Urbanwronski continues his clinical evisceration of Fizza’s Wunderkinder Turnbull’s ‘gummint’. Many thanks as always, sir.
In a death-defying acrobatic routine in Canberra this week, the nation’s lame duck PM performs an astonishing back-flip on the high-wire without a safety net in a Coalition Circus show-stopper before a three week break in the slow trick bicycle race that is the 45th Parliament. Pantomime legend, funny money man Treasurer Scott Morrison kids audiences along that his government is not breaking an election promise.
Breaking Turnbull’s “absolutely iron-clad campaign pledge” on superannuation law changes to suit the top one per cent at the expense of poorer retirees is just responsible government. It mirrors Tony Abbott’s “good government” which honoured his promise of no changes to health and education by delivering cuts of $80 billion after a landslide victory.
Its super backdown competes with news this week of Morrison’s failure as Minister for Immigration to notice a contractor add $1.1 billion to its tender to run the gulag on Nauru and Manus when his department suspended public service tender rules in face of our imminent invasion by waves of dole-bludging job-stealing, illiterate immigrants, as Peter Dutton loves to remind us. A confected emergency is ScoMo’s normal operating environment.
“…When you’re in government you have to solve problems, you have to work issues and you’ve got to get to conclusions and that’s what we’ve done today…” explains the Ming dynasty worthy Morrison who demolishes other considerations such as principle, honesty and integrity with effortless ease and more than a dash of self-parody. No-one mentions the massive problem his PM’s double whatsit created in the senate, Manus Island, his NBN or the four banks who hold the country to ransom under government protection. Arch pragmatist Robert Menzies would be proud.
News of Turnbull’s astonishing stunt, naturally earns thunderous applause from high income earners and is the finale to a four day extravaganza which includes omnibus billing, more flogging of dead horse Dastyari, the plebiscite dance marathon and the mother of all fool’s errands, a race to praise Malcolm’s first year as PM.
Not to be outbid in the absurdity stakes, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton pledges to take Australia’s “good UN story” on refugees to the UN next Monday. He recycles the canard that we lead the world in refugee resettlement reprising the old lie that Australia takes the most refugees per capita of any country in the world, so favoured by his idol Tony Abbott.
The lie misrepresents our role in the UNHCR resettlement programme, which takes only 1% of the world’s estimated fifteen million refugees, as evidence that we lead the world in resettling all refugees. It wilfully obscures the 1577, including children, we currently imprison indefinitely in detention centres including on Christmas Island, and the 1296 incarcerated on Nauru and Manus Island. Worse, Dutton’s lie implies that these are not genuine refugees.
“We don’t just provide a refuge, we guide people into a new life; a safe, healthy and hopefully a happy life, ” Dutton boasts in The Australian. “Our humanitarian programmes have helped tens of thousands.” The two thousand incidents of abuse exposed in The Guardian’s recent release of reports by officials on Nauru clearly don’t count.
Nor do those 30 asylum seekers Dutton has put on Christmas Island to enjoy the company of 200 of what the Border Supremo calls “some of the country’s most hardened criminals” at the discretion of the Minister who applies his character test. Two Brigidine sisters report not happiness but fear and despair on the island. “What we witnessed was a group of men utterly without hope, almost all of them broken human beings,” they tell Fairfax Media this week.
Our cruelty is not only wrong it is expensive. This week sees both a Save the Children and a UNICEF report reveal off-shore detention has cost us $9.6 billion since 2013 – more than the UNHCR’s total global budget for programs this year. The reports coincide with an Audit Office report that puts the cost per detainee at $1570 per day or enough to put each asylum-seeker up in a Hyatt hotel and pay them the pension fifteen times over, calculates Fairfax’s Peter Martin.
The Audit Office report shows that not only did the Coalition government breach public service tender guidelines, it created a false sense of emergency to allow it to dispense with proper procedures permitting the successful contractor to add an extra $1.1 billion to its bid without facing any counter-bid. The department of Immigration kept this additional premium secret from then Immigration Minister Scott Morrison who was also not told of the price per head.
Also kept secret is Malcolm Turnbull’s own donation to his party campaign war chest made in the second half of the eight week election campaign although he has volunteered that he chipped in $2 million rather than the $1 million originally reported. It is still a good investment should he last three years. Turnbull is the only PM in Australian political history to have bought his own mandate but, oddly, no-one brings this up as his greatest achievement.
Indeed, Coalition MPs appear challenged to find any achievement at all to mark The PM’s first year in office. Most instead settle on competing to tell the most outrageous lie while an oleaginous Josh Frydenberg admits his boss has been “a good friend of mine” before praising him as ” a very successful Prime Minister.”
