Victoria is already a long way down the road toward a treaty with Victorian Indigenous groups with none of us any the wiser what that might mean in practice.

Sicktoria is a State of Australia and is in a right state. Only the Federal Guv’ment can sign a treaty with another sovereign people. A State cannot do this. In 1788, there was not a sovereign nation on this Continent. There is now though and it is one Nation. And it does not need a treaty with itself.

Cassie said:
To be fair, what opposition has Andrews ever had? In the lead up to November 2022, what did the Liberal opposition offer the voters of Victoria…

Quite right. The miracle is that the SFLs got the votes they did or in fact any at all. That anyone voted for them is a reflection of a blend of desperation and stupidity. The sooner they are consigned to the dustbin of history and a proper alternative emerges the better.

“Adios Perrottet and Kean”

I doubt it will be adios Kean. Post the election my guess is that the architect of the Coalition loss will become Coalition Leader of the Opposition.

Another very odd thing about the Australian system is that kids can progress from one year to the next while being totally incompetent in achieving what was taught each year.
The yearly system is the easy way out of kids being educated on individual ability .. that would require some effort by the Education folk to assess whilst block year education requires far less attention to detail ..
let’s remember this is public service top heavy with “administrators’ busy carving out empires you can’t expect them to consider the kids, as well!
No different repairs/ air conditioning and ALL schools being up to date! .. lotza kids are going to school for their several hours a day in conditions the head office administration unions wouldn’t put up with ….!

Only the Federal Guv’ment can sign a treaty with another sovereign people.
Stairman Dan had no qualms signing up to “belt & road” so the “legality” of a treaty with the 251s ain’t gonna concern him, overmuch if at all!

It’s a bit wet and windy and I heard a few things go bump in the night.
Just trying to find out if the trains are running.
Supposed to be going to Syracuse today and the trains tend to hug the coastline.

It’s a bit wet and windy and I heard a few things go bump in the night.
Just trying to find out if the trains are running.
Supposed to be going to Syracuse today and the trains tend to hug the coastline.
Oh My host says the trains are running. Now my biggest problem might be the hole in the ridiculously expensive Brooks shoes.

Actually Sancho I think the energy flow thingy ended up in Libya where it turned into wind and got all twirly and took off towards Sicily.

I just realised Burt Bacharach wrote the title tune of the original Casino Royale.

Out there somewhere is the guy who wrote the music for the sobfest version with Daniel Craig. He will be telling people he wrote the theme for Casino Royale and be elated by the praise, only to have someone ask “The original one or the recent one?” and watch the awkwardness in other people with going silent with half smiles, suppressing unjust resentment as if he had abused their good natures.

Only the Federal Guv’ment can sign a treaty with another sovereign people.

I’m expecting a legal dogfight of unprecedented proportions…..the ideal verdict would be a High Court ruling that “First Nations” sovereignty was ceded when they could not defend those “Nations..”

Liz Churchill
@liz_churchill8

Dictator Trudeau is hijacking Canada’s Healthcare to implement ‘Global Digital ID’s’ and is also demanding Dr’s report their ‘unvaccinated’ patients…even though the vaccinated are injured/disabled and dying. Welcome to the ‘Great Reset’.

bons says:
February 10, 2023 at 5:12 pm

Well said!

It’s no more than a giant networking piss-up, populated by people not interested in and not up to the fight.

Thank Dr John, Fightback and his GST birthday cake for that one. It’s possible we may never see policy from an Opposition again in Australia again after that.

Paul Keating went from supporting a G.S.T as part of “Option C’ for tax reform, to opposing such a tax during the election campaign. He was never called of to explain his change..

Covid Theology in the Australian Church

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
February 10, 2023 at 5:57 pm
Only the Federal Guv’ment can sign a treaty with another sovereign people.
I’m expecting a legal dogfight of unprecedented proportions…..the ideal verdict would be a High Court ruling that “First Nations” sovereignty was ceded when they could not defend those “Nations..”

