And as for those camel and goat rooters. Well, send them back home. They have never integrated.

Yeah.
Put ’em on an unused sheep transport ship with the Poms.

Boambee John
Oct 6, 2023 4:31 PM
JR

Snap.

Thank you Boambee John.

And we only got two down thumber bummer bummers at last count.

Obviously, JC was on the piss again. Or sitting on his ‘Quaintarse’ or on the ‘throne’.

LOL.

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 6, 2023 5:25 PM
Put ’em on an unused sheep transport ship with the Poms.

Wiv’ the Poms.

As you are obviously a sheep shagger, that is a really baaaaaaaaad joke. Try harder next time. That Ewe didn’t even feel it.

An orgy

Now that is a great idea for this weekend.

calli
Oct 6, 2023 5:38 PM

And NO down thumbing from me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CU5UPi7STk

In “something’s got to give” news…

Local councils in SE QLD are warning they can’t manage projected population growth, with one calculating they would have to see 100 new houses built every week for the next twenty-five years to accommodate the growth.

The population of Greater Brisbane (presently 2.5m) is projected to grow by 2 million by 2046.

Trick or Treaty? Yes Campaign Exposed Again!

Knuckle Dragger

Oct 6, 2023 5:25 PM

Put ’em on an unused sheep transport ship with the Poms.

No no.

Wiv’ the Poms.

Right you are, guv’nor.

Father weeps as 3 charged with murder in his toddler’s fentanyl death at NYC day care

Sancho Panzer

If “No” gets up you don’t hold any bargaining chips to decide who negoshiatesh what.

If No gets up Albo and the new Missus will be so busy looking over their shoulder and packing boxes there won’t be time for negotiations.

Sancho Panzer
Oct 6, 2023 6:10 PM

LOL. You and KD are the sheep shaggers. So please stay here. The Ewes need you.

Baaaaaaaaaah Waaaaaaaaah Black Sheeeeeeeeep.

Warren Mundine and Vicki Grieves-Williams:

The ancient rock central to the lives of the local Anangu, the Yankunytjatjara and Pitjantjatjara people, the traditional landowners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, is called by them Uluru. A curious fact is that Uluru is mostly hidden from view. It is like a land iceberg with a gigantic 2.5km of its mass underground.

For five years, Australians have known the “Uluru Statement from the Heart” as 439 words commemorated on a canvas surrounded by signatures and artwork.

But these 439 words are the tip of a gigantic iceberg. The breadth of which cannot be understood without a detailed reading of the record, the 14th and final Regional Dialogue on constitutional recognition at which those 439 words were issued.

This record was released by the National Indigenous Australians Agency under the label “Document 14”.

The demands of the 14th Regional Dialogue are not simply the 439 words. This is now very clear, despite the protestations of those who would rather Document 14 (and the 13 before it) had never seen the light of day.

It exists as the expression of the will of those who remained in the meeting. Some were so disheartened they left and sat outside with traditional owners earlier denied entry.

This is important because we’re told the Statement has come from Australia’s nearly one million Indigenous people. In truth it’s the demands of fewer than 250 hand-picked individuals.

Document 14 spells out in unambiguous detail what the 439 words on the canvas are about and what they are requesting, including the Voice and what is to come after it.

And the demands of this so-called modest request are not modest at all.

Document 14 is steeped in grievance and victimhood. History is misrepresented, written to make Australians feel shame.

And culture is misappropriated, including in the use of the word “Uluru” against the wishes of its traditional owners.

The 14th Dialogue did not arrive at a place that contemplates reconciliation at all but a future of separateness and division, with a Makarrata Commission to speak for all traditional owners and settle their agreements with governments.

This is not our culture. In our cultures, only countrymen and women can speak for country.

Document 14 uses the expression “First Nations” around 60 times, always in the plural because it depicts them as one homogenous, pan-Indigenous group. We are not.

The Oxford Dictionary defines a “nation” as “a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory”.

The word derives from the Latin word “to be born”. When the British first came to this continent there were hundreds of such groups. These are Australia’s first nations.

The word “sovereignty” is also repeated throughout the document. Nationhood and sovereignty aren’t the same.

Nationhood is about belonging and country, with or without legal and civic separateness and authority. There are stateless nations all over the world, not all desire sovereignty.

