It’s December

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It’s December which is my favorite time of year.images-6

Be prepared for some sudden changes and different looks

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Everyone needs to have a deep breath and relax after this not so very great year.

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So buckle up and get ready for The PUBS Christmas Month.

Starting with.

571 thoughts on “It’s December”

  6. Turnbull the Coward seems to be a thing now.

    The Monthly –
    Turnbull’s greatest danger
    When you look like a coward for long enough, people will draw an inevitable conclusion
    https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/sean-kelly/2016/07/2016/1481088552/turnbulls-greatest-danger

    Mark Kenny -It’s a shame he didn’t say this in 2012 but at least he now admits Turbull has no courage.

    Malcolm Turnbull’s courage goes AWOL on climate policy

    Everything seemed to close in on Julia Gillard in August 2012, when the country’s first female prime minister faced a personal crisis over a past relationship and an AWU slush fund set up in the early 1990s.

    Exasperated, Gillard called a press conference in Parliament House’s Blue Room, where she stayed as long as the questions flowed. At nearly 75 minutes, it was a gruelling, bravura performance.

    Speculation the government might adopt a carbon intensity trading scheme leads to a clarification from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Courtesy ABC News 24.
    This correspondent half-joked to her staff afterwards that perhaps they should forget about everything else and simply take out full-page ads in the major newspapers featuring a massive close-up of the PM with a single word across the bottom: GUTS.

    By then, toughness was her defining characteristic

    http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/courage-goes-awol-on-climate-policy-20161207-gt5ohh.html

  7. I know…late to this… but this is the SEXIEST Joni Mitchell song ever, sung so sexy by the Lady herself… live.

  9. http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/california-secession-from-russia-with-love/

    http://reneweconomy.com.au/rinehart-attacks-turnbull-capitulates-carbon-price-37208/

    http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/less-pollution-makes-for-less-mercury-in-atlantic-bluefin-tuna/

    http://journalistsresource.org/studies/politics/polarization/conspiracy-theories-conservatives-liberals-knowledge-trust

    http://www.echo.net.au/2016/12/thus-spake-mungo-turnbulls-christmas-stocking-stuffed/

    http://thediplomat.com/2016/11/california-secession-from-russia-with-love/

  10. Ducky,

    Counsel for Senator Culleton, barrister Peter King, today argued there was no breach of the constitution because the conviction was annulled and Senator Culleton was never sentenced.

    I wonder if that’s the Peter King whom fizza “ousted” from Wentworth?

    • My grandfather certainly did, Leroy, and my parents had one of those knives which, as you say, are excellent as butter knives.

      However, my parents’ first set of cutlery was this – and I still have the remains. To my mind, the best-designed spoons ever:

    • My parents had those. They were married in 1944, just about everyone setting up a home then had the same stuff. Wartime austerity meant hardly any choice.

      I can’t say I find them attractive.

    • When my parents went back to the UK, certain household items were given to my sibling and myself. I got the Thomas dinner service and the cutlery (as above) that went with it. The sibling got the 1880s King Charles Spaniels (aka “the pot dogs”) and the Art Deco tea service. It was considered easier than shipping them back after the parents expired.
      For some reason they only get dragged out for high days and holidays around here *grins nostalgically*

  16. I agree, Brianmcisme.
    I am very disappointed in Mr Conroy. He has gone over to the Dark Side. These responsible gambling things are just bandaids the gaming industry buys to cover up the arteries they are draining of blood.

  20. Good morning Dawn Patrollers. Another one of those nights when one wakes up and knows one id not going to get back to sleep again very quickly. Also I’ve gotta dash off by 0715 to set up for a Bunning sausage sizzle.

