. after decades of decline, driven by a growing participation of young adults, and young men in particular.
Noteworthy that the decline in CofE attendance coincides with Justin Welby’s failed tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Correlation is not causation, but leadership is crucial.
CofE should do the honourable thing and give the Cathedral back and rebrand as Teals.
Anglicans were Catholics in the first place. Welcome back!
Excellent.
Trump Team Proposes Ending Clean Energy Office, Cutting Billions (8 Apr)
Good riddance. A complete waste of taxpayers’ money.
‘Let the galaxy burn!’
Bonds and shares going down together, they did that in early 2008.
Already in recession?
The Oz is asking the important questions today:
Should one wee on one’s lemon tree? (Paywallian)
Should add an extra spritz of flavour to your lemons.
As Wolfman will confirm, this was highlighted in that fine film The World’s Fastest Indian.
Lets NOT segue into the elimination habits of Indian truckies please!
Also worked on cherry trees.
Taking an axe to a lemon tree is a favoured way of making it produce more fruit. Just a heavier branch is enough.
When composting it is quite normal to piss on the compost heap/in the compost bin every now and then,
It helps the composting process.
Gets the carbon/nitrogen ratio right.
Albo imitating Trump to a much greater degree than Dutton: stunt at ice cream parlour instead of Maccas. Or does that make it Biden that he’s closer to?
I like the idea that, a month out from the election, Albo thinks he’s already won. National 2PP has him ahead and all his yes-men are telling him he won last night’s debate on Sky (seen by maybe 1% of voters).
Sets up beautifully for a 2019 rerun.
Had some mail yesterday from the bank. It was in an Express Post prepaid envelope from Australia Post. On the reverse, where the sender has to fill in details, it had the following headings:
Sender mobile:
Company name:
Contact name:
All pretty normal, and then came the address … and before the street address or anything else was:
Traditional place name (if known):
How far is this sh!t going to go? As far as I’m concerned, the “traditional place name” was Ingleburn, NSW.
The post office is an arm of the canbra abomination so it would be at the forefront of the Marxist assault on Australia. Canbra filth. Canbra parasites. Canbra Marxist wreckers.
Copy Crocodile Dundee.
“Bilong’a mia”.
Note use of the “traditional” apostrophe.
Still on the floods, sorry but it’s a beaut picture.
Might this be in Winston’s back yard, give or take 60 miles?
A mere trifle in Queensland
Brisbane man Benjamin Holt speaks out about teen who allegedly organised Airbnb party that led to his house being trashedCaleb Taylor Sunrise
April 9, 2025 7:01AM
TopicsNews
A Brisbane teenager who allegedly organised a wild house party that led to an Airbnb being trashed by 500 people is unlikely to face charges and could instead just be asked to give a simple apology.
The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is expected to be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act after allegedly organising the out-of-control party at the weekend.
Hundreds of teenagers trashed the East Brisbane home and caused thousands of dollars of damage on Saturday after the invite went out on social media platform Snapchat.
The property was initially booked for a family of five.
However, the unruly teens turned up and trashed the place.
On Wednesday, homeowner Benjamin Holt appeared on Sunrise where he was questioned over the possible punishment, who appeared less than impressed over the handling of the teenager.
Trump signs executive order to unleash American energy
What a master speaker! He goes from major world issues to a personal quip to the guy behind him – “you think he’d be good at that?”
Great speeches, amazing strength demonstrated. And what do we have? I despair.
we have a dog sh!t sandwich
Looks like Xi didn’t call Trump. Tariff rises to 104%. All those US importers of Chinese products now have to stump up to pay over double for what they were paying last week at the port. What do you do if you’re them? If you can’t find alternative sources for those products, and many of the you won’t, you’ll just pay for half and whatever contracts you had that can’t be meet you’ll just cry ‘force majeure’.
Lots of lay-offs and closures in the works.
If you double the price of worthless slave labour made shit, it’s still worthless, slave labour made shit.
What is it worth to release a nation of around a billion people from the bonds of communist murderers?
It’s priceless.
Future tip to economists and capitalists: don’t pin all your hopes and principles on continuing trade with a single, massive, totalitarian police state.
Western firms have been pulling out of China for a while now.
That only means China is less exposed.
I think the problem Trump has, and trying to solve is that he is not dealing with “a single, massive, totalitarian police state.” always directly.
China has many proxies, how do you deal with them?
Canada and Mexico are but two, channeling Chinese goods into the US.
Closer to home is NZ, I saw a post recently relating to that, ie. repacking Chinese product as NZ produce. We stopped buying NZ ag products years ago for the same reason.
If I want cheap chinese crap I can buy it directly, no need to pay a surcharge.
Heavens.
Yesterday you were channeling a 15 year old girl from 2004, with your “lol”.
Today you’re channeling a passive aggressive 70 year old woman.
”Heavens”.
No worries, Hyacinth.
“Good Lord”. I’m channelling a country parson now.
Oh my stars! 🙂
In other news, I met Gog and Magog today.
A smart importer would have brought forward deliveries before the tariff applies. Eg let’s say you are Tim Apple: last week you would have organised fleets of cargo planes to bring a whole stack of iPhones to get you through to the release of the next one in late September.
How do you do that in an age of JIT? How do you do that if your a business without the cashflow to make these sorts of adjustments, like buying six months worth of inventory? I’m hearing some seriously dumb shit atm.
Did Venezuela Invade America In Secret?
I seem to remember that Biden admin gave a special entry visa to Venezuelans. There was nothing secret about the invasion.
Trump Admin to Shut Down DOJ Arm Behind Ferguson Riots
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink warns NYC to fix crime, filth and schools — or lose even more companies
Ooh, trouble in Democrat paradise?
snicker!!!
One for Dover, who I know is interested in such geopolitics.
Damascus recalls ambassadors from Moscow and Riyadh amid diplomatic shakeup (JPost, 8 Apr)
Recalling the ambassador to Moscow suggests the negotiations over Russia’s port and airbase in Syria aren’t going well. I suspect part of that will be the decade-long history of Russia airstriking the HTS in support of Assad.
Turkey is hoping to take over Syrian airbases, which led to Israel obliterating them a few days ago. Lots of interesting strategic manoeuvring going on.
The Trump revolution is being televised in real time. Why are all the leftards who usually call for a revolution not happy?
drops in stocks, gold, bonds, and oil prices, all at the same time.
Not correct for gold, its hardly blinked
Democrats lit the ‘assassination culture’ fuse — now their silence equals violence
One for naval history Cats especially of the submarine variety.
Modern tech unveils WWII submarine ‘M-49’ lost for 82 years in Russian waters (JPost, 8 Apr)
I have no idea why a small Russian sub was doing a combat mission in 1941 in the far east. Peter the Great Bay borders on North Korea. The article also has info on the loss of submarines M-63 and USS Harder.
Chris Smith very good on blackout this morning. Smith was genuinely riled and I thought for a minute he would call blackout a fukwit. I’m glad he didn’t because fukwits at least have a wit. Blackout is insane and is doubling down on ruinables and being anti nuke. In a speech yesterday he actually said he was saving the world.
Typical leftard God Complex.
And he probably really believes that he alone is saving the world.
Trouble brewing.
For once, I agree entirely with Elon Musk.
Who cares what a dickless yonker thinks (sic).
On the law of averages in that case, Elon must be wrong if you’re agreeing with him.
Piss off, Nazi
More hysterical nonsense.
You’re now the old biddy who gets really upset when men talk shit to each other.
I’m not upset. I’m enjoying the show.
Kicking back on the couch with Monty and a chaff bag of popcorn?
Trump’s tariffs are winners with nearly every nation he has put them on responding and going cap in hand to him; except the chunks of course. It amazes me that folks are indignant about Trump levering tariffs when he has made it plain that he is only doing to other nations what they have been doing to the US for yonks. Reciprocity. Given that demorats were advocating this very policy in the past the only explanation for the hysteria is TDS.
In other Trump successes:
BREAKING: Huge Trump-Hegseth Win as U.S.-Panama Jointly Affirm Shift from China, Secure Canal Traffic, Address Migration.
Related…
Panama Files Criminal Charges Against Chinese-Linked Canal Port Owner for Breach of Contract (8 Apr)
So Xi and the CCP may be trying to block the sale of the ports to BlackRock but the alternatives are coming down to (a) Panama stripping their contract or (b) the USMC paying a visit. I’d be taking the money if I was China.
this is epic
The Liberals dump candidates for minor stuff yet the Australian Nazi Party stands by its candidate…
A Greens candidate who once joked Adolf Hitler was having his kind of “fun” and later quipped Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s death had saved her from a backlash over it has the party’s “unwavering” support ahead of the federal election.
