PETA will have their work cut out for them. With cattle prices where they are nobody will give a shit.

I expect a few people have gone missing on the CBS exec floor after the Ch 10 acquisition.

No greyranga

You are still at it.
Claiming the Italian death toll has been officially revised down to 3000 odd is such utter nonsense and so demonstrably false only the most ardent reality denying anti vaxxer would repeat it.
Australia with all her lockdowns and border closures has a death toll of 1448.
Italy is still managing to get around 250 deaths a week.
worldometer or random newspaper article?

Remember the border protest a couple months back with the fuckwit riding his horse at speed for the cameras on the asphalt?

Didn’t catch much of that protest.
How did he demonstrate fuckwittery?
I must have missed something.

Coz I’d been of the belief he was a protestor, and judging by the way the authorities were demanding the public dob him in, he was a protestor who really gave a middle finger to the Stasi, the CHO & the Premier.

Claiming the Italian death toll has been officially revised down to 3000 odd is such utter nonsense

Some months ago the CDC in the US admitted the real Covid death toll was only 6 to 7% of the official figures. The rest died with Covid, not of it.

More than 200 Australian ­Defence Force personnel sacked over illegal drugs
The problem was most serious in the army, which terminated 140 personnel for illegal drug use over the two-year period.

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More than 200 Australian ­Defence Force personnel have been sacked in the past two years after testing positive for illegal drugs, with cocaine and ecstasy topping the list of detected substances.

Data obtained through a freedom-of-information request revealed 124 personnel returned positive tests for cocaine use from July 2019 to June 30 this year. During the same period, 80 tested positive for MDMA – commonly known as ecstasy – and 49 to the closely related drug, MDA. Many of those who tested positive had multiple drugs in their systems.

The problem was most serious in the army, which terminated 140 personnel for illegal drug use over the two-year period.

The navy sacked 57 personnel and the air force dismissed 10 aviators over the same period.

Amphetamine use was relatively low, with just 17 positive tests across the three services, while 40 personnel were detected with cannabis in their systems. Eighteen tested positive to anabolic steroids.

Cocaine and ecstasy use were most problematic in the army and navy, while the most significant drug issue in the air force was misuse of the opiate codeine.

Defence has a near-zero tolerance policy towards illegal drug use, sacking the majority who return positive tests.

The fresh evidence of substance abuse problems among ADF members comes amid soaring rates of suicide among veterans, with recently updated figures revealing 1270 former and serving defence personnel have taken their own lives in the past two decades.

A Defence spokesman said: “Testing of ADF personnel can occur anywhere and at any time.

“ADF personnel who test positive for prohibited substances are issued a formal notice to show cause under the ADF disciplinary system,” he said.

“The decision to terminate a member’s service is determined on a case-by-case basis.”

Defence conducted about 23,000 tests in 2019-20, and 19,350 in 2020-21. The spokesman said the number of positive tests did not indicate Defence had an illicit drug problem, with the rate of positive tests falling from 1.72 per cent in 2005-06, to 0.58 per cent in 2020-21.

The results suggest drug abuse by serving ADF personnel is lower than in the wider community, with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare reporting in 2019 that 16.4 per cent of the Australian population had used an illicit drug in the previous 12 months.

One former army officer told The Australian that the majority of drug use was by younger soldiers “taking cocaine and MDMA on a Friday night”, believing it would be out of their system by the time they faced a drug test.

He said while illegal drug use was prevalent, “it pales in comparison to the problems the army has with its soldiers and the use of alcohol”.

Sociologist Samantha Crompvoets, who has undertaken several studies on ADF culture including one that exposed war crimes by special forces soldiers, said Defence had worked hard to stamp out substance abuse in its ranks. But, despite warnings and higher testing rates, she said some ADF members still believed they could get away with taking illegal drugs.

“It probably comes down to young guys who think they are invincible,” Dr Crompvoets said.

“About 50 per cent of the army are 18 to 23-year-old males. They are going to do dumb things, ­regardless of what Defence does. “But what has shifted culturally is the response to it. It is no longer, ‘Oh well, we’ll give him another chance’. Now the focus is on greater professionalism in the workplace. To their credit, they have cracked down on it.”

However, military lawyer Glenn Kolomeitz said ADF members who tested positive for illicit drugs should be given access to counselling and rehabilitation programs, rather than being “hung out to dry”.

“They are dumping them on the street, and into the hands of DVA, when Defence should be saying, ‘We have contributed to this. We are going to get you into treatment. We will meet our duty of care to you’,” he said.