A rising conga line of suck-holes is utterly upstaged, however, by George Brandis, a toad in pinstripes, who puffs his pal Malcolm into the equal of Sir Robert “and the great John Howard;” “one of the great Australian prime ministers”, praise so nauseatingly unwarranted, so patently untrue that even Howard The Great must set the sycophant straight.
“I think those sort of comparisons at this stage in Malcolm’s career are a bit unfair and premature,” Howard tells ABC radio. Fresh from recording his own two part ABC hagiography on his idol and fellow philistine, Pig Iron Bob, helpfully scheduled this Sunday, Howard is quick to cut Turnbull off at the knees. “The most immediate thing he can do in emulating Menzies is to successfully go to an election with a majority of only one and increase his majority.”
Ouch!. No matter how bad it gets Malcolm is still the leader, team player George Christensen ventures helpfully.
Others outside the parliamentary party also see Turnbull as a fizza. A D+ is awarded by 50 business leaders, former Liberal politicians, academics, economists, administrators, lawyers and lobbyists who grade the PM for the AFR Weekend. Turnbull has failed to translate our joyous excitement over his rolling of Abbott into any action at all. Nor has he hung on to that surge of popularity. Even Newspoll reports that what it coyly terms satisfaction levels with the Prime Minister are down six percentage points to 34 per cent since the July 2 election.
Yet there is no shortage of vacuous, self-interested puffery from Liberal MPs to inflate the PM’s party balloon this week.
“This Turnbull Coalition government has much to do and much to get on with — indeed, that is the business of government. We get on with it,” pronounces maiden Liberal Senator Jane Hume in a gesture of utter absurdity. As her 18th Century namesake David Hume advised, a wise woman proportions her belief to the evidence.
Senator Hume, a former bank manager who currently works for a superannuation fund, with absolutely no conflicts of interest, wins biggest whopper in a week of lies and desperate dissembling. The Coalition government has nothing to do and less to go on with. There is not even an agenda for the senate, Monday. Everything grinds to a halt forcing Liberal Senators to filibuster, fidget or even pedal backwards as they frantically try to stay in the saddle until Question Time.
Government senators pad out their speeches to twenty minutes to stretch things until Question Time. Bridget McKenzie back-handedly grabs a chance to call Nigel Scullion a “deep thinker” despite appearances and to praise a colleague from Tullarook but the National Senator can’t recall his name or place, “Andrew, it will come to me she says.” Party amnesiac, Arthur Sinodinos grins infectiously. George Brandis government leader in the senate is, once again, missing in action.
What follows is strangely edifying. Whilst having senators speak without prompt or preparation produces some of the most tedious, trivial if not excruciatingly inept speechifying in history, it also provides a privileged peek into a government upper house consciousness unsullied by thought, reflection or wretched talking point. In this space also, Pauline Hanson makes the second maiden speech of her career, calling for Muslims this time, to go back to where they came from. This is our country, our land our lifestyle, she says. “Take advantage of our freedom” and leave.
Greens senators stage a walkout yet Michaelia Cash embraces the One Nation leader to remind all of Turnbull’s one true legacy, a cross bench of misbegotten populist monsters. While One Nation owes its much of its revival to the PM’s double dissolution fiasco, its members also faithfully reflect the way the Liberal Party continues Howard’s tradition of gleefully dog-whistling up the bigoted, the racist and xenophobic amongst us to achieve its political agenda.
George Megalogenis in Australia’s Second Chance traces migrant bashing to 1840 when Horse Tray Yah was threatened by 4000 orphan girls, economic migrants seeking asylum from persecution and Ireland’s Great Famine. Since then it’s been the turn of other groups to be vilified and persecuted, as Annabel Crabb cheerily notes in The Age as if the idea that this too will pass may somehow comfort or compensate victims of state sanctioned abuse. Or right any wrong.
Helping any who may misread Ms Cash’s public embrace of Pauline Hanson, gorgeous George Christensen, Dawson Pauline-whisperer is quick to tell the Australian that Hanson’s views are “largely those of the Liberal Party rank and file.” It emerges that George arranged a cosy deal with Pauline not to stand a One Nation candidate against him in the last election. Julie Bishop also endorses former Liberal Hanson, cutely saying she does “not agree with all” of Pauline’s views.
Cory barnyard Bernardi is off to New York to observe the UN a body which he, too, along with One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts has called “unelected and unaccountable.” If Cory’s not in bed with One Nation, he’s smoking the same stuff.
Like One Nation Pokémon Malcolm Roberts, Bernardi fears we are “outsourcing aspects of our national sovereignty to unaccountable foreign organisations like the United Nations,” or the Chinese or else hordes of alien invaders from the planet Zorg. Bernardi will be right at home in New York where wacky is normal but surely he will need to be recalled when the party’s Turnbull experiment is blown up by Abbott’s marriage plebiscite time bomb.