Document 14 calls for a First Nations sovereignty standing apart from, and in opposition to, Australian sovereignty. How is this possible?

A sovereign state has the ultimate and highest authority over its land and seas. Is Australia to be divided into several hundred sovereign states with only traditional owners participating in their governance?

This would leave 25 million or so others disenfranchised in their own country. Will these sovereign states take on the myriad of government responsibilities and functions, including raising taxes to fund them and armies to defend them?

Of course not.

Document 14 imagines Australia will continue, as well as its constitution, but with a constitutionally embedded Indigenous Voice as the fourth arm of government able to make representations to two of the other three.

The Voice is to pave the way for a Makarrata Commission, to whom power will be devolved to settle agreements between all Australian governments and First Nations and to supervise truth-telling about history.

It will be the overlord of traditional owner autonomy, including native title, the overlord of sovereignty and the arbiter of truth.

The core of Australia’s first nations are our kinship systems: rules that underpin all relationships and social organisation, that define each person’s role, rights and responsibilities to kin and country and how they must interact or not interact with each other (which forces people to tread carefully around relationships and to nurture them).

You cannot understand Aboriginal cultures without understanding our kinship systems. Yet the word “kinship” appears not even once in the Uluru Statement, not in the 439 words and not in Document 14.

Under our kinship systems, the universe – which is everything that is known – is divided into classifications called moieties. And everything must be classified.

So when a newcomer enters a community, they’re given a designation which in turn gives them a place and kin, regardless of their origins. Under our cultures, to co-exist in the same community and on the same country we must be part of the same universe.

Document 14 and the 439 word canvas through which it has been “pitched to the Australian people” is a metaphorical declaration of war on modern Australia.

The Voice is the trojan horse through which the attackers, hidden in its belly, will penetrate.

So it’s critical to us that the Voice is resoundingly defeated in the referendum.

What comes after that is more critical.

Thanks to this exercise of “reconciliation”, Australia stands more divided and wounded than it has for some time.

The overwhelming majority of Australians want Indigenous Australians to thrive. They have embraced the dismantling of segregation regimes and discriminatory laws of the past and take no satisfaction in the wrongdoings of history and want Australia to move on together as a united and reconciled people.

And we cannot be truly reconciled until the scourge of disadvantage that affects some Indigenous Australians is ended.

To achieve this we need laser focus on four areas.

Firstly, accountability: where is funding going, what is it being used for and what, if any, outcomes have those who received it actually achieved?

Secondly, education, including kids going to school.

Thirdly, economic participation: jobs, business creation and home ownership.

Fourthly, social change: safe communities and no more turning a blind eye to, or acquiescing to, violence, abuse and destructive behaviour.

These solutions are proven and they’re not complicated ideas at all. But they require courage and determination to implement, something no government or bureaucracy has ever had enough of, or managed to sustain, for long enough.

The Voice is a lesson that there’s no magical wand and pursuing one is a folly and distraction that take us backwards. We hope it’s not a lesson that Australia, and Aboriginal people, are forced to learn the hard way after October 14.

I should add that a poll was had in the Price piece, over 10k of votes running at 90% no.

The Voice groups Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people together based on nothing more than their heritage but real change comes from focusing on need, not race.

There is not one person who has ever explained what the Voice is.

However, Jacinta Price has explained what it isn’t.

Game Over.

There is not one person who has ever explained what the Voice is.

And that is from the PM all the way down to the bottom.

So, what is it Tennis Elbow? A Political Stunt or a Cunning Stunt?

Baldrick had a Cunning Plan but you have never had a Plan. And that goes wiv’ the ‘Transishion’ with ‘Blackout Bowen’ and all the way to not get re-erected in 2025.

Fark wits all of you and maybe sheep shaggers as well. Baaaaaaaaaaah.

Madagascar the film is on now on GO which is on CH 93 I think.

Brillo.

Knuckle Dragger
Oct 6, 2023 7:15 PM

As a sheep shagger. have a nice day. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah

And now it’s Arry’ Potter. So you sheep shaggers can go and STFU.

EU Social carbon credits just arrived!

The entire referendum is about putting whatever Voice body emerges beyond parliament and deal in the High Court to impute some powers. Think a blak ALPBC.

Three young children of friends of one of my children were killed in a plane crash this afternoon.
Please pray for them and their poor grieving families.