    Mark Kenny tells us that Turnbull’s courage has gone AWOL when it comes to climate change.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/courage-goes-awol-on-climate-policy-20161207-gt5ohh.html
    Latika Bourke also has a crack at the crumbling Turnbull.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/malcolm-turnbull-crumbles-and-rules-out-carbon-price-20161206-gt5gk4.html
    Of course Andrew Bolt goes right off over it. Google.
    /news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbulls-idiotic-carbon-backflip/news-story/78b2ee452df8d3e81793ebb54ecaa455
    Bob Carr writes that Trump is finding new enemies when he should be seeing friends.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/donald-trump-is-striding-forth-to-find-new-enemies-where-he-should-be-seeing-allies-20161206-gt5d1j.html
    Peter Martin and the contraction that has hardly been noticed.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/australias-national-accounts-recession-were-not-even-close-20161207-gt5zih.html
    Martin looks at Morrison’s utterings about the 0.5% reduction in GDP.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/gdp-dive-of-05-per-cent-is-more-than-a-wakeup-call-says-treasurer-scott-morrison-20161207-gt5o85.html
    As does Jennifer Hewett – and not too flatteringly. Google.
    /opinion/columnists/gdp-jobs-and-growth-well-get-back-to-you-20161207-gt64vk
    Stephen Koukoulas says that the government is lucky it cannot get many of its growth-sapping measures through the Senate as success would take money out of the economy and policy has gome badly wrong.
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/07/coalition-policy-has-gone-badly-wrong-and-the-rba-needs-to-cut-interest-rates
    In a power vacuum everyone can hear Bernardi screaming as Turnbull ends the year over dangerous political waters.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/12/06/man-on-wire-turnbull-ends-the-year-over-dangerous-political-wat/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
    Barnaby Joyce stands up for political incorrectness apparently.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/barnaby-joyce-says-trump-effect-is-reaction-to-manacles-of-political-correctness-20161207-gt65iu.html
    Is Trump’s singling out Boeing for “doing a number” a signal of more to come for corporate America?
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trump-attacks-plans-for-a-new-air-force-one-20161207-gt5yfh.html
    The enterprise agreement negotiations within the public service are really becoming a big problem for the government.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/defence-votes-no-to-enterprise-agreement-for-a-third-time-20161206-gt5kxz.html

  21. Section 2 . . .

    It wasn’t a good day for Turnbull yesterday in him showing subservience to the conservatives in his government. They are being accused now of forcing up electricity prices and affecting the security of supply as a result of their inaction on emissions reduction.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-accused-of-forcing-up-power-prices-through-climate-backdown-20161207-gt637h.html
    Katherine Murphy goes to town on Frydenberg’s “extraordinary, gutless capitulation”.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/07/what-an-extraordinary-gutless-capitulation-by-josh-frydenberg
    Rather petty manoeuvring over the Parliament House security fence.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-parliament-house-fence-plans-withheld-from-public-over-national-security-fears-20161207-gt5sqm.html
    Architect Norm Day says it will be a $108m waste of time!
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/parliaments-pool-fence-would-be-a-108-million-waste-of-time-20161206-gt55wq.html
    The Productivity Commission reports that fines for companies dudding consumers are way too low. Google.
    /news/fines-for-dudding-consumers-too-low-productivity-commission-says-20161207-gt5skh
    Yet another journalist implores the Victorian parliament to pass the voluntary euthanasia bill Google.
    /news/opinion/genevieve-alison-we-should-have-choice-when-it-comes-to-heartbreaking-goodbyes/news-story/28157856d711df5c9d8776a189c5946d
    There’s a lot of keeping schtum at the Senate inquiry into the Brandis/Hockey/Cormann/Bell Resources/WA government issue.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/07/treasury-wont-divulge-advice-it-gave-joe-hockey-over-talks-relating-to-bell-group
    Things are not looking promising for the US refugees deal. Does Potatohead have a Plan B?
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/plan-b-coalition-mp-suggests-us-refugee-deal-in-doubt-as-us-republicans-demand-answers-20161207-gt5tmj.html
    Look at the size of this huntsman spider!
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/12/06/watch-this-spider-destroy-a-lizard-on-a-living-room-window/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
    Are first home buyers facing market extinction?
    http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2016/12/07/first-homebuyers-face-market-extinction/
    John Warhurst looks at Barnaby’s folly of shifting a whole department from Canberra to Armidale. Warhurst puts the case for Canberra.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/armidale-versus-canberra-its-not-just-about-fat-cat-public-servants-20161206-gt5jtn.html
    Why Andrew Street won’t be supporting the Salvos this Christmas. Read it.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/why-i-wont-be-supporting-the-salvation-army-this-christmas-20161207-gt5ohs.html