Neither Bernardi nor Christensen will have to cross the floor, however, because the Labor party won’t play the game on a plebiscite which was less about seeking the will of the Australian people than about the rat cunning of a Tony Abbott desperate to defeat the do-gooders in his own party room. But what’s a broad church without a narrow, rigid and remote pontifex?
In the interim, national discourse is drowned by disingenuous drivel from right wingers who pretend that government funding to both sides is some sort of equaliser.
The same dangerous nonsense is buried in the clamour of Bernardi’s band wagon to repeal 18 C of the racial discrimination and vilification act and his crusade against safe schools. He and Leyonhjelm certainly know better although the less said about the rest of Turnbull’s freak show of a cross bench the better.
What matters is power. Funding those who already enjoy immense wealth and power is no way to promote anything but bullying and the more effective dissemmination of hate speech. Stripping away safeguards for the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and the marginalised in order to add further to the power of ruling classes is no way to achieve social harmony – or democracy. If only like the PM everyone were rich enough to fund their own campaign.
Luckily our PM has never been too shy to blow his own trumpet. Malcolm Bligh Turnbull has been quick this week to point out what an incredible asset he is to the nation with his genius for economic management. He takes full credit for rubbery figures suggesting business is booming. Like Arthur Sinodinos we must all put out of our minds all memory of the Reserve Bank lowering interest rates to boost a flagging economy or of wages flat-lining for three years at least. If we are not technically in recession we need to have a hard look at the way we measure it.
Our leaders want us to applaud the ABS. Crippled by funding cutbacks, a failure over its census, the ABS coughs up some dodgy figures about GDP being up just as it produces wildly erratic and unreliable unemployment statistics because it is pushed to report on what it can’t afford to count properly. More reliable is the news that a third of us now put off or avoid entirely going to the dentist because we can’t afford the cost.
Luckily birthday boy Malcolm Turnbull will take time out from his first anniversary and being bullied by Eric Abetz, George Christensen and other right-wing nutters who run his government to bask in the admiration of leaders overseas.
Turnbull will dazzle the world with his agile, innovative shtick, his economic trickle-down wizardry, his war on the poor and Australia’s abuse of asylum-seekers’ human rights. DIY two million dollar mandates from the one seat wonder from down under, will go over well, especially after his predecessor’s G20 talk on GP co-payments, his lecturing the UN about how sick we are of being lectured by the UN and his mad plans to invade Syria or to send Aussie troops into Ukraine.
It is Senator Jane Hume and her fatuous speech, however, who sets the week’s tone by exposing her government’s illegitimacy. Despite its overweening arrogance, triumphalism and braying inanity, the Turnbull government cannot disguise the fact that it has nothing to say. It is hopelessly and utterly seduced by the delusion that it is back on top where it belongs; all that it needs now is to talk itself into a government.
THE PUB 
Woo Hoo!
Not good news for Arfur.
NSW Liberals fined $600k over election funding abuses
http://www.afr.com/news/nsw-liberals-fined-600k-over-election-funding-abuses-20160922-grm8rl
And yet just a few weeks ago the frenzying media was brandishing the noose to lynch Sam Dastyari over $1600.
To hell with the lot of them, the MSM and their Nasty Party partners.
Talking about Santana..love it!..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZceAQSJvc
Leontwo, Woo Hoo … –
Billy Thorpe – “Oop poo pa doo Sunbury 2007!
1972 apologies
carrt2016,
Not bad, the sixties. Seventies OK. Then it went downhill.
Since my report above re. the stolen identity, I have received an email from the hotel in Bali with the full booking details for the room, October 1-4. Correlating the booking against their web site, the perpetrators have chosen (of course) THE most expensive “Honeymoon Suite” room… private pool, three bedrooms, detatched from the other villas for 4 days… a bargain at only $624 Aussie dollars (6 million rupiahs, though).
It was quite a shock to see the booking record. They (whoever “They” are) have included my full name, an accurate address, and the phone number given is only wrong in the last 2 of 8 digits. Pretty impressive on the part of the fraudsters.
It certainly looks like one of my business suppliers has been hacked, as some of them keep address and phone number details, but they don’t know they’ve been hacked yet, because there have been no grovelling emails sent to me advising of this and begging me to erase everything. This, however, cuts out random servos, retail shops, on-line Thai home delivery restaurants etc., bus-stop skims (anyway I have a Skim Guard device in my wallet) and the local grog shoppe… none of whom have ALL these details.
Quite spooky how easily it’s done, eh?