Knuckle Dragger

Oct 6, 2023 7:08 PM

Chair at the time was Geoff Clark, who was often in the news for the wrong reasons

All the right reasons, I would contend.

The light, in the end, shone brightly on Mr Clark.

Echelons of Big Men of the Clark ilk are lined up, pockets open, hopeful that the Voice will get through and that their cups (and pockets) spilleth over.

Not forgotten by some.
Hence the short sharp reply to the Yessir running his engagement spiel after golf today.
“Two words … Geoff Clark.”

Nurse Betty …

So I’m off to the pub for some ales.

I hope the barman has poured all the beers at midday to save energy.

Wally Dalí
Oct 6, 2023 8:00 PM

So true. This was neva the cleva country. Only the Lucky Country.

And it seems the same person is excited by the deaths of three small children.

Gee those downticks are working out well.

Pay them no mind.

Farmer Gez
Oct 6, 2023 8:02 PM
Good news on the Daylesford sixty million Powerball winner.
A retired married woman who plans to donate big sums to charities that are dear to her heart and helping disadvantaged kids.

Uplifting stuff.

I just Love it. And the Gov’ment could never do that. Not ever.

https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/10/well-said-this-cartoon-is-atrocious.html

The Fin Review, for chuck’s steak. Disgusting, disgraceful and shameful.

Given the general direction of society things to stock up on:

• Ivermectin 18mg – 7 compounded capsules
• Amoxicillin-Clavulanate (generic Augmentin) 875/125 mg – 28 tablets
• Azithromycin (generic Z-Pak) 250 mg – 12 tablets
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• Metronidazole (generic Flagyl) 500 mg – 30 tablets
• Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole (generic Bactrim) 800/160 mg – 28 tablets
• Fluconazole (generic Diflucan) 150 mg – 2 tablets
• Ondansetron (generic Zofran) 4mg – 6 tablets

The Wellness Company Medical Emergency Kit has medicines that treat:
• Anthrax
• Bacterial Vaginosis
• Bite Wounds
• Bronchitis
• Chlamydia
• Clostridioides difficile
• Colitis
• COVID – 19
• Gonorrhea
• Giardiasis
• Lice
• Nausea & Vomiting
• Pharyngitis
• Pinworms
• Plague (bioterror)
• Pneumonia
• Rickettsial Infections
• Scabies
• Shigella Infection
• Sinusitis
• Skin Infection
• Strep Throat
• Syphilis
• Tetanus
• Tick Exposure
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• Viral Upper Respiratory Infection

Bruce, nothing should ever be ‘compulsory reading.’

Stupid, authoritarian and ineffective.

Johanna, if we or at least our children and grandchildren are required to read and watch so much of the lies inflicted on this country having to read this would be a small ask.

Tom
Oct 6, 2023 8:12 PM
Sky’s James Morrow has lost me.

He’s now just a Down Under Washington establishment stooge.

He might as well be barracking for the Democrat communists.

Sad.

Yes, he is unsalvageable. On The Outsiders he is at least counterbalanced by the other two.

Ambrose Golden Brown

I’d damn near kill to have that as a given birth name.

Given that you go here by dot, that’s entirely understandable.

😀

And it seems the same person is excited by the deaths of three small children.

Gee those downticks are working out well.

Calm down Wodney.

Sky’s James Morrow has lost me.

He just called merrick garland a POS and said the latest scuttlebutt about Trump that he discussed nuclear subs with Pratt is evidence garland and his AGs are all lying, corrupt sacks of shit.

It is an exceptionally cool name though.

The coolest name I was called upon to represent in my previous life was Sebastian Pierpoint Ravenscroft.

He’s long since passed, so I think I can mention that without fault.

Ambrose Golden Brown

This is Golden Brown –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAsI3U2EaE

Speaking of names, I had cause to speak online with my phone provider the other night. I was greatly assisted by a gentleman who said “Hello, my name is Hardik, how can I be of assistance?”

“Come again…?”

Sebastian Pierpoint Ravenscroft.

That’s not bad. Edgar Allen Poe is up there; and the Romantic poets were well named:

John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron and William Blake.

Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street.

Here’s the thing…

The sax player came up with the riff that made an otherwise bland song a hit.

Yet at the time he was only paid the hourly rate of a studio musician.

Did he ever press for song writer’s royalties? I don’t know.

