Warmth may be returning in a big way if these two idiots don’t settle down
But life goes on
Footy Finals are here. Good luck to all involved. ( Go The Cowboys )
I can’t wait till this waste of time is over
And Just to remind you all
According to the big retailers.
Chin up folks. Things can only get better
THE PUB 
I guess people have to believe in something outside themselves and good luck to them. Some believe and ice age is coming or already started. This at a time when last year was the hottest recorded year and this year the second hottest so far. (Jul 2016 and 2017 global temperatures were equal, amazing when you consider 2016 was an El Nino year and 2017 isn’t.)
Don’t believe me? Google something like “New Ice Age” or “Ice Age 2017” etc. To get the real flavor of the delusion and hysteria about an ice age go to YouTube and search for “Adapt 2030” (2030 being when the new Ice Age will end.) About 500 videos, like 20,000 views for each and quite senseless really.
That he comes a cropper regularly doesn’t matter to the faithful: The NW passage will be closed by thick ice next year he said. The next year—that cruise ship sailed the NW passage without needing help from the accompanying icebreaker. This year Arctic Mission, two yachts no icebreaker sailed to a tad over 80°N, found a million square kilometres of Arctic Ocean ice free, ocean that until the late 20th century had been covered by thick ice. Did Adapt 2030 learn his lesson? Sort of, he is now lying about “thick ice” forming in the Arctic without specifying a location 🙂
I have debated (hardly the right word, I present facts he posts/reposts links to the Adapt 2030 crap) one such devotee of the Church of the New Ice Age on and off for a year. Pointing out all the lies/mistakes/bullshit—did not shake the confidence of this peanut. I also posted science in comments to the adapt 2030 videos for a while until I got a bit too scathing and was banned from that channel 🙂 🙂
I am mentioning all this because altho selling snake oil to gullible fools is a very old and dishonorable past time I think there may be a bit more to it than a huckster fooling idiots to get their money: climate denialism.
There are some threads to the Ice Age argument:
1. Global warming has paused (with 2016 and 2017 the hottest two years???)
2. The pause is reinforced with: “they” are faking the temperatures. Adapt 2030 has maligned the Australian and Dutch weather bureaus this year saying they removed readings of record cold (false, actually.)
3, The biggy: the next solar minimum will be a Grand Solar minimum aka Maunder Minimum and that will cause an ice age.
Now, clause 3 of the liturgy of the Church of the Wholly Mythical Ice Age is particularly weak: the last Maunder Minimum did not cause an ice age but did make the last LIA a bit colder: the LIA existed before and after the MM.
I just wonder if this ice age crap (or the bigger/better channels for misinformation about it) is part of the AGW denialism movement funded by fossil fuel interests through the Heartland Institute and similar bodies? This is bloody serious stuff! Prof Eric Rignot of NASA and consultant elsewhere has produced a 10 minute long YouTube:
talking about the destabilisation seen in the Greenland, West and East Antarctic ice sheets. Mentions the Eemian Period of 125K years ago, with our present temperature or a smidge higher and nine metre higher sea levels.
We really do not have time to waste to deal with AGW yet these bodies/people teach denialism in its various forms and this make governments, already being lobbied hard by fossil fuel companies, even more hesitant to do something even half of what is needed.
Our various Meteorological bureaus/offices need to be MUCH more aware of denialism and do not give deniers even more ammunition by clumsy treatment of temperature readings. They also need to speak out MUCH more about temperature trends, ice sheet destabilisation and so on.
I am 70, even the most accelerated global warming and accompanying sea level rise won’t greatly bother me but it will bother people I love like my nieces/nephews great niece/nephews etc.
I wish I could shake the BuMet and get them to see they need to be aware that deniers are always eager to pounce at the slightest appearance of rigging temperature readings and to actively spread the word about AGW!
I just wish no-one had ever started talking about ‘global warming’. Why didn’t it just get called ‘climate change’ from the beginning?
Referring to global warming just gives the nutters something to feed on. How can the earth be warming when it’s snowing outside? Didn’t Barnaby say something like that not too long ago?
Climate change means more extremes of temperature, and it works both ways, hotter summer days, colder winter nights. It means more extreme weather events, more droughts and more devastating floods, because the whole system is haywire.
I don’t have time to argue with the nutters, I admire anyone who has the patience. It all makes me feel like banging my head into the desk, so I stay away.
