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ooooh, I got the Deuce!
Johannes Leak.
And despite such stupidity, it looks like people will be voting Labor into power with Green’s control.
14000.00 = 1400.00 per year cost. Power bills must be really going up if you are going to save more than that on your power bill each year.
in reality it will be storage for power companies – you wont get your feed in tariffs because charging you battery instead, and the power company will be able to drain your battery with their smart meters when they want your power – like to run essential services. Lose, lose as far as I can see!
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Thanks again Tom.
Clarice Feldman:
“I’m not sure how the reciprocal tariff policies will be administered. I believe nations individually will negotiate the exact terms. Argentina has already agreed with the President that neither country will impose any tariffs on products from the other. Vietnam has sought an appointment to negotiate terms with us, as have, according to the President, many other nations. Yes, there’s been some tough talk by leaders of countries who have benefited from the present system, but the U.S. is the largest consumer market in the world, which is the most significant bargaining chip. We have also been very generous donors and lenders. French President Emmanuel Macron yapped that French companies should stop investing here. Ric Grenell, presidential envoy for special missions, responds that we should cancel the $5 billion loan we made to France’s Total Energies African LNG project.”
Read more: The Fruits of Trump’s Audacious Policies – American Thinker
It also covers those hot button legal matters – TROs, Roberts’ Friends!
So-called “independent” candidates maybe not be so independent at all? A remarkable overlap with Climate200 linked to Simon Holmes A’ Court. Find out if there is a candidate in your electorate here https://www.climate200.com.au/candidates
Why aren’t they registered as a party when they have shared branding, livery, website, funding and operate as a group?
If there is a so-called independent on the list for your electorate contact them and ask them directly if they are funded by Climate 200.
Good idea. So many so called independents are crypto green or alp.
Thanks, I thought Suzie Holt was a Teal, now I know.
And why is the AEC turning a blind eye to this obvious racket?
Thanks for the link Mem.
Seeing, and reading the bios, of the 36 candidates (SHoC “products”) all together on the one page, what screams out from that page is the complete lack of ethnic and cultural diversity.
How utterly unAustralian.
Exactly. And we see in the bios all the usual leftie cliched buzz words. Sick.
eg
community builder,
advocate for equity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability.
fostering vibrant, inclusive communities where diversity is celebrated and sustainable practices flourish.
I must thank them for putting together a comprehensive Sh!t List. It also explains Wilkie!
And we have one in Sturt, good to know.
I think I am at stage 5 on the the Kubler Ross scale.
Acceptance.
My vote is not going to change anything and the fact that this disgusting excuse for a government is still in the race is mind numbing.
I shall sit back and watch as the West continues to commit suicide.
The Chinese, Muslims and Indians can fight over the carcass.
The youth have been indoctrinated and the ultimate insult will be Labor doing a deal with the Greens.
Good luck.
I have a friend who is in Adam Brandt’s electorate and up until recently voted for him and the Greens. I asked him if it came down to one vote difference that enabled the Greens to take-over and run the whole country would he take responsibity, as it was his vote that put them into power. He was taken aback and later told me he had considered what I’d said he was no longer voting Greens.
Your vote counts. A lot of people have fought and laid down their lives so you can have the privilege of voting. Don’t squander it.
I also live in Bandt’s electorate but have never voted for him. It’s good to know some may be changing their minds about him. Thanks for a ray of hope, Mem.
Does that mean he’s now changing his vote back to Labor, in protest?
LOL.
I didn’t ask but I’d suspect so. He reads the Age and listens to and watches ABC propaganda.
Unfortunately, it’s not the casting vote.
A lot of Americans died and they don’t have compulsory voting.
Agreed, the people haven’t been hurt badly enough yet….
Here we go. Does he not realise that these serpents would never vote for him anyway??? SFL’s.
From the Oz.
Peter Dutton will dump his demands that public servants return to the office and will not hand out any forced redundancies to taxpayer-funded workers, in a backflip designed to reboot the Opposition Leader’s campaign and win back female voters.
The Coalition will on Monday unveil a five-year plan to reduce the bureaucracy by 41,000 people through hiring freezes and not always replacing workers who retire or resign.
After months of confusion over how the Coalition would slash public servant numbers, and the weaponisation of the Opposition Leader’s criticism of bureaucrats working from home, The Australian understands the jettisoning of a return-to-the-office policy was part of “cleaning up” the negativities of Mr Dutton’s campaign.
Only last month he said he did not believe that “61 per cent of the public servants who are working in Canberra should be working from home”.
“I think they should return to work, back to pre-Covid levels which was just over 20 per cent of people who work from home, so we could help people get that balance in their lives, but also deliver efficiency in the way in which they are expending the money that’s given them by Australian taxpayers,” he said at the time.
What about the life/work balance of plumbers, electricians, building workers? How come nobody cares that they are stuck in traffic every day and have to deal with road tolls?
One other thing, if public servants can work from home they don’t need to live in Canberra, move them back into Green electorates from which they came.
Yes. More class warfare. Words cannot describe how much I despise canbra.
They (Public Serpents working from home) should be made to move to Country towns and areas to see how the real world lives.
Spineless, jelly-back and several other squishy wordz should always precede any mention of Dudzy ……
All public serpents should be in the “office” .. any PS jerb that can be dun from, solely, home should be scrapped & the wukka redundarized .. Public Service meanz serving the public not sitting on the lounge in your “jarmies” tapping at a keyboard between coffee & crumbs ………!
I keep saying it we have 5 times the population of Enzed but 25 times the number of public servants.All 3 tiers.Being generous we have 400 percent more public servants than we need.Two and a half million public servants means I think that one in fifteen adults is a public servant.
Dutton and the jellybacks have decided they dont want to be left holding the flaming bag of dog poo labelled “Australian quality of life”.
That’s the election right there as far as I am concerned. Dutton flip flopping on an issue like this – they’ve had years to get their ducks in a row. And for what, public servants voting in seats that would never vote for him anyway. Can’t vote for them for the third time federally now.
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Nice.
I hope in the split second before they became a stain on the gravel, their brains registered a terrifying “oh feck!”.
Aaron – well said. It reflects my incredulity this morning. Dutton had apparently retreated from his promise to cut the Public Service’s bloated numbers and to insist that they actually come to work!
What thuh?….
My heart breaks for so many Australians. I have never totally trusted polling. The US elections proved that. But the LNP lost its nerve. It doesn’t deserve to govern. We need REAL leaders as the threat of China grows. God help us.
At least he is listening. What he has changed to is a viable way to achieve a reduction. It is a better policy. So I’m not critical. It’s just a shame that this wasn’t worked through prior to going public. It will affect the polls.
Correct. I just can’t get over the public flip flopping
Reduction? Rounding errors at best.Cut numbers ih half and go from there.
Nah, take the DOGE strategy – cut *everything* and add back as needed. This is apparently how restructuring of failed businesses works – make *every* department justify their budget.
Agree after 2013 to 2022 they don’t deserve to govern but anal deserves to.lose and Australia doesn’t deserve anal.
Looks like people will be turning to the Greens in protest against Anal. Go figure.
Jeez I hope not. I know some idiots out there still think they are for wombats and bilbies
Bloody hell! .. Luigi is the”pitz” but the Greens as an alternative FFS! ……….
Wonderfully put!.. beatz just coming out & sayin’ “We, the vote-herd, is F****ed whoever winz ……. LOL!
It’s a moral dilemma.
Reposting my comment on Dutton dumping the candidate for Whitlam , Benjamin Britton.
Haven’t looked into Britton at all but I stand by what I said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zleO9T543ns
Watch the above link for some relevant context.
Also; Is Turnbull still a member of the LP? If so, why?
Yes I ask the same question re trumble
They owe him a lot of money from the 2016 election
The Libs still owe him a million dollars.
I could never rejoin while that repulsive narcissist is a member.
Why does he get repaid and ordinary donors not?
Didn’t we have a minor, media, uproar, not so long ago, about the dumbing down of various military training courses cos …..wimmenz …. found ’em too tuff?
Methinx, Dudzy can be “swayed” on anything if a coupla media ouletz have a pile-on ….
Reality is when the going getz bumpy the Dudzy getz wobbly ..!
To quote from the Army Homepage:
The role of the Royal Australian Infantry is to seek out and close with the enemy, to kill or capture them, to seize and hold ground, and to repel attack, by day or night, regardless of season, weather or terrain.
You go gurl!!
I still wonder who the buggery is advising Dutton. I could do a much much better job as could so many posters here. Never a good idea announcing you’re going to sack people but asking pubes to come to ‘work’ is eminently reasonable
Not much different from his Kirribilli/Canberra living idea .. Didn’t need to say anything just wait until after (if he won) the election then .. do it …!
I imagine the “advisors” of both major parties would include a significant number of Brittnahs, Brucies and Shazzahs
Newspoll.
Labor edges ahead in latest Newspoll as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gains ground on key leadership traits (Sky News, 7 Apr)
Everything is feelz. It’s amazing that the punters can’t seem to see how catastrophic the Albanese government has been.
It seems we are simply copying our Canadian cousins in committing political suicide.
They may see catastrophy, so their brains probably intend voting Greens in protest. Certainly Family First is not registering anywhere in the polls.
“Better leader” polling is irrelevant and doesn’t determine which party punters vote for.
Will a Dudzy gummint be any better …… This election is a lose, lose affair for the vote-herd … despoil the paper(s), vote minor, vote independent & we still lose cos it’ll be either Luigi or Dudzy in the Lodge ……..
Pound to a pinch of shit.
IF (And it’s a big if), Dutton limps over the line, it will be Abbott redux.
Wets inside will move against him promising the solution is to move from the hard right to a more central stance.
That being a Tally Ho paper to the right of Anal and co.
A pox on the lot of them.
22 Seats to win + flip-flopping? Dudzy is no chance. As bad as things are, this country is not buggered enough yet. Time to fire up the still – it’s gonna be a long 3 years.
What you expect when you import half to a million strong voteherd every year
Sorry to go on but the edit function timed out on me.
I watched that clip and cannot find a single thing wrong with what he says. (If that’s all he said on the issue)
He stipulates combat roles.
Just common sense, my son saw this during his basic training, many girls not able to hack what is required and getting injured in greater numbers.
Same thing applies to women playing hard contact sports like the AWFL.
You cannot hold what Britton said in contempt and at the same time say men cosplaying as women should not play in women’s sports.
Or is that what you really think, Mr Dutton, you stupid windsock.
You cannot hold what Britton said in contempt and at the same time say men cosplaying as women should not play in women’s sports.
Yes you can. You are conflating different issues. Do I hear an abusive tone?
Did he say something else?
Not sure what you’re getting at with “abusive tone”.
What Britton said, in essence, is men and women are not equal in the physical sense. Men are inherently stronger, larger, more aggressive etc.
So how can one decry that statement and yet support getting biological men out of women’s sport, which is what I thought would be a core conservative principle. It should be a common principle across the board but we know it’s not with some.
Damn good fun!
Travis Pastrana took the checker.
The Best Birthday Present EVER!!!
It’s always nice when the left are made to eat their own shit, it’s something our own stupid fcking Liberals and Nationals just can’t seem to grasp.
At Tel Aviv airport on the weekend, Israel banned entry and turned away two UK far-left, known Israel hating, female Labour politicians, one with the non-indigenous surname of ‘Mohamed’, the other with the equally non-indigenous surname of ‘Yang’, both women having arrived in Tel Aviv with two respective aides claiming to be on UK parliamentary business although there appears to be no official record of such official parliamentary business. No, in fact the two far-left skanks took it up on themselves to travel to Israel to stir up trouble. And of course, the two attention seeking far-left Israel and Jew hating skanks have stirred up trouble, and cue the predictable outrage from the UK government and in particular from Humpty Dumpty Fatso David Lammy, perhaps the most embarrassing low IQ moron ever to be given a UK government portfolio..
Never mind that the UK, over the last two decades, has banned entry to Islam critic Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, David Wood, Lauren Southern and many others, usually commentators of the right or religious Christians to speak up against Islam, never mind that the UK Labour government back in 2008 banned Dutch commentator and politician Gert Wilders (Wilders challenged that banning in a UK court and won), never mind that UK Labour governments have banned entry to various right-wing Israeli politicians, never mind that Humpty Dumpty Lammy said back in 2017 that then US President Trump ‘was not welcome in the UK‘. Never mind that Humpty Dumpty Lammy and Fuhrer Sturmer both support the arrest warrant issued by the corrupt ICC against Benjamin Netanyahu, never mind that Humpty Dumpty Lammy and Fuhrer Sturmer have both said that the UK would arrest Netanyahu if he was ever to land in any part of the UK.
Oh the stench of leftist hypocrisy!
The whole thing was a set-up , knowing they’d get media publicity, who goes sthru Customs and sez, “I’m here to protest your gummint policies” and doesn’t expect a backlash ……?
Amazing how the left only discover free speech when it suits them.
Nice to see them, and a couple of others get turned back after flying all the way there.
I have no wish to set foot in Britain ever again. Thanks again to my forebears for emigrating.
My 1st trip back 2013 after 46 years here (1967) was just a quickie as I was on my way to the USA .. never had any plans to go “home” but got circumvented by 2 of my kids calling into Geordie-land earlier in the year so leaving me with no excuse ….
Anywayz, quick stop-over left me feeing guilty so in 2016 went for a month .. That was enuf to convince me my original Oz 10pound tourist “2 years” holiday plan that was closing in on its 50th year had been a roaring success ..! Now, no probs I just claim .. too old to travel ..
One of my forbears was a cockney – born and bred in East London.
None of that tribe there now – ethnically cleansed.
I have never been to the UK and now will not – I can be outspoken and forthright at times and the land of speakers corner in Hyde Park is now the land of the late night arrest for not having the correct opinions.
I have a large tabloid sized pictorial from the beginning of WW11- a British publication for propaganda/morale purposes, entitled “ The freedoms we defend”.
The current equivalent would be a pretty slim document.
Astroturf all the way down.
“Geofenced Every Event”: Democrats Caught Staging Another ‘Inorganic’ Color Revolution Operation Against Trump (7 Apr)
Lots of interesting stuff. I especially liked the protester who was interviewed: he couldn’t say what his sign meant and when pressed had to pull out a card with talking points on it.