I would not take anything for granted with Albo in charge federally. I see him letting it all slide in favour of getting the “screech” over the line.

The separation of powers is about all we have left. It didn’t do too well during Covid.

I’d actually put forward it hasn’t done well at all lately. High and Federal Courts have been pushing the boundaries into Parliaments realm with activism recently and the Legislature or Executive have effectively accommodated it.

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

(It’s a quote from Shakespeare, ASIO…OK?)

Separation of powers has always been a bit muddied in Australia.

We have politicians appointing judges, for example. Hello, Victoria.

Furious single woman shames her ‘horror’ date in flyers posted around one of Australia’s busiest beaches: ‘Ladies don’t let him do this to you’

A woman made posters slamming her horror date
The posters were seen around Sydney
She detailed their dating story and named and shamed the man

By Louise Allingham For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 12:58 AEDT, 10 February 2023 | Updated: 14:30 AEDT, 10 February 2023

A single woman has unleashed on a man who she had a horror date with, plastering posters of his name and photo all over their neighbourhood to warn others against meeting up with him.

The disgruntled woman, from Bondi, detailed their dating story on the flyer and said the man became agitated with her ‘because she wouldn’t go home with him’.

She said he then left her at the bar to foot the hefty bill he had racked up.

A resident spotted one of the posters by the beach and shared it with anonymous Instagrammer Miss Double Bay.

‘Do you want a dead daughter or an alive son?’ St. Louis trans clinic is investigated for harming 600 children – as whistleblower reveals doctors perform transition surgeries on MINORS and teens who want hormones to avoid pregnancies or being gay

Nancy Mace Shocks in Hearing by Revealing Alleged COVID-19 Vaccine Injury, Roasts Former Twitter Executives

Dr Faustus says:
February 10, 2023 at 6:45 pm
The week’s toil is over.
Time for a hand sanitizer and rosé spritzer.

Or a nice Margaret River white.

When my husband and I toured the region in 2011 we loved some the winemakers’ names, Howling Wolves caught my attention but I have not seen any of their products at Sydney retailers.

I see that lions mane mushrooms are good for your memory. By the looks they could be related to enoki mushroom that I like to add to stir fries and omelettes. I must say I have not noticed any memory improvement.

Katie Hopkins: GB News cont…. I have the playbook by which the system takes down Neil Oliver

Anyone who’s been in Victoriastan over the Melbournibad Comedy Festival doesn’t need convincing it really is another place.

Something keeps bothering me about the school bus fire that featured on tonight’s news. The whole bus seemed to be on fire evenly distributed over the length of it. The 200 litre fuel tank was blamed for the blaze. Isn’t a fuel tank localised in one spot? Wouldn’t the front only be alight if the tank was at the front? Or the back? What am I missing? Unless it was an electric bus with batteries placed along the length of it. Have I got it wrong?

Now my host tells me I might just find out at the station.
Great.

Jim Chalmers has a piece in the Hun. It’s all everything else to blame it seems:

This week we saw the independent Reserve Bank raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.35%. it continued the cycle for increases that began before the election, following the highest quarter for inflation in 2022 – the March quarter.

The strong expectation other market was for another increase and homeowners were expecting it as well. But knowing it’s coming doesn’t make it any easier to handle for millions of Australians already feeling the pinch.

Rising interest rates are a consequence of the inflation challenge that is weighing heavily on our economy – as pressures that come at us from around the world are felt around the kitchen table. The job for the independent Reserve Bank is to get on top of this inflation without crunching the economy. Central banks around the world face the same conundrum. This inflation challenge is the defining feature of our economy in 2023, just as it was in 2022-and that means addressing inflation is the primary Focus or the Albanese government.

Our plan to address inflation has 3 parts to it – responsible cost of living relief, dealing with supply chain issues and keeping spending under control.