Mandy Nolan, who is mounting a fresh bid for the marginal seat of Richmond in northern NSW, in 2023 joked that news of Warne’s sudden death “saved” her from being cancelled over the controversial 2011 remarks she made about Adolf Hitler.
The Byron Bay-based comedian-turned-candidate landed in hot water in 2022 after comments emerged from the August 2011 YouTube video where she discussed the frustration of explaining to her teenage daughter about the need to balance fun and responsibility.
“Just look at Hitler. He had fun. He did whatever he wanted to do,” she said in the video. “Just ask six million Jews how they feel about that now and he still didn’t get his sociopathic fill you just can’t do it, it’s unethical.”
Despite pressure for the Greens to disendorse her, Greens leader Adam Bandt said at the time that she would make a great member for Richmond and pointed out that she apologised.
“Mandy has a strong history of fighting anti-Semitism and fascism, and has apologised for any distress caused by her comments,” he said in 2022.
Gotta laugh, Jew haters always flock together. Perhaps Ms Nolan is a relative of our Nazi?
A lesson for the SFL if they bothered to learn from it.
Never back down to pressure.
The heat from the media etc rarely lasts more than a few days as they move on to their next faux outrage. (Obviously the left never get media pressure which helps)
More importantly select candidates that can smile back at the media whilst telling them to go and have sex with themselves.
SiL saved her Law firm, where she’s the manager. Her computer locked up. Asked others if they were having problems. No access. Looked at the server, lights flashing. Server goes through a UPS. She literally ripped the comm cables out of the server. Cyber attack. Presence of mind. Well done VJ.
Well done SiL.
She’d make a great kittah. One of the kindest people I’ve ever known.
Here is MAGA:
You don’t have to run around the world fixing every problem and choosing regimes and getting into wars.
You just have to stop actively propping up the worst communist parties in the world because of some naive belief that everyone is fundamentally good and wants to be free.
What happens next is up to others.
Like every movement, like every world view, it is incomplete and flawed.
But its a hell of a lot better than what we have been doing for the last 50 years.
I watched all of yesterday’s 1hr press conference with Trump and Netanyahu. He talks about Israel, Iran, the Houthies, and the tariffs, yadda yadda yadda. The most interesting bit came right at the end with the last question at 48:24
https://youtu.be/g2vxOTfL5H8?t=2904
Trump says Erdogan (Turkey) was sponsoring and controlling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to capture Syria. Perhaps that shouldn’t have surprised me as it turned out everyone except me knew this already. Trump seems to be implying Erdogan had a more influential role on the operation than the ABC article lets on.
Perhaps more surprising is that Trump congratulated Erdogan on his takeover of Syria. HTS is a descendant of Al Qaeda and still recognised as a terrorist organisation by the USA, they’ve been murdering Alawite Christians and other minorities all over the place, and Trump congratulates him on the outcome!
Can we infer from this that Trump only respects money and power?
Or is it that, as others have said, he is very “transactional” in his relationships and is adopting whatever attitude is needed to secure the deal of the day?
He knows that in order to get to B he has to start at A.
Greens stand behind candidate who once joked Hitler ‘had fun’A Greens federal candidate who once joked Adolf Hitler was having ‘fun’ – and later apologised – has retained the party’s ‘unwavering’ support.
From the Oz.
Great minds, Cassie.
Team – just a little further on the chicks in combat issue raised earlier, and apologies if I posted something similar recently.
A combat arms colleague (SGT) who’s done some time in recruiting over the past five years gave a good example a couple of weeks ago. 1RAR currently have an all-female rifle platoon – thirty in total. Of the thirty, only two are rated physically able to undertake any rifle platoon type activity. The other twenty eight are ‘broken.’ The platoon is kept together as it assists Army manage them.
DFR have had some wins with women in combat related categories but the data is clear. Those aged 25-32 at recruitment have a reasonable chance of getting through recruit and IET training, and then serving on to finish a two year (in total) contract. This often includes women who have had children.
Hi Politico,
It’s not just the question of physical ability, although that’s certainly (and obviously) a major concern.
It’s also the impact of women on a platoon’s combat effectiveness. I don’t have the references to hand, but it’s been shown that the male soldiers in a platoon will instinctively look out for the welfare of the females, thus reducing their individual attention to their tasking and their overall cohesiveness and impact as a unit. So, even if you had physically capable women, it would still be an issue in combat.
It’s been pushed hard by the star ranks in a kind of mad embrace of the progressive idiocy that comes out of Parliament House. Happens a lot at Russell. (If you’ve ever seen Samantha Crompvoets’ original paper that led to the decade long Afghan witch-hunt you get a sense of just how stupid ‘smart’ people in Defence actually are.)
Reality – physiologically you’re looking for the 1 in 10,000 in the general female population (in the 25-32 age group) who can carry the physical load of being a rifleman. They do exist. But getting them into the ADF, let alone a physically demanding combat role (basically Army, and Navy CDs) – is a complete crap shoot.
And hence we get a non-functioning all-female rifle platoon in 1RAR. Female recruitment to combat roles requiring hard physical work can only be a success if it’s treated as a bespoke, customised process to achieve very limited outcomes.
Nuts.
Roger,
what you’ve written was mentioned here a while back. All true.
The Israeli’s tried women in frontline combat in the seventies.
Did not work for the reasons you have written in your comment.
There is much women can do in the Military, combat is NOT one of them.
I think they use them for domestic defence only, not cross-border combat (could be wrong). That is not to disparage those who demonstrated courage and accuracy during the Oct 7 attack. I recall a young lady reservist in a kibbutz offed about 20 muslim scum while protecting her colleagues.
Perhaps that would be the strength for women? Armed protection of their loved ones? Who wants to get between a mama bear and her cubs?
The men can go and hunt down the enemy and annihilate them. Bring back the extra special ones for the women to deal with?
Mate ex RAINF confirms these numbers.
Says still to his knoowledge not 1 female NCO as well.
He’s been in combat & is dead against females in corps that require bursts pure raw agression backed by strength.
Gets sillier. I’m 58. In the pipeline to join ARES as a rifleman later this year. Now, okay, I take training seriously, and can meet every physical requirement. And I know the difference between turning up in good shape for recruit training and the follow on IET – and maintaining it long term. I work with an ex-Olympic lifter – more about good form and slowly building my physical capacity (overall).
He’s not a big operation. I’ve achieved some strong outcomes but I’m not elite. About 50% of his clients are women – and many of them are very serious athletes. All of them younger than me. A couple of times a month he throws down a challenge when you’ve finished your session. Lift, jump, push, hold, maintain – whatever – generally either strength or cardio. I’ve never finished below a female classmate. It’s for fun and we all encourage each other.
Would any of my female classmates be able to make it through infantry training? I can think of two who might. Would they be able to sustain it long term? No. Would they be combat effective as part of an assault? No. Would they be able to defend a static position with personal weapons (per IDF example above)? Yes. With heavy weapons? No.
My thinking is that there are many significant defence roles where women – and older men – can and should serve.
Indeed, to be blunt, older people have had their children and most of their life, society can more readily afford to lose them than young men of 18-25 or so.
The only test must be combat effectiveness – if you are slightly built, obese or older there is still much you can and indeed will have to do – but being part of a combat infantry team is not it.
If things start to really unravel with China we will have to make some incredibly hard choices, not least because our defence forces have been treasonably mishandled for at least 20 years.
Look at this woke POS:
A University of Queensland law lecturer berated first year, first semester law students for “protesting against my inclusion of Indigenous perspectives” in a lecture, warning those students that she remembered their faces and that they should “watch out what you say and what you do” if they wanted to do well in their law degree.
During a Foundations of Law lecture in March 2024, senior lecturer Dani Linder claimed “tens of” students had walked out of a previous lecture when her lecture turned to Indigenous Australian legal history.
“There were tens of you that got up and decided that wasn’t important, and instead you were pretty unprofessional and walked out,” Dr Linder told the lecture, according to audio shared with The Australian.
“Now, since then I’ve been made aware of certain racist comments that have been made about myself and the way in which I teach this course, which prioritises and – of course – includes Indigenous perspectives.
