Andrew Bolt interviewed Lidia Thorpe’s (white) father on Thursday evening. How that happened who knows. Did Roy Illingworth knock on Bolt’s door? Did Bolt approach Mr Illingworth? Were commercial terms involved? What is clear is that Illingworth would have done better not to do the interview. Bolt asked him some personal questions about his daughter and his relationship with her; and, intrusively, about her mental health. Family business is best kept private. And for his part Illingworth is obviously and understandably not a practised media performer.
I think he did OK in the circumstances. He batted away the suggestion that her health was an issue. Well done. Not well done to two-bob-each-way Bolt who editorialised the interview by commenting that there are always two sides to family disputes. No there aren’t. Sometimes there are two sides. Sometimes there aren’t.
Immediately after Bolt, on came Chris Kenny, the cognitively-confused conservative Voice advocate. A tirade of prolonged criticism of Illingworth followed for appearing on Bolt and being critical of his daughter. I can’t help but think that Kenny’s effort might sow more discord between Illingworth and his daughter. Not a good and decent thing to do. I had to switch him off. What gall. His colleague Bolt had invited Illingworth onto his show. He, Bolt, had asked intrusive and personal questions of Illingworth, knowing that he was not dealing with a practised interviewee.
Was there a rehearsal beforehand? Might I suggest a title for the segment(s): “The patsy, the good cop and the bad cop.”
Disgraceful television. Never mind, I can always watch the ABC.
“Immediately after Bolt, on came Chris Kenny, the cognitively-confused conservative Voice advocate.”
A perfect description of Kenny!
Interesting that I looked at Thorpe’s personal info on wiki, somewhere else? yesterday and it said father unknown. Now has Roy Illingworth, (a plasterer from Moe apparently). He can’t have been that old when she was born, in his late 60s, early 70s?
Doesn’t matter, she has at least 50 percent coloniser heritage (probably a fair bit more than that) and wouldn’t be here without it.
I watched neither program, so I’m only going on reports.
First principle – never trash a family member in public, regardless of hurt or offence. Just…don’t.
Second principle – the media is never your friend, no matter what charming face it presents to you. You are prey.
Third principle – unless your politics are overtly Left, for every seemingly neutral or positive segment involving you, expect at least a dozen highly critical ones.
Doesn’t matter, she has at least 50 percent coloniser heritage (probably a fair bit more than that) and wouldn’t be here without it.
She’s a 1/16th 251 from one great-grandparent .. nowhere near enuf for the “look-at-moi” performances she puts on .. don’t know much about her earlier life but pretty sure it weren’t spent in a humpy outback .. like most of these faux 251 know-it-alls raised/educated in suburbia but experts on outback life, culture and non-existent history ….
thank you, Bruce, thank you sTan and a special thank you to Adam, proud 251 warrior …….!
Welcome to the club. I can’t watch any of them.
Perhaps what you witnessed was the (beginning?) of an overt stoush between Bolt and Kenny. Both on different sides of the ‘voice’ debate, maybe Kenny couldn’t wait to discredit Bolt.
“Both on different sides of the ‘voice’ debate, maybe Kenny couldn’t wait to discredit Bolt.”
That was my take on it.
Its bad cop, bad cop. I don’t think the general public give a shit about the family issues, look at Megan Markle for example she still powers in gear whinge.
The public want to see from a professional level ie: Responsible Parliament, Joe Public wants to see people being accountable for their actions.
Bolt was Women’s Day and Kenny was The Enquirer. nothing to see here.
And don’t dare do unto them as they do to others.
Who Do You Think You Are should run a special series leading up to the date of the referendumb, featuring the leading schwarzer proponents.
Thorpe’s disgraceful behaviour in (and out) of Parliament is not (all) Illingworth’s responsibility.
She’s a 50 year old grandmother after all
Incidentally
Isn’t correct.
Both her grandmother Gwen and her grandfather John (Sandy) Atkinson have indigenous ancestors gm from Lake Tyers region and gf from around the Murray.
Her great grandfather Harry Thorpe was killed in WWI having received the Military Medal and been recommended for the DCM.
I suspect you might find you need to go back another two generations from her great grandfather to find a ‘full blood’ though.
Harry Thorpe
So, Thorpey’s got good genes.
Her G/Grandad thought enough of Australia to go to the War in France.
If he’s been repatriated rather than catching a bullet, he woulda been denied a Soldier Settler block and a War Service Home too.
World War One veterans, on the whole were treated very badly, regardless of skin tone.
Plenty of Returned men got Soldier Settler Blocks even though they weren’t farmers like Harry Thorpe.
Plenty of Anzacs and 1st AIF got War Service Homes.
No Aborigine got a Soldier Settler Block or a War Service Home, let alone both.