I rang the local Police command who are interested. But they would say that, wouldn’t they? Maybe I’ve got them mildly excited, ’cause if the perp turns up in Bali on October 1 we might be able to arrange a warmish reception for him or her. The hotel management are definitely hot to trot, nunchuckas at the ready.
But then again, I am totally naive at what goes on in these situations. the “purchases” might have just been tests, experiments to work out whether some much more lucrative software hack (more lucrative than a few thousand bucks) was working properly. It used to be a “test” transaction of $1. Now maybe it’s $4000? Who knows these things? I am a law-abiding citizen.
Somewhere, Someone-In-Authority knows how this all pans out.You’d like to think there’s perhaps a task force somewhere that takes this shit seriously. But if you call the bank or the retailers all you get is “Suzy from Manila” yawning down the phone at you, after you have spent 10 minutes pressing menu tree option buttons on your handset. Even the cops seem to see it as a wholesome diversion from their usual nightly fare of break and enters and DUI.
We will see…
Post Script
Even though the booking is for one person, whoever it is has reserved for themselves the Royal Service. Added on to the bill are the following…
Plus one whack over the head with an Indonesian hali-kali stick (I hope).
What with all the food being provided we are looking for a glutton, who likes Balinese girls and has reserved the Honeymoon suite because he thinks he’s going to get lucky.
Or not.
Looks like one of each sex but who knows.
I’m not a violent person but Assad is seriously overdue for an XPD.
Say no more!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjp_iG9vzEU
Saw him at the Palais Theatre performing many moons ago. (And with what you accused me of at Sunbury).
SBS showed the lack of audience for AbysMal at the UN, as did His ABC.
Big fan of rain. Doesn’t dampen this ghost.
Saleable is doing education. May be a foot rub with That Bastard Birmingham coming up.
A remarkably polite interview Sales v Tanya.
I have repeatedly bagged Sales and 7.30 with the 7.30 Executive Producer in direct email exchanges for a year now. I would like to think something may be happening.
I’m seeing Patsy and Eddi’ from Ab Fab jiving about the room with this one!
They don’t do jive. More a reefer duo.
Stop sniffing the white paint!
Dawe interviews a government backbencher
Adelaide Central Market mushroom stall had Adelaide Hills morels. Bought 50g ($5) to see how they compared to French morels.
25g of morels on some fresh sourdough (not gonna toast superlative fresh bread like this!) on a half slice of sourdough. HUGE taste, rich. 5Kg of farmed ’shrooms would not give the richness and beautiful taste this 25g morels did! I will dream of morels tonight!
Will be back EARLY Thursday morning to get some more! Oohhhh so nice, so rich, few crumbs of morels and it fills your mouth with flavor!
Lovely to see this!
Today’s Thursday evening.
The mushrooms must be working!
{Oops} meant next Thursday!
Enjoy
Pity that the supermarkets charge you a world for anything but the standard cups which aren’t much.
$5.00 for 100 g Shiitake!
I have not bought fruit, veg or meat from “supermarkets” for many years!
Tiger Brennan.
Tiger Brennan was the mayor of Darwin back in the seventies. He was a strange character who got around dressed in colonial “pukka sahib” kahki shorts and shirt, replete with pith helmet and long socks and was always smoking a Winston Churchill style fat cigar…a punctilious buffoon and as bent as a drawer full of Uri Geller spoons.
Tiger lived in a flat on the next floor above us..I don’t know when he was sober, because I can only recall him drunk..he drove this big Ford Fairlane in such a reckless fashion that he’d scatter the rubbish bins in wild collision every time he drove into the car-park of the flats, so he made a deal with Potter that he would leave the car out the front and potter would park it for him…this was a kind of trade-off for the noise of the raucous parties we held in our flat almost every opportunity..it was the seventies and this was Darwin!
I remember one night, another party…it was going great guns!…Neil Diamond pouring out of the quadraphonic system Potter had signed another rubber cheque for and the beer running freely..then there was this banging on the door..took a little while to hear it.but I threw the door open and there was Tiger..wearing only a pair of boxer-short undies and a pair of slippers and smoking that fat cigar…He didn’t say a word, just took the cigar out of his mouth with his left hand and with index finger and thumb of his right made “turn-it-down” motions he then shoved the cigar back into his mouth , puffed smokily a couple of times to make the point, turned on his heels and trudged back up the stairs.
One night, around midnight Tiger Brennan came crashing into the carpark as usual sending bins and shit flying…he gets out staggering about as drunk as a skunk someone in one of the flats called out ;
“You drunken bastard..you couldn’t drive a greasy stick…”…to which Tiger regains his unsteady balance takes his cigar from his lips and slurs out..;
“You..watch your tongue or..or I’ll have the coppers ‘round her ..and BOOK..ev’ry last one of you…perverts….yeah..” and he staggered off under the flats..