  22. Section 3 . . .

    Geoff Cousins writes that funding Adani to the tune of $1b would be Turnbull’s “Trump moment. Ouch!
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/funding-adani-would-be-turnbulls-trump-moment-20161207-gt5ojm.html
    In praise of Auditors-General.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/in-praise-of-auditorsgeneral-the-pterodactyls-nsw-needs-20161207-gt5nez.html
    Jeff Kennett slams the government’s back down on a banking tribunal.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/jeff-kennett-lashes-federal-government-over-banking-tribunal-20161206-gt5khy.html‘
    It’s going to be a big day in the Federal Court today for Woolworths as judgement is handed down in the ACCC case over Woolworths’ treatment of suppliers. Google.
    /business/retail/woolworths-braces-for-judgement-on-accc-supplier-case-20161207-gt690r
    Frydenberg has had a great week tripping over his own words – both spoken and written.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/josh-frydenberg-trumpets-endangered-green-army-program-in-newsletter-20161207-gt614v.html
    Steve Ciobo is denying that the TPP is collapsing.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/trade-minister-steven-ciobo-rejects-assertions-that-the-transpacific-partnership-has-collapsed-20161207-gt64ts.html

  23. Section 4 . . . Cartoon Corner

    A flurry of cartoons from mark David.




    Alan Moir with Turnbull’s carbon pricing Christmas.

    Cathy Wilcox looks at John Key’s reason for retiring from his PMship.

    An absolute ripper from David Pope. Again!

    Mark Knight introduces Santa ScoMo.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/feb8236d0e84edb39e0913aa19a33ee8?width=1024
    Bill leak at Turnbull’s train wreck presser yesterday.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/abcf4ae5f0ad06efbf570bc37bcd405f

  25. On the other hand there is one thing Trump has been consistently saying from when he was running for Repug candidacy . May even be a promise he actually keeps.

    Trump lays out non-interventionist U.S. military policy

    “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with,” Trump said. “Instead, our focus must be on defeating terrorism and destroying ISIS, and we will.”

    In Fayetteville, he vowed a strong rebuilding of the U.S. military, which he suggested has been stretched too thin. Instead of investing in wars, he said, he would spend money to build up America’s aging roads, bridges and airport

    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-military-idUSKBN13W06L

    • Shakespeare always has a quote that fits. This just needed a teensy tweak.

      Why droops my lord, like over-ripen’d corn,
      Hanging the head at Ceres’ plenteous load?
      Why doth the great Lord Malcolm knit his brows,
      As frowning at the favours of the world?

      Henry VI, part 2 | Act 1, Scene 2

      Looming redundancy will do that.