Closing USAID will slow things down a bit but I suspect there’s a lot more fraudulent conduits into taxpayer money than just USAID. Social Security especially.
@berniemoreno
It’s fascinating to watch democrats and their media allies gas light Americans by telling them car prices *might* go up with tariffs by up to $6,000.
During the Biden administration, car prices *actually* went up by $8,000 (20%). Total silence.
And the NVES will add a 10k ‘fine’ to the cost of your tradie ute here within 5 years
The report into the Kiwi’s hydrographic canoe choosing to survey by touch has dropped.
The official release is an interesting albeit frustrating read.
Witness 2, who was on the helm, and seemingly the only member of Ship’s Company who was officially qualified to operate the vessel without adult supervision will be for the high jump.
The CO, CMDR Dijk, DEI, might not be able to scissor her way out of getting boned too:
She took command in December 2022, but was presumably too busy getting more important boxes ticked to sort that one out.
On the plus side, she did get the crew away without losing any lives.
Although luck probably played a bigger part in that minor miracle than any command experience she brought from her previous career as a school teacher:
I expect she will resign.
In such a small naval force her name will be known forevermore.
Given one of the reasons she signed on was to get the retention bonus so she and girlfriend could open a cafe, she’ll be negotiating her payout right now.
The only way Mr Dutton might have in perhaps winning the election in this climate, is if he goes nuclear on spending and promises every layabout in the country that the government will fund them a new house (and if that doesn’t work, up the ante to fully furnished).
Afraid so John.
The energy debate doesn’t work because every Credit Card Karen won’t know the lights will go out until they go out.
I shouldn’t be surprised by now but I still feel astonished at how ignorant, evil, corrupt and just plain nasty the meja is both here and in the USA.
That’s why I think they should be the first to lose power when the blackouts start.
TV and radio, two hours per day, one channel/station per network for major players only, news only, no commentary or advertising.
Newspapers limited to three sheets of paper, ie, twelve pages, news only, no commentary or advertising.
Not happy with that? No power at all, keep the fridges and freezers going in shops and suburbia. They will give more value.
Not surprising at all when they are educated by universities whose main aim is to enrol as many international students, teach all students how to erase history and foment “change”. Not exactly skills that are useful in nation-building and economy-fortifying.
My old workplace, a university, even had a an elective unit on political activism and this was still under ScoMo. They could have just as easily called it “how to bring your society down”.
Free speech does not cover incitement to murder. Why is this woman still walking around?
@BuzzPatterson
These people are sick beyond belief.
@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: Inflation has fallen to 1.22%, per Truflation.
I voted for this!
JUST IN: Taiwan Seeks To Remove Tariffs On US, Increase Investment
Maybe we should remove our tariffs on the batches of single origin baristas.
Wouldn’t expect anything less from Taiwan atm. It’s Japan, SK and Vietnam that are worth looking at.
The world seems top be undergoing a reset, just not the one Klaus Schwab and his ilk had in mind.
Donald John Galt Trump, not stopping the engine of the world but resetting it.
A short clip from Sky News
Over 50 countries seeking to negotiate with Trump on trade
Where are we in that list? Oh, sorry, the election takes priority of course. The future of the economy can wait.
Albanese will be taking a lot of comfort from the LNP’s first week of campaigning.
Majoring on the minors, walking back policy announcements and dumping an endorsed candidate all suggest an Opposition not ready for government.
What on earth have they spent the last three years doing….tending to their property portfolios?
Hard to sell the message when you don’t even believe it yourself. The Voice all over again.
The Corporate Press Wants Trump and America to Fail
Including the Murdochs.
You wonder wtf is the matter with them. If their ‘advisors’ are anything like the ones I have been acquainted with there’s your answer. But surely you would know anyway that fiip flopping is a terrible look.
Just consider that Brittney Higgins was an advisor and everything makes sense.
Of course a lot of the staffers are going to be twenty-somethings without other commitments apart from their jobs but for advisors you should have a group of older and wiser people with whom you can communicate via zoom. It helps if you actually have some political acumen yourself instead of just ambition.
Most ministerial “advisors” are jerbs-for-the-boyz/girlz .. the 20 something age family, relatives family friends & debts-owed-maaates youngsters .. all on $100 000+ a year salaries ……….
But you don’t have to take any notice of them.
Meme
We’ve been stuck for three long and destructive years with a government that’s not ready for government.
Unless you like being governed by the University Socialist Collective.
But let’s keep them because the conservative alternative isn’t conservative enough.
The average voter will be thinking let’s keep them because they’re the devil we know.
That was my point above and I see it’s reflected in the polling out today from Redbridge and Newspoll.
We know both devils. It isn’t that difficult.
We also know that Labor will govern with a tiny portion of the overall vote, propped up with Green and Independent preferences. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
As for the polling, nothing would surprise me about how dumb people are these days, wedded as they are to magic money that they haven’t earned and wanting more of the same.
We baulk at the faintest whiff of brimstone from the Libs but tolerate the raging cultural and economic inferno that is guaranteed under Labor/Greens.
It makes me wonder if some here simply like something to whinge about. There’ll be plenty after May 3 so enjoy it while it lasts. Which probably won’t be long because those hate speech laws will be enforced by an energised government. Bye bye soapbox.
The majority aren’t political tragics, calli.
They only switch on when there’s an election called or some other disaster abroad.
That disaster could just be another three years of Albanese.
Well stated Calli.
Rock and a hard place is what this election is about.
Or, as South Park so eloquently phrased it, the election is between a “Giant Douche, and a Turd Sandwich”.
We don’t baulk at brimstone, we get tired of searching for signs of a spine.
Sorry to disappoint Roger, the average voter is as thick as proverbial pig shiite. They haven’t a clue. The last positive thing remembered is all they remember. These are the same people that think reality teevee is real. How else can anyone explain dumping Howard when Australia was in sucha prosperous position, for Rudd the Dudd. Now if the polls are right the voters, who apparrently get it right, are going to return the worst government since Whitless. I suspect Abalone is gunna have a hold your beer moment and try to outdo Whitless in the marxist stakes. I just hope the voters love the pineapple.
You sound like Hillary Clinton and her comment on the deplorables. I’m not with you on that. Have that attitude and you fall into the trap. The left want you to think that people are dumb. Only if you treat them so.
The point is that too many of the other side do want to keep them.
What we want is irrelevant.
@ElectionWiz
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I’ve said the same thing Calli. I’m just pissed off at their poor campaigning. The double trouble bill boards down here in vicco are good though
Lying about the purpose of your visit is enough to have your entry denied in most countries.
What is it with the Left and disrespecting borders?
We all know that if they had the power they’d build a wall – actual or digital – to keep their fellow citizens under control.
I see yang is an ex financial times germalist and an alumnus of the lse.
Alumni bringing their Alma mater into disrepute is now a definite thing. Time is fast approaching when businesses will test job applicants for aptitude and teach them what they need to know to do their job thus short-circuiting the corrupting influence of the tertiary education sector.
Don’t they have “Border Control” program on TV in UK? I’m sure I’ve seen episodes from Australia, Canada, US and NZ though can’t remember any from UK.
They have a Border Welcoming Force permanently stationed on Channel beaches.
Just as Biden had on the southern US border.
Earth to Peter Dutton, Earth to Peter Dutton –
“It’s the Economy Stupid”.
“Cost of Living, Cost of Living………..”
Now, get to it. It isn’t that hard you dope.
I’m voting against Anal. Voting informal will help the poisonous little waste of space
As long as everyone puts Labor, Greens and teals last Australia may survive as an intact country.
With Labor in charge for another three years all national parks and beaches will be out of bounds, more and more of the country will fall under Native Title jurisdiction, farming and mining will be illegal and the population will be limited to just the current urban areas. Nothing is too crazy for this lot.
Roger
April 7, 2025 7:54 am
Re. the Opposition
That’s why I suggested placing both majors last on the ballot paper.
Been soundly downticked for it, but I stick to my opinion.
Not voting for the liars I can understand, but how can you vote for such an incompetent opposition?
So you put the greens above the lnp?
Not necessarily, but it makes very little difference, but not putting them on top denies them a price courtesy by the long suffering taxpayer.
Not much hope if you believe that. Compulsory preferential voting is bad but not that bad.
What do you do when your ballot cosnsists of Family First, ALP, LNP and greenfilth?
That’s what I’m facing.
The doomsayers in the media are going full tilt about stock market losses. They are blaming Trump, but completely ignoring the likelihood that short sellers are having a field day or three. Lots of countries have had it brought home to them that they can’t pretend they are in favour of Free Trade while levying tariffs against US products.
On the local front they are ardently supporting Labor and only asking tough questions of the coalition. We will have them to thank when our economy tanks due to full retard green policies.
The stock market crashed when Fatty Trump was elected back in 2016.
But it came roaring back to life shortly afterwards.
This graph did the rounds a day or so ago. Puts the outrage in a slightly different perspective
Perfect.
I laugh but it isn’t funny.
All leftists now stand for cheating at sports — no dissent allowed as tribal rules forbid it.
Female competitors are agreeing to this cheating, that men can now be women. En masse they could end this insanity in a week.
They choose not to apart from the Riley Gaines types so continue to lose out bigtime.
Cheats!
Feminists, you asked for this, now you’re reaping what you’ve sown.
Dutton has been comprehensively captured by the ‘but but Work Choices’ philosophy of the Turnbull Moderates. They are campaigning on behalf of their renewable investment portfolios and refuse to allow Dutton to announce any policy that would be popular with actual conservatives. Like most of the West we have fallen into the hands of a cross party corrupt oligarchy.
The truth being that people who wish to vote conservative would cheer Dutton forcing public servants to actually go to work, and sacking as many as possible. But, If a policy is potentially popular it must be stopped by the Moderates.
How have they cut election winner Jacinta out of the campaign?
Our grandkids have no legacy and Turnbull is principally responsible.
They Eastern Suburbs/Kooyong set have reasserted control. What is coming for Australia is far worse than anything dreamed up by Starmer. Improve your Mandarin, you will need it.
Of course she has to be kept out of sight, she is far too effective at campaigning. On this I blame Dutton, he could simply put her front and centre and dare the backroom boys, and they are all boys.
There are plenty of freedom parties to choose from, but Australians are looking for socialist alternative.
I suspect it’s more likely to be Hindi
What on earth have they spent the last three years doing….tending to their property portfolios?
A combination of inertia, navel-gazing and sucking their thumbs. It’s the same for various Liberal state parties, look at the recent WA election disaster. What did the WA Liberals do for four years? Absolutely nothing, sucked their thumbs. Here in NSW Sleazeman is missing in action, the most useless leader in decades, a far-left fckwit of monumental proportions.
The Labor party is ruthless, even when down and out, even after being kicked in the guts Labor will quickly revive and claw its way back to be competitive. Look at QLD after the Newman landslide, look at federal Labor after the 2013 Abbott landslide
Given the 22 seats needed for the Liberals to govern in their own right I have never though they could knock off a first term government however I did think they could push Labor into minority government. I’m now beginning to think that they might only pick up 10 seats (if they’re lucky). And given Peter Dutton’s backflipping, they might only pick up five seats and all these seats will be in Victoria.
It’s good to see that Dutton has promoted Jacinta but people forget that Jacinta’s amazing campaign against da Voice was done on behalf of Advance Australia, not on behalf of the Liberals or Nationals. It was Advance that defeated the Voice, not the Liberals.
The Liberals, apart from rightly standing up against Jew hatred, stand for nothing, absolutely nothing. Anyway, this country needs another three years of appalling Labor governance, the lazy Australian electorate needs to be kicked in the kishkes good and hard.
So you’re advocating people’s lives be damaged to ‘teach them a lesson’? I’m very disappointed you think that.
What do you suggest, put them in the naughty corner.
Even Dutton had to be dragged kicking and screaming by Price and Mundine to oppose the Voice.
Has anyone got the full and real truth about that ambulance convoy in Gaza?
Here’s a Fox News report:
Make of it what you will.
Mistake or perfidy.
I lean towards perfidy.
That’s why I suggested placing both majors last on the ballot paper.
Absolutely not
Been soundly downticked for it, but I stick to my opinion
And rightly so, I will not be putting both majors behind the Australian Nazi Party aka the Greens.
And a change in the reigning political paradigm is more difficult in Australia than most comparable democracies because our voting system privileges the status quo political “centre.”
Advance is a more effective opposition than the Opposition.
Labor & the Greens fear them.
Indeed which is why I’m proud to support them.
Precisely, I get flack for putting the majors to the back of the queue, but my critics never consider the rest of the candidates I might support.
Neither of the majors deserve support.
You have said here that you’re happy to put the Greens ahead of the majors. The flack you receive is warranted.
The Liberals, for all their faults, deserve support more than Labor and more than the Nazi party.
Fact to support I need, not opinions!
Stuff the greens, they will not be in government ever!!
And they will influence the LNP just as much as they will labor, when either wins government.
There will not be a majority in the senate for the majors.
What a load of codswallop. But good to know you’ll happily preference Nazis ahead of the Liberals.
I don’t think the libs are going to be able to win. Dutton is a squish who stands for nothing.
Best outcome would be the Liars get enough seats not to depend on Greens/Independents in the Reps and a Senate with Lib/Nats LNP/right wing minors able to block any and all legislation.
being a 1960s teenager .. a time worth bottling .. LOL!
Some good points there!
Dreaming again?
Nought wrong with that.
Girls with great things in front of them.
As we used to sing as nawty schoolboys in those days –
Up with skirts and Down with knickers………..
Mme Zulu, who admits that her skirts were as short as anyone’s, back in the day, says that the secret was to wear matching coloured knickers, and not to bend over to pick up anything less then a $20 bill.
Latest experts in climate science.
A couple of questions to fire at your activist barber:
How much CO2 is in the atmosphere?
What is the dominant greenhouse gas?
That ought to shut them up.
Add in ‘what caused the CO2 levels to reach 8000 in the dinosaur era, and why didnt it cause runaway climate change then?’
Did they forget taxi drivers?
Confirming the fact that the Climate Scam is the new state religion.
Any barber who tries to engage me in climate or left-wing talking points will get very short shrift in reply.
More evidence that the smart people got out of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over a century ago.
And England.
Trouble is, Australia is now full of voters hooked on Guv’ment handouts as their drug of choice.