“I’m the course co-ordinator with authority to run this subject the way in which I see fit, and the way in which I see fit is in alignment with the Council of Australian Law Deans and their approach to indigenising and their commitment to indigenising the curriculum.”
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I’m going to hold my breath, and then I’m going to tell on you!
All heil unter Dani Linder.
See Janet A’s article today’s Oz and my comment at the top of this page.
The arrogant bitch should be fired. Trump would do it but our leaders have no ball sacs.
Ibsuspect that at least some of them have the sacs, but they are empty.
Never mind how good the students are in law subjects it’s their submission to the lecturer’s other demands that will result in a good mark. That sounds like bullying to me which I thought was a big no-no these days.
Shouldn’t something like this be made public so everyone can comment? This is nation-changing yet the nation has not been consulted.
Talk to the uneducamated peasants? How DARE you suggest such an idea.
Just wow, there is someone well used to making threats and getting away with it..what a privilege.
As they say, doing what she accuses others of doing.
This behavior is not going to get her intended result and will turn people off this stupid indigenous BS.
What a fantasy indigenous “law system” is..like the Voice.
Well, that should help with the cleaning.
And sammichs
I actually believe every single person in the military should be expected to be a crack shot with a rifle. Even one of our myriad generals.
In my last qualification shoot at Edinburgh before being shown the door, I fronted up to the ‘WETS’ (indoor synthetic range) with 29 other chappies from the newly quartered army element there. Shot well on the day … 2nd highest score out of the lot, and overheard a grunt saying to his mate on the way out ‘who the f is that RAAFIE Wingco who shot 2nd top?’
I didn’t mention mention that I do rather a lot of sporting shooting out of hours 😉
The ELITES Are Handing Power to Islamists in Britain – Liz Truss
Truss said a lot of excellent things in this. Pity she did nothing about it when she could. Gutless wonder.
Not really. She was removed from office from the BofE, the Treasury and the Blob. The economy has been managed brilliantly ever since.
She was a member of parliament for decades and held various senior positions – but I don’t recall her mentioning any of this stuff then. I acknowledge she was knifed by the blob.
Sarc?
Why Trump’s tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture)
Elon Musk Weighs In Keir Starmer’s ‘Two-Tier’ Justice Over Lucy Connolly Case
The attack ad writes itself.
Except Labor can’t go there.
Maaaates!
Important advances in science news.
‘No-splash’ urinal design could prevent 1 million liters of urine spillage daily (TechXplore, 8 Apr)
User experience? Experimental results? Some research projects do seem to go beyond the call of duty. On the other hand they could just plant a lemon tree instead.
No matter how you jiggle prance
The last few drops run down your pants
Stand closer, it’s shorter than you think!
Known in the GP trade as a “dribble finish”.
Or as Mad Magazine rewrote toilet graffiti many years ago, no matter how you shake and dance, you’ll never be out of time to an Elton John song.
No matter how much you shake the peg
A little bit’ll always dribble down your leg.
Are they taking the p1ss?
We are all spitzpinklers now.
Cemetery opening marks “new stage” of collaboration between faiths
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns, Minister for Lands and Property Steve Kamper and Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP were among the many faith and civic leaders to meet in Sydney’s picturesque Scenic Hills on 7 April to celebrate the opening of the state’s first crown cemetery in more than 80 years.
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“Celebrate” .. the opening of a cemetery ……. geez ..! I realise pollies will attend “letter ‘” openers if it involves a “free” meal & “drinkies” .. but … really .. a cemetery ……..!
I am still disappointed that Archbishop Anthony Fisher has not been made a cardinal.
US Senate erupts in fiery scenes debating Australia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yh8By8E1no
I am hoping that our trade representatives are strong and sensible enough to defend Australia’s biosecurity position.
Don’t hold your breath.
VikPlod announcing that they will now send tickets electronically.
Deputy Commish says “it will provide a better customer experience”.
FMD.
Just make sure they don’t have your email address or phone number and they’re stuffed.
You see, Your Honour, gmail put it straight into my spam folder.
Won’t need to even talk to the offender.
Keith Windschuttle died in St V’s last night, where he spent the last six weeks of a remarkable life.
Tributes are being posted at Quadrant:
https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/tribute/313194/
Terrible news. Quadrant and Australia have lost Keith Windschuttle, who passed away overnight in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital.
Where to begin summing up the life of a great man, a great historian, and a great Australian?
There was so much to him — boundless energy not least of all — that it is difficult to accept he has gone.
But just now, as the news sinks in, it’s his courage that springs first to mind.
He never wavered in his pursuit and defence of truth, not in merely challenging the Left’s various orthodoxies but in doggedly refuting them.
We last spoke a week ago, when Keith called from his hospital bed to remind me of an essay in our archives that was worthy of reprising. He sounded weak, his voice feeble, and he apologised for being momentarily unable to recall the edition in which the piece appeared. ‘It’s the medications they have me on,’ he said, adding ‘I’m a little vague just now.’
Vague he might have been during those last weeks battling the lung problems that did for him, but even fogged by drugs his remained a mind that dwarfed and shamed his enemies and critics.
Indefatigable, he was the heart and soul of Quadrant.
We are all of us poorer for his passing.
RIP. Well said, areff.
A great loss. He fought hard for us all.
I have met Keith, some years ago, and as well as a first class intellect he was a very nice fellow!
Expect gloating from mUntard soon.
And Dick Ed as well.
That’s if he wasn’t banned from here.
That’s Ed Case, for those who don’t know who I mean.
Keith, we were in the same hospital recently, and I didn’t know. I wish I had known.
As an editor, you did for me what you did for many; you encouraged and you inspired. You published unknowns like me and well-knowns, anyone whom you believed had something worthwhile to say and who could say it to a good standard. Your put your wonderful intellectual stamp on Quadrant, a magazine to be proud of and whose banner you kept well aloft. You held firm and constant against the vilifications of this intemperate era directed against you as both an editor, and as a meticulous and scholarly historian. Your work stands as a much-needed critical legacy concerning the contact period in Australia’s relationships with the original hunter-gatherer inhabitants of this contenent.
You were my age, and we shared a joke over that. You moved in the same academic circles in the 70’s as my first husband, and were surprised to find that you knew me slightly under his name many years ago, for you had only met me as Elizabeth Beare in recent years, after you had published some of my writings. On discovering this old linkage, we shared an amused backward glance at the leftist academic types we both were back then.
You were always busy, irons in many fires, and spoke with me over coffee about your further historical work. We were wry-faced together about how difficult it could be to get the time and headspace to complete writing projects – and then you told me to get a move on with mine. We last spoke, briefly, at the Quadrant dinner for Nigel Biggar where you told me you had surprised yourself, trawling your files, as to how much of your latest project you actually had written, in chapters. You said you were keen to get it together soon into a book now you had more time and I told you that was great news.
I am sad, Keith, that time and time didn’t wait for you on that, and on so much else.
Vale. A very notable Australian.
.. that’s time and tide, of course.
Thought I’d actually proof read that one properly too. 🙁
Indefatigable is the right word.
I still have my copy of ‘The fabrication of Australia’s Aboriginal History’ … now unobtainable I believe
Trump wants to strongarm TSMC in order to get around the problem of defending Taiwan if China makes a move.
Quid pro quo. TSMC seems to be open to the idea.
Taiwanese must be sh1tting themselves now.
It’s a clear sign to Xi that he simply needs to wait 2 or 3 years for Trump to get his fab plant and then China can invade Taiwan with no repercussions.
The Persecution of George Pell – Quadrant
This was supposed to be the election the Conservatives couldn’t lose.
Nearly two thirds of Canadians vote left, between the Liberals and the NDP.
The place is unrecoverable. Alberta and Sascatchewan should secede and join the US.
And invite Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in, for strategic reasons.
Australians seem to be mostly dumb leftists tool
Is Carney even a member of parliament?
No, but he is a big WEFer, if that helps.
Born to be …….. TOON …… LOL!
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DX71R657v/
From Quadrant.
Keith when struck down had been working on a new and target-rich volume of Fabrication, re-analysing today’s accounts of historic massacres. I only hope his incomplete work on this topic can somehow get into the public domain.
Well worth keeping in mind so far as this part of the kamikaze run is concerned.
Going to really hurt Saudi, Iran and Russia.
Growing up in the ’60s .. just awesome .. LOL!
Lots of good tracks! Very long time since I’ve heard Snoopy vs The Red Baron.
Snoop v the Red Baron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E
Snoopy vs the Red Baron at no. 2!