The October budget funded cheaper childcare and cheaper medicines, and the May budget will include direct energy bill relief for households and businesses struggling with higher power prices. These measures are targeted and affordable, taking some of the pressure of household budgets without putting more pressure on inflation.

…the May budget will include direct energy bill relief for households and businesses struggling with higher power prices.

Government creates a problem, then raids tax payers so it can be seen to be “doing something” about it.

Rinse and repeat.

Zipster says:
February 10, 2023 at 7:49 pm
Bill O’Reilly on Hannity just now said “I know for a fact Susan Rice is the one running the White House“ Hannity asked him if he knew for sure or if he just thought that, O’Reilly told him he knows for a fact.

I recorded the show today so will have to play it to see.

This provides a bit more info to my comment today of the US not having a presidency but a regency. Is Susan Rice the regent or just the foot soldier for Obama, the real regent?

A New South Wales election candidate has backed away from old social media posts where he called for the Koran to be banned, capital punishment to be reintroduced, and the right to bear arms in public.

Does that get you selected in or out? I better review my posts.

Who’s running you Groogs?

If Joe Aston’s scoop is on the money, Dr Lowe is giving Dr Chalmers all the ammo he needs to shoot him.

His term expires in seven months.

His term expires in seven months.

Might just make it.

Walk to station, once I get close to the esplanade it gets a little tricky so I take the streets with buildings blocking the wind that run parallel and when I get close enough, diagonal to the station.
Get to station, yeah some trains still running.
A few minutes later the dreaded ‘cancello’ is on the board for the first train to Syracuse and the next is ritardo 100′.
I ask at the ticket office.
Syracuse, today, no trains, no buses, no nothing.
My host has new guests so I’ve booked a place 350 metres from the station. It’s only $56 dollars so no biggie.
It’s not so cold despite being rather wet so am having a coffee at the station bar waiting to see if I can get in my place a little early.

All part of the experience.
I knew when I saw the waves lashing the coast there was little chance of a train.
The train from Messina to Catania occasionally ran right on the water. I’m sure the next leg would be similar. Didn’t fancy waves crashing over my carriage anyhow.

Good to see medical diagnosis of people one has never even met is still in vogue.
And if ‘vaxx injuries’ are as prevalent as claimed why aren’t Australian hospitals overflowing?

Pogria says:
February 10, 2023 at 10:04 pm
Obama isn’t pulling any strings. He is as retarded as Biden. He’s just younger and darker. It was no surprise he was nicknamed The Manchurian Candidate. The same people who were pulling his strings are the same that are changing Biden’s nappies now. They have developed a greater finesse and have tame Doctors on tap to administer whatever cocktail of drugs is needed. Jill Biden is simply the Caucasian version of Mike Obama. Both just as dumb and useful when it’s time for bottle feeding and nappy change.

You are probably right, Obama was simply better at reading his speeches. That still leaves us with Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett, the same players who gave us Obama I and II and now Obama III.

With Michelle Obama being in the news recently are we looking at the Obama IV in 2024? It all smell of Argentina.

From the Oz – I’ve posted the whole story.

Weird whodunit: renovation texts in Brittany Higgins trial

exclusive
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
Columnist
@jkalbrechtsen
and STEPHEN RICE
NSW Editor
@riceyontheroad
10:00PM February 10, 2023

As if there weren’t already enough bizarre tangents thrown up by the Bruce Lehrmann rape case, now there’s this: who was using chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold’s phone to text his builder while Brittany Higgins’ evidence was being heard?

What’s not in dispute is that someone sent messages from Mr Drumgold’s phone to his builder asking for updates on renovations to his NSW south coast properties while he was in the ACT Supreme Court leading the prosecution of Mr Lehrmann last year.

But in a series of letters emerging from a legal dispute over payment for the renovations, Mr Drumgold, the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, appears to suggest that it wasn’t him sending the texts to builder Matthew Thompson while the trial was in session, but his wife.
Read Next

On October 5 at 10.42am, Mr Thompson received a text message from Mr Drumgold’s phone requesting an update on work at his Batemans Bay property.