But he was never one to miss a political opportunity..was Tiger..
One balmy Darwin afternoon, just before the wet rains came in..I was sitting on the back balcony having a coupla quiet beers, watching the world slip by..I have to admit there is a lot to see from a balcony..Hal Porter was well paced on his cast-iron balcony.
It was after cyclone Tracy and many of the flats were abandoned and ruined, but had been taken over by squatting hippies..who would congregate in a clearing, once the back yards of the flats and would for want of a better description; Pow-wow and pass the joints around…this infuriated Tiger because he had just that season driven the hippies out of their tree-houses on Darwin beach and they then retreated to squat right under his nose in these flats.
I was sitting there listening to the hippie conversation and then I could hear Potter talking to Tiger just under the balcony..I looked down and I could see Potter showing Tiger his newest acquisition, a short-barrel shotgun he had purchased to take with him every time he went further down the Stuart Highway past Berri Springs…The movie ; “Deliverence” had just done the rounds of the Darwin Cinema and it put the wind up many of the alpha males in Darwin, who believed the worst thing could happen to a red-blooded Aussie male was to get rheemed up the arse no matter what the disadvantage or situation..hence the shotgun.
“How many shots can you get off in a minute?” Tiger asked as he held his cigar.
“I can empty the magazine” Potter reassured him.
“Go on!” Tiger looked impressed.
“I’ll show you” Potter replied.and in doing so quickly filled the magazine with solid slug 12gauge shells…pumped the magazine once and fired off five shots in quick succession into an idle 44gallon drum full of water nearby. “boom,boom,boom…As the drum jumped and thumped and water sprayed everywhere, the hippies scattered like chaff in the wind in every direction, Tiger sprang to the offered opportunity and yelled after them;
“And there’s plenty more of that for you bastards if you come back too!”
I don’t know what happened to Tiger eventually..I do know he retired under some kind of cloud..but that’s all I remember….there are limits and it was the seventies!
I danced all night at a country party to the sound of the latest – Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night. Then for some reason at 2am decided to take the new Falcon ute for a spin around the back roads – wrapped it around a big gum tree!
Tiger Brennan Drive was my fave bit of bitumen up in Darwin.Ta for the tales from time gone by.Also loved Berry Springs
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jaycee
Did you ever catch fish with your trusty .22?
I did with mine.
What?…you shot them?
I did at night with a spotlight. More stunned them and netted.
More Rex..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jowN9VRCUXk
More fluff
Glam rock..
The Doors – Riders On the Storm [Remastered HQ] – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DED812HKWyM
If I have to put up with Joe Cocker then you lot can put up with Tom Waits.
I have the vinyl somewhere around here.
jaycee does cause trubble
It’s my destiny…..follow your destiny!
The Doors – listen to lyrics destiny
As Lindsey said
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRNDQNjCK4
The Doors – The End (original) – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUIQgEVDM4
On Aguirre’s point earlier, I’d have to say that there are quite a lot of people in Australia concerned about immigration. Not the racists that want to have a supremacist White Australia in the style of Apartheid where only those with a skin color lighter than an acceptable hue should live as first class citizens, but, people who are starting to feel an unwelcome pressure on their jobs and livelihoods.
That this government’s enabling of profit-gouging multinational businesses has made them start to realize the looming threat that if they don’t make sacrifices to the conditions in which they work, then they would be easily replaceable with a 457 Visa holder that would be delighted to work for half the wage they earn, even if it is illegal as in the case of 7/11 workers and others in that condition.
And when they lose their jobs to them, then they can spend the next few years jumping through the Centrelink hoops – hoops in which this current government is keen on shrinking and making more difficult, all while the right wing hate machine in the background screams for them to turn the hoops to a diameter smaller than an eye of a needle.
I don’t think it’s an anti-Muslim sentiment, I think it’s an anti- reduction of workplace conditions by stealth by the cynical manipulation of the bastards in government that want to turn Australia into a third world cheap labour platform.
Kirsdarke & Aguirre,
I think you are both correct.
Did someone mention glam rock ? 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRNDQNjCK4
Bugger wrong link. Try the Second.
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Try te turd !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRNDQNjCK4
I am not a fan of Guy Rundle but he described the requirements for Newstart recipients participating in “Mutual Obligation” as “Institutionalised Bullying” which is soo apt.
I would like to know what the question was, that 50% of respondents answered they were against Muslim immigration.
FFFFS. Once more again with feeling.
Tiger Brennan.
My uncle Tom Ronan was living at Springvale Station just out of Katherine when he heard Tiger was going to stand for the local electorate of Elsey. This was in 1954 or 55. Tom couldn’t stand Tiger so he stood against him and much to his surprise was elected. A year later he had to resign to take up a job as manager of Auvergne Station over in the Kimberleys and much to his disgust Tiger was his replacement.