As a young boy I had that record and probably wore it out playing it repeatedly.
I sat HSC in 1968, I spent every Sunday arvo for 67/68 over in “ the old house” studying, with the ABC on the tranny, playing all those songs. I’m amazed at how many I recall the words from.
Those were days when talent was a requirement.
Dollar to donuts that Top 40 is vastly superior to today’s.
No contest.
Just one week and yet almost a summary of the mid-60s music and culture. I have almost half of the songs mostly on CDs I bought as “best of”.
Labor can’t win a majority and will have to co-operate, Bandt says
Noah Yim
Greens Leader Adam Bandt claims Anthony Albanese cannot win a majority outright and will be forced to co-operate with the crossbench after the election.
“I would be astounded … if the Prime Minister or anyone else refused to respect the parliament that the Australian people choose,” he said.
“If he can convince 51 per cent of the population to vote for him, then OK.
“But that’s not what’s happened. That’s not what he did last time. And with more people saying they want more voices at the table as part of a strong crossbench, he’s going to have to learn to play well with others.”
Mr Bandt was asked whether he would really work with the Prime Minister given disparaging comments Mr Albanese and his frontbench have made about the Greens, including accusations the Greens are “not serious players”, that their economic policies are “just crazy”, accusations of anti-Semitism, and that the party is a “full-on protest group”.
“Our position is very, very clear,” Mr Bandt said.
“We’ll keep (Peter) Dutton out and get Labor to act. And despite the bluff and bluster during the course of this parliament, we have successfully negotiated and passed a huge amount of legislation.
“I expect they’re going to say all sorts of things during the course of the election campaign.
“None of that surprises me.
“But at the end of the day, the government can’t convince a third of the country to vote for it. And the opposition gets a third of the vote, about a third of the country is voting for someone else.
“And I think this will be the election that the penny drops for the major parties, that they can get together and change the electoral rules to try and prop up the system in their favour, but it’s not going to work.”
Mr Albanese has repeatedly ruled out making a “deal” with the Greens after the next election.
Because dealing with the Slime went so well for Juliar.
If Bandt gets any sort of hold over Labor, WA will be well and truly f**ked because they will shut down as much of the gas, oil and iron ore industries as humanly possible.
Dover
Taking into account the discount, and because the oil price now around 57 bucks a barrel, Pukin oil is trading very close to break even . What are the rabbits that you said would get pulled out of the babushka hat now? Will China accept Rubbles or not?
I think it already is.
US shale needs at least USD50 a barrel AFAIK.
So much for “drill baby drill”.
JC, tell me what the 10Y and 30Y bond rates are indicating?
Feedback sought please: Proposed ANZAC Day Thread.
Modern military history often seems (to me) to be quite abstract. We know the names of places and sometimes dates, but the ‘flesh’ is missing. Admittedly, there are practical (time-based) reasons for this being so, but I’d like for our community here to buck that trend.
I propose that interest Cats and Kittehs (including those who seldom, if ever comment) present on a dedicated ANZAC Day thread, the names and basic personal details (age, where born, date and place of death) of several of the 100,000+ Australians who have died in the military service of their country.
I will provide direct links to two website databases which are free and easy to use for your research. You may, of course, present family members, but hopefully at least one additional stranger.
I am not asking anyone to write flowing prose, simply present the basic biographical facts as publicly available.
For example:
VX15796 Betson, John Arthur. Corporal. 2/14th Australian Infantry Battalion. Killed in Action in Papua on the 4th of October, 1942.
The above information was derived on just one page of the Australian War Memorial’s website. If I wanted to know his place and date of birth, I could visit either the DVA’s WWII Nominal Roll, or the National Archives of Australia’s Recordsearch database (both of which I will link to if there is any interest).
If I wanted to add more, I could find where in the relevant chapter of the Official History Metson’s bravery was mentioned and quote that. Off the top of my head, he was wounded in one or both ankles at Isurava (Kokoda Track) and spent many days crawling on his hands and knees in an attempt to find safety.
Additional research might be suitable for the nerds among us, but ANYONE can find and present the most basic details about three individuals.
Please let me know if this idea is a goer, and how we might make it as easy as possible for as many as possible to participate. Attendance at a commemorative ceremony is admirable, but putting ‘flesh’ on engraved names is another form of acknowledgement.
Happy to post several naval chaps….
That would be appreciated, thanks T.E.
I’m in, my 2nd cuz did a lot of twigs from the old tree last year, amazing how far flung some chaps from the deep bush ended up!
Excellent. Welcome.
The old saying goes, respect your elders. The senior ladies supporting Hamas and Palestine with that silent vigil is pathetic to see. They were probably paid for with free tea and scones.
As for the coppers stuck on the bollard with their car?… you have to laugh. Fill out the paperwork, boys.
The commentary from Charles will resonate with many people.
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Charles Veitch:
LEEDS: Armed Police Destroyed By Car Ramming of Peace Barrier & Other Stories!
There are no fools like old fools.
Turkeys for Christmas.
Chinese selling due to enormous stress on the exchange rate.
Now answer my question.
I did. But above, you haven’t answered what it means for the US.
How do you know this?
There have been reports since 2023, and certainly since 2024, that over 3/4s of their trade is conducted in their own currencies.
The Chinese only take Yuan, which happens through the oil transaction.
With oil at breakeven, would you go in and want to own Rubbles? If you did, you’d have to be insane.
The day Dudzy kicked the “drover’s” dawg .. LOL!
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/12MmDCCTzHT/
It doesn’t mean much at all in the short term, because if the US economy slows down, people will buy bonds and the yield falls back down. China had around $700 billion in US treasuries before the tariffs. It’s not a lot in the scheme of things.
Here’s your problem, your guy Xi thought he could plug an enormous balance sheet problem with income coming from exports. That window has closed. At some stage, when you have a balance sheet problem the rooster always comes home to roost.
And what happens if they go into recession and people don’t buy back into bonds?
More importantly, Xi became very arrogant and started bullying the world. There’s some humble advice the Japanese could offer the CCP: if you want your economy to thrive on exports—and in China’s case, aim to dominate 50% of the world’s manufacturing—don’t bully or alienate your customers. Be agreeable instead.
I dunno.
Emperor Eleven bullied and alienated Australians over wheat, wine (whine?), coal and lobsters, and in response AnAl grovelled to him, at a level well beyond a standard kow tow, and was then nicknamed Handsome Boy.
Depending on the target, bullying and alienation can work.
The ALP have been in bed with the CCP for 60+ years. Says it all.
And yet here we are.
Not much sympathy for China.
And they played the pan-Asia racist card to no effect.
We have a massive trade surplus with China, the yanks a massive deficit. That changes how each interacts.
and as they say, have a small debt and the bank owns you, have a big debt and you own them. (Do I have it right?)
China has been practicing mercantilism for a couple decades. The US is just returning the favour.
go out to lunch
Resign?
Equities fall and people move into the bond market.
Look, you’re trying desperately to to hold up the Axis of Resistance. You’re problem is this.
Puking and the women bashers in Iran will be toast with lower oil prices, and the CCP is rooted too. Suddenly, your guys don’t look too hot.
I’m out for the rest of the day (not out to lunch though) but will return in the late evening to see how markets open in the US.
China is the fat bitch friend of your girlfriend who is constantly in her ear behind your back telling her what a prick you are.
No one needs that. No one wants to come home to that fat, screaming turd on their couch. In their lounge. Poisoning the mind of their bird.
Trump’s message: you want to stay in a relationship, piss that fat awful bitch off out of it.
Geez, Arky…… I wish it was that prosaic. I have got to confess – they bloody have me rattled. In 2022, during Covid, I read the late Jim Molan’s prescient book, “Danger on my doorstep”. Scared the hell out of me.
I had read both Peter Harcher’s “Red Zone” , and Clive Hamilton’s “Hidden Hand” a while before. These two, as you know, are deeply Left, but were trying to warn those on their side and anyone who would listen, about the trajectory of China. But Molan projected the possible tactics China would would employ – especially in the early days. He was SPOT ON. They are starting now – withe the surveillance of our internet cables, and most recently the redeployment of their satellites in reference the the US sats.
Molan had the advantage of training in both combat and intelligence. In 2022 he projected a window of 2-5 years for us to mount some sort of defence. We did “F” all. We will pay the price.
“Danger on OUR Doorstep”.