I think the only massive problem with Mr. Dutton is that he presents himself as an old fossil from the 1950s who is deluded that Australians still value (financial) responsibility.
Whereas Lyigi understands his supporters perfectly. They are sheep waiting to be fleeced. He has supreme belief in Labor/Green’s ejukaishon system. His supporters have been superbly ejaculated that he is their Champion fighting against the Liberal’s evil cost of living increases and the government owes them a living.
Don’t forget that he is also using the Medicare card as a shield.
Havent seen much evidence that Dutton is into fiscal responsibility.Tinkering round the edges yes but nothing substantial.
On 3 May 2025 I’ll be voting Liberal in the lower house and Libertarian in the senate. I certainly will not be putting either party behind the Australian Nazi party, no way jose!
Donald Trump won office in November 2024 by offering the American voter very clear choices, on the climate scam, on net zero, on a stagnant economy, on transperverts and on many other things. He said NO to woke and the US voter agreed.
Apart from some economic issues, and I see overnight he’s now backtracked on the wfh idiocy, I see few choices offered by Dutton. Why? Because the Liberals have bought into the whole climate renewables net zero scam, they’ve bought into the immigration racket and they’re too shit scared to stand up and say NYET to it all. Donald Trump was not scared, he is no scaredy-cat. People respond to leaders who are brave and who tell the truth.
Despite this Coalition cowardice I have no intention of wasting my vote. I want the Liberals to win because even they’re timid and lacklustre we will still be better governed under the Liberals than Labor. But I can sense the polls and so I say batten down the hatchets because we’re in for another three years of Abalone, Pong, Burqa, Bandt and co. It’s going to be a very bumpy and very awful three years!
That is very true, Dutton did well while stating policies even when they were challenged by the media. The polls went south for him when he started backing down, voters lost confidence in him.
Australians are becoming used to having to choose between two sh*t options at election time.*
Like Cassie and Calli, on May 3 I’ll be voting for the SFLs because they will do less damage to Australia than a Liars-Filth-Rich Bitches regime.
*I still blame Robert Menzies for naming his creation the Liberal Party of Australia while, on the other side of the world, Eric Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) was sitting down to write his prophetic novels Animal Farm and 1984 — a nightmare away from the wheatfields of western Victoria.
The hell was he thinking?
And the SFL’s will lose.
And God help the countryside, for it will be littered with 20 year cycles of polluting unrecyclable ‘renewables’ that will need endless renewing. Plus hundreds of miles of transmission lines in bushfire prone areas. What could possibly go wrong?
So much ammunition Mr Dutton. Don’t use it on your own feet fer phuck sake. Daily Telegraph on possibly the biggest liability the current government has:
Yep so hammer the prick into submission. Don’t let him thumb his nose at you. Oh wait…
Then the headline on Sky with Prime Phuckface speaking, ‘Dutton Doesn’t Understand Modern Families after the work from home backflip.
Of course Labor has their fingers on the pulse of how families work.
Abandon all hope.
The definition of a LayBore PLAN is –
Pollies Lying About Nuclear.
Isn’t there anyone in the Coalition camp who can do some addition? How much has already been shelled out in subsidies for renewables? Include the money fed into it by investors and super funds. Go back as far as the Howard government if you have to. I’m pretty certain the total is greater than both above figures. That little pipsqueak needs to be flattened with facts.
The trouble is the Gliberals are responsible for a good deal of those subsidies. And their net zero energy policy includes renewables “going forward” which will have to be subsidised one way or another because otherwise they don’t add up for investors.
Once you build the nukes, renewables are utterly useless.
which is why they oppose it
@C_3C_3
Here are some sponsors for the “spontaneous” Hands Off rally.
I wonder if any of them get our money?
Might be something for DOGE to look into.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if protesting DOGE alerted DOGE about them still getting taxpayer money.
I would be astonished if none of them get taxpayer money, either directly, or indirectly through “Non-Government” organisations
Yep. The stink bug effect. They stink to ward off enemy but it exposes their position. And here is the visual metaphor ( Thank you A.I.)
@matt_vanswol
This man holding a Canadian flag at the Asheville NC anti-Trump/Anti-Elon Musk protest could not explain to a reporter why he was protesting.
These people have no idea why they are protesting…
… and Elon Musk gave Starlink for FREE to Western North Carolina and saved lives
@ericmmatheny
The Democrats squandered a rare opportunity to rebuild and rebrand based on center-left policies.
Instead they key Teslas and hold cringe protests.
Their 21% approval seems too generous.
@LibOrNormal
When you go out to protest but you have no idea what you are protesting about
The guy at the start was complaining about Trump “getting rid of rules and regulations.”
And yet he probably thinks that makes Trump a fascist!
@Bubblebathgirl
Woman at ‘Hands Off!” protest in NYC on Saturday freaked out because there was no youth there.
The youth wasn’t there because the youth is moving to the right. They haven’t been brainwashed by legacy media.
The youth now gets their news from ?.
They get to see the truth.
I thought this would happen.
China scuttles TikTok deal as Trump admits Beijing ‘not very happy’ (Paywallian)
The problem is whoever buys TikTok will get access to the code. And when that happens all the nefarious stuff included in it will come out.
It will be interesting to see what happens. Trump has extended the time for a deal by 75 more days. But if no deal can be achieved what then?
Just saw on the news that Hamas are lobbing rockets into Israel again. How is that possible? Aren’t they saying that everything has been destroyed yet they still have access to rockets.
They really are stupid.
“Let’s poke the lion again and see what happens!”
“irregulars win by not losing, regulars lose by not winning….”
Mummy, mummy EU. They’re shooting back again. It’s NOT fair!
Grate – what’s this I see about Dr Mutton committing slow motion electoral hara-kiri? The man is a joke.
Col Berka, nice to see you’re coming around to my views on lower house voting. I’ve posted here several times a cautionary tale about how I inadvertently voted for luigi albansleazy in the 2010 feral erection, because I cast a legitimate lower house vote. Never again will I make that mistake, thanks very much.
As for the other discussion last night, I’m not going to apologise for wanting to obliterate organisations/institutions that have become infested with collectivist cretins and which no longer serve any useful purpose whatsoever.
What useful purpose do the following have, for example, and who would even miss them if they no longer existed?
The ALPBC
The garudain
The national brontosaurus network
UTS
The federal department of education
The grattan institute
The e-safety kommissariat
The Australian yuman rites kommissariat
Needless to say, there are many, many, others.
It’s a target rich environment.
If you dont cast a legitimate vote, unless you are in a very safe seat, all you are doing is lowering the threshold for the evil parties to get in (and AFAIC you lose all right to whinge about any policies the winners introduce).
I have been doing the Topher strategy for years, acceptable indies first , then the Libs to make sure my preferences dont flow to the Liars, Greens, Trumpet for Patriots (I detest Palmer) or Teals.
This way I deprive the Libs of the $5 of electoral funding, and as Topher says, if enough people do the same then the acceptable indies may get enough momentum to give the Libs a good scare.
To add to your list
Ministries of Arts and Sports,
High Speed Rail Authority
Infrastructure Australia
ASADA
Australian Institute of Sport
I don’t know who Topher is but this has been my policy for years.
Topher Field
If we ditch ASADA we’ll be out of the Olympics.
Two birds with one stone!
Might as well throw in the AIS then.
And ACARA.
I love it when you lot get all maudlin both your favourite politicians being hopeless losers.
Also, LOL at your lame attempts to pretend that several million protestors all across America are all there because Soros paid them.
Well that’s because they have been Monty. Do keep up.
It Was All Fake: Far-Left Billionaires Astroturfed the Tidal Wave of Early Enthusiasm for Harris (4 Apr)
That article is about a completely different thing, Bruce. Geez you are so low energy.
Piss off, Nazi.
Same people from the same groups doing the same thing. Astroturfing a fake momentum. You really are thick Monty.
Oi! That’s an insult to thickies.
Piss off, Nazi. Go play with your Hamas buddies. We don’t like Nazis here. Squirted or spat on any Jews lately, Nazi? You lot like doing that to Jews.
Several million? We know that you failed Economics 1, but did you also fail Arithmetic?
Here’s a company that does just that:
https://crowdsondemand.com/blog/fill-the-house-proven-strategies-for-getting-a-packed-crowd-at-your-next-event-6jn7p
Or Fox:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meet-far-left-groups-funding-anti-doge-protests-gop-offices-across-country?msockid=1b61aa478356673a1274b86c8264664c
If the climate scare was real these meetings would all be held by teleconference.
Meanwhile, how many billions did you sign away on our behalf, Mr. Bowen?
Alas, the Liberals can’t come back with much, having backed themselves onto the ropes with Net Zero.
Ah…the lying liar has dropped in.
Shameless.
One for Eyrie.
Pilot pulls off epic landing on busy road (7 Apr)
Into traffic. With a failed engine. The video a following driver took is surreal.
Seriously he should have chosen the grassy area to the right and not endangered innocent people on the ground even if the aircraft got damaged as a result. Yes he got away with it but it wasn’t good.
As a private pilot I would really appreciate Eyrie informing me how to land a plane on the green slope off the highway and surrounded by rainforest, because I am blowed if I can see how it could be done without ending up in the trees at pace.
The terrain looks mountainous and heavily timbered.
The pilot managed a powerless plane to land in a small gap in traffic at just above the speed of the traffic without stalling or hitting anything.
Mayday Mayday Mayday – we’re putting it down in the Hudson – I mean Highway.
Everyone walked away – Well done Sir.
April 7, 2025 8:51 am
Reply to Roger
Hard to sell the message when you don’t even believe it yourself. The Voice all over again.
Pulling this down. The Lieborals in a nutshell.
Spud still trying to “mini me” the Liars into The Lodge. For all the criticisms of Abbott (and there is a few) that was never one of them.
Some here worried Dutton would be another Abbott.
Morrison seems the more apt comparison right now.
Stands for nothing but his own ambition and will push anyone who gets in the way under a bus.
Got a long way to catch SloMo.
Speaking of whom, under the AUKUS deal POTUS gets to sign off on any sub transfer to AUS, the chief criterion being that such a transfer does not degrade US defense capability.
I don’t think we’re ever going to see any US subs.
Might post that in general comments.
Could lighten the mood.
😀
Meantime, I suspect calli has gone to take it out on some shrubs.
Correct. USN is behind on Virginia Class build and delivery.
Might be Labors plan.
Just like the Turnbull French L’Incoyable class .
And yet again – who benefits?
SloMo usually went to water in time for the 6 o’clock news. Spud took at least 24 hours.
Yeah…but he had to reverse two policies and throw a colleague under the bus.
At the moment he is in danger of being the next Brendan Nelson.
Piss off, Nazi.
Impossible to develop coherent policy to craft a message when your parliamentary and institutional members don’t share anything close to the same vision on critical issues.
On the conservative side, we’re watching the Broad Church zombie-marching on, way after its use by date, leaving a trail of decaying policy fragments and matched bribes.
Labor manages this problem to some extent through Conference and tighter organisational discipline. But limbs are falling off there too; hence the primary leakage to the Socialist Left and Doctors’ Wives parties.
Unfortunately for the masses, Australia (like much of the ‘western world’) is headed for a fin de siècle learning experience.
For a long time the Liar national Conference was a time to laugh and then just ignore the loony Left. Now they are running the show.
Even The Great Man had Tom Uren and his Trot staffer somewhere safe where couldn’t do any real damage.
More like a fin du monde.
I see the rabid Nazi is here.
He is completely and utterly shameless.
You would think a ‘successful businessperson’ would be too busy to hang around here
Particularly in AFL season, which should be prime time for his “business”.
Listened to an interesting Israeli podcast while driving in this morning from the beach. Israeli food prices are about 50% higher than in comparable Western countries. It has nothing to do with the country’s small size and everything to do with the stranglehold that government-backed food monopolies have on the market. This is where the real “tariffs” are.
Case in point: Heinz Ketchup isn’t allowed to sell in Israel as “ketchup” or “tomato sauce.” It can only be marketed as “tomato seasoning,” because domestic suppliers own the rights to the terms ketchup and tomato sauce.
That’s just one smallish example of restrictions placed on imports to protect the monopoly. This is where the Trump administration ought to go to town on Bibi while he’s visiting this Monday (US time).
You can appreciate how Israel would be feeling food insecure with its lovely neighbors surrounding it, but the road to hell is always paved with good intentions when governments and lobbyists get involved.
Perhaps a change of subject will lighten the mood…
Under the AUKUS deal POTUS has to sign off on any submarine transferred to us, the chief criterion being that such a transfer does not degrade US defense capability.
I don’t think we’re ever going to see any US subs in the RAN.
Ahahahaha. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Insightful comment, dovs.
Hey Nazi, have you punched yourself lately? It must be awful looking in the mirror every morning and seeing what’s reflected back……
Nazi!
Forget policies for a second. Whether we like it or not humans are also influenced by things other than policies. Time and time again you read that good looking people generally earn more money than lessor mortals. They tend to succeed more.
I regret saying this but Dutton is truly freaking ugly. He looks strange and has the appearance of an alien. His voice is also hesitant and sounds like he’s afraid of expressing himself. Combine that with his appearance and he looks and sounds really strange. There’s no happy warrior look when he’s talking that could compensate for his appearance.
Albanese is no Robert Redford.
He also can’t talk properly.
And people already see him as weak and untrustworthy.
Maybe they cancel each other out in the leadership stakes.
True, he isn’t, but he doesn’t posses the ‘quality’ that Duttan has. Duttan looks menacing especially to sheilas, while the Albanian doesn’t.
I think there is some truth in that. Dutton needs to get out and about with his wife more, to soften that ex-cop image. Also do more ‘soft power’ things, interviews about his interests, things that made him the man he is etc.
Politics is show business for ugly people. Albo is a houso with his teeth done, as he reminds us.
“Houso with his teeth done. Badly”.
FTFY.
Luigi is giving us “real” housos a bad look …… duuuuuuuh!
Sounds utterly trivial. But if only 10% of the lo-info voteherd are swayed by the prospect of having an alien cosplayer in charge, it’s politically toxic.
I knew a bloke whose wife was going to vote against Keating because she didn’t like Anita’s hairstyle.
As good a reason as any.
That Keating looked like an undertaker didn’t bother her?