“Thanks mate – can you update me on the South St progress,” the text says.

At that moment, according to trial transcripts, the court was watching the police record of ­interview with Ms Higgins.

On October 10 at 12.52pm, Mr Thompson received another text from Mr Drumgold’s phone asking for a completion date as a tenant was due to move in the following week.

“Hey Matt – sorry the Real ­Estate are wanting a date for the new lease – can you confirm 18 October?”

Mr Thompson responded: “Hey Shane just waiting for the stone guy to get back to me he said he’d let me know by the end of the day.”

At that moment, according to the trial transcript, Mr Lehrmann’s police record of interview was being played to the court.

Mr Drumgold hired Mr Thompson last May to renovate his two south coast properties, one in Batemans Bay, the other in nearby Surf Beach, but he then complained of defects in both properties.

In December Mr Drumgold, who had already paid $104,087 for work at one property, texted Mr Thompson, saying he would not pay any outstanding money until both jobs had been satisfactorily completed. He later offered a further $5913 “in full discharge of all works”.

Mr Thompson, who says he is owed $33,912 for the work, then hired Canberra lawyer Ben ­Aulich to pursue the matter.

When Mr Aulich pointed out in correspondence that the texts were sent while the court was in session, Mr Drumgold responded by seeming to suggest that it was his wife who had sent the text from his mobile phone.

“I must say, your bizarre theory of simultaneously leading evidence and sending SMS messages is rather confusing, particularly in light of some expertise in the remarkable capacity for Apple products to send and receive SMS from multiple ­devices should a couple happen to jointly manage a property portfolio,” Mr Drumgold wrote in a letter to Mr Aulich on January 18.

He said Mr Aulich’s “thinly veiled allegations of some undefined impropriety” were “misguided”.

Mr Aulich responded by asking Mr Drumgold to confirm that he was stating that it was his wife who sent the texts, pointing out that his phone records might be subject to the discovery process or the subject of a subpoena, once proceedings started.

When Mr Drumgold hired his own lawyers, Mr Aulich told them he wanted “clarification on whether (Mr Drumgold) took positive steps to mislead me about the origin and author of the Text Messages”.

“If the statements made by your client in his email of 18 January 2023 referred to above are false and/or misleading it is incumbent on him to correct them and to do so as soon as possible,” Mr Aulich told the lawyers.

In the midst of this legal argy-bargy Mr Aulich noted that the Barrister’s Rules and the Solicitors Conduct Rules prohibit a barrister or solicitor from knowingly making a false statement to the ­opponent and confer a duty to correct any false statement as soon as the practitioner becomes aware of it.

Mr Aulich said that when proceedings were started he would adduce evidence including court transcripts from the Lehrmann trial “showing that your client was not ‘on his feet’, rather evidence of Ms Higgins and Mr Lehrmann was being played to the jury at the exact time the Text Messages were sent from your client’s ­mobile telephone”.

He observed that Mr Thompson had addressed his comments to “Shane” and this had not been corrected; and that Mr Thompson had never met or discussed the renovations with Mr Drumgold’s wife, Natasha.

Mr Aulich also alleges that ­despite repeatedly asking Mr Drumgold to deal with him and to stop contacting his client directly about this dispute, Mr Drumgold had continued to do so.

Mr Drumgold told The Weekend Australian that he was in “a small civil dispute” with Mr Thompson, who “carried out contracted building works at a South Coast property that it subsequently transpired he was not licenced to carry out, that do not comply with planning requirements or processes and accordingly now constitute unlawful building works.”