Hanging out with nutters (for a while) is interesting. The rigidity in the belief of an ice age in the face of all the signs of warming must be what the early Christians were like. Also interesting to see a snake oil salesman not with a horse and buggy but an internet account fleece suckers. Each adapt 2030 video has request for donations and many start of with a paid ad.
The guy must be creaming it in. So easy: Google alerts for cold, snow, storm, hail etc, look at global weather sites, grab some stills/video, put it together, bam, more money for maybe an hours work.
And he outright lies: a fox falling through thin ice fell into the Danube and was flash frozen (by water??) veges are rationed in UK supermarkets because of the ice age! (1 minute on google—the Murcia and Valencia areas of Spain which grow 80% of Europes winter veges had been hit with so much rain the fields were unworkable.) There are unscrupulous people around!
Interesting. Other deniers have often traded on the idea that because the idea of a new Ice Age got a lot of media attention in the 1970s, likewise we can dismiss warming now. They ignore the fact that few actual climatologists thought there would be a new Ice Age, and the few that did dropped the idea as the evidence grew for warming. It was really a media & pop culture driven idea, in the era that was fascinated with UFOs & ESP, and a vague sense of threat hung over the western world. See below for some context on this weird moment in history.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-climate-science-really-call-for-a-coming-ice-age/
https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
https://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2013/12/28/the-ice-age-u-turn-that-set-the-stage-for-the-climate-debate/
https://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/when-the-climate-change-fight-got-ugly/
https://simpleclimate.wordpress.com/2014/01/11/the-warrior-who-gave-his-life-to-climate-change/
Oh yeah. There was a large iceberg recently calved off the Pine Island glacier (watch Prof Rignot) and read the idiotic discussion on it:
Mr Light: Incredible! Iceberg four times larger than Manhattan separates from Antarctica
Back to top
Bobby: Hi master Light,
but where is that ice now?
Answer – it’s still in Antarctica. ( talk about stating the bleeding obvious, it was a few days after!
Mr Light: it should reattach on account of all the cold and such .. If it was so cold it would not have detached!
Stupidity running rampant!
Leroy
Being a good little schoolboy science nerd I read all the New Scientists and Scientific American mags back then. The only mentions of the “coming ice Age” were some articles speculating if ,not predicting, we may be “due” for one based solely on the average intervals between them. Consensus was that it was possible but no indications of it happening with the next few hundred years.
I could not remember the ice age stuff in the 70s. Had just graduated with a BSc in geology, looking for work etc. Really can’t remember it. Some denier said I should remember the “hysteria” but no. Maybe read a bit of a newspaper article is all.
A bit hard to remember something that never happened .Perhaps it was a sensation among the Von Daniken fans )? :
I don’t recall much controversy on dealing with Ozone.
But coal has certainly bought the dead asset owners out of the blocks with a vengeance. The influence they have over politicians is disgraceful.
They should be told “f’ken bad luck now STFU”.
That is why I wrote my post this morning.
Fossil fuel lobbying. Idiot weather bureaus giving ammunition to deniers, not educating people about AGW.
Almost forgotten now, but it did happen, Ozone depletion denialism is covered in this Rational Wiki entry.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ozone_layer
From the link below “…it is revealing to review the techniques the skeptics used in the CFC-ozone depletion issue over the past 30 years. All of them have parallels in the current global warming debate.”
https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/ozone_skeptics.asp
I guess Joe did something to the settings here because I have been commenting a bit over the last few days and haven’t had to re-log into WordPress or use Twitter to log on. That was a pain!
If you are interested in climate science, then an excellent blog is this by Robert Fanney.
https://robertscribbler.com/
Its tightly moderated so deniers don’t even get a look in.
Well worth reading all the comments too, excellent posts by highly knowledgable people.
Ta, Rustednut. Was actually reading one of his blogs earlier this week. Will read more.
Update on the Craigburn Primary School fundraiser.
Craigburn Primary breaks record with Do It In A Dress campaign following Bernardi backlash
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/bernardi-dress-backlash-generates-record-donations-for-charity/8999792
Bernardi goes off about this project, the school raises a record amount of money, donated from all over Australia.
Abbott goes off about Macklemore singing at a grand final, Macklemore’s latest song zooms to No 1 on iTunes.
