Operation Fortitude F***ed Up Farce Friday

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The press release, then the Twitter storm.

(Image Credit: Police will have ‘particular focus on people travelling to, from and around the CBD’. Photograph: Julian Smith/AAP)

From Formidable Fortitude to Farcical Force

(Image Credit: About 200 people protesting against the Australian Border Force operation block the intersection of Flinders Street and Swanston Street in Melbourne on Friday. Photograph: Melissa Davey for the Guardian)

has me wondering how soon it will be before a few “leaders” – you know, the ones whose family names start with a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a, *duh1*, and quis quaed – become

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Most annoying – moi was really looking forward to being dragged into the paddy wagon dressed something like this:

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(and I would, too.)

What’s (and who’s) next for this flock of imbeciles?

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505 thoughts on “Operation Fortitude F***ed Up Farce Friday”

  2. billie11
    Funding for child protection cut, womens refuges closed – the NSW government seems to be adopting an ‘if we can’t see it and don’t hear about it then it doesn’t exist’ attitude,

    We will need an intervention to save the ambos, too, if the useless Gillian Skinner gets her way.
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/health-minister-jillian-skinner-tells-ceda-lunch-more-privatisation-on-the-way-20150828-gja9qk.html

    Next time you need an ambulance in NSW you might get a beaten-up van from the local happy-clapper church with a volunteer driver, instead of a real ambulance with trained paramedics.

  4. ” you might get a beaten-up van from the local happy-clapper church with a volunteer driver”…I cna see it now..: “What do you need the most..;The Bandaids or the “Good News Bible”?

  6. In Victoria, emergency ambulances still attend 000 calls. There is also Hatzolla – the emergency ambulance for orthodox Jews
    Private ambulances move patients from hospital to hospital
    In rural areas the ambulances are manned by volunteers with first aid training

    I am not thrilled at the prospect of being co

  8. Leone of course naice people who live on the leafy North Shore don’t need child protection units – if the government looks too closely at their child rearing practices they will be talking to a rapidly engaged SC or other silken heavy.

    Really until 2002 I had never spoken to a Newstart recipient, around my area when you lose your job after age 45 you live in genteel poverty off your savings like the retrenched CSIRO technicians and engineers or wriggle your way onto DSP for chronic mental health issues like the self employed solicitors and former salesmen

  10. The article by Richard Flanagan currently on the Guardian Website is an in-depth analysis of last Friday’s fiasco and the alarming developments behind it. It is well worth reading.

  12. Just did a quick trip to the eye doctor, trapped in the waiting room with ABC24. They said if Heydon recuses himself a possible replacement could be Jeremy Stoljar, because he has heard most of the evidence so far.

    Heaven Help Us if that happens. Stoljar is as bent as a box full of bobby pins.

  14. Billie,

    I don’t think so. Blundstone Footwear is owned by the Cuthbertson family. Its CEO is Steve Gunn, who may well be a member of the Gunn family of Tasmania.

    However, the fellow in charge of Gunns Limited (which went into voluntary liquidation a few years ago) was John Gay – a classmate of OH’s, who describes him as “definitely B-line”.

    But then, you know what Tasmania’s like – everyone is related to everyone else . . .

  15. Heydon has dismissed all the union applications, will not stand down and has adjourned TURC until tomorrow.

  16. Dyson Heydon, promptly dismissing the union applications to disqualify himself:

    “I have considered all the submissions. In my opinion, the applications must be dismissed. I publish my reasons.

    I adjourn the matter until 10am tomorrow in Sydney for the continuation of hearings concerning the CFMEU in the Australian Capital Territory.

  21. I was going to post this earlier, after reading about the ‘Get Rid Of Hockey’ brainfart, but I had to go away. Itt has been stuck in my head ll day, I was going to dedicate it to poor old Joe Hockey, but now it’s also for Dyson,Tony and the whole rotten gang.

  22. “I have concluded that it is not the case that a fair-minded lay observer might apprehend that I might not bring an impartial mind to the resolution of the questions which the work of the commission requires to be decided.”

    So far up himself …

  25. Doesn’t read emails unless his staff print them out for him.

    Doesn’t read invitations, either.