JC above:
Of all the marketing that manufacturers can use – like product quality, after-sales service and price — the Chinks have only one shot in the locker: price – thanks to the fact that Chinese factory labor is little more than $US1 per worker per day.
If the landed price of exports to the US doubles as a result of tariffs, China is rooted – especially now that Emperor Xi has conceded in the past week that the Chinese domestic market is stuffed and the country is depending on exports into big foreign consumer markets like the US.
In other words. The Orange Oaf (h/t JC) holds all the cards in this game of chicken.
PS: apart from the Chinks, the Euros have treated the Yanks like s**t – free-riding on NATO for their defence while using tariffs to crucify American exports.
The Euros are almost as lazy as the Australians, refusing to stump up the necessary funds for defence. The last thing the Australians can whinge about is American tariffs.
Received a flier in my letterbox today,” WEAK,WOKE, SENDING US BROKE” with each of these headings expounded on the other side with back-up newspaper quotes. On the front a picture of Albo in a black “Yes” sweatshirt left-over from the voice campaign. It was authorized by Advance Australia. Well done I thought, as it captured key messages simply and framed Albo and the failed voice referendum all in one. I haven’t received much else through the mail box worth commenting on.
Advance Australia needs to get away from the acronym AA, unless the wish to be confused with Alcoholics Anonymous.
And if they get significant cut through, it is guaranteed that the Liars, Slime and MSM (BIRM) will point that out.
I’d say they would never “go there”, as alchos are seen as victims, and AA is at the very least people sorting their sh*t out.
It’s just Advance now.
Contributed a few quid to Advance Australia.
Same. Thought it was good also. Electronic billboard on the main road nearby has the same. Corangamite electorate.
cohenite
April 9, 2025 11:49 am
You just get the feeling what pissed her off most was that half the “captive audience” walked out.
How the American retired left spends their time.
Charming.
We girded our loins and watched the Sky People’s Forum Debate between Albosleazy and Dutton last night. Totally dull as we knew it would be. Not really a debate given its Q & A format, with some of the most dismal questions ever as part of the deal, and most with a leftist slant. The audience was supposed to be ‘undecided’ but the first question from an educational bureaucrat put paid to that claim. She was a clearly from Labor Central Casting.
I haven’t read back thread to see what others thought, but we were both disappointed in Dutton.
He still comes across as very wooden in his delivery. Albanese was lying his head off, and while Dutton did pick him up on a few of these ‘mistruths’ the ‘debate’ didn’t really hit its straps. Dutton didn’t energetically push and promote existing points of difference apart from the fuel cost reduction. Labor knows that is popular and I bet they try to match it in some way. They don’t mind lying nor spending as though debt never matters.
In this wasted hour, all you got was the sense of Labor and Liberals looking at the picture through the same frame; there was no feeling from Dutton of a quick-minded sparring on points, meaning Albanese set an agenda of red herrings. Dutton should have quickly dismissed some sillines from Albosleazy on Liberal forward projections at the time of the last election and rammed home the point that Labor only did well in 2024 due to coal and resources boom prices that wouldn’t be repeated. The fact that it’s all downhill if Labor gets in just wasn’t properly played. No mention of the ongoing cost of renewing renewables was made either. Nor of the transmission line fiascos. It seems beyond Dutton to paint a word picture that would explain and inspire and garner votes for change.
In contrast, Albosleazy came across as a used car salesman in a bow-tie, selling a dud car with some fancy talk and a polishing cloth. His patter was continual and disarmingly full of fake smiles of sincerity. His unctious grooming of the questionners was pretty vile too. He lied his head off.
But they ended up buying the car. 44 to 35 with 21 abstentions.
If this doesn’t improve soon then the election is already lost.
Lizzie, Andrew Clennell, who is a pretty tough analyst, reckons that it was the best performance of Dutton that he has seen. We agree with him.
The audience was never really “uncommitted”. They come from Labor territory and would be hard to persuade. It is possible – years ago when we owned property in the area we decided to hand out voting papers at the federal election of the time. Husband, as you know is a bit of a charmer, and was helping old ladies out of cars etc. Mob out there don’t see that a lot, & it turned out that out booth swung heavily towards the Coalition!
But back to last night – Dutton did extremely well – although he lost the total vote (expected) there was a huge number of “uncommitted” who I suspect couldn’t declare on the night.
We thought he was less uptight than normal and really, really, knew his material. Albo, as is his won’t, simply waffled on. I was surprised with Dutton – and have more confidence.
BTW the best slogan so far:
ALBO: WEAK, WOKE, AND SENDING US BROKE!
OH! just read the earlier post on the slogan ……yes!
I couldn’t possibly sit through the debate, but I watched Topher earlier on YouTube and he said that they avoided the really big issues that concern Australians.
Usually moves in the US 10 year bond like we are seeing now happen after a liquidity event.
That can be objectively measured in things like the high yield bond spread index blowing out by two standard deviations, major currency re-sets (think the Swiss/USD resetting of their peg) or the easy one defaults (actual defaults, not expected or projected defaults).
Big moves in equity markets and moves in various CDS markets are not liquidity events.
To be clear, the US 10 year bond yield rising like this after the rally to the 3.8’s, even with all the noise, absent a liquidity event, is very very concerning.
Cohenite
Possible cute owl?
Roughly matches your formula from what I can tell.
Python strangler.
Bern
I’ve been told it’s China screwing around the 10 year.
I hope it’s just that.
To sustainably maintain the volume in selling it would have to be either China or someone like a Blackrock, Fidelity or Vanguard (jeebers).
If it’s just a sovereign fund liquidating it’s a buying opportunity.
I just wonder where the $$$ is going to go?
US treasuries versus what?
There literally is not an asset class on the planet that could hold the quantum of money that is held in US treasuries.
Kawasaki have invented… the donkey.
Only much more expensive and less self reliant.
I already have a Kawasaki mule
US shale needs at least USD50 a barrel AFAIK.
Different basins, different fields have different break evens.
Some fields in Texas still make money at with oil at US30/b.
Regional Politics
‘Ludicrous’: Michaelia Cash slams calls for Jacinta Price to be dropped from campaign event in Bunbury
Dylan CapornThe West Australian
Wed, 9 April 2025 2:45PM
Senior Liberals have lashed out at an email calling for Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to be dropped from a campaign event, calling it “ludicrous.”
Senator Michaelia Cash and Forrest Liberal candidate Ben Small both vowed to attend the town hall-style meeting in Bunbury on Friday, after calls from a local academic to drop Senator Price from the event.
The Nightly revealed on Tuesday Renae Isaacs-Guthridge had written to Mr Small calling for the event to be cancelled, and demanding consultation with local elders before Ms Nampijinpa Price was invited to the region.
Senator Cash labelled the email as “ludicrous,” vowing to attend along with Mr Small.
“It is really disappointing, though, that a small group of activists have sought to politicise this event for their own personal event, their own personal benefit,” Senator Cash said.
“The idea that anybody in Australia, including Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, needs to seek permission from someone else to hold an event anywhere in Australia, in this case in Bunbury, is utterly ludicrous.”
Mr Small said he was disgusted by the email, and called on other candidates to support her right to freedom of speech.
“Someone in our community has asserted that they have a veto right over the freedom of movement of a fellow Australian,” he said.
“Now that is particularly offensive in the case of any ordinary Australian but I believe even more so when we are talking about someone who holds high elected office and who happens to be a proud indigenous woman
“I don’t think I’ve ever received an email in a political sense that has been a direct assault against the very freedoms on which this country is built.”
In the email sent on Monday night, Ms Isaacs-Guthridge, an academic at Edith Cowan University and Wardandi Custodian, saying Senator Nampijinpa Price’s positions on the Voice were considered by many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to be “harmful and dismissive of lived experiences.”
“Bringing such perspectives to Wardandi Country without appropriate consultation appears to disregard local cultural protocols and community sentiment,” she said.
She demanded Mr Small cancel the event and clarify which local elders and organisations he consulted before inviting Senator Nampijinpa Price to the area, as well as an explanation of how her presence “aligned with local community interests.”
“The advertising of this event has caused much angst and distress amongst the Noongar community, and we would like an appropriate and immediate response from you,” she wrote.
Senator Nampijinpa Price told The Nightly there was no need to seek permission to visit a region and the claim was “nothing but politically-motivated malice.”
.. and so it is. Good to see Jacinta well able to field that for what it is.