Effing ABC TV..tried to watch The Tunnell…constant drop-outs…out here in the regions, radio is shit, internet is shit, tele is shit , mobile reception is shit…Turnbull is one little fuckin’ useless bullshit artist!
Remember the way Turnbul ltreated a woman who complained there was no broadband connection available for her new home?
Fizza kindly suggested she move to where there was a decent connection.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/03/malcolm-turnbull-wants-you-to-move-house-to-get-better-internet/
Fizza has lived in the outer city around Point Piper and Double Bay all his life, except for the brief time he spent at Oxford. He has no idea how people cope when they don’t have public transport at the door, don’t have reliable media connections, don’t have decent internet.
We often mock country people who stay in their little rural towns their whole lives, we say they are insular. Fizza has spent his whole life in a similarly small environment. It’s not just his wealth that separates him from the rest of us, it’s the whole narrow scope of his up-bringing. I can’t imagine living in the same small area all your life, childhood to sixty-plus years old. It must make his views very restricted. No imagination, no empathy, no curiosity, no nothing.
I know this has already been talked about, but I can’t resist another post.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
It will some time before Tony Nutt thinks of venturing back to the NPC.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/mediscare-claims-one-more-victim-as-tony-nutts-complete-lie-claims-backfire-20160921-grlrfu.html
Michelle Grattan was there.
https://theconversation.com/liberal-director-nutt-cold-on-foreign-donation-ban-65888
Laura Tingle says that Morrison is “stuck in a non-virtuous cycle of bi[artisan squirming”. Google.
/opinion/stuck-in-a-nonvirtuous-cycle-of-bipartisan-squirming-20160922-grltfy
Yahoo has been hacked and apparently the details of 500 million users has been stolen. Google.
/technology/technology-companies/yahoo/yahoo-says-data-on-500-million-users-stolen-by-hackers-20160922-grmjy5
JetStar does it again!
http://www.smh.com.au/business/aviation/jetstar-flight-jq956-from-sydney-to-cairns-shuts-off-engine-after-smoke-fills-cabin-20160922-grmiv4.html
Looks like Soapy’s REALLY done it this time!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/foi-documents-suggest-attorneygeneral-george-brandis-misled-parliament-20160922-grlsh0.html
The NSW Nats are less than happy with Baird and his greyhound action.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nationals-mp-warns-mike-baird-government-unelectable-over-greyhound-ban-20160922-grm58q.html
Peter Martin writes on the incoming RBA Governor’s exhorting the government to invest more on infrastructure.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/reserve-bank-governor-philip-lowe-urges-government-to-invest-in-infrastructure-20160922-grm9n5.html
Martin’s impressed by the new governor.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/reserve-bank-governor-philip-lowes-first-impression-20160922-grmfc8.html
But the SMH editorial reckons he’s only telling half the story on house prices by ignoring the effect of tax breaks.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/new-rba-chief-tells-half-story-on-house-prices-20160921-grlr3p.html
Kristina Keneally and Peta Credlin are set to butt heads in a new Sky News show in November.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/23/peta-credlin-and-kristina-keneally-to-butt-heads-on-new-sky-show
This is good work from Telstra in providing a congestion free network for first responders.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/media-and-marketing/telstra-launches-dedicated-emergency-services-mobile-network-20160922-grmc9o.html
Section 2 . . .
Jess Irvine on the burgeoning debt of Australian households.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-can-australian-households-get-away-with-the-biggest-debts-in-the-world-20160922-grlsoc.html
Jane Caro with the real story of how Gonski was corrupted.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-real-story-of-how-gonski-was-corrupted-20160922-grmarb.html
Michelle Grattan reckons Morrison is afraid he’s being stalked by Porter.
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-morrison-reminds-everyone-porter-is-walking-in-his-steps-65913
Will the Coalition’s new “investment approach” help the most disadvantaged?
https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-morrison-reminds-everyone-porter-is-walking-in-his-steps-65913
It’s not just banks that have poor behaviour emanating from the culture of incentives.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/new-rba-chief-philip-lowe-hits-out-at-incentives-culture-at-australias-banks-20160922-grlwxa.html
More from Michael West on the potential sale of ASIC’s corporate database. We should not allow this to happen!
http://www.michaelwest.com.au/asic-sale-is-gold-for-buyers/
Australian surgeons wouldn’t do this would they? Surely not!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-surgeons-accused-of-cartel-behaviour-to-control-fees-20160922-grm5rh.html
The priestly wagons have been circling around Pell as has been evidenced at the latest CA Royal Commission hearing. And they are being tripped up.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/royal-commission-monsignor-john-usher-denies-protecting-cardinal-george-pell-20160921-grlrmk.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/22/senior-catholic-figure-john-usher-admits-conflicting-accounts-about-paedophile-priest
Coalition backbenchers are upset with Pyne over being treated like schoolchildren. Google.