I was going to say that Dutton looks like a big undertaker. That would be enough for some to vote for the harmless looking guy, regardless of how useless the harmless guy might be.
useless … or dangerous? They just don’t see political dangers till they really hurt, as some above have said. For many women in particular, it’s all done on feelz. Dutton can work on softening his image, but it has to be done fast now.
I knew a bloke whose wife was going to vote Labor, because she thought Bob Hawke had charisma…
Mother of a childhood friend of my dau’s way back in time, had a photo of Gaddafi on her fridge, she thought he was sexy………(she was German by birth, don’t know if that explains it !).
I personally know of a couple of ambitious types that can endorse his big umm, charisma.
My mother told me that she voted for Hawke because he looked nice. I had to explain to her that she couldn’t have as he wasn’t even a candidate in her electorate, she probably voted for the nong in the picture next to Bob.
On the other hand, Albosleazy makes feel like throwing up every time I see his mug.
#MeToo
Early morning coffee on the verandah, and concluding Ben MacIntyre’s book on the siege of the Iranian Embassy.
Page 102 was the reference for the Blessed Saint Hilda’s declaration that, if things went horribly wrong, she would take the blame – not the soldiers or the police.
Seems that, at the conclusion of the siege, a monumental party erupted at Regent’s Park Barracks, in London. The Blessed Saint Hilda arrived.
“Just before 21.00, someone turned on a large television and the men settled down to watch themselves for the first time. The news opened with a figure in black clambering across a balcony to plant explosives. At that moment, someone with bouffant hair obscured the screen.
“Oi, fvcking sit down at the front” shouted John McAleese, who wanted a clear view of his moment of anonymous fame. The person with big hair obediently ducked out of the way.
No one ever spoke to Mrs Thatcher that way. But who dares, wins. (Page 320.)
Seems that two of the troopers, who took part in that operation, retired to remote corners of New Zealand..
I have nostalgia for the days when politicians were prepared to take responsibility for what they tasked soldiers with doing.
JC earlier.
Tomato sauce is an important national asset.
We bought 20 kg of Roma tomatoes and replenished our strategic reserve over the weekend.
I still have approximately twenty jars of sauce left from a huge batch I made from home grown tomatoes a few years back.
I haven’t been able to grow any yet since I moved. Hope to rectify that next season.
The funny thing is, for years I used a hand cranked tomato press. The last big season I had, I was finally able to buy an electric press made in Italy.
What a hand-saver!
I keep the the old press to remind me to not whinge when I’m going through a rough patch. 😀
I would have thought 20 kg of tomatoes would rot very quickly.
ASX down 6%.
My wallet hurts…
waiting to see what gold does … its been well supported so far by the falling AUD but will likely bleed somewhat as ‘all the horses bolt’
Down a tad to $5019, and AUD under .60 US
Go with me here…
If we import a billion “students” rent will be free.
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The research concluded, “data analysis at the national level, before and after Covid, consistently revealed the negative relationship between international student number and weekly rental cost”.
International “students” don’t affect rents at all, they’re all living in the back of their taxis and delivery vans.
Sleeping in the bike’s wire basket ……..
Thus proving that economic “research” isn’t worth a bucket of stale p1ss.
Roger …
So, faced with an opponent who is perceived as weak and vacillating, Dutton immediately does a passing impression of a weathervane.
And passes it off as “We’re listening.”
This is the QLD LNP template, except Dutton doesn’t have the advantage of going up against Palaszczuk’s three term legacy.
ASX 200 already down more the 5%.
Calm down Dover. You’re getting very giddy. The market opens in 7 minutes.
What am I looking at here then?
I have no idea wtf you’re looking at, but the ASX 200 opens at 10.30.
This page
https://www.marketindex.com.au/asx200
and
ASX website is saying 10am.
You were looking at the pre-market. Say that then instead. ASX 200 opens at 10.30.
If you’re going to become “financialized” now, you need to be specific and accurate.
No, pre-market according to the ASX website shuts at 10am and the market opened at 10am.
Oh Okay. I’ve clocked in at 10.30 am. Which is when I thought it opened. You’re right for a change.
Lmao.
Of course you would, seeing how small minded and petty you’ve become.
Nothing in this little thread indicates I was the one being small minded and petty.
The LAMAO is just a dickhead comment. I said I was incorrect, but being your usual magnanimous self It’s to be expected you’d front up with that.
More importantly how’s the Russian market performing, Can you keep up updated please.
JC, you opened up with saying I was ‘giddy’, ‘calm down’, threw in a ‘I don’t know wtf that is’, continued with ‘If you’re going to become “financialized” now, you need to be specific and accurate’, and then when you finally realized after repeated pisstaking that you were wrong, ended it with a ‘You were right for a change.’
And yet, after all that, you were upset by the lmao at the end.
Well yeah, that’s because every time something bad happens in the West, you’re on your hind legs all excited like.
Sure, I said I made a mistake and you couldn’t accept that.
When Labor/Greens win this I see them in power for at least another 6 years irrespective of how much more damage they will do. The Liberals will not learn from this loss as Mr Dutton is perceived as a right wing extremist. Perception is critical.
Thus the LNP will turn to a more acceptable front man such as Matt Kean to be their saviour as they did in NSW with Mr Speakman. Luigi will be ROFL as he will have a perfect stooge to deflect his Party’s continued incompetency.
Victoriastan does not fill me with hope that the democratic process is a fundamentally self-correcting mechanism. Seems to work better at a Federal level. I hope you are wrong.
Portrayed rather than perceived perhaps. The j’ismists certainly doing what they can to help.
Matt Kean is not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy.
If the Libs go in that direction they will die horribly. Why would you want to compete with Labor, the Greens and the Teals for the same voters? You’ll just lose your base and gain nothing. There’s over 30% of the electorate just waiting for someone to represent them. Mine that seam of voting gold and you’ll be in.
The Zac Kirkup approach. A near death experience if ever there was one.
Sadly it wasn’t an actual death which would have given a proper conservative party a chance to emerge from the ashes at the crematorium
When Labor/ Greens win this – I’m imagining all the bawling Millennials, because the house they hoped to inherit, or the estate they hoped to inherit, has been swallowed up to pay death duties…suffer in your jocks, princesses..
While their living standards continue to decline.
And also that of their mum and dad and gran who then have to spend more to keep up with inflation thus leaving even less to inherit.
Dutton is no more a “right wing extremist” than I am a communist.
He is not even a conservative IMO!
Sigh.
They need a CONTRAST – “that mob wants X, we don’t”; “We want Y, they don’t”.
Make sure it is something they already have a solid position on.
Make sure it is something that matters to a large group of people.
Put out soundbites re-enforcing that message.
That’s it.
Not hard.
It is when your whole approach is having multiple positions depending on polling and principles be damned.
@WallStreetMav
Obama put 35% tariffs on China. Sanders, Schumer & Pelosi applauded! Democrats don’t hate tariffs. They hate President Trump.
These markets are going to force the Fed’s hand and we begin to see easing I think. If they don’t markets are going to visit hell. If it does ease, it better be offering comforting guidance or we’re back to the GFC. Every time they eased they took away the punch bowl which in effect was a repudiation of the rate drop and a tightening.
The RBA will have to go after the Fed because if it eased before we’d see the Aussie visit the low 50s in a day or so.
All good economic crises in Australia begin with a run on the AUD.
We bought a machine from Europe, which we ordered in January. There’s a 4 month lead time requiring a deposit of 10%. We paid that at an exchange rate of around 1.6100.Euro/Aus is now 1.8300 ~14%.
Let’s hope the Eurotrash EV doesn’t need parts.
There’s 3K on the clock. Servicing at 20000. That’s like June 26 and have time to save up.
We were in the low 50s in the mid/late 1990s.
48.75 is the lowest I saw.
@C_3C_3
Reminder…
Anthony Fauci knew Remdesivir and ventilators were killing people and he still pushed it as protocol while making Ivermectin and Hydroxichloroquine impossible to get.
Pure Evil and he must pay.
The other one is humble asprin. It works extremely effectively for Covid and long Covid symptoms.
Of course big pharma would not want that since you can buy 24 tablets in Coles for less than a dollar.
Colorado
@libsoftiktok
JUST IN: CO Democrats have invoked Rule 16 to SHUT DOWN debate over their radical transgender bill that would make “misgendering” a “discriminatory act” and potentially take children away from parents who don’t “affirm” their child’s gender delusion.
Just wow, BHP down almost 9%.
@Bubblebathgirl
McDonald’s in Germany.
Germany has open borders.
Bloody Hell!
JC — What podcast are you listening to?
vr, I don’t know. I just scrolled down the list and found it. I’ll look for it later and post it.
Dutton’s looks are going to be the least of his problems if the US economy tanks over the next month and drags the global economy with it.
Under the radar the US corporate sector is recruiting.
U.S. Job Growth Far Exceeds Estimates In March (4 Apr)
A three-sigma variation above the highest estimate. Corporations know that Trump’s policies are going to cause the US to boom, so they are gearing up in readiness.
(Apology for the odd German website, I saw the exact story elsewhere this morning but I couldn’t find it again. Search engines refuse to regurgitate righty articles, it’s very annoying.)
Don’t feel quite so stupid now being mostly in term deposits and bonds.
Bitcoin refusing to capitulate tells us something, but I’m buggered if I know what it is.
Bit coiners are more hopelessly in love with their asset than gold bugs and traders?
Or gold is more broadly owned than BTC?
Surely no one actually thinks the BTC will replace money?
‘Money’ as Aristotle observed, has 3 functions: to store value, transfer value and measure value. Fiat *currency* lacks functions #1 & 3, so it isnt money either.
Gold *is* money, and BTC is digital gold, so yes, it seems likely that BTC will at least complement gold. Given its easier transactions, I would argue it will replace money.
BTC and Gold are hedges against money printing. They will be pulled down somewhat initially by falls in other assets (‘when the herd bolts, the pretty horses run just as fast as the ugly ones’), but will reverse course and head higher once they decouple from the ‘at risk’ assets (dollars, stocks, real estate etc) and QE begins.
Will “paper” gold contracts match the real thing?
only until there is a run on physical…
I reckon Trump is going to delay for 3 months.
Perhaps this May 2025 election might be a good one to lose.
Most of them fall into that category. Events dear boy, events.
When will be the best time to buy I wonder before the upswing as the bulls send the bears packing.
Delaying tariffs now will soften the blow somewhat but countries effected are going to be looking at the US as too volatile to trust. Same is true for companies actually trading/ manufacturing in US. They are going to be looking at very hard at alternatives. This last week has left a very bad taste in people’s mouths.
Medicine has to taste bad or it wont work.
If the antiseptic doesn’t sting, it’s not working.
Senega and Ammonia. Bought some today.
I reckon this is how the Administration is going to spin it. They’ve delayed the tariffs for 3 months because the Administration is being inundated with requests to negotiate.
They should send out Scott Bessent and not Peter Navarro to speak to the press.
It shouldn’t be the job of the Treasury Sec, but who can you send out other than him?
We continue to live in interesting times.
It was all a bubble.
Bubble, meet pin.
Good on Trump.
He had to bring on the crisis now.
The sooner the betterer.
Define a bubble.
People paying prices for assets way above historical averages, on the expectation of future earnings that aren’t supported by common sense or past experience.
Hard to spot when you are in them, because markets rise over decades non linear shape.
Look at 1924 to 1929.
Only decades later can you look at the graph and say categorically that people were over paying, say, in 1927.
But the market didn’t get back to 1927 levels until after WW2.
It didn’t get back to the 1929 peak until the mid ‘50s.
They’re hard to spot because they don’t exist. This doesn’t mean that eventually there’s a realization people have made a bad investment decision.
There were a lot of bad things that happened in those years. But even if the market didn’t reach those levels again until the ’50s—so what? It did.
The market now looks expensive because of the tariff situation and the expectation that growth is going to be subdued. You can’t say, in hindsight, that it looked like a bubble—that’s meaningless. Hindsight is always 20/20.
The “So what” is that it’s twenty five years later.
Who the hell wants to hold an investment for twenty five years for zero return?
Not to mention that most were dead or broke before that occurred.
I’m saying that to me, personally it looks like a bubble now. My personal view.
Hindsight, 20 years from now will confirm if I’m right or if you are right.
Others should judge for themselves or do as they please.
What’s the historical average for AI firms? What’s the historical average for a firm like Nvidia and where does it stop growing?
What was the historical average for Google, which is now making around 16 billion a quarter?
Mature firms aren’t trading at high multiples.
After the GFC, people were saying the market was a bubble when it topped at 13,000 Dow. Since then it been to ~45 plus.
There’s no such thing as bubbles.
There isn’t one.
But there are analogous technological revolutions from the late 1990s internet and the 1920s radio and automobile.
Look at a chart of the Dow Jones from 1900 to 1945ish.
If you smooth the curve the period from 1924 to 1929 is a bubble.
https://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart
Exactly. It could be the biggest tech innovation in history or it’s a fizzer. We don’t know, but enough people believe it’s big and if they’re right then the buying would look cheap.
Exactly, with some of that being priced in the 20s.
Not necessarily analogous in prices, that is yet to be determined.
But analogous in terms of disruptive technologies.
If your gonna have a crisis .. better in the 1st year of your term rather than the final 6 months ……
# Politics 101
The j*rk word moderation strikes again
The pyrat advising the Libs on their next leader…
Peter FitzSimons
@Peter_Fitz
I don’t say the election is already over. But if they do lose I’d be surprised if they stay with Dutton – and I think next Lib leader will be Hastie, not Taylor. But who they should BEG to stand, is Mike Baird, and he could steer them back to the centre in a heart-beat.
FFS! Another dripping wet ditherer
He certainly has the common touch.
[sarc]
Mike Baird .. retired “to spend time with an ailing family member” .. lasted 6 weeks or so before a jerbs-fer-the-boyz opportunity beckoned ….
definitely a “solid” choice as federal LNP leader …….. LOL!
Iirc he didn’t cut the mustard in that job and now heads up a charity…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Why does Fitzsimons want the Libs to go back to the right?
They are left of centre at the moment IMO.
It was a great surprise when I realized he was Julia Baird’s brother. Then he tried to ban dog racing. He’s not so different.
Gotta be the best method of making money with very little punishment if/when caught .. The gummint OPM funded rip-offs ….. Average “gaol time” = 6 months per $A1million scammed …… Two most popular scams .. childcare & NDIS …. & that’s without mentioning the “legal” green handouts which dwarf the “illegals” ……….!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/documents-expose-incidents-inside-nsw-childcare-centres/105143718
Possibly more like the fin du monde.