250,000 returned home, 11,000 odd got soldier settler blocks, Aboriginal men were not 100 % excluded.
Blackfellas were offered soldier settler blocks. The end.
Mater did a series of posts some time back, one of which touched on this.
Your algorithm is failing, moron.
You know this is not true which means you are lying.
Link to Maters’ post, complete with all references.
Of course I’m assuming your creator has enabled you to read for comprehension rather than just pick up on key words to highlight for theatrical effect.
I keep thinking Chris Kenny is auditioning for his gig at the ABC.
I can’t watching Bolt and his constant editorialising dressed up as a faux question.
Journalists always think they are the smartest person in the room.
In any case 60% of soldier settlers abandoned the blocks, often after years of living in miserable conditions doing back breaking thankless work.
I’d have been glad to have missed out.
250,000 returned home, 11,000 odd got soldier settler blocks, Aboriginal men were not 100 % excluded.
Can you name one Aborigine that received a Soldier Settler Block?
Course you can’t.
I’d have been glad to have missed out.
Comparing yourself to someone from the 1st AIF now?
You’re the sort of person who handed out white feathers.
Blackfellas were offered soldier settler blocks. The end.
What gives you the right to call Indigenous men “blackfellas”, cockhead?
Mater did a series of posts some time back, one of which touched on this.
Course he did.
The ADF and it’s predecessors never did a wrong thing ever, according to the mythical MaterWorld.
My understanding is that many of the blocks were on poor land and too small to make a living from. Friends in Mildura lived on old blocks that were combined to make half-decent orchards which were profitable.
Sorry. That would be Robinvale, not Mildura (the Big Smoke).
Consider the ludicrous nature of the situation:
Thorpey is likely one of the very few in Parliament to have an ancestor fallen in the Great War [Albanese isn’t even eligible to be an MP]
yet Mother Grundy’s far & wide are having kittens over her giving some dickheads an impromptu character assessment?
My understanding is that many of the blocks were on poor land and too small to make a living from.
You’re most likely wrong, as usual.
The reality was that the blokes that failed weren’t farmers anyway.
Plenty of Aborigines were [and are] good at farming, so, what do you think the chances were that the Repatriation Authorities would take the risk of an Aborigine taking up a Soldier Settler block and making a success of it?
I’ll tell you, none at all.
FMD. A good idea for an argument thread-bombed by a low-IQ troll.
Please observe, Doverlord.
Perhaps the disloyal father couldn’t resist the few minutes of fame and I guess there’s some payment.
I’d wondered if Lidia’s hard features came from her father; and there it is.
The Aboriginal genes can soften granite looks. Lidia was not so fortunate as Phillip Adams’ wife (one-time lovely Macleans toothpaste model).
Ed Casesays:
April 21, 2023 at 8:38 pm
Plenty of Returned men got Soldier Settler Blocks even though they weren’t farmers like Harry Thorpe.
Plenty of Anzacs and 1st AIF got War Service Homes.
No Aborigine got a Soldier Settler Block or a War Service Home, let alone both.
References needed, Grandpa Ed Simpson, not your usual bland, unsupported assertions.
Ed Casesays:
April 22, 2023 at 8:46 am
My understanding is that many of the blocks were on poor land and too small to make a living from.
You’re most likely wrong, as usual.
“most likely” is not enough Grandpa Ed, you need some actual evidence.
You, OTOH, are always wrong. Have you worked out the difference between a B-24 Liberator and a B-25 Mitchell bomber yet? Until you can do that, you have no standing here.
That is the type of logic that has proclaimed that this current generation is responsible for the so-called dispossession of 1788. Lidia’s ancestor fighting in WW1 has nothing to do with Lidia’s behaviour of last week. Just like you, Ed, your poor ancestor is not responsible for the dribble that you post here.
Did any of your ancestors die on a Battlefield during the Great War?
Of course not, otherwise you wouldn’t be posting your tedious Bafflegab now.
If an AI trollbot has a nerve I think I hit it.
Ed Casesays:
April 22, 2023 at 11:52 am
Did any of your ancestors die on a Battlefield during the Great War?
One of mine did, Grandpa Ed Simpson, at Pozieres, and another was gassed near Passchaendale, and later died in France in October 1918, during the Spanish flu epidemic. Does this give me additional credibility here?
Both your gran’pappies died in the Great War, Cletus?
Anyone else, i’d call bullshit on that claim, but …
Both Victorian Aboriginal Soldier Settlers mentioned in the article I linked abandoned their blocks.
Percy Pepper got land on a floodplain at Koo Wee Rup that flooded three years out of six.
Incidentally the Percy Pepper aboriginal veteran who was granted that soldier settler block was Harry Thorpe’s brother in law.
I’m guessing if Harry had survived the war and put his name down, he’d have had some sort of chance.