  27. The Silence of the Lambs.
    Many years ago, in my days as the batchelor tradie in my twenties, I was subbied as a contractor to do “shut-down maintenance” on the old Metro Meats abbotoir at Old Noarlunga over the Christmas holiday break. It was my job as the carpenter to fix and make good a list of jobs from office doors to the replacment of thick wooden slats on the sheep slaughter conveyor line.
    In the progression from one sector of that place to another..from admin’ offices to different sections of the “factory”, I got to know other trades involved in the maintenance schedule and they explained the workings of their particular section..like the cattle killing box and the equiptment used and the hydraulics that handled the carcase etc..I won’t go into it here..it is a brutal procedure even in it’s necessity. I was proudly told that the time from the beast entering the killing pen to the cold room was so short that some carcases could still be seen quivering with nerves reaction after being skinned and on their way to the cold-room.
    But it was the sheep killing system that most intrigued me..the wooden slats that I had to replace were on this twin conveyer system set in a “V” , where two “belts” of these wooden slats, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom to let the trapped legs go through when the animal was driven onto it, so that the slats carried the animal in a least restance method with it’s legs penned and the animal’s body supported by this “V” combination toward the person who then slit the animal’s throat…a concise, predictable and perhaps considering the requirements of the deed, a neat conclusion.
    There was a day toward the end of the contract where I stood in the approximate centre of the killing-floor operations and did a 360deg. turnaround to just absorb the complete methodology of operations..it sent a chill down my spine, and I thought of those pics one sees of the Nazi years of concentration camps , where the human hand and mind exercises it’s natural bent toward the most efficient method of “getting a job done”. I saw the mechanised procedures as a metaphor of the politics of management and while I was unsophiscated then, I can now look back and compare that killing floor of flesh and blood with the kind of “killing floor” of economic rationalism, where a large section of the working population now has no chance to become an owner of their own home , yet is still driven at breakneck speed with deluded illusions of perhaps..perhaps being able to one day…one day…and those managers of business and politics, in their concern to not ( very much like those animals to slaughter ) create nervous apprehension in the populace , lest they get too excited and cause themselves and society damage.
    There is so much “killing” being done, one must become insensitive to the slaughter, both on the abbotoir floor and the economic houses of the world..There must be a brutalisation of both the butcher of the animals and the financial speculator toward their environment..there MUST be.
    The manager of operations , when I went to sign off on the last day of the job , sat back in his chair and asked me my personal opinion of what I thought of the efficiency of the operation..I answered truthfully that it seemed to work in a most efficient, streamlined way..and then he asked if I would like to stay on in a full-time position as a maintenance staffer…..
    I politely declined , claiming (again, truthfully AND thankfully) other pressing engagements. And I have to add, that all the while I worked there, in whatever capacity, and although the abbotoir was completely shut down so that the only sounds were the mechanical clatter of maintenance work being carried out, I was continually haunted by what I imagined was the cacophany of bellowing of the fearful animals being sent to slaughter..yet there I was at those very conveyor belts that carried the poor things to their inevitable doom with nothing about me but silence….the silence of the lambs.

  28. All this talk about Turnbull’s ‘courage’ – has he ever been even slightly courageous?

    I don’t think so.

    It’s just part of the myth the media created. The brilliant lawyer and businessman, the intelligence, the passion for a republic, the political centrist – all mythical.

    Someone should devote a whole episode of ‘Myth Busters’ to demolishing the Turnbull fake image.

    • MrsBrianmcime has just commented to me that of all the things one could call Malcolm (and there re lot of things one could call him) courageous is not one of them)

    • Good morning, Barossa Observer.

      Indeed, it’s been far too long between drinks – and apologies for the further delay imposed by the Pending Monster – hence the retiming of your comment.

      Hope all is well with you and your family and other animals.

  30. The Shovel –

    Turnbull Makes Quick Call To Cory Bernardi Before Settling On Which Tie To Wear Today

    Saying he wanted to avoid a messy backflip later in the day, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull got on the front foot this morning and rang South Australian senator Cory Bernardi before choosing his tie.

    It follows an embarrassing blunder earlier in the week when Mr Turnbull came to work in a blue striped tie, not realising that a plain blue tie would play better in Mr Bernardi’s constituency. He said it had taught him it was always good to double check.

    The Prime Minister denied his tie policy was being held to ransom by a small section of his party, saying instead it showed he was listening.