  34. The media adviser for immigration minister Peter Dutton replied “thanks for letting me know” the second time his office was sent a press release from Australian Border Force that appeared to threaten random visa checks and forced the cancellation of a Victorian police operation at the weekend.

    The government has suggested Victorian border force officials are to blame for the press release, which incorrectly suggested ABF would be “speaking with any individual we cross paths with” during a multi-agency crackdown on crime and antisocial behaviour.

    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/31/peter-dutton-staffer-replied-thanks-for-letting-me-know-border-force-press-release

  35. If the ToR weren’t political why did he withdraw from the Liberal fundraiser?

  37. Bastard is as bastard does :
    “Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law
    My services are bound. Wherefore should I
    Stand in the plague of custom, and permit
    The curiosity of nations to deprive me,
    For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines
    Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?
    When my dimensions are as well compact,
    My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
    As honest madam’s issue? Why brand they us
    With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
    Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take
    More composition and fierce quality
    Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,
    Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,
    Got ‘tween asleep and wake? Well, then,
    Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:
    Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund
    As to the legitimate: fine word,–legitimate!
    Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,
    And my invention thrive, Edmund the base
    Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:
    Now, gods, stand up for bastards!”

  38. Fascinating!
    I’ve just made a comment to a friend about the aftermath of Friday’s debacle in Melbourne and their opinion is that because it was all called off, it never happened so she didn’t know why I was still carrying on about it.

    Well colour me gob-smacked! We really do live in a frog boiling pot of a country after all!

  40. Meanwhile –

    Bananas, having realsied that she could possibly lose her Deputy Leader spot to Scrott Moribund, is doing her very best ‘Good, Loyal Girl’ act and promoting her Dear Leader’s ‘Bomb the Bejesus out of Syria’ thing to anyone in Europe who will listen.

    Islamic State: Julie Bishop urges more European nations to bomb terrorists

    Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has urged more European nations to bomb Islamic State (IS) terrorists and help end the fighting that is driving a growing mass of refugees towards the European Union

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-31/julie-bishop-urges-more-european-nations-to-bomb-is-targets/6737342

    Such a cunning plan – reduce the flow of refugees by chucking more bombs. Um….Julie….won’t that just create more refugees?

  41. curioz
    That was Abbott’s line, all weekend – ‘Nothing happened’. Some people must have taken him at his word.

  42. The inecitability of a high court challenge will commit other judges to judge Heydon….Oooooo! that could be interesting!

  45. Dick Woolcott, former diplomat and Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade, was on 24 earlier.

    His opinion on the Middle East is that we should have no people there.

  46. CTar,

    I had a bit to do with Dick Woolcott in my much younger days – purely socially – and he’s a gentleman for whom I have the greatest respect. I couldn’t agree with his position on the Middle East more.

  47. Oh dear! Poor Joe. We all know what this means –

    Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Treasurer Joe Hockey has his ‘full confidence’

    Tony Abbott says Joe Hockey is “doing an excellent job” and enjoys the full confidence of the Prime Minister and cabinet, a day after two cabinet ministers told Fairfax Media that discussions were taking place about whether to move against the Treasurer if the Canning byelection goes badly for the Coalition government.
    Mr Abbott has insisted that no one had raised with him the future of his under-fire Treasurer

    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/prime-minister-tony-abbott-says-treasurer-joe-hockey-has-his-full-confidence-20150831-gjbki8.html

  48. muskiekemp

    Then you’ll be pleased to know the Witch Finder General would consider you irrational .

    DysonHeydon reasons: “There is no rational basis to conclude .. any predisposition on my part against the Labor Party.”

  49. Nobody ever tells Dutton anything……..we should start calling him ‘The Mushroom’.

    It’s all the fault of those damn low-level people again, you know, the only ones who seem to know what governments are doing.

    Abbott defends $55m resettlement deal after Cambodia says no to more refugees

    Immigration minister Peter Dutton said he believed the agreement to resettle people in Cambodia was “ongoing”.

    “Well, the government has not had that advice [that no more refugees would be resettled],” he said. “Obviously people at the low level will make comment from time to time but we have a good engagement with my counterpart, with counterparts at an official level and our discussions are ongoing.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/31/abbott-defends-55m-resettlement-deal-after-cambodia-says-no-to-more-refugees

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