Academic is a dirty word
Love Jacinta and wonder why we are not seeing more of her in this early stage of the election. She speaks beautifully to big audiences. A treasure. Hope the fools in the LNP bring her front and centre and trust the good sense of Aussies.
Jacinta was on Credlin tonight, looking well rested and very articulate.
She demanded Mr Small cancel the event and clarify which local elders and organisations he consulted before inviting Senator Nampijinpa Price
Yeah, well I demand that the Edith Cowan University immediately fire mz Issacs-Guthrie.
Sheesh.
There’s nothing a Proud Aboriginal hates more than… a… proud aboriginal.
*imo it’s a class thing- ie Auntie Peter-Principle Professor Custodian is having her privilege challenged by a self-made and actively elected free agent. As to her assuming to speak on behalf of the united genetic aboriginals in Bunhole… ueah nah. 99% percent don’t give a damn, and the other 1% can be divided into 4 x 0.25% who inhabit board positions of competing Graft Corporations whose main activity seems to be the scramble to invent enough Culture to box out the competition for all the munnnnniiii.
Nobody hates a successful conservative female Aboriginal politician like Aboriginal males and activists generally.
Especially if they don’t toe the line on the Voice.
Very sad news about Keith Windschuttle. Vale Keith. Alan Howe has posted a lovely obituary of Keith in the Oz online. I am happy to post it if you like.
I met Keith once, it was in 2018 (I think) at an Australian Libertarian drink up at a pub in Surry Hills, Lizzie and Hairy were there, and I think Lizzie introduced me. I may have met him at other conservative or libertarian drink ups but I can’t recall. Those days are pre-Covid days and they seem a little blurry now, much like ancient times.
Perhaps I’m indulging in Proustian nostalgia but hearing about Keith’s death today, coming not long after my mother’s, it seems we are losing a unique generation of Australian men and women and we will be the lesser for it as a country and society. Like their parents and grandparents who’d fought in and endured World War I and World War II, the generation born around and during World War II, men such as Keith and women such as my mother, weren’t just stoic like their forebears, they were also a tad eccentric and could be classified as ‘ratbags’, in the best sense of the word. They knew how to have fun, lots of fun. They lived in a country that was truly remarkable except they probably didn’t know it at the time. It was a country booming under Menzies, it was largely homogenous and it was relaxed, it didn’t take itself too seriously. That generation welcomed the changes in Australia after World War II. They endured the Menzies years, probably deep down always knowing they were the best of times but they yearned for something different and adventurous and along came the member for Werriwa and the rest is history….unpleasant history.
They were the days of long dinner parties, where my mother would cook for days to please my father, of drunken barbeques and election parties where people would bicker about politics, drink plenty and then drive home, often with kids in tow. My mother often recalled the election of 1969, both she and my father cried driving home from that election party, when the member for Werriwa lost. I still have a clear memory of my parents returning home from their 1972 election party, my father drunk and jumping up and down with joy at the result.
Except that joy didn’t last. Both Mum and Dad woke up to the reality of Whitlam and co very early on, my mother did not make the same mistake at the 1974 election. That generation, whilst they might indulge in a gamble, knew when that gamble was a mistake, unlike today’s generation. Why? Because Keith and my mother were of a generation much better educated than today’s. There’s no way my mother and Keith’s generation would reelect Abalone, no way in the world.
Oh so sorry to hear of Keith’s passing. Loved his work and his defence against the Woke who have been determined to destroy colonial history.
We were down in Tasmania on a car rally (of all things) & I learned about a lecture/presentation at the University of Tasmania on the question of early contact with Aborigines and Australian colonial history. I had a bit of time – so I went. I was appalled at what I heard from the likes of Stuart MacIntyre and others. Quaintly, What I was most disturbed about was the apparent lack of footnotes in modern work. I spoke to Keith later about it, telling him I was a bit rusty in contemporary historical method. He was gentlemanly is bringing me up to date with the standards (or lack thereof) in historical method in universities. Ideology was the mark of success.
He fought a valiant and noble fight. Vale Keith.
Better educated, even though many did go past Year 8, or at most Year 10.
They could read, comprehend and debate what they read, write fluently and neatly, and add up a shopping bill in their heads. How many of today’s “graduates” can do that?
And WHAT they read was superior to the drivel written today.
I cannot recall if I stumbled upon Andrew Bolt or Keith Windschuttle first (I suspect the latter), but whoever it was, it was the beginning of my path from Lennon ignorance to jaded, bitter, cynical, disengaged but still-passionate-in-lucid-moments conservatism.
Mr. Windschuttle’s work to shine a light on the darker-emu corners of Aboriginal reconstructed history was revelatory to me, and Quadrant was something I devoured (though the poetry wasn’t really my ‘thing’ – each to his own).
At some point in perhaps 2013 or 2013, I stumbled upon Sinc’s Cat, and lurked for a year or two before dipping my toe into the turbulent water. I arrived at the same time as Stimpy, and the two of us, given our unfamiliarity with the protocols, were immediately branded as trolls. Meh.
I come and go here, dependent upon the ebb and flow of my life, and sometimes upon my frustration with random collections of pixels, some of whom I’m convinced are real-life versions of South Park characters.
Catallaxy, however, and all that came before it (including Tim Blair’s site for a bit, though I never commented), has been a respite from the surreality of The Simulation.
I’ve digressed as usual, but my point was that none of this would have taken place had Mr. Keith Windschuttle not had the personal and professional courage to challenge the powerful princes and princesses of academia and state bureaucracy.
Requiescat in Pace.
Let it never be said that one man can’t make a difference.
Although I’m sure Keith would be the first to acknowledge that he couldn’t have done it alone.
Keith Windschuttle.
Australia’s Erasmus.
Trump’s Trade War: Sovereignty vs. Global Order | Walter Russell Mead
A blonde goes into a store and sees a shiny object on the shelf.
She asks the clerk, “What is that shiny object?”
The clerk replies, “That is a thermos.”
The blonde then asks, “What does it do?”
The clerk responds, “It keeps hot things hot and it keeps cold things cold.”
The blonde says, “Oh! I could use something like that!! I’ll take it!”
The next day, as she walks into work with her new thermos she spots her boss and shows off her shiny new thermos,
“I just got this yesterday, isn’t it wonderful! It’s a thermos and it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold!”
The boss asks, “So what do you have in it?”
The blonde replies, “Some hot coffee and an ice cream.”
War, Arky? Trump is leading the west into to war with China, is he? He didn’t mention that on the campaign trail. In fact, he spent a lot of energy railing against the concept of World War III.
Putin would be loving this. All his enemies and rivals fighting each other. Just what he has worked for all these years.
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Everyone who’s really looking knows China has been preparing for war in the Pacific for a decade now.
I didn’t spend four years learning mandarin in order to shit all over China, indeed the exact opposite.
But only a fool would deny the obvious change in the outward demeanour of the CCP towards the West.
I was very lucky, my language tutor at university was a victim of the Cultural Revolution, and was therefore able to give a first hand account of that terrible crime, and what occurred in his village when the cadres came.
It a terrible thing that our universities today have been purged of people like him, and replaced with the exact same scum who left the dead in that village well nearly sixty years ago.
I was taught by people who knew exactly what the CCP was from personal experience.
We poured over XinHua in class and were taught not just to translate the mandarin, but the messages between the lines.
Today, in Australian schools, the teaching of Mandarin is controlled by CCP operatives, using tutors imported directly from China.
The take over occurred in the early 2000s, and the population is largely oblivious to it, as they were oblivious to the systematic movement of our industrial base to China in the 80s and 90s.
A grand nephew was given a viciously awful time by the Head Teacher and threatened with expulsion after he complained about the agression of the Chinese teacher (a Chinese national) and about her favouring the Chinese students.
He was accused of racism.
The morons failed to reckon on the protective strength of country mums. The Head sought a truce, which lasted only until the b+=tch marked down all of the Aussie students.
The subsequent brawl has elevated to State level with the Teachers Union seeking the death penality. Well – maybe not the deah penalty but damned near. Kieth Pitt was outstanding.
That excludes mUntard.
Piss off, Nazi, go play with your Hamas buddies. Like you, they also don’t like ‘rabid Zionists‘ aka Jews.
Stop playing nice and just ban him. Concervatives or “glibertarians” get no credit for being nice.
Ignore the troll.
Ban him.
Banning would be a badge of honour to it.
Just ignore it by scrolling past.
Do not engage at all, as its distorted mind sees abuse as validation.
Yep, but who would he brag the badge to?
…no-one.