    “As leader I’m happy to listen to a range of views and then put Cory Bernardi’s into action,” he said. “That’s what being a member of a mainstream party is all about”

    http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016/12/07/turnbull-makes-quick-call-to-cory-bernardi-before-settling-on-which-tie-to-wear-today/

  32. Oh no!..You don’t get rid of me THAT easily!

    The Silence of the Lambs.
    Many years ago, in my days as the bachelor tradie in my twenties, I was subbied as a contractor to do “shut-down maintenance” on the old Metro Meats abattoir at Old Noarlunga over the Christmas holiday break. It was my job as the carpenter to fix and make good a list of jobs from office doors to the replacement of thick wooden slats on the sheep slaughter conveyor line.
    In the progression from one sector of that place to another..from admin’ offices to different sections of the “factory”, I got to know other trades involved in the maintenance schedule and they explained the workings of their particular section..like the cattle killing box and the equipment used and the hydraulics that handled the carcass etc..I won’t go into it here..it is a brutal procedure even in its necessity. I was proudly told that the time from the beast entering the killing pen to the cold room was so short that some carcasses could still be seen quivering with nerves reaction after being skinned and on their way to the cold-room.
    But it was the sheep killing system that most intrigued me..the wooden slats that I had to replace were on this twin conveyer system set in a “V” , where two “belts” of these wooden slats, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom to let the trapped legs go through when the animal was driven onto it, so that the slats carried the animal in a least resistance method with its legs penned and the animal’s body supported by this “V” combination toward the person who then slit the animal’s throat…a concise, predictable and perhaps considering the requirements of the deed, a neat conclusion.
    There was a day toward the end of the contract where I stood in the approximate centre of the killing-floor operations and did a 360deg. turnaround to just absorb the complete methodology of operations..it sent a chill down my spine, and I thought of those pics one sees of the Nazi years of concentration camps , where the human hand and mind exercises it’s natural bent toward the most efficient method of “getting a job done”. I saw the mechanised procedures as a metaphor of the politics of management and while I was unsophisticated then, I can now look back and compare that killing floor of flesh and blood with the kind of “killing floor” of economic rationalism, where a large section of the working population now has no chance to become an owner of their own home , yet is still driven at breakneck speed with deluded illusions of perhaps..perhaps being able to one day…one day…and those managers of business and politics, in their concern to not ( very much like those animals to slaughter ) create nervous apprehension in the populace , lest they get too excited and cause themselves and society damage.
    There is so much “killing” being done, one must become insensitive to the slaughter, both on the abattoir floor and the economic houses of the world..There must be a brutalisation of both the butcher of the animals and the financial speculator toward their environment..there MUST be.
    The manager of operations, when I went to sign off on the last day of the job , sat back in his chair and asked me my personal opinion of what I thought of the efficiency of the operation..I answered truthfully that it seemed to work in a most efficient, streamlined way..and then he asked if I would like to stay on in a full-time position as a maintenance staffer…..
    I politely declined, claiming (again, truthfully AND thankfully) other pressing engagements. And I have to add, that all the while I worked there, in whatever capacity, and although the abattoir was completely shut down so that the only sounds were the mechanical clatter of maintenance work being carried out, I was continually haunted by what I imagined was the cacophony of bellowing of the fearful animals being sent to slaughter..yet there I was at those very conveyor belts that carried the poor things to their inevitable doom with nothing about me but silence….the silence of the lambs.

  33. Tomorrow the government’s top scientist will recommend Australia adopt an emissions intensity scheme… what will Fizza and Frydenberg do?

    Climate backflip ignores expert advice

    The Turnbull government’s decision to rule out a carbon scheme for the electricity sector rejects advice from its handpicked expert who will recommend an emissions intensity scheme as the most effective way to transition to a secure and lower-cost energy supply.

