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  • Open Thread – Weekend 28 May 2022

  • Meme of the Day #43

  • No likely comeback for Libs in teal seats

    Six so-called teals (=Climate 200) candidates defeated sitting Liberals. Here are the first-preference numbers to date with around 80 percent plus or minus of votes counted. Curtin (WA) Celia Hammond (Lib) 42.4% Kate Chaney (teal) 30.0% Labor / Greens 22.1% Goldstein (Vic) Tim Wilson (Lib) 41% Zoe Daniel (teal) 35.3% Labor / Greens 17.7% Kooyong…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #22

    Operation: Daybreak (Anthropoid) Tomorrow, May 27th, will be the 80th anniversary of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, the Nazi commander of the Reich Main Security Office and the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Although not initially killed in the attack on May 27th, Heydrich died of his wounds on…

  • The BBC thinks Australia is becoming “unlivable”!

    Saw this on Instapundit: WELL, NO. IT MIGHT BE COMING. I MEAN, THEY WANT TO GO CARBON-FREE:  Australia Becoming Unlivable–BBC. Personally, seeing this mentioned by the Poms on an American website does make me laugh. I can only say I consider it my greatest good fortune that I ended up in Australia, not in Canada where…

  • We apparently need a ‘recallibration’ of our freedom of speech

    I came across this at The Gateway Pundit: Australian Politician at Davos Explains that We Need a “Recalibration” of Freedom of Speech. Really, I said, so I watched the video. This is the summary of what she said: ‘Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant tells the World Economic Forum we need a “recalibration” of freedom…

  • Guest Post – Twostix – How many voters boycotted the Fed Election 2022 ?

    The voter turnout numbers from the AEC site are astonishing. Nearly 30% of Australian voters boycotted the election. The lowest turnouts are in the inner city seats consecutively, look at the comparisons to 2019: Electorate, Turnout %, Enrolled, Marked Off, Turnout % Relative to 2019Melbourne 61.4 114447 70270 -28.22Sydney 61.83 125421 77550 -24.47Brisbane 62.46 125241 78223 -28.05Perth 62.63 122719 76856 -26.9 The highest turnout in all of Australia…

  • Open Thread – Tues 24 May 2022

  • About as bad as it could have been

    “Give the people what they want, good and hard”. It’s a philosophy, I suppose, but not so good for those who didn’t want whatever it is that actually gets served up. So now Australia joins the Biden-Trudeau-Adern club of Mencken’s worst nightmare societies. I am still a bit shell shocked from the outcome, not that…

  • Federal Election Night 2022

  1. Call me Flamin’. https://ace.mu.nu/archives/317354052_10160827611841393_7880755804762415541_n.jpg Stolen from Ace while waiting until Elon’s next Starlink rocket, which I by chance saw is…

  4. The Lebanese are arguing that they don’t have the resources to field 5,000 troops to enforce Hebollocks withdrawal. And Israel…

  5. This is so wonderful. A toddler is being fitted with glasses. After a little fidget as they are placed on…

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