It seems the best way to succeed is to have a Dark Side politician complain about you. It guarantees success.
500 asylum seekers face deportation for missing protection deadline
In May 7,000 people were given a 1 October deadline to apply for protection from Australia or be barred from ever doing so
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/sep/29/500-asylum-seekers-face-deportation-for-missing-protection-deadline
I have grown to feel ashamed to be Australian. Other times I just feel anger at the contemptible arseholes in the govt!
l2
Bernadi and Abetz should get together as a consultancy and offer their services.
carrt2016
Excellent suggestion.During the 1980s,maybe still, a popular Yakuza way to get corporate $’s was for a few people to buy shares and threaten to cause “scenes” at the company AGM. Erica and Bernardi could do a sort of reverse version and be paid to turn up and cause a scene.
Cunning strategy, releasing his report just as most of the country heads into a long weekend or a footy grand final. They thought we wouldn’t notice.
Should have a different headline ‘Government adopts ostrich posture on the NBN’.
The NBN inquiry demands drastic refocus of broadband project
But government unlikely to agree.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-inquiry-demands-drastic-refocus-of-broadband-project-474418
“The committee requests that the Department [of Communications] brief the committee on progress in developing these protections by December 2017.”
The government members fired back, saying they had already embarked on a range of initiatives to fix the problems and that they should be given more time to have an effect, given “most of them being at just the earliest stage of implementation”.
All those improvements are just add ons to an already altogether overcomplicated system!
If you will be forced on to FTTN there is one step you can take to improve your experience: hire a cabler (aerial installers tend to be licensed cablers) to come in and run new copper from where the landline joins your internal wiring and run it to where you want the modem/router to be, He or you can then remove all the other sockets.
So—new cable to one socket. Does make a difference and the further away you are from the node the more important this step is. I dunno if the cabler could run new cable all the way to where your lead in joins the line running down the street. Highest quality cable.
Do NOT assume a local node cabinet (and graffiti magnet 😦 ) is serving your property or that you have a short run from the node: the line from the node can head off and by the time it gets to you it may be 400 metres long. Pester Telstra/NBN/whoever to get that info. Cable runs in directions would make your brain wobble.
The bastards at NBN will connect people at 1, 2Km from the node. Even then—pester and pester until a tech checks the line, adjusts the loading coils etc and you will just have a lousy rather than miserable FTTN experience.
—this is advice from Whirlpool where some work in networking/telco and the thing about the long run, a nice person I know on another board who was 1 or 2Km from the node told me about it. It did make a difference in reducing the number of dropouts. Me, I went to wireless, have lousy copper. In Tassie I will be on FTTH, bliss!
Nobody Complained When The Grand Final Had A Song About A Bloke Killing His Girlfriend
But apparently, people loving each other is “too political”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/28/nobody-complained-when-the-grand-final-had-a-song-about-a-bloke-killing-his-girlfriend_a_23225813/
Hurricane Irma- Cane Garden Bay time lapse – RM gopro
Lovely spring display:
A preview of Arbitrary Detention Day and other new public holidays
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/29/a-preview-of-arbitrary-detention-day-and-other-new-public-holidays
One of the few plants flowering in our Brissy garden in the current drought/heatwave conditions:
Hibiscus “Aussie Delight” (H. heterophyllus x H. divaricatus):
https://fifyfabulousstories.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/hibiscus-life-in-day.html
TLBD and I will possibly be on a unity ticket on this. Bloody SBS has dropped Danish and Maori languages. Their excuse was demographic changes, now Danish perhaps ( 😉 ) but there has been a huge increase in kiwis who now also speak Te Reo Maori as well as English so if anything the ‘market’ will be even bigger than in yesteryear.
Hoa mai!
Forstår du dansk?
There was a Midsomer ep partly filmed in Denmark.
Our 40-year Azalea is at its peak. Like this
Our Fraser Island Creeper (Tecomanthe hillii) was just about to flower; I hope it does before it carks it.
Eric Sykes CBE – Very Funny Guitar Sketch Feat. John Williams
Very.
2:57 in. (The “copy video URL at current time” didn’t work.)
I’m going to pop on my TV critic hat for a minute.
Someone mean (OK it was one of my sons) told me Amazon Prime was available on my PS4 and I could, at last, watch ‘the Man in the High Castle