“If it means you have to be medically discharged, well so be it. But they shouldn’t launch straight into an administrative discharge, which at the end of the day is punitive and can only be damaging to people’s mental health outcomes.”

Mr Kolomeitz said he had represented 207 veterans facing criminal charges who were granted access to criminal diversion programs if they entered drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs.

“Once they entered into treatment and undertook programs, there was zero recidivism.”

Drug and alcohol abuse by veterans will be examined as ­factors in the royal commission into veterans’ suicide, which will start later this month in Brisbane.

A Defence background paper for the inquiry said illicit drugs were “incompatible with an effective and efficient Defence Force and can undermine health, safety, discipline, morale, security and reputation”.

Australians. Dropping like flies in 2021.

There were 85,392 deaths that occurred in the seven months between January and July 2021 and were registered by 30 September.

This is 4,841 deaths (6.0%) more than the 2015-19 average and 3,024 deaths (3.7%) more than in 2020.

Three thousand more Covid deaths to date in 2021 than 2020?

It’s worser than we thought.

Supplementary question: From where do you get it that he doesn’t have enough money to own the horse?

He wasn’t wearing a pony club blazer.

“Just got stung on the hand by a fucking bee or wasp sitting outside eating pizza.”

Perhaps you shouldn’t have annoyed it while it was eating pizza??

Rabz says:
November 7, 2021 at 9:37 pm

“JC and Jan Wench” – A tale of an impossible romance, available in hard and soft back, by best selling authorette, Emily Bronte. ?

Dude, she was freaking gorgeous in her youth.

Cronkite

Age for age, Jana shits all over Noa. Noa needs to lose the kilos around the hips and that, my friend, is a very difficult thing to do.

You’re beyond hope. Wendt is a carton of MacDonald’s fries, Noa is a Viking steak cooked in pepper and a dash of finest Sicilian olive oil. Give yourself an uppercut.

Mary Durack passed away after a 16-month battle with motor neurone disease.

Vale Mary Durack: a pioneer descendent who embodied everything we love about the East Kimberley
Picture: Sarah Duguid
Stephanie SinclairThe Kimberley Echo
Sat, 6 November 2021 2:00AM

The East Kimberley has lost one of its most passionate advocates, after Kununurra’s beloved Mary Durack died last week following a 16-month battle with motor neurone disease.

With a connection to the East Kimberley dating back to her pioneering ancestors who established the region’s first pastoral stations in the late 1800s, Mary became a well-known figure in the North West following her return to Kununurra in 2017.

While born in Perth, the former botanist, marine biologist and teacher had a lifelong attraction to the region and — like her ancestors — a strong pull towards Australia’s Top End, spending much of her life in the Kimberley, Northern Territory and Queensland.

Her brother Jeremy Durack said it was her family roots and admiration for Indigenous culture that drew her to northern Australia and the East Kimberley.

“Mary was a restless spirit and she travelled all over Australia; every five to 10 years she would move, but she was drawn back to Kununurra,” he said.

“She was very interested in Aboriginal culture and people, it was really the compass for her life and the common thread.”

Ms Durack studied Aboriginal education as part of her teaching degree, and became an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tutor in Townsville when she left university.

After several teaching roles in Perth and the South West, she moved into public service and consulting work, becoming involved in opening the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University in 1994.

Her role as a policy and planning officer for the Aboriginal Affairs Department brought her to Derby in the mid-90s, before she moved overseas in 2004 to run an Aboriginal art gallery in Paris.

Upon her return to Australia she settled in the Northern Territory for several years, but in 2017 returned to her family roots in the East Kimberley where she played what was perhaps her most important role in connecting with Aboriginal branches of the Durack family.

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if it’s only once then I forgive you in advance

Yes, only once … at a time!

Confession: I have a bit of a “thing” for rangas. My first wife was one.

Just ordered myself a chronograph.

Now let’s see just how good my damn reloads actually are!!

What is your point, stix other than trying to sound superior, which for a Queensland yokel is kind of amusing.

Victorians might wonder how it is that QLD – which is chock full of guys like Struth, has remained largely free for the longest

Oh maybe the weather has something to do with it with people spending more time outside. Perhaps, it maybe because of struth’s enormous IQ. Clearly, he’s the smartest guy in any room.

link please

Sure thing: this one

Driller

Remember when you were on one of your depression induced drunk blowharding chapters and you told us you came from

Labor Royalty

Lord, you’re a fucking idiot.