As we knew it, at least.
To put the OAP 20 March “cost-of-living” $4.70 p/f pay rise into perspective .. A single Iceberg lettuce, in Wetherill Park, this morning ..$4.99 .. so an entire fortnight’s OAP CoL rise doesn’t buy a lettuce .. FFS
The Liberals will not learn from this loss as Mr Dutton is perceived as a right wing extremist.
Not by me, he isn’t.
Nor by me either.
Perceived by the MSM.
The MSM is either deluding itself, or far more likely, lying.
Do you think there has been a level of hype around AI?
Or is the copy completely justified?
In my opinion, it’s not being hyped up. I think we’re heading to a complete transformation in pretty much how we live and work. However, that doesn’t mean the firms currently involved will necessarily be the winners. The tech will live on, but the firms that are involved now may not be the leaders. Look what happened with Deep Seek and the impact it had.
Look at 3D printing. People thought it would be massively adopted at the consumer level—but that really hasn’t happened. It’s certainly being used in manufacturing, though. In other words, the technology lives on, just not in the way it was originally imagined.
There seems to be a hype phase with all new technologies.
Actual hype, people vested in it using over estimations or “enthusiastic estimations” in order to attract investments or sell the idea.
Railroads, automobiles, personal computers, 3D printers, internet.
That these were very useful or even life changing tech doesn’t mean there wasn’t a hype phase, then a shakeout, then a consolidation phase.
Maybe the question is: where are we? Past the hype phase or still trying to draw in retail investors who mis- price risk?
Voting for the uniparty, libs version, on the grounds that it can’t be as bad as the albo version, strikes me as generous optimism. I understand the argument, but it’s predicated on an assumption that there is still some trace of classical liberalism in the libs. I see no sign of it.
I’m for defacing my ballot to let them know that I despise them all.
They have raised the fine for not voting from $20 to $80. @ssh*les
Here in sunny Canberra. On Saturday large dead roo dragged up on the kerb on the park side of the road, head injury.
Next morning drive past again, it’s moved a couple metres and is half eaten.
This morning approximately same position but all that is left is the spinal column and a bit of tail.
What on earth inhabits the parks here?
Wild dogs, feral cats or is it birds of prey?
Possums.
Hungry pollies/advisors after a night on the tiles .. LOL
Dogs and foxes.
No, possums. Really. Over 80% of kangaroo corpses were eaten by brushtails. Interesting study.
Fabulous Video, my favourite, But it doesn’t have a Teal spiel at the start? What’s going on here. How will I know who to vote for?
Owls do stuff like this (real ones, not cute ones)
Dingoes I’d suggest.
Aka “wild dogs.”
It was a big roo. They dragged the body some distance, I can’t see possums doing that.
The dingoes are supposed to be at Namadgi but it’s not that far away
From the paper:
This was in the Kosciuszko National Park which isn’t that far from Canberra. I liked the study since it found something that no one expected. That is how science should work, at least sometimes.
Don’t see ’em around the ACT/NSW. Then again, they’re cunning buggers.
My money is on feral Greens. They profess to be vegans but come out at night to gorge on meat.
I had one sitting on the fence 4am yesterday when I was up having a slash. Tuggeranong valley
A feral Green? lol
Foxes – there’s heaps of ’em round Canberra. And wild pigs.
I’d like to have seen some night vision footage. I’ve seen the African wild dogs at feeding time in Werribee Zoo. Absolute carnage.
Piranha.
No shortage of those in the ACT.
Pop-up kebab stand?
Easy now.
Of course you lot are all pompously windbagging nonsense like “medicine has to taste bad” when your boy Trump careens the world economy into a depression for no sane reason.
The only obvious bubble in the economy right now is in Tesla shares, with their ridiculous P/E ratio. And crypto, but that’s not really part of the economy, just a con run by crooks.
Trump said he was going to do it, Project 2025 said he was going to do it, and he has done it. If you didn’t know this was coming, you were one of the marks.
If Musk succeeds in breaking Social Security’s tech enough to suddenly stop pension payments, the millions of Americans who took to the streets in protest on the weekend will be joined by millions more grannies with lead in their handbags, plus cadres of grizzled combat-trained veterans with nothing left to lose.
Terribly take.
Trump is doing everything Democrats claimed they wanted to do for the last 30 years until Trump actually started doing them.
Which is why the working man is behind Trump, not the loony new democrats.
You lot!
Please explain, Monty, all the 150 year olds currently collecting social security.
They are all spending the money on fantasy football?
You have been fooled yet again, Bruce. These people do not exist.
correct, they dont exist … thats the point… why are we paying them SS?
Perhaps not, but to whom is the money going? DemonRat maaaates??
That was my first thought.
LOL. You don’t know databases do you Monty?
I have built them a few times.
The fraud is nearly bottomless, as we saw with USAID. Social Security and Treasury have been paying out with no scrutinization of the recipients. That says everything you need to know.
The wrongologist has spoken. Go long Tesla and Crypto.
Piss off, Nazi.
Time to buy?
We’re back 2% from 10:30am, which suggests the traders think it was a panic reaction and is now a buying opportunity.
If foreign stock markets are going down, it’s because foreigners anticipate a transfer of wealth from them to the United States. So the US markets should be going up for the same reason. I expect that they will.
When the seppos stop panicking and start thinking.
Love how people think this is a buy opportunity.
So you’re shorting the market here?
Say it’s not the bottom yet, Dover… if you dare!!!!!
Very, very shortly afterwards.
So soon, in fact, that I bought here as the results were coming in and sold the next day.
Didn’t even have to settle the Buy trades as the Sells were offset.
Three days later a tidy little profit just dropped into the account, all for a couple of dozen mouse-clicks.
I absolutely hate the ads that appear in my Twitter feed pretending to be tweets. Getting a tonne of them about Forrest right now.
Twiggy? Or the seat?
Former.
P.S. I think they’re wrong re Australia.
P.P.S. Same with Russell Futures and China. Think they meant HK.
IIRC when Obama got elected the Dow was about 9000 points and declined to about 7000 over a few weeks before recovering.
Corrupt Wall Street crashing the market at the behest of the Democrats.
Can they sustain the fakety?
Oh come on.
I can’t obviously confirm it, but I heard from someone who’s actually pretty switched on that Bessent is beside himself with concerns over these tariff rates, as he believes they are far too high and because of their nature will materially impact US production…. intermediate goods running through the supply chains. He was against the level they were set and what they captured.
Saw this yesterday:
I think Trump started off high , its not where you start but where you finish.
Nup, Arky. Trump has the crazy idea in his head that any country with which the US has a trade deficit – but only in goods, not services – is somehow cheating Americans.This delusion springs from his background in the grubby Mafia-infested world of NY real estate, where cash is king and any transaction in which you lose cash is one where you lose. This is why he has a long, long history of stiffing his contractors. He does not recognise the value of work done for him by people of lower castes, and will try to avoid paying for anything if he can. Apart from lawyers, he usually pays them (except for Rudy Giuliani, lol).
Democrats may have wanted to tinker with certain aspects of the international trade system, but this is nothing like what they might have done if they had ever been serious about anything but incremental change. You don’t act constructively with a wrecking ball.
The working man doesn’t want to see his 401(k) retirement fund destroyed in a week, or to have to take in his mother-in-law after her social security payments suddenly stop due to spotty-faced DOGE goons fiddling with code they don’t understand and breaking everything, or to have his ex-Iraq veteran brother with PTSD get cut off from support and benefits because Musk gutted the VA.
Trump has never been particularly popular and his numbers are in freefall, just like the stock market.
The delusion is strong in this one .
The working man doesn’t want to see his 401(k) retirement fund destroyed in a week
The working man can avoid that by putting his savings into gold, not stocks
mUnty speaking for the working man? That’s a little presumptuous for someone who married into the (lower) middle class.
He claimed into the “Upper” middle class. Snob.
Please. That wasn’t fooling anyone.
Fatboy, you’ve been warned that scoffing down 30 donuts in one sitting will cause hallucinations.
What does that even mean?
I see that the DemonRat talking points are out.
You’ve “never been popular” here fatboy. About as welcome as genital herpes and harder to get rid of.
Even the pro-Democrat media puts their approval rating at 21%.
But Trump is unpopular?
LOL.
Piss off, Nazi
Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque has proposed to install four loudspeakers to its minaret to broadcast the call to prayer – known as adhan – for about five to 15 minutes every Friday ahead of the sacred midday ‘Jummah’ prayer.
If approved by Canterbury-Bankstown Council, the mosque – also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib – will become the first in Sydney to broadcast the adhan year round.
According to planning documents, more than half of Lakemba’s population – about 61.2 per cent – identify as Muslim.
Daily Tele with comments open – for now
I don’t agree.
I almost chocked on my falafel.
The English translation of the adhan is:
So, obviously plagiarizing Christianity, with lotsa padding.
Surely the Call To Submission could be a simple text message reminder?
Pager might be the go.
Too soon?
No.
Ok
Ohhh yyyyyeah
Every church in Bankstown needs to ring their bells on Friday.
And if they have a carillon, use it!
Just another attempt to remind unbelievers of their place…
Just like everywhere throughout history.
Except for Queen Isabella who knew what was required.
Just arrange for a helicopter from Bankstown Airport to fly over the joint at the same time and hover there for 15 mins. That should do it. Every day.
If they get given approval for the one day a week, there’ll be a gradual chip-chipping until it’s every day. Take that to the bank.
They do not migrate in order to assimilate, they come to dominate.
Slowly will do, for now.
Lakemba Muslim Association is now building a very large mosque in Young, NSW. I wonder how the local residents would feel if the council approved the broadcasting of the call to prayer?
Narrogin Observer
Great Southern farmer chosen as Labor candidate for O’Connor at Federal election
Neil WatkinsonKalgoorlie Miner
Mon, 7 April 2025 2:00AM
Fifth-generation Amelup farmer Darren Moir has been chosen as the Labor candidate to take on Liberal incumbent Rick Wilson in the seat of O’Connor at the upcoming Federal election.
The ALP made the announcement on Friday afternoon hours after Mr Wilson criticised the party to the Kalgoorlie Miner for dragging its feet in announcing its candidate.
The party said Mr Moir was “is a born-and-bred O’Connor local raising his family in this community, and he is an active member of his local grower organisations”.
It said Mr Moir had served his community as a volunteer firefighter for 29 years, and had volunteered at children’s sport and school fundraisers.
“Darren is passionate about a strong healthcare system,” the party said.
“Serving as a volunteer ambulance officer for more than a decade, he knows that only Labor will strengthen Medicare.
“Only Labor have a proven track record supporting key primary industries in WA.
“Whether it is barley, beef, lobster or wine — WA produces some of the best products worldwide.”
Mr Moir said only Labor would invest in WA jobs and industries, keep the economy strong, and keep the State’s share of the GST safe.
“I am standing with the rest of the Labor team against Peter Dutton and the Liberals, because they won’t come clean on their plans for the future — they won’t come clean on Collie, and they won’t come clean on cuts,” he said.
“Peter Dutton is threatening to cut so many of the critical services that O’Connor residents rely on, all to fund his expensive nuclear scheme for Collie.
“I won’t let that happen.”
Wonder if he’ll be called on to justify the ban on the live sheep trade?
What a dishonest deadshit
A farmer standing for Labor?
It’s like the turkey voting for Christmas.
Doorknocking for the Liars in rural WA. Tough gig.
This is exactly what to expect when you go forth into an election without clear, explicit, and credible policies to explain the political froth and bubbles.
Any peanut can say any old talking point boogaboo rubbish – with a 25% chance of it sticking somewhere, and a zero% chance of being refuted and having your pants pulled down in public.
Whoever is supposed to have spent the past three years doing policy staff work for the Coalition owns this shit.
Thus far I see little evidence of anyone doing any policy work.
Dutton owns that.
Yes he does.
Responsibility for policy development lies with the Parliamentary Liberal Party.
Moir must be very wealthy if he can take time out from farming for very distant Canberra.
Peter Walsh managed, and did a good job as Finance Minister.
I bet he’s in on “carbon farming “.
“Only Labor have a proven track record supporting key primary industries in WA.
“Whether it is barley, beef, lobster or wine — WA produces some of the best products worldwide.”
So no mention of the Live Sheep trade then. Oh dear.
Moir will be a candidate in my electorate. I doubt we will see him out here in the northern goldfields but I bet he will be seen in kalgoorlie which re -elected a state labour critter recently.
I wonder what his stance is on native title rorting out here where crown land is leased to pastoralists and miners concurrently as well as having blackfella veto rights all over it. Nah I don’t wonder at all but it might be worth watching him do double backward somersaults with tuck and pike trying ti justify it all. Might even make me snigger for a second or so
Looking at the potential MP choices in my electorate, I think I’m best off spoiling my ballot. The seat is by far a safe labor seat, the most likely challenger is greens. The liberal candidate is a soft lefty, and the “independent” choices all read as closet greens. Of course I might still have someone stick their hand up for family first or something, but as it stands…
I’m yet to look much further, it’s just too depressing.
If enough of us spoil our ballots, some of the brighter ones may figure out that we’re a potential resource.
Shirley, you jest. Politician and brighter are not two words seen in the same sentence. Even implied.
If you’ll agree that some pollies are even dumber than others, I’m talking about the others.
I know, but how do idjits like Blown, Jacqui Jackie, Sarah Two Dads, the list is endless, get elected in the first place? They’d be lucky to share a neuron between them.
Yep. Why take the risk? Cock & Balls1.
Just had a look at mine in Groom. Two Teals Lib, Lab, One Nation, Family First and a Green.
It seems to be all about the local electorate, not their ideas about where the country should go
At least the Coalition will deliver significant cost of living relief from day one in office by reducing the price of fuel by at least 25 cents per litre. This will ripple through the economy and reduce costs across the board. Worth voting for the Libs just for this policy. All the Labor government is offering is more of the same -more best ever big projects that are poorly planned and run over budget, more taxes and red and green tape. More woke nonsense, more community division, more migrants and more unfulfilled promises of housing.
And more expensive energy that ‘Ruin A Balls Up’ the Environment..