    Chief Scientist Alan Finkel, who in October was put in charge of the review into Australia’s National Energy Market, is scheduled to recommend such a scheme for the electricity sector in a preliminary report to the Prime Minister and premiers at Friday’s Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra.

    http://www.afr.com/news/climate-backflip-ignores-expert-advice-20161207-gt5o7g

    • Meh, what would Finkel know? He’s one of those ayleet sciency types.

      Besides, he probably has *nudge nudge wink wink* “connections” with the backers of the UN.

  35. Everything is Labor’s fault …..

  36. The Ballad of Auspol 2016
    Trish Corry

    Mr. Harbour-side Mansion, or so he’s been called, waved and smiled at those below him
    Leather jacket gone, I lean to the right, I’ll do whatever you say, He told ’em
    Two Thousand and Sixteen, I’ve been the selfie-Queen, everyone will recognise me
    ‘Cept that lady on the train, who was clearly insane, “Mr. PM” is how they baptised me.

    And the auto-smile gleamed all teeth and no soul, a potato stood tall on his right
    The show is yours, get a thund’rous applause, and use some racist barbs if you might
    So the Potato man spoke of days long ago, when Fraser was the man of the hour
    And racist barbs hurt, with slander so curt, by a ‘Tay-tah with far too much power

    Then out of the herd like an emu necked bird came squawking ’bout workers conditions
    With harsh Aussie twang that sends sane men insane, she screamed with zero contrition
    “Oi’m ‘ere to break the See. Eff. Em. EEE. EWE, those thugs in the builders construction
    And as I toik the stand, Oi’ve Poileen boi me hand ‘n Xylophone too, that’ll stuff ’em

    Although we’ve one seat, with the lower house peeps, the Liberals, I don’t recognise ’em
    I’ll Facebook and Hash, that Labor’s so Trash, says Green man to the echo beside him
    What’s a man to do, with votes worth so few, ’tis the way to Gov’ment I beseech thee
    Fighting Tories? Insane!! Labor bashings the game, who knows I might get a min’stry

    You’ve been aggrieved? said the speaker with Cred to the man at the back of the chamber
    He licked his lips, smiled and stood there a while, Oh Yes, My word, indeed I have Sir!
    Now this man is no dolt, he’s seen them there polls, all sad and wet for old Malcolm
    With Bill gaining fast, the Killing Seasons Cast, He’ll be slipperier than a stripper’s pole with talcum

    And who’s smarter than NASA? Empirical Boy is? with his conspiracies of climate denial
    With hand on heart for his redhead upstart, who screams racism and denies her own bile
    But come one and all to the Facebook popcorn ball, and get set to watch the implosion
    as the workers they hate ‘n say the ABCC’s great, Don’t blame me, you bastards chose ’em

    And there stands Bill, looking to the light on the hill, with Gough shining down upon him
    You nearly had it mate, 2017 is looking great, Solidarity forever -always remind ’em
    Don’t let the Tories and Nationalists stick it to the boys, toiling hard in torrid conditions
    Speak loud for the worker, day in and day out, and always, always stand with ’em

    For the Shearers they bled, were jailed and they died to stop these bastards takin’ over
    It’s your grit ‘n your guts, ‘n even Sam n’ your bus, that’ll take us back from that poser
    Like the Shearers ‘n Stockade, fight with your might, paint the towns Red instead of Blue
    Stick to your guns, and the workers’ll come, cos in their hearts they’ll recognise you.

    https://polyfeministix.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/the-ballad-of-auspol-2016/

  37. You don’t get it , do you, Fizza?

    Malcolm Turnbull has condemned teachers planning to wear T-shirts with messages protesting offshore detention of refugees, labelling the plan “absolutely inappropriate”.

    From next week a group called Teachers for Refugees plans to wear shirts with messages including “close the camps, bring them here”, calling for an end to offshore detention on Manus Island and Nauru.

    A spokeswoman for Teachers for Refugees, Lucy Honan, told Guardian Australia 500 teachers in Victoria and more in New South Wales would take part.