/national-affairs/new-rule-for-liberals-a-pyne-in-the-backbench/news-story/aba1fe5494a9413655c4d53bbbcf0ae2
$600000 worth of chickens have come home to roost for the NSW Liberal Party.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-liberals-forced-to-forgo-almost-600k-over-unlawful-donations-20160922-grm91d.html
Section 3 . . .
The dirty “No” campaigning has already started. Fairfax is trying to find out more about the shady organisation “Children’s Future”.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/no-campaign-invokes-mandela-and-claims-samesex-marriage-link-to-school-curriculum-20160922-grm3zz.html
There is no Joy in the SSM plebiscite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/janet-rice/there-is-no-joy-in-the-same-sex-marriage-plebiscite/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
On this issue I do agree with David Leyonhjelm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/david-leyonhjelm/its-cruel-to-keep-people-alive-when-theyd-rather-die/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
Anne Aly hits back at the Essential Muslim immigration poll. She calls for real leadership.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/this-is-not-the-australia-i-know-first-muslim-woman-mp-hits-back-at-immigration-poll-20160922-grm6w3.html
International interest is building up in the approach to next Monday’s first presidential debate.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/fear-and-loathing-and-the-presidential-debate-20160921-grl3q0.html
And another Trump official has had enough of him and quits.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/22/trump-ohio-county-campaign-chair-resigns-after-racist-comments/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
North Carolina has declared a state of emergency in the wake of protests from another police shooting.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/09/22/charlotte-protests-over-police-killing-reignite-with-fatal-shoot/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
Section 4 . . . Cartoon Corner
Ron Tandberg and surgeon immigration.
David Rowe with Turnbull getting a “warm” welcome to the UN.
Mark Golding with an accurate assessment of Starbucks coffee.
Ron Tandberg muses over the life of Gonski.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/ron-tandberg-20090910-fixc.html
Alan Moir is waiting for the ALP response to the plebiscite.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20150921-gjrcxr.html
David Pope takes aim at Christian Porter.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/act-news/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0
Mark Knight is a bit worried about the relevance of the UN.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/61d8c0f7a07f469bd60866ea62298007?width=1024
Jon Kudelka very nicely sums up Tony Nutt’s NPC appearance.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/a4942b218412798fa51f61b3aa356a0d
She suggested the Essential poll’s questions were too negative and could have skewed the results.
(BK’s link)
Anne Aly is right.
Meanwhile that other creature is saying the polling is wrong, it should have given a much higher number but people were afraid to answer honestly.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/22/pauline-hanson-says-49-support-for-ban-on-muslim-immigration-is-too-low?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
And on Sky the other night Paul Murray ranted about Turnbull increasing refugee intake and said it was a captain’s pick and a bad political decision. He said Essential was a ‘leftie polling mob” and if their ‘leftie’ polling showed that result then the figure must be even higher.
What a laugh! Essential ‘leftie’. If anything it’s biased towards the right.
Murray had his facts and figures totally wrong, and said the increased number of refugees would be coming from the Middle East, the Central America thing was a lie.
There’s a video on Sky’s twitter account but it’s such rubbish I won’t post it.
I don’t know what we can do to counter all this hate and all these lies. The MSM tell us they have to report every vile word that spews from Hanson’s mouth because that allows us to make up our own minds about what she says. I think a lot less media attention for this creature would be a damn good idea. i’m sick of her, I’m sick of hearing about her and reading about her, I’m sick of her tight, ugly face popping up everywhere. All we get is reports of what she says, while important issues are completely ignored.
I’ve always said: “Don’t mention Hanson. She’ll disappear.”
Yes Minister had it covered
Market shopping today…the conver’s came up about dress-style and I affirmed I was going to wear same as yesterday’s at the Barossa..eye-ee; the well fitted pensioner style, tracky-dak / T-shirt ensemble…the BH(Better-half) confided that such was less “style” than “age-confirmation”..
“Well that aged lady I spoke to yesterday was wearing the tracky dak combo and she looked a degree elegant”.
“3 degrees out of one hundred” she grumbled.
But the BH(better half) has “opinions” on the tag of “pensioner” that I disagree on..
“I waited years to be able to use such a title and I won’t be denied the luxury…and yes!..yes..the privileges that entails!”
“What priviliges?”