Same here for me. I live in Tanya Plebersuck’s electorate of Sydney.
It’s LayBore or a Green that will win here.
As for my vote, well it can only be a protest vote.
Recently seen, on the streets of a Wheatbelt town. A rather pretty young lady, dressed in the height of fashion, standing next to a caravan.
The advertising slogan, on the door of the caravan, says “Rent me or buy me…”
Was she a teal ?
Obviously the slogan was meant for the caravan. What else could it mean?
The other item is way too expensive – rented or bought.
Incredible.
The liberal chick in my electorate will at least get my second preference. I’d love to see the smug, repulsive canbra born apparatchik that is my current member thrown out but too many rusted ons in hawke.
Sky News reporters for the most part look more cheerful than I’ve seen them in a long time, now that there looks like some hope for a return to government by Labor.
They just love paying more for their groceries and electricity and rents!
J’ismists all think they playas. This stuff makes them moist.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/treasury-secretary-howard-lutnick-completely-wrecks-cbss-margaret/
Explanation for Norfolk Island tariffs.
Tough on the penguins, but there it is.
It really wasn’t that difficult to work out.
As far as the market hit today goes, even though we have burnt the price of a small European car, I am not too worried.
Parallels have been drawn with the Covid panic, but I don’t see that as a fair comparison.
The Covid thing had two massive unknowns –
1. How bad was this virus?; and/or
2. How crazy could the countermeasures be?
Even though #1 was left at the starting gates, #2 bolted in.
There are uncertainties around Orange Hitler’s tariffs, but most probable effects can be figured out.
Totally oversold this morning (down nearly 6.5% at the open), but clawed back to about a 4% drop.
‘We sent out ‘save the dates’: Gay farmers Darren Moir and Nigel Lock celebrateLiam Croy The West Australian
Sat, 18 November 2017 2:00 P.M.
Darren Moir’s self-imposed ban on commercial TV ended in tears of joy and wedding plans on Wednesday morning.
The Amelup farmer had sworn off TV two months earlier because of offensive advertisements produced by No supporters during the same-sex marriage campaign.
After the news broke that Australia had returned a resounding Yes, the text messages and calls came thick and fast. His sisters were crying and his mother was already thinking about decorations for the wedding.
Mr Moir embraced his partner of six years, Nigel Lock, while their two-year-old son Andy tore around the house waving a rainbow flag. Their son did not know what he was celebrating, but the reaction of his parents was enough to set him off.
“We were harvesting so it wasn’t a huge celebration for us unfortunately but we did take some time to watch the announcement,” Mr Moir said.
“The only drama was our boy thought it was a bit boring so he turned the TV off just before the announcement was made.
A bit late for saving dates, I would have thought.
Look after those dates fellas.
Their Date Rolls would be well past their use by date.
Time for a re-sleeve.
I feel sick…
Which one was the man?
A genuine question is, which countries & industries can compete in a zero tariff, zero quotas environment with the US?
Will it get to the stage that things like subsidies & tax credits for films enrage the administration?
Will countries like Australia get caught up when the US goes after its real targets?
If maintained for a meaningful period of time, it really will upend industries globally.
Only a few smart cookies out there in twitterX world were pointing out that if oil spends a meaningful period of time in the low 50’s, Russia looks shaky & Iran effectively goes broke.
Currently trading at circa 60USD so got some way to go.
Keep in mind Iran is allowed to only trade a portion of production at the headline rate, the rest is at steep discounts.
Who really knows the discount Russia sells its oil at?
I reckon it would be circa 20%.
Watched “Landsman” and the consensus was “$US 70/80/over is great, $US65 is acceptable but anything below $60 a barrel is duuuuuuuuuuh for the producers” ……….
Going to be interesting late tonight watching US markets open. May watch Margin Call tonight to get in the mood.
I don’t think Peter Dutton is ugly. I think Abalone is ugly, not so much because of his looks but because he’s a hideous wretched far-left creature vomited up by a black Marxist lagoon who slurs and slushes his words, who lies, where nothing he says is true. He’s grotesque. I don’t trust Abalone. He’s a wrecker, he hates the very people who built this country. Abalone is not a lifter, he’s a leaner, he’s never had a real job in his life. And I can’t even bring myself to mention his Jew hatred (and he is a Jew hater).
No, it’s not Dutton’s looks or manner that’s holding him back, it’s the party, it’s the policies. The Liberal Party is in serious trouble, the troubles began in 2013 when, despite being elected in a landslide, they squandered a mandate, then in September 2015 when they dumped a PM who’d won the party a landslide for an miserable pimple and then the coup de grace was in late 2021 when, under Scumbag the Fckwit, they signed us up to net zero. The last is probably the most catastrophic, designed to save some blue ribbon inner-city Liberal seats which they ended up losing anyway!
As I wrote earlier, if Dutton and the Liberals were brave and were serious, they’d be campaigning on walking away from net zero, saying it was a mistake, they’d be campaigning on economic reform, they’d be campaigning on slashing immigration, they’d be campaigning on addressing the housing crisis, they’d be campaigning about IR reform, they’d be talking about the transgender crapola instead of running a mile from it. I mean, just look at Dutton and the Liberals over the last day and a bit, disendorsing a candidate because he spoke some plain truths and walking back the wfh issue.
I have never thought the Liberals could win government this year, the bars were too high but I thought they could seriously dent Labor, and now I even beginning to doubt that!
Charisma is not an ugly/handsome thing. Unfortunately Dutton has no charisma whatsoever. Albo, after he got his teeth and hair done, has a reasonable level of that stuff, whatever it is.
has a reasonable level of that stuff
You need to go to Specsavers.
It’s an interesting phenomenon. Napoleon and Vespasian were pretty ugly but their men would follow them to the ends of the earth. They had charisma in spades. Bob Hawke did too. It’s weird, but it’s real. Dutton unfortunately has none. Go figure.
Bonaparte had charm and intelligence. Abalone lacks both.
Albosleazy has all the appeal and charisma of a pile of shit.
As for that horrible voice … *shudder*
I disagree ! I detect zero charisma from Albo, especially when he shpeeeeeks.
No charisma Bruce.
After all the cosmetic work, he simply looked a little less shabby.
All that is lost as soon as he opens his gob and spittle goes flying in all directions.
Trying to frame the hypothetical investment thesis for the next couple of years.
1) Does your product/service rely on the US consumer/taxpayer/both for your business case to work.
2) If yes, does your product/service have a pathway to being partially or completely domiciled in the US to avoid being caught up in a tariff or quota regime that kills your business case.
3) If you do change/increase your presence in the US, will you have to re-invest returns into the US, ie not repatriate profits off shore.
Not many would be caught up by 3 but that framework would be great for the US consumer/taxpayer.
Not so much for shareholder sitting in a country somewhere else in the world.
1&2 are the key to doing business sustainably in the US.
Also reading some thoughts from someone who is well ahead of the curve.
They’re trading this market spectacularly at the moment.
Whatever tariff regime is in place in 3 months, don’t expect it to be just one tariff class per country long term.
Think more along the lines of a two tier tariff system.
Tier one, is whatever deal your country does with the US is your base tariff.
But instead of using quotas, think more along the lines of if you’re just exporting something to the US (with little or zero value add, employment or investment in the US), you drop into the tier two tariff bucket which really could be anything based on the subjective views of the US administration at that time.
Time will tell & no-one really knows.
But I think that if you take the approach that it’s America First and most others can jam it as far as the administration is concerned & frame long term thinking around that, I don’t think you’ll be far off the mark.
Finally logged onto rest super yesterday after it was effectively shut since Friday when they had their data breach/fraud done.
Money still there but getting fairly antsy by day 2 of “cant log in “
Another example of a “business” run by morons and/or ideologues.
They have pretty much one job.
Take a mandated income stream, invest it, and make sure they preserve the confidence of their members.
The trouble is, in a lot of cases, not only is the super contribution mandated, but the fund is mandated in the EBA, so the members are captive.
And fund management treat them accordingly.
The recent tales of them refusing to pay death and disability claims is just one example.
If that was a Big Four bank, you could expect a three-part Fork Horners special on it.
But the industry funds get a free pass.
100%.
If there is some wide spread fraud I would expect to see a tax payer funded package.
It’s been done before when Shorten bailed out industry super when they got stung by a Ponzi scheme where all other investors had to eat it.
Was reading an article on high rents around the Oz capital state cities since Bat Flu and one of the listed suburbs stuck out at no.8 for overall rent increases (8.3% rise).. CLAYMORE .. Seems a bit wierd cos unless the demographics has changed significantly Claymore was/ may still be a “houso” suburb .. one of those purpose built Campbelltown “houso” satellites not noted for a high “private” tenancy level ……..!
Rents will always rise up to the point that mortgage interest is equal to it.
Of course anyone in Sydney could decamp to other places where you can get a house for $200k. There is no excuse not to, these days, since you can put a Starlink receptor on your roof and work from home.
You do understand warehouse workers, trades, truckies, etc. etc. can’t work from home? And often the infrastructure for those jobs are in major cities?
Don’t you?
I could move to be near where my dad lives, but there’s not much work there. Still can’t afford a mortgage if I don’t have a job.
I worked at mines and smelters for many years…
(That’s why I linked real estate prices in Rosebery. I know the town. Been down that mine, a fascinating experience. Pretty good place to live although cool and a bit wet. But you can pick up a decent house there for under 200k and via Starlink you can work for anyone on Earth.
My brother runs a modest software company and has employees on five continents.)
Good for your brother, but I’m sure you’ve dealt with plenty who might be smart enough, but are not mentally wired to do that. They’re hands on, doing stuff people. I think you get the point..
Yes I have. Amazing people. Our fitters and sparkies could build anything.
Keep in mind, key people in this administration want to get rid of quotas.
They are unproductive and you’re fighting for years to enforce & appeal.
A two tier (at least) tariff system gets rid of that because if the US thinks you’re dumping (more likely the donor class says you’re dumping), they can just up the tier two tariff for your product.
A lot easier to enforce & collect for goods entering the country after a tariff change.
Yes, this is similar to what China does.
Euro markets opening soon.
Why Progressives Embrace Islam | Dr. Mark Durie and Dr. Richard Shumack
It’s very simple and these guys flirted with it but missed it: the left hate the West and regard any group also against the West as either a victim worth supporting or a righteous enemy.
The lecture by Aaron Kheriaty at Hillsdale College discusses the convergence of transhumanism and artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on the ideas proposed by Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and key figure within the World Economic Forum (WEF). Harari envisions a future where surveillance, including biometric, goes under the skin, empowering governments and corporations to monitor human biology and emotions in unprecedented ways. He argues that humans are becoming “hackable animals,” shedding the traditional notion of free will in favor of AI-mediated enhancement. Kheriaty critiques this perspective, suggesting it resembles a religion that aims to fundamentally alter human nature. He argues that such a movement is grounded in false premises, as it overlooks the intrinsic unity of mind and body. Transhumanism, according to Kheriaty, reflects an underlying death-oriented philosophy rather than an enhancement of life. Transhumanist agendas, like those Harari describes, present societal risks through increased surveillance and the erosion of privacy, especially if tied to economic controls like Central Bank digital currencies. The potential to manipulate and control society through digital IDs and biometric data requires vigilance, particularly in resisting technologies that could enhance state or corporate power over individuals. Kheriaty also highlights how inappropriate the transhumanist dreams ignore the practical and philosophical limitations of AI and technology as replacements or enhancements of human life. Emphasizing the materialist view—where mental existence could be preserved while discarding the organic body—he outlines the impossibility of such goals. In conclusion, Kheriaty underlines the importance of ethics in technological development, advocating for maintaining human-centered practices in medicine, technology, and social structures. He proposes a return to foundational principles that respect the inalienable bond between human mind and body, fostering a more balanced and sustainable relationship with technology and AI.
completely disagree with this, transhumanism is an immortality focused ideology. Sure there are serious risk with the rise of Ai and technology, but navigating a path between totalitarian utopia and armageddon won’t be easy but is doable.
Imagine that power in the hands of your worst enemy, there is your risk.
Chris Kenny does it again. Mr. Vote Yes To The Voice says Trump’s tariffs moves are “a war on Free Trade”.
Nothing but a pissant.
Markets go down, but they come up again. Markets have been at record levels.
Kenny is a lazy oaf who I suspect is being held ideological captive by his leftard adult chlldren. He hates Trump and America First because they’re a threat to the lazy old Australian dependence on America, which Canberra has used since World War Two to run down the Australia military.
Upending the world trade system threatens the employability of lazy sods like Chris Kenny.
PS: Kenny’s 5pm show on Sky News is unwatchable.
I record his show on Thursday and watch the Tim Blair segment only.
there is no “free trade”. All international trade is controlled by in some way. But that is beyond Kenny’s ability to comprehend.
That will larn them for pissing off the Trump team about free speech or its absence
Greetings from Nuriootpa by the way. Been touring mallee, sunraysia and now Barrosa Valley. Places like Mildura and Renmark almost like oases in the scrubby bush. Apart from vineyards of course, seen lots of plantings of what I think are almonds.
Chris Kenny’s opening salvo at Dutton and the Liberals was on the mark.
Correct on Dutton, but TDS squared.
How close are we getting to the truth on JFK? Director Oliver Stone explores
There was no grand conspiracy..
Pete Hegseth Heads to Panama as Trump Demands U.S. Reclaim Control of Canal
Tariffs Work — and President Trump’s First Term Proves It
Miranda Devine
Democrats refuse Barack Obama’s election meddling — as former prez’s influence within the desperate party withers
That’s good. A really nasty piece of work
Mmm…they’d prefer AOC, Bernie or Kamala to lead them.
Those three make Barry look almost normal.
How did the world get so insane?
The rise of moral relativism.
”It’s not a lie if you believe it”. h/t George Costanza
Confession…I got that from the tail end of Kenny’s program. It seemed to fit somehow.
And the rise of moral relativism followed the loss of faith.
In a generation – more or less – at the popular level.
‘Everyone did what was right in their own eyes.’
Well there was this guy called Karl Marx and he wrote a book…
Long before he wrote that book he was writing satanic verse.
Well, the prog-left world anyway.
Unfortunately it can’t be contained there.
Barry’s hatred of America is ideological. Much more dangerous. Think kd wrong v Blackout.