Roll back indigenous entitlements when you’re in power then, Senator Cash.
One nation, one citizenry, one set of rights and duties.
And, in traditional Aboriginal societies, the esteemed academic, being a sheila, would have zero say.
Taxpayer support for traditional aboriginal societies, i.e. Whitlam’s remote communities, should be incrementally unwound. If they can make it work without, good for them.
I’m in stitches how our reserve bank is falling over themselves to give us the rate cuts we need and deserve.
I’m backing the US over China. He’s mocking them, daring them to prematurely invade Taiwan whereby they will get their arses truly kicked to kingdom come. No plan survives contact with the enemy, but Chinese hubris refuses that obvious fact.
But I prefer Mike Tyson’s more blunt and simple assessment, that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
China’s “experience” is limited to war games, while America’s is entrenched in conflicts across the planet. Grab yer popcorn.
Okay cohenite, I listened to Gutfeld for four minutes like you suggested.
All he said was that there would be short term pain for guaranteed long term gain. He gave no evidence that there would be gain in the end from any of this.
It sounds very much like Reaganite trickledown economics. Tax cuts for billionaires will electrify the economy and deliver bounties for us all! Except that did not happen at all. The rich sat on their piles of gold like Smaug the dragon, stuffed their profits in offshore bank accounts and waited for another tax amnesty like Dubbya did that one time.
You may be so gullible as to be fooled by that nonsense once again, but I am a lot more cynical about the rich and their motives. Giving them yet more money to throw on their Scrooge McDuck swimming pools of coinage is not going to unlock some magical economic powerhouse of growth.
When I google trickle down economics I get Roy Rogers, not Ronnie Reagan. I summarily dismissed everything else you had to say which is prudent.
So far the promises of investment into the US from multiple companies is well over a trillion dollars.
Especially car companies, steel companies and chip manufacturers.
AS opposed to having you here, which is long term for no gain.
gullible? anyone who thinks “trickle down economics’ is reality is totally deranged; if you run a business who gets first bite of the revenue? employees, then you pay suppliers, then rent and overheads. What’s left trickles up to the equity owners, maybe after gouging by management.
not forgetting usury level of tax
mUnty on economics. Back on the horse.
Sorry guys, but I promise to be a lot nicer going forward.
“Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to strengthen strategic bonds with neighbouring nations by “appropriately” managing differences and enhanced supply chain ties.” SCMP.
Sounds like a backwards slithering of the most extreme kind. Trump 1, Jingping 0.
Pick up the phone, Chairman Xi.
chuckle
It’s so obvious. China needs America more than America needs China. By a great amount.
“It’s the trade balance, stupid!”
Oh look, the PM refuses to rule out a preference deal with the Australian Nazi Party…………
PM refuses to rule out preference deal with Greens
On the same day Adam Bandt declared Labor will need crossbench support to govern, Anthony Albanese dodged questions about whether his party will direct preferences to the Greens.
Our Nazi will be happy!
WHO Really Killed President Kennedy? | Shane Stevens
Recent events have certainly taken our political class by surprise.
Donald Horne had them nailed 60 years ago.
Because our “intellectual” elite have the intellect of a sloth, and the speed to match.
That might be prejudicial to sloths, Beery.
The artless dodger.
China is the Auto Capital of the World
“China is the world’s largest car producer and exporter. A little-known fact is that China first became the world’s largest car exporter back in 2023, with low-cost EV companies BYD and Chery in the spotlight. The nation’s auto sector has been steadily expanding since then, with Chinese brands reaching an all-time high of 69.4% of domestic passenger vehicle market share in Q1 2025.
The growing popularity of higher-tech, EV cars has aided China’s auto sector. BYD overtook Tesla to become the world’s top EV company. BYD actually surpassed Tesla in terms of revenue back in 2018, but the two companies had tight competition. As of 2024, BYD exported 4.27 million vehicles worldwide, compared to Tesla’s 1.79 million vehicle sales. In 2025, BYD delivered 416,388 BEVs, exceeding Tesla’s 336,681 vehicles for two consecutive quarters. BYD surpassed Tesla in annual revenue for the first time in 2024, generating $107 billion (29% YoY increase) after experiencing a 40% increase in battery electric and hybrid vehicle sales. Tesla posed a slight 0.95% YoY growth in 2024, generating $97.7 billion in revenue, but auto sales accounted for only $72.5 billion of total revenue.
Overall, China exported 5.86 million vehicles in 2024, a 19.3% annual increase. Mexico, Russia, Brazil, and the UAE were the top buyers. China sold 4.96 million passenger vehicles (19.7% YoY increase), 900,000 commercial vehicles (17.5% YoY increase), and 1.28 million new energy vehicles, as well as 987,000 battery-electric vehicles.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/china-is-the-auto-capital-of-the-world/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
May your EVs fail you in the remotest location possible with no hope of spare parts.
The Chery is a copy of the Chevolet, who trusted the celestials with their IP
Big things happening:
Trump goes gangbusters on coal power and coal mining to supply AI energy demand « JoNova
I always thought, that our immigration laws were very lax, getting permanent residency and citizenship too easy and after too short a time.
Sometimes granted on ridiculous grounds, as was posted here recently.
But I would never have guessed, that of all places, South Africa to be a desired place for white immigrants.
Did we have this all wrong for ideological reasons?
Why I’m saying this, I received a jubilant message from a white immigrant to SA who after 7 years got her permanent residency, had to renew her visa every two years previously.
(her family is white, not a mixed marriage, she is from the UK)
Looked up a few facts. Link
Home Affairs Minister:
“However, the number of years spent in the country will not qualify a person to apply for naturalisation. The process of granting residence and citizenship status should allow strategic and security considerations and the national priorities of South Africa to be taken into account.”
They have a large number of migrant workers from countries to the north of them.
Oh, wait…
Proposed ANZAC Day Thread.
Upstream I posted my proposal for Cats and Kittehs to acknowledge Australians who have given their life (in uniform) in the service of their country.
Here’s how easy it is:
Some time periods and services contain more biographical information than others. For example, Second World War AIF or CMF (Militia) personnel files are often available online, free of charge, via the National Archives of Australia’s RecordSearch database. You’ll need a full name or service number to narrow down the search options (don’t worry about the year boxes), and the records may contain baffling jargon, but sometimes you can strike it lucky with an interesting fact.
This ‘further information’ is OPTIONAL, however, not a necessity. If you follow steps 1 to 4 above, you’ll be doing more to acknowledge that life-once-lived than has probably occurred in many moons.
P.S. The 1 to 4 above is only a suggestion for those who may not know where to start. Feel free to post anything you consider will positively contribute to the goal of the thread.
JC at 6:12
In related news, the fox has pledged that the chooks have nothing to fear if he is permitted into the chookhouse.
Qualify as cute owls?
Venice Beach 1986.
PHOAR!! PHOAR!! said young Zulu Kilo, who had come top of his class in English..
Federal election 2025: Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson targeted by Labor as PM spruiks $130k donation drive
A student at a Queensland university claims they lost marks on an assessment for not including an acknowledgement of country.
The student, who attends the University of Sunshine Coast, received the feedback for a speech as part of her Diversity, Crime, and Justice course – with the student two weeks away from graduating with a Bachelor of Criminology and Justice degree.
In the assessment feedback, which has been sighted by this masthead, the marker wrote: “An acknowledgement of country would have been appropriate given your chosen topic”.
In the same note, the marker wrote “your speech was respectful and mostly clear”.
The student, who wants to enter the police service, told 4BC Radio’s Peter Fegan she would have “got one or two extra marks” had she included an acknowledgement of country as part of her speech.
“I just obviously addressed the general feedback with the lecturer of what I could have done better, and marked out all the points of what I did wrong, and one of them, obviously, was the acknowledgement of country,” she told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast.
“I said ‘what’s with this? Did I lose any marks?’. He said ‘if you did one, you would have essentially got one or two extra marks’.
“But it wasn’t addressed in the criteria.”
The student said she was “annoyed” that she got marked down for it, considering how much she had paid for her degree.
“I (was) quite annoyed, I go off the criteria sheet, and whatever is on there I address, and the fact that it wasn’t on a criteria sheet and I still got marked down for it, that’s pretty annoying,” she said.
Should the student have lost marks for not doing acknowledgement of country?
Yes 4%
No 96%
2096 votes
“I’m paying $60,000 for this degree, it’s really not fair.”
The student went on to claim that social work classes as part of the degree were “very judgmental”.