Until Procul Harem’s organist won his case in the House for Lord’s for the riff to A Whiter Shade of Pale being worth a song writer’s credit, such claims were hard to win.

Perhaps Bach’s estate should have got a portion of that settlement though. 😀

Mother Lode
Oct 6, 2023 8:39 PM
Not being one of those people who puts up every one of their favourites for other people to obsequiously marvel over I dare impose upon you all…

Gerry Rafferty’s Baker Street.

There is something about the English language and singing and music, It works, And no better with this. Hats Off.

Alamak!
Oct 6, 2023 8:50 PM
Brian Eno a.k.a. Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno

Alright, he wins.

calli
Oct 6, 2023 8:51 PM

Why are you so prickly?

Have you no humour or anything else. Get a Life and relax. This is only a Blog, Not a Life.

The sax player came up with the riff that made an otherwise bland song a hit.

I saw Al Stewart at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2013. He told the story of Year of the Cat which was a hit from a similar time as Baker Street. He said the producer (Alan Parsons) said the song needed a saxophone solo. What to do? They were recording in Abbey Road and someone said a bloke lived a few streets away. The bloke named Phil Kenzie dragged himself away from the tele went to the studio and nailed a great improvised saxophone solo in two takes. I don’t really like the sax but it works so well on Baker Street and Year of the Cat. Kenzie played the solo live at the concert in 2013 using the same saxophone.

Indigenous voice to parliament won’t fix crisis in Northern Territory, say John Howard and Tony Abbott

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John Howard and Tony Abbott have declared the Northern Territory is a failed state because of its inability to provide basic services to remote communities, including education, and believe a voice to parliament will not improve practical outcomes for Indigenous people in central Australia.

The former Liberal prime ministers, who implemented the Coalition’s 2007 intervention into the Northern Territory, which ­included grog bans and placing military personnel in some ­remote communities, said little had changed for Indigenous Australians in the 15 years since the Coalition government’s action.

Mr Howard said changes to the Constitution to include an ­Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government would be tied up for years would not do anything to address the problems facing Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory.
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Mr Abbott said a Yes vote for the voice would only “entrench Indigenous separatism” that had not helped disadvantaged communities.

“I think that it entrenches race in the Constitution in a very damaging and destructive way,” Mr Abbott said in an interview for an Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy conference to be aired on Monday.

“I think it would gum up our system of government even further. I think it would reinforce the separatism that’s at the heart of Indigenous disadvantage. So I really do hope that we say a resounding no to this divisive voice.”

Mr Howard – defending his government’s decision to launch the Northern Territory Response to combat child sex abuse, which was heavily criticised – said it was necessary the Northern Territory government had failed.

“The intervention was a recognition that the Northern Territory government had completely failed in its responsibilities and it doesn’t appear as if a lot has changed over the 15 years that have gone by,” Mr Howard said in a presentation for the Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy conference.

“And, I think what emerged from the events in the Territory was a further indictment of the ­inability, the failure of the Northern Territory government to provide the basic services.

“You can make all sorts of changes to the Constitution but unless you have a police force, you have medical services and you have an education system that is up to the task of helping the disadvantaged, then you’re going to have a failure of government.

“And that’s what’s happened in the Northern Territory.”

Mr Abbott, in response to ­revelations in The Australian about failures within the NT ­education system said central Australia ­resembled a “failed state administratively” and the ­education of Indigenous children in remote communities was a chronic failure.

“Central Australia basically resembles a failed state,” Mr Abbott said in an interview with The Weekend Australian.

“Education delivery is a huge recurring problem because of a chronic failure of administration in central Australia.

“Part of the problem is that there are no people with authority who are on the spot, people who can make decisions and are living in the communities. Too many agencies and departments work in silos separated from each other and are only there in the communities a few times.”

The most ­authoritative representative body for Aboriginal people in central Australia has called on the Albanese government to intervene immediately to fix the Territory’s schools funding crisis. The Central Land Council’s 90 elected delegates, who represent 24,000 Indigenous people from dozens of communities, decided on Thursday to ask the commonwealth to force the NT government to deal with its bloated bureaucracy and start funding its schools properly.

The Australian’s NT Schools in Crisis series has revealed a shortfall of $214.8m a year for Territory schools, which disproportionately affects the country’s most disadvantaged students under an attendance-based funding model that does not operate ­anywhere else in the country.

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