“Well..for instance..when you go into Goodies and Grains there at the market, I can get a seat on the “pensioners bench” there opposite even if it is crowded with young folk , just by slouching wearily a tad as I support myself on the shopping trolley and asking in a plaintive voice..: ‘Is there room there for an aged pensioner’…and they all scatter…and it makes them feel good..so ; win-win!”
“That’s disgusting!” she spoke with curled lip…
The BH (better half) is very good at the curled lip scorn…her daughter has inherited the skill I’m sure and the action…another skill the opposite gender have made their own and perfected, is “the silence w/ pinched lip”..I saw it used to great effect yesterday between two ladies at the banana bar at the same time…both were “selecting” the best bananas and both grabbed the one banana from the opposite end at the same time …it was “pinched lips” at eye level and one pace apart..the older lady won by a flared nostril…those older ladies have the style perfected.
jaycee
Do you wear RM Williams with the tracky daks?
And it’s wonderful in 2016 that a George Cole type like yourself refers to your wife as BH c/f HI.
If jaycee is keen on the tracky dack combo then he would have to be wearing the de rigueur footwear for that look – white joggers.
Have you got a Senior’s Card jaycee?
I first heard about the scheme years ago from an old university mate who was Deputy President, Deutsche Bank. He said everyone had one!
Billie:
It’s all here:
http://www.essentialvision.com.au/category/essentialreport
The specific question – and it looks to be the first they asked – was:
Q. Would you support or oppose a ban on Muslim immigration to Australia?
They also asked for reasons as to why people support that ban, and coming in first with 41% was:
They do not integrate into Australian society
Now that complaint is as old as immigration itself. It’s claimed of every cultural and ethnic group that’s brought here, and I think it’s just casual lazy racism and not specific to Muslims. Terrorist threat was second at 27% – I can accept that about a quarter of this country are stupid and watch too many news programs. You can bung “They do not share our values” in with the first answer, same sentiment. People get used to incoming cultures over time and that complaint tends to die out.
2% don’t know why they support a ban on Muslim immigration. That equates to 1% of the country not knowing why they are racist. Wonderful.
So it more or less boils down to “I don’t like foreigners” (63%) or “I watch too much TV” (27%). And then halve that, seeing as 49% oppose Muslim immigration, to give an idea of how many Australians think that way.
There are Pauline Hanson questions there too, continuing the media sanctification of the woman. I think the questions are a bit skewed, designed to bring about certain responses. Can’t go into them now as I have to go out, but have a look at them and see what you think.
This blood orange marmalade I made last month is very tasty, even if it didn’t set all that well (think I let the marmalade go past the set point {Oops!} The vanilla extract I added goes much better with blood orange flavor than the cinnamon the preserving book Tart and Sweet suggested.
Today—make strawberry juice ready for making strawberry jelly tomorrow.
speaks for itself…
Americans seem shocked that Australians have an opinion on who should be American President. The election is kinda “Meh” but for everyone else its a big deal because when America sneezes we all catch cold
billie11
How many Australian’s have thought about it?
I would say all of my circles have an opinion on the American presidency. The 2 Right wing Australian newspaper reading Jews want Trump, every one else prefers Clinton.
But your circles are wider than mine, what do they say
No-one I know talks about it. Apart from if I laugh about Trump they tend to agree without reasons.
Their knowledge of Hilary and the Democrats policies would be minimal or none.
John Quiggan
“Why can’t our leaders learn from 30 years of failure in health and education?”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/23/why-cant-our-leaders-learn-from-30-years-of-failure-in-health-and-education
Only in Italy:
https://www.thelocal.it/20160922/ai-weiweis-new-italy-exhibition-tackles-migrant-crisis
Broelman.
and
not silent enough..
Stan Grant displaying his right-wing bias yet again.
I’ll never understand why so many indigenous big-wigs are staunchly conservative.
They have improved their lot, unlike their lazy cousins who can’t find their own work
Having discarded their Small Wigs for Big Wigs maybe they just feel superior.
I can’t listen to Grant anymore.
A follow-on to BK’s link this morning about the ‘Children’s Future’ anti-marriage equality organisation.
Fairfax has found out some interesting background.
Liberal Party members behind same-sex marriage misinformation campaign
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-party-members-behind-samesex-marriage-misinformation-campaign-20160923-grmvd6.html
It seems all these anti-equality groups coming out of the woodwork have strong ties to the Liberal Party, and, of course, all of them will be holding out their hands for a share of the ‘No’ campaign funding.
Will some/most of that funding find it’s way into Liberal Party election campaign funds? Will this be another Parakeelia?
He looked quite cute without his famous wig:
Louise
Labor is planning a way to deal with that racist creature from Queensland.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/23/code-of-race-ethics-proposed-for-parliament-to-counter-rise-of-one-nation