“The social work classes and all the working with Indigenous cultural people, those classes are very judgmental, and they are very opinionated,” she claimed.
“I think you can be respectful while still having your own opinions.”
A University of Sunshine Coast spokeswoman said “there is no assessment allocated to inclusion of an acknowledgement of country in this course”.
“In one of the criminology courses on diversity and criminal justice, students can choose to do a First Nations topic for one of their tasks, and while they are encouraged to do an acknowledgement of country if they elect to do this topic, there are no marks allocated for this,” the spokeswoman said.
“Individual tutors provide feedback to students, but without more information we can’t look into the specifics of this.”
Courier-Mail complete article
Great minds, Top Ender!
Ross Greenwood as moderator loves the sound of his own voice, he is overexplaining both answers and interrupting lot.
Adelaide Advertiser poll:
Who do you think won the debate?
Anthony Albanese 22 %
Peter Dutton 78 %
20,198 votes
Not bad for normally left leaning Adelaide
Uni student loses marks after failing to include an acknowledgement of country on one of her final assessments: ‘I’m paying $60,000 for this degree!’
Daily Mail.
I’ve heard it said that it’s unique that, a race, conquered so totally as the Australian Aborigine, after such an ineffectual resistance, got to dictate the terms of surrender.
Take gloves off. Sue.
Channel surfing, Logans Run is on World Movies.
Available for free via the app if you dont have the channel.
1976.
There was a little chat upthread about banning the Gimp.
I am against the ban. If it were banned, I would not be able to post videos of what the Gimp gets up to during the hour he is allowed out of the rubber suit. 😀
https://x.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1904737541246370194
A good history of the demorats and their hypocrisy about Trump:
When millions of illegals were ushered in through the southern border, you said nothing!
When they abandoned millions of dollars worth of military equipment in Afghanistan, you said nothing!
When they flaunted a two tier justice system, one for them and one for everyone else, you said nothing!
When they covered up the Hunter Biden laptop, you said nothing!
When they passed a trillion dollar infrastructure bill that failed miserably, you said nothing!
When they forced Americans to take an untested vaccine, you said nothing!
When inflation crushed the middle class, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Ukraine, you said nothing!
When chemicals polluted the water in East Palestine, Ohio and they ignored it, you said nothing!
When Americans were raped, robbed and murdered by illegals, you said nothing!
When they implanted Kamala as the presidential nominee without getting a single vote, you said nothing!
When billionaire and anti American George Soros funded dozens of AG elections, you said nothing!
When they turned our classrooms into liberal indoctrination camps, you said nothing!
When they spent our tax dollars on inmates transition surgeries, you said nothing!
When they gave the citizens of Hawaii $700 after losing their entire city, you said nothing!
When they gave free money, food and 5 star hotel lodging to illegals, you said nothing!
When they came for our free speech, you said nothing!
When DEI weakened the military and put our national security at risk, you said nothing!
When they colluded with the media to push false reports, you said nothing!
When it was open season on law enforcement and criminals reigned, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the justice system to take down their political opponents, you said nothing!
When the bureaucrats took over the White House and ran the government, you said nothing!
When they covered up Biden’s rapidly declining mental state, you said nothing!
When they groomed our kids in school and hid it from the parents, you said nothing!
When the drug epidemic exploded and 1000s died annually, you said nothing!
When they accosted the jews on their campuses, you said nothing!
When they weaponized the intelligence agencies against Americans, you said nothing!
When they spent $45 million dollars on “Diversity and Inclusion” scholarships in Burma, you said nothing!
When they let men play women’s sports, you said nothing!
When they chanted “Death to America” and burned our flag, you said nothing!
When they shutdown our energy production, and emboldened Russia, you said nothing!
When the crime rates in American cities increased, you said nothing!
While thousands of veterans were left to sleep out on the streets, you said nothing!
When 300,000 migrant children went missing and no one had a clue, you said nothing!
When Joe Biden pardoned his friends and family, you said nothing!
When they sent billions to Iran and inadvertently funded Hamas, you said nothing!
When men were celebrated for pretending to be women, you said nothing!
When they let a Chinese Spy Ballon sail across America, you said nothing!
When 50 intelligence agents all lied to bury the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, you said nothing!
When American citizens were taken hostage and held for a year in Gaza, you said nothing!
When Facebook admitted, they conspired with the Biden administration to censor the truth, you said nothing!
When they cleaned the streets of San Francisco for the communist Chinese President Xi Jinping, you said nothing!
When Fauci and the WHO peddled covid 19 virus lies and covered up the origins, you said nothing!
When they sealed the January 6th commission files or “lost them”, you said nothing!
You saw the corruption, the lies, the bad policy, the anti American agenda and said nothing, so please spare us your crocodile tears and all your fake hysteria now. For 4 years you watched this country get run into the ground on all fronts and you said nothing!
Now, it’s our turn!!!!
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Oky doc.
Before I’m off to sleep.
Yesterday transited McKellar, Badbury and that skank Steggal’s seat.
Liberals leaving no stone unturned with corflutes. Appearance of a lot of resources invested.
From the Oz. Rolling on the floor, pizzing myself laughing.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is in danger of losing his western Sydney seat of McMahon to local tech millionaire Matt Camenzuli, according to independent polling showing power bills a top concern.
Mr Bowen holds the seat, which has always been in ALP hands, with a margin of about 10 per cent after an electoral redistribution, but Compass polling taken last weekend shows him on just 19 per cent support, well behind independent candidate Mr Camenzuli on 41 per cent.
Not only does the polling show Mr Bowen behind the local businessman, but also just below the Liberal support of 20 per cent.
The distribution of Liberal preferences could decide the outcome on election night.
Liar seat on 10% marginal? Wonder how many others are also? I’m not sure I put any faith in the major polls.
Tech billionaire eh?
Is it within his techie-computwr-thingy power to salt the poll?
Sub Gillardian.
Whatever else happens if this bastard loses his seat some justice still exists in the Universe.
Will have destroyed more of the nation’s wealth than putting union hack Stephen Conroy in charge of telecommunications.
Please let this come true.
Let it be true.
Reply to Lizzie
Thank you for your post. So what you are reporting ( I didn’t see it ) is that 21 people out of 100 weren’t prepared to commit to saying who won the debate. That’s a huge percentage, regardless of audience bias. Says to me that the sitting PM Albo is in lots of trouble.
Yes, Mem, I take Vicki’s point that the area was a Labor electorate. Still, the questions raised by at least two of the questioners were not in any way from ‘swinging’ voters who were supposed to comprise the audience. Some latr commenters awarded Dutton points for keeping his cool, and I can understand that. Neither Hairy nor I could keep ours in front of the TV looking at Albosleazy’s lying performance. But Dutton still needs to seem more talkative and less severe, imo anyway.
The common parlance for Albosleazy is Albo. I noted on Credlin tonight she used the term Dutts for Dutton. I think this is nice. It is humanising and deformalising. Having a nickname is worth a few points electorally perhaps if this goes down to the wire as it may, so maybe we could start using Dutts. If it caught on it would be better than the dereogatory ‘Spud’? Even worse is Mister Potato Head. Rather like honorific Mister in Mister Magoo.
@cb_doge
Democrats issued Social Security numbers to millions of criminal aliens. Below is a graph of new non-citizen Social Security numbers issued.
Their plan was clear: import illegal immigrants, grant them legal status and transform America into a deep-blue socialist state.
Same-same here with the Mueslis.
Meme
@WallStreetMav
How?
Xi puts an 84% tariff on US imports.
Trimp’s playing Winnie like a fiddle. Caught in his own image cult and unable to ignore the shame of appearing the weaker party in trade war.
A smart leader would ignore the provocation and appeal to sense and order. Xi can’t do that because he’s a communist fossil without the ability to pivot.
There’ll be great discontent amongst the very wealthy in China who’ll see Xi’s military bravado and economic sculduggery as the cause of this disaster.
@amuse
TERROR: Top Democrat campaign strategist, Lauren Young, took to Facebook to call on Iran assassinate President Trump. This isn’t fringe rhetoric, it’s emblematic. The Democratic Party is the party of political violence.
@MikeBenzCyber
The role of riots and large-scale street protests in The Blob’s standard toolkit for toppling popular democratically elected governments — and how they’re taking that toolkit to Tesla. (today on @VinceCoglianese).
Meme!
@madelynrogers
The same thing happened in the 1930s. Militarization then War.