Le Pen Defies French Court Ban, Calls Ruling a Political Attack on Democracy | Times Now World
One thing I don’t understand with the tarrifs is the effect on some of the exchange rates.
Sure the AUD will logically drop versus the USD but it also dropped substantially against the Thai baht-from 21.5 to 20.5.
The Thai tarrifs are 36%, the Aussie tarrifs are 10% so I thought the AUD would strengthen due to tarrifs.
Moreover the Thai’s export proportionally more to the US than we do.
The baht is more or less floated with occasional interference from the Government and didnt drop nearly as much versus the USD.
The only thing I can think of was investors liquidating their AUD assets and buying USD whereas there wasn’t the same amount of investment for Thailand.
It’s not the tariffs, it’s the expectation of a recession.
The ENORMOUS scale of the EU’s NGO funding | MCC Brussels at the European Parliament
Correct on Dutton, but TDS squared.
I find Kenny’s TDS a lot less hysterical than Blot’s.
Ditto.
It’s TeDeiouS.
He needs a new schtick.
Stephen Miller: Trump is making America ‘free’ again
At Stitch n’ Bitch today…an interesting conversation. I was actually asked about some political issues.
First – Albo’s policy on Australian manufacturing. Response – why is Albo “good”, but Trump “bad”?
Then – the Seven expose about EV batteries and Indonesia. Response – well, we’ve offshored all the nasty stuff so we feel good about the environment. How about those flattened ridgelines in the Daintree? Hardly environmentally sound.
Finally, I promised to come back terminally irradiated by all the nuclear power stations I passed in France and Germany.
I think they got the message. 😀
Oh, by the way, the conversation was with wall to wall lefties.
Albo is to Australian manufacturing what a band aid is to a grievous wound.
Albo’s assistance to manufacturing is conditional upon the adoption of renewable energy.
“Green” aluminium, etc.
So we are as fooked as UK, and probably USA?
When I flew out of TSV this arvo 2 Hercs just in from Richmond & a Govt jet, Mystere? RAAF roundel, T type tail & 3 engine one in tail root. All at RAAF terminal. Watched all 3 land. What looked like a security detail driving around.
Wonder what stunt these clowns are about to pull with the troops as props.
My tip NW Qld floods.
Hope any ALP minister game enough to show their face in regional Queensland gets heckled…
Na it will be so highly micromanaged public wont get a chance…
Sydney weather is a nice change. Only for 4 days though.
Allliance IMO needs to give their Embraers a tad more TLC. My seat was dodgy, toilet had loose fittings & the aircraft looked tired.
SYD needs to hire more ATC or make changes to the slots. Circled over Mt Arthur in Hunter for half an hour. Whomever responsible for the delays everytime recently I jet in need a rocket. Flight crew were saying Sydney is a well known shambles for everything service & support.
Is creepy Mr Credlin running the Libs campaignn again.
Someone needs to.
Over to you, Dutts.
Yeah na. Protected species. Female representation…
As opposed to…
Monique Ryan. The Masking Queen and the owner of the sign stealing soy boy.
Seriously.
Lying by omission is ok then?
Whereas the bloke who expressed an opinion about women in combat that is unpopular in feminist circles lost his endorsement.
Thanks Roger.
It appears you have formed a habit of correcting me on every…single…comment.
Hypothesis. Experiment. Bingo.
Eh?
I thought I was engaging in discussion.
I’ll desist from now on.
Do not desist, by any means.
You take me back to my yoof.
😀
He is of course correct.
Women should not serve on the frontline.
Wait till a few women come home in bodybags.
Dutton should have held firm; Albosleazy would have.
Flat in London almost a lifestyle hangover. A mate stuck with one showing no capital gain after 20 or 30 years.
The Trump factor: Peter Dutton’s backflips explainedIt’s been a day of backflips for Peter Dutton, with the Opposition leader retreating on forcing public servants back into the office and plans to slash 41,000 public service jobs.
So what’s behind the backflips? What do they have to do with Donald Trump? Political editor Clare Armstrong breaks it down in this exclusive video analysis.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
Pox on all their houses, how can you vote for any of them?
Trust politicians? You sure do.
You. Me. Machine.
After shopping for the bare necessities this afternoon, I pulled out of the carpark to be visually assaulted by the 2-dimensional mug of my federal ember (not sic). The sentence ‘I’m fighting for you’ was on each placard.
I immediately wondered who this ‘You’ was, and concluded it was probably someone special, one of the elite, who was known by their Christian name only: You.
Call it false memory or nostalgic delusion, but I recollected that at one time, ‘You’ was more universal in that it embraced practically all of us. Pay your taxes, contribute to society (at the very least, don’t actively harm it), and you’ll be represented.
I’m already drifting from the premise of my post here, but what I was trying to build up to was that I didn’t need to ask the question (of myself) ‘Does the ‘You’ he’s fighting for include Me?
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t.
Whoever or whatever this character – Tri-Annual Ted, I call him, as he seems only to squint at the sunlight once every three years before returning to hibernation again – is fighting for, it doesn’t include me. It hasn’t included me since long before the Covid Tyranny.
I’d like to say I’m at peace with that, with that rejection, that open-your-mouth-so-I-can-spit-in-it, give-us-your-taxes-and-your-vote-and-then-feck-right-off thieving of my social, cultural, and familial heritage, but I’m not.
What I want is to transition to a Dalek body and fulfill my one and only purpose.
Sadly, there’s an awful lot of housework to do before then though.
Muddy out.
On Credlin, Redbridge pollster Kos Samaras confirms that the only movement in the polls this week has been away from the SFLs thanks to the advertising by cashed-up splinter groups like the Fat Bastard Party — and not to the Liars
Sadly, Mr Potato Head is now a captive of the NSW Liberal communist faction, which desperately wants him to lose because he threatens their renewable energy investments.
If the SFLs were serious about winning they would have Jacinta Price front and centre. They don’t because Price is a threat to their dirty money scam.
My arthritis prevents me from giving you a thousand clicks.
Who has silenced Jacinta and why is she tolerating it?
Jacinta Price has definitely been silenced though by whom is the mystery. She used to appear regularly on Sky on most after dark programs but no sign of her at all in the last month.
Interesting. Doesn’t seem to be anything good at all about the nsw division. At least they’ve been a few green shoots of sanity in the Vic division.
Kos wouldn’t be talking his book would he? Lot of “Albo has the early momentum”. around as well.
The nsw division is in administration until after the federal election. Then it will be back to the wets getting control of the division. That didn’t work well in the local elections. Frankly they are a bunch of losers who think that being labor light is the only way.
Geriatric hippies Neil Young and the arrogant Joan Baez have teamed up with Bernie and AOC. That will do it. The millenials, desperately saving for a house deposit, will be swayed for certain. Gen Z who understand that there was no history before their birth will be scratching their heads, or other uncomfortable itches.
Is Fonda not available to lend her powerful voice to the clowns?
Maybe Barbra Streisand
Just out in the Oz:
Top officials at the Australian Catholic University will convene this week for their monthly leadership meeting, and high on the agenda will be a project dubbed the Millie Phillips Centre for Jewish Thought and History, to be funded in honour of the late entrepreneur and Holocaust refugee.
Except, the university doesn’t want the word “Jewish” in the centre’s name, apparently. Fearing a donor backlash, worried about political sensitivities and other repercussions, it’s moving to excise the “Jewish Thought and History” bit, according to confidential briefing documents given to ACU’s Senate governing committee ahead of its meeting on Wednesday.
Instead, ACU’s hoping to brush up this project with the anodyne title of the ACU Millie Phillips Centre, a proposal to be presented by vice-chancellor Zlatko Skrbis and which addresses not only “reputational risks” facing the university but a “potential backlash due to the complex political sensitivities surrounding antisemitism”.
But that’s a very odd choice of words, isn’t it? “Complex political sensitivities.” Hmm. Like, some forms of antisemitism are really quite nuanced. Like some might require parsing before judgment. Or should be viewed through a lens of empathy. Or, to borrow from the execrable UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, that these things don’t always “happen in a vacuum”.
Clearly, ACU has spent much time worrying about whether their support for this Jewish-funded, Jewish-led and very Jewish project could actually erode the university’s existing donor base. “Risks identified in the preparation of the Centre proposal include perceptions of bias due to the Centre’s focus, donor affiliations, and political protests or media scrutiny,” the documents say.
“Any deterioration in the relationship between ACU and donors would be managed as per ACU’s policies, processes, with oversight through our risk register. Governance mechanisms, such as clear protocols and funding agreements, have been designed to preserve ACU’s independence and academic integrity, while managing any potential relationship breakdown.”
Truth be told, if it’s that hard, and you’re so wobbly about it, why even bother doing it at all? Senate committee membership is composed of 18 people and includes ACU chancellor Martin Daubney, pro-chancellor Virginia Bourke and Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli.
Phillips, who died in 2021, set aside a portion of her estate not only to combat antisemitism but specifically to promote the concept of “Jewish pride” in the community. She would obviously be aghast with any development to smear out of the centre’s Jewish identity.
A NSW Supreme Court judge ended years of wrangling last week over complications with her will, ruling that part of her estate could be distributed to form a charitable trust for this exact purpose: to combat antisemitism.
Her executor Peter Phillippsohn even presented evidence to the court stating that “many Jews have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity in public”, a damning statement, obviously, but one that casts ACU’s decision in an even more puzzling light. How daft are these idiots?
Nor, we imagine, would Phillips be pleased to learn – care of the same Senate papers – that the university wants to expand the centre’s remit beyond its research into antisemitism but more broadly into the bottomless trap of “systemic discrimination”, which applies to just about everyone these days. Or at least everyone under the age of 30. They’ll tell you, too.
Asked why ACU was seeking to drop the word “Jewish” from the centre’s name, an ACU spokeswoman said: “ACU Senate papers are confidential. Senate has not yet considered this matter, so the university is not in a position to make any comment.”
Which is dissembling rubbish. The discussions about establishing the Millie Philips Centre for Jewish Thought and History began roughly 18 months ago. Skrbis has been instrumental in steering the project. This is his idea. He just doesn’t want a bar of the unpleasantness.
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In the video “China’s export crisis: A tariff war like no other,” Lei discusses the escalating trade tensions between the United States and China, dubbed a new kind of tariff war. The main points covered include: 1. **Tariff Impositions**: Recent US announcements include significant tariff increases on Chinese goods, potentially increasing tariffs to 65%-100% on Chinese exports. This escalation aims to dismantle China’s role as the global factory and obstruct trade practices like rerouting goods through other countries to bypass tariffs. 2. **Impact on China’s Economy**: The measures could cripple China’s economy, heavily reliant on exports, and provoke a wider economic downturn. With a significant trade surplus attributed to the US market, China’s dependency is highlighted, making alternative markets challenging to find. 3. **Vietnam as a Transit Hub**: Vietnam’s high trade figures with the US, compared to its GDP, suggest its role as a transit hub for Chinese goods rerouted to the US. The US has imposed tariffs on Vietnam to curb this practice. 4. **Global Trade Dynamics**: The tariffs highlight the complex trade links among nations, with the US historically offsetting trade deficits of other countries with China. Trump’s tariffs aim to rectify these imbalances and cut China’s indirect trade routes through intermediary countries. 5. **Geopolitical Implications**: The US’s approach is seen as a strategic move to end China’s export dominance and supply chain control. There’s skepticism about China forming an effective anti-US tariff coalition due to its economic vulnerabilities. 6. **Consequences and Predictions**: The potential collapse of China’s export sector could lead to massive job losses, currency devaluation, and broader economic and social instability. The speaker suggests that these developments might ultimately challenge the Chinese regime’s stability. Lei concludes by speculating on the longer-term implications of the tariff war, emphasizing a possible global realignment in trade practices and the inherent challenges faced by China’s economy under these pressures.
applying tariffs based on trade deficit a stroke of genius. There is no easy way for china to avoid the tariffs as it has been doing aside from setting up shop in the US
The Wong Chap to “spend more time with the family?”
Or does she know polling we don’t?
Richard Marles has refused to commit to serving a full term as Defence Minister if Labor wins the election, amid speculation Penny Wong is planning to retire, thereby opening the way for Mr Marles to take the Foreign portfolio.
Mr Marles said he’d wanted to serve as Defence Minister in Labor’s first term, and “I’ve almost completed the job”.
He said he would not pre-empt any future role if the Albanese government was returned on May 3. “We’ve got an election to win, and that’s our focus,” he said on Monday. “So the last thing I’m about to do is start speculating on what happens after the election.”
Senator Wong’s political future has been the subject of persistent rumours in Canberra and her hometown Adelaide, with multiple senior Labor sources saying she plans to leave politics within six months, no matter the poll result.
They say after 24 years in parliament, she wants to spend more time with wife Sophie Allouache and their daughters Alexandra and Hannah.
More at the Oz
Marles, Wong and Bowen seem to be on the nose with the holy focus groups.
Lots of Liars in the freezer this time around. kd wrong was on the ground in WA in a likely unwinnable seat were (s)he can’t really do any damage. Albo doing the heavy sandbag work.
“wife” yeah, right. Dyke.
“their daughters”
I have no confidence in any polls at the moment, the current supposed figures are published to produce a certain effect which is to depress the conservative vote and panic the Liberals. Mission accomplished.
The same fraud polls were front and centre in the US last year.
Suspect you are right. US are the worst at this.
They say after 24 years in parliament, she wants to spend more time with wife Sophie Allouache and their daughters Alexandra and Hannah.
Their daughters?
IMO Sydney baggage handlers are the most lazy slovernly oxygen theives around.
Now surpassed Melbourne.
I once saw one kill a dog through negligence.
On the tarmac at Alice while we were waiting for an aircraft part we witnessed a ‘bloody parcel crusher’ open a dog cage and walk away as the poor mutt jumped out of the cage and hung itself when its collar was caught on the cage door.
My offsider and I were screaming at the prick and eventually ran onto the tarmac resulting in our apprehension.
Screaming at the authorities produced no result, but fortunalely our aircraft repairs took longer than planned and we had time to find the owners and provide eye witness data for their solicitor.
They are the worst kind of union scum.
Time to check out share market bargains.
High intelligence can co-exist with moral cowardice.
And I’d suggest they’re more creative than the average person in making up excuses for their craven behaviour.
Putin’s nightmare, with throwbacks to the fall of the Soviet Union.