    Asked about the protest on Melbourne’s 3AW Radio on Thursday, the prime minister said the protest was “absolutely inappropriate in classrooms” because “teachers should be focused on teaching”.

    Turnbull linked the activism to recent poor results in science and maths and the three-yearly international Pisa standard, noting “our ranking has gone backwards” in the tests.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/08/absolutely-inappropriate-malcolm-turnbull-blasts-teachers-refugee-protest

    • 1. He thinks we have the attention span of a gnat.

      2. He has the attention span of a gnat.

      3. He is a mendacious hypocrite.

  40. I’m getting in early with a prediction for next year –

    Turnbull (if he is still leader come February) will backflip on this.

    Turnbull slaps down calls for burka ban in Australia
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/turnbull-slaps-down-calls-for-burka-ban-in-australia/news-story/950ae6fb1edc6f864f3d8af6e8f4f3c8

    Pauline Hanson Promises To Go Full-Bore Anti-Muslim Next Year
    Don’t forget, she still wants to ban Muslim migration, the burqa and halal certification.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/12/06/pauline-hanson-promises-to-go-full-bore-anti-muslim-next-year/?ncid=fcbklnkauhpmg00000001

  41. That block in the Tamar Valley, Tasmania that I talked about 10 weeks or so ago?

    It is mine, mine mine! (The bank does have a 1/3 share, for a while.)

    • Ta Brian

      Looking forward to the cool summers there, NOT looking forward to the cold winters there, brrrr!

      AM looking forward to picking cherries from Christmass day to late Feb, making cider, plum wine, plum mead, slivovitz etc etc

      Going to get a cob oven for wood oven bread & pizza! Oh yeah! Make some super clean lagers there too I reckon!

    • Puffy,

      You and ANY number of dragons/dragonnettes are ALWAYS welcome to come visit, as long as you and yours can cope with a dragon of the terrier persuasion. Oh do come and visit!

  42. Government killed emissions scheme despite knowing it could shave $15 billion off electricity bills

    The Turnbull government is sitting on advice that an emissions intensity scheme – the carbon policy it put on the table only to rule out just 36 hours later – would save households and businesses across the country up to $15 billion in electricity bills over a decade.

    While Malcolm Turnbull has publicly rejected this sort of scheme by claiming it would push up prices, an Australian Electricity Market Commission report handed to the government months ago finds it would actually cost consumers far less than other approaches, including doing nothing.

    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-killed-emissions-scheme-despite-knowing-it-could-shave-15-billion-off-electricity-bills-20161208-gt6v48.html

    • Kaffe, TLBD

      Wasn’t easy! THREE flipping banks rooted me around in 3 different ways!

      The paperwork and red tape and BULL SHIT hit phase 2 from day 1!

      I got phoned while at the Adelaide Central Market to say settlement had happened and I (and the bank) owned the property.

      When I arrived home from the market FMD one last piece of red tape bullshit to do. Did that.

      Now getting blotto on Skillogalee sparkling Riesling.

  46. How about no one report anything this miserable creature says?

    Noel Pearson has declared the “soft bigotry” of Australia’s progressive left in education, the environmental movement and media as “the most fundamental challenge to Indigenous reform in our country”.

    The Aboriginal leader amplified his recent attack on the ABC with a sweeping indictment of “the left” generally over Indigenous policy failure, a critique he credited to an unlikely source, former US president George W Bush.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/08/noel-pearson-says-soft-bigotry-of-the-left-the-biggest-challenge-to-indigenous-reform

  47. Here’s Trump’s latest administration appointment – Linda McMahon to head up the Small Business Administration. She’s highly qualified.
    [video src="https://zippy.gfycat.com/UnitedAridAxolotl.webm" /]

  50. Speculation is useless!

    I’m getting very sick of the air-time and column inches devoted to speculation about what POTUS Trump will or will not do. He is a known unknown.

    By all means point out the track records of his appointees

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