Mr Drumgold said: “It appears Mr Thompson and his lawyer Mr Ben Aulich have realised that Mr Thompson has acted unlawfully and in breach of several provisions of the Home Building Act 1989 and the State Environment Planning Policy Codes that has resulted in a significant loss to myself, and their legal position is untenable, so are leveraging from my current profile to use misinformation to argue their case through the media rather than the courts, no doubt in the hope of avoiding the inevitable legal proceedings.”

Mr Drumgold said he would be engaging only through the appropriate legal channels, “and will not be commenting further on this personal matter”.

He did not address specific questions put to him by The Weekend Australian, including whether he texted Mr Thompson while the court was in session; if so, whether that was appropriate; and if not, who did send the messages.

Mr Aulich and Mr Drumgold have a shared history.

On December 6 last year – ­before Mr Thompson became his client – Mr Aulich’s law partner, Peter Woodhouse, demanded Mr Drumgold’s resignation and an investigation by the ACT Integrity Commission into the decision to prosecute Mr Lehrmann for the alleged rape of Ms Higgins.

Mr Woodhouse, the managing partner of Aulich lawyers, said an investigation was needed after revelations by The Australian that Australian Federal Police believed there was insufficient evidence to prosecute Mr Lehrmann but could not stop the DPP from doing so because “there is too much political interference”.

Mr Woodhouse’s defence of the AFP surprised many in Canberra’s cloistered legal world ­because the AFP had earlier charged Mr Aulich with conspiracy to launder.

Mr Aulich has pleaded not guilty in that case. His defence team – led by Steve Whybrow, who acted for Mr Lehrmann in the rape trial – alleges police used ­illegal actions and entrapment in the operation that led to the charges against Mr Aulich.

That case is still before the courts.

Mr Thompson told The Weekend Australian that Mr Drumgold instructed him not to seek development approval for the works on either property because the ­approvals “would take too long”. He said that Mr Drumgold’s refusal to pay the balance owing for his work was “a kick in the guts”.

“I needed that money to ­finance other jobs and now I’ve had to can those other jobs,” Mr Thompson said.

“I can’t take my kids out on weekends because I don’t have the money. It’s stressing me out big time.”

Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty at trial and has at all times denied the allegations against him. The DPP has now withdrawn the charges.

It’s very confusing Zippy, symptoms not severe enough for hospital treatment, GPs can’t treat either, but then died suddenly.

also the US has a very effective anti-ICBM system, so its unclear how close an EMP ICBM can get

They saw the balloon before it even entered US airspace, first just before Alaska, then Canada, and finally over Montana.

This thing was freaking massive and easily tracked by either the human eye or a satellite. Sticking an EMP device on a balloon would likely end up being a worse bet than an ICBM.

Look, if it came to nuclear blows, China would try everything to hit the US badly. However, the US retaliation would  mean that China as a functioning nation would cease to exist. There’s no hiding, and there’s no potential for China at this stage to lop off the American head.

Someone the other day mentioned that ballooning can be reasonably precise. So, why would China send a balloon that they know can be massively loaded and easily visible if they know it will ruin relations with the US even more? The excerpt I posted has a point.

Something doesn’t smell right about this, Rosie.

Never heard of GP shortages before COVID and now there is suddenly. I wouldn’t trust the AMA about anything.

Poll: DeSantis leads Trump for 2024 GOP nod — but not if Haley and others split the vote
The Florida governor edges out Trump and performs better against Biden in head-to-head matchups.

This touches on something really important, I think. The more Republican candidates who enter the primaries, the more likely it is that Trump will win because of his strong core vote. They will cannibalize the non-Trump vote in the primaries. This is why Trump congratulated and encouraged Haley to enter the race the other day. Just a view.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

They don’t care about the climate. They care about controlling you.

the world wide socialists claim the Australian hospital problems are caused by a nation wide shortage of emergency doctors

Never heard of GP shortages before COVID and now there is suddenly.

Doctors had to get the vax too. Some might have been injured or worse, some might have refused to get it and lost their jobs, and some might have refused to cooperate on ethical grounds and been prosecuted/ persecuted.