There’s method in Trump’s apparent madness.
That maybe part of the plan but it is a sort of suicide run with the US economy. There’s also the complication of action against Iran. If that occurs, the Saudi oil fields and/or Straits of Hormuz are likely to be targeted /closed, respectively, which will put oil up to three digits.
Well…we’ll see.
The Saudis are likely also a target for a lesson (albeit not military) along with Iran.
Hence the naval build up…
Drop the price of oil any more and the shale frackers in the US are out of business.
Will not help Iran one bit either.
5D chess.
Furthermore a lower oil price will do wondrous things for the inflation rate.
watched a vid recently and the AI rendered voice to text … Smoot-Hawley as “Smooth Heartly”
reminded me that clowns quoting AI as fact or some sort of superior opinion
are basically retards
Fredo, genius level IQ. Globally recognised software engineer. Chess master.
black just moved Kg6
what is white’s best punishing move in response?
lol. Keep up the tick curating Fredo. One of on these days you’ll convince a moron you’re the smartest god oracle in the room.
Some professor is on with Bolt and insisting that the US economy was just fine until Trump’s tariffs which have now wiped off a quarter of American share market. Bolt is not clever enough to ask why panic, why not wait and see until negotiations have concluded?
Going back, shredding past tax records, and recalling the conversation with an officer of the Australian Tax Office.
“Zulu Kilo, your farm ran at a loss, last year.”
“In the middle of the worst drought in nearly a hundred years, show me a farm in the Eastern Wheatbelt that ran at a profit.”
“Zulu Kilo, oh, when does your business plan show your farm returning to profit?”
“When the drought breaks – when it rains.”
“Zulu Kilo, what’s rain got to do with the issue?”
Let’s not get too Chicken Little about this.
Those opening numbers have pulled back by about a third.
As they did here today.
DJIA futures are down about 3 pussent.
Not really the rolling blood-bath some were predicting.
Litnick is a freaking toad if Ackman is right.
In the words of Cool Hand Luke
”Time to play a cool hand “
@Rob_Roos
The youth in Italy are turning their backs on the #EU—and who can blame them? Mass immigration, green dogma, censorship, debt, digital ID… Brussels is not securing our future. It’s dismantling it.
I get the feeling that it’s youth all over the continent who are becoming disenchanted with the EU policies and actions. When visiting relatives in Sweden last August I got the feeling even the laid back and relaxed Swedish young are no longer as relaxed as they used to be.
Exactly like here.
@JimFergusonUK
NEVER FORGET WHAT JACINDA ARDERN DID TO NEW ZEALAND
Behind the soft tone and polished speeches was one of the most authoritarian crackdowns in modern Western history.
Under Ardern’s rule:
– Citizens were locked in their homes
– Families were separated by checkpoints
– The unvaccinated were segregated from society
– Protesters — peaceful, brave, and ordinary Kiwis — were beaten, smeared, and silenced
And all of it was wrapped in the language of “kindness.”
But there was nothing kind about medical apartheid.
Nothing kind about crushing dissent.
Nothing kind about turning a democracy into a testing ground for tyranny.
The truth is coming out — and history will not be kind to the Ardern government.
There must be a reckoning.
Because what happened in New Zealand was not just a national tragedy — It was a blueprint for global control.
We must demand justice.We must expose the lies.And we must make sure this NEVER happens again — anywhere.The world watched New Zealand fall.
Now it must watch it rise — and hold those responsible to account.
@OffGuardian0
An entire generation of people who (perfectly justifiably) used to object to cheap imports based on quasi slave Labour in the third world are now defending it as vital to global trade.
A massively overlapping Venn diagram with those people, are the people who used to be (totally unjustifiably) concerned about climate change, but now believe shipping everything from China instead of buying local is a really great idea.
Either TDS is incredibly powerful, or there are shocking numbers of people who just think what they’re told to think.
I remember these same people burning down Seattle in 1999 during a WTO meeting there. They objected most strenuously to globalisation which magically they now think is the best thing ever.
Hatred (in this case of Trump) completely unhinges many leftists, causing them to backflip on everything they previously believed in or supported.
@robinmonotti
The real reason for the relentless propaganda campaign pushing a fictional Netflix series onto the people of Britain, apart from distracting from the endemic pedophilia propping up the Labour Party itself, is to introduce digital ID for children dressed up as age verification digital ID.
Once that generation is locked into digital ID it will become compulsory for them to have it to use the internet. This will shift society into a digital control grid, a social credit score, and expiring Central Bank Digital Currency Universal Basic Income. This is how the digital enslavement to government and central bankers is implemented.
The propaganda itself has nothing to do with real concern for children. Some of the Labour MPs pushing it are themselves being charged for sexual crimes against children, and the entire Labour Party apparatus are covering up the rape gangs because the criminals behind them secure votes for Labour at elections in return for getting away with mass rape of children.
Once again we are being fed a Big Lie & the naïve are falling for it, building a digital prison for the rest of us who can see the cynicism in it all.
When I see that truly evil Herr Stürmer (he of the “nothing to see here” re UK Muesli rape gangs) get up on the stage and falsely accuses young white males of the most appalling behaviour against British girls I am absolutely revolted by his hypocrisy.
UK
EXCLUSIVE Labour MP Dan Norris is arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences after police raid
…and here comes the Online Safety Act
Trump’s Tariff Play: The Art of the Economic Reset
I can understand that approach.
In the long term, however, it achieves nothing in terms of influencing change on the nominally right side of the political centre.
The ONLY way a true conservative-values party can exist on ‘the right’ is if the Liberals no longer exist. The latter are neither willing nor capable of listening or changing what they believe is presently working for them.
If a new conservative party tries to co-exist in that space, the Libs will focus all their energy on internecine warfare. No-one wins.
Destroying the Liberals is not a short-term option, but I believe it is a necessary one. We cannot afford to keep on kicking that can down the road.
Voting for them because they are less evil than the other evil-doers will send a message that ‘We approve of what you’re doing. Keep it up.’ THAT is a wasted vote. It’s also a waste of taxes. There is no little ‘e’ evil and big ‘E’ Evil.
I repeat, in order to allow an ‘open space’ for other, more conservative political options, it is necessary to cease the sympathy votes. We all know the undesirability of continuing Labor or *shudder* Year Zero (Greens) overlordship. The LNP, however, is NOT THE FUTURE. Nostalgia is a powerful drug: a heavy sedative. It will anchor you.
If we want a future, a more conservative-aligned future, change must be created. It isn’t going to magically happen because ‘the universe will provide.’
We can continue to vote for the party that has nothing to offer us, or, we can look to the future and lay the groundwork for something new. Whichever direction we look in, there will be (at least) short-term pain.
We can vote for the (one of) abusers, or we can turn away, brace ourselves against the wind, and seek a new direction.
For me, as I’ve stated previously, I refuse to vote for ANY political party that existed during, and enabled, the covidiocy, regardless of which head-in-a-jar leads them.
Yes, it’s a challenging choice: Short-term or Long-term?
I lean toward it’s a bit too late for that. The country is packed with people who are never going to assimilate, who will always try to carve out their special exemptions, will put their family, clan, tribe, etc. above the nation.
It’s baked into the cake now, the question is more who can keep the lid on better. A better economy will help paper over the cracks, but those cracks are still there. The root causes have to be dealt with, and people are not ready for the measures needed to do it.
And I say that with the awareness that it will get harder, and the measures needed more extreme the longer it goes on. Now would be deporting or jailing the rabble breaking into houses and driving the pro Palestine movement, effectively stopping immigration, dumping net zero etc.
Later will get progressively worse, up to death squads and mass graves. But I can’t see a government taking any of the “moderate” measures now, they’re too afraid of being called nasty names, even if a majority demand it.
For whatever it’s worth, I can’t remember a time in my adult life where I haven’t been told I’m not really welcome in my own country by the left, and a good chunk of the rest.
Another term or two of anal means we mightn’t have a country to save.
Correct. Fight to change and get back on track what we have instead of this navel gazing piffle on a pile of bones.
Destroying the Liberals is not a short-term option, but I believe it is a necessary one. We cannot afford to keep on kicking that can down the road.
Bullshit.
The GOP before Trump were much worse than the SFL. All you need is a real leader and the gutless wiprets come around. The point is the SFL at least offer a vehicle for real democratic and conservative values. The liars/filth do not. You don’t destroy the only viable vehicle, you join it, put in the hard yards and put it back on track. Why don’t you try that instead of espousing this fuking holier than thou undergrad Phoenix snottery.
It’s a different system, Cronkers. Our system doesn’t allow for the kinds of things Trump has done through executive orders, because the Prime Minister has to work through the party and then parliament. Imagine if Trump didn’t have the luxury of executive privilege and had to push everything through Congress instead.
Fair enough. But things would undergo a paradigm shift if dickheads like Palmer and even Gina started buying media and turning that around instead of, in the case of Palmer, sliming his ego around, and in Gina’s case fighting her sprogs over a lazy couple of billion.
Sure, agree. There are otherwise ways to skin the skunk.
Huzzah! (the CM):
And:
But:
It would appear, at least on some level, that society still self-regulates.
Rose QC for the defence misses the key phrase … “my client was caught up in an unfortunate series of events”.
Caught up for a number of hours you suspect.
Bwah ha ha ha.
Imagine waking up in a fog the next morning and it all gradually comes back to you …
Getting punted from the surf club
Pushing the chicks off their EV treadly
Getting a thumping from the locals
Jumping in the multi-coloured Commodore and screeching out the car park
The flashing red and blues in the mirror
Blowing in the bag
Cops saying “give us the keys mate, you’re coming with us”.
Rather a loose description of a lynch mob.
An excellent opportunity to revisit our very favourite lynch mob,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I_-wSckXbfc
The only disappointment was they didn’t end up under the next train.
Note that he was kicked out from a surf club’s licensed premises, not a surf club in the original meaning of the term.
Despite this licenced SLSC remain an excellent drinking option. Particularly with some salt and pepper squid and chips.
From the West Australian
Arthur Leggett: Family of WA’s oldest surviving prisoner of war offered State funeral
A quite wonderful gesture.
How fortuitous that Labor get wind of Liberals’ plans on such a regular basis and then get in front with reactions to the media. I’m starting to think there is a mole or two or three in Dutton’s circle.
Millie Phillips
Millie Phillips was a proud Jew, a proud Zionist and she was passionate about fighting Jew hatred and educating against Jew hatred. Millie had three children, sadly Millie’s daughter, Lynette, became involved in a nasty cult called Ananda Marga, and in October 1978 Lynette self-immolated outside the United Nations in Geneva as part of a protest about people living in luxury.
In Chicken Little news the DAX is now down a tad over 4%, the FTSE a little over 3%.
DJIA futures down about 1.5%.
Not end of days stuff.
Samantha Ratnam stood down as a member of Victorian upper house and is having a tilt at Shorten’s old sear Wills.
Hope labor wins that one.
Oops that is Peter Khalil’s seat
Bob Hawke was the famous Labor pollie who held the seat a lifetime ago
Yep.
I’d forgotten that awful woman.
She backed Dictator Dan to the hilt during the Covid hysteria.
“Rat” by name, rat ? by nature.
I don’t know how that question mark got in there – it was supposed to be a rat icon.
Place your bets as to when:
Australia: Heading for Jihadist Conflict :: Gatestone Institute
If the towel heads make a mark at this election they’ll use that as a springboard for their real methodology: protests, intimidation, terrorism, bashing sheilas in bikinis on beaches etc.
Bashings, albeit of young men defending girls from sexist abuse, being a prime cause of the Cronulla so-called “riots”.
John, funny isn’t it how leftists accused the white, non-Mueslis involved of “racism” (and probably worse) while completely omitting/ignoring the main causal fact you cite.
I’m in search of escapist reading – a couple of single malts, and Nicholas Booth’s “The Thieves of Threadneedle Street.” Back in the 1870’s , four American con merchants took the Bank of England to the cleaners for five million dollars.
They were using forged “Bills of Exchange” – a form of post dated cheque – and the whole lurk came unstuck when they presented two bills for payment, but hadn’t dated them. The Bank of England returned them to the bank who had supposedly issued them – they took one look at the bills, declared them forgeries, and it all fell apart from there..
In my brief banking career I had to get a bunch of actual 90 day bills “signed”. Even just stamping them took a while. Liars Poker has a great story where one of the traders wanted to see an actual bond and somebody had to work out how to find one.
In the good old days the US used to issue bearer bonds 0bviously, for anyone wanting to hide loot.
Willis Eschenbach
Well, here’s what ORANGE MAN BAD has done so far:
Crude oil prices dropped $18 a barrel, hitting their lowest point since the end of Trump’s first term, from $80 a barrel to $62 a barrel. $13 of this decrease occurred after the introduction of the new tariffs on April 2, 2025. Bad news for investors, great for consumers.
The number of jobs in March exceeded expectations by nearly 100,000 units. The new jobs created were 228,000, against an expected number of 136,000.
Interest rates have fallen below 4% for the first time since 2021. This is great news for the real estate market and for those who are buying expensive assets.
$2 trillion has been pledged to the United States for investments in new factories or expansions, thanks to tariffs imposed by the US.
The unemployment rate has dropped below 4% again.
Border crossings have dropped, reaching the lowest level in 30 years, without requiring new legislation as Autopen Biden falsely claimed.
So sure, tell us more about how bad Trump is …
Teen arrested for horrifying machete attack on elderly Darwin man was bailed three times, facing 50 charges
From the Oz.
Surely if you are charged with a new crime while on bail, the bail for the earlier charge should be revoked?
There is definitely something going on about Jacinta Price and Sky. Paul Murray had her on his program tonight for three minutes just before he signed off and simply tells the audience if they want to see the rest of the interview that it will shortly be on their web page. The only problem is that you have to subscribe to view anything there.
@BreannaMorello
JUST IN
President Trump defends tariffs by saying, “…The long time abused USA is bringing in Billions of Dollars a week from the abusing countries on Tariffs that are already in place. This is despite the fact that the biggest abuser of them all, China, whose markets are crashing, just raised its Tariffs by 34%, on top of its long term ridiculously high Tariffs (Plus!), not acknowledging my warning for abusing countries not to retaliate. They’ve made enough, for decades, taking advantage of the Good OL’ USA! Our past “leaders” are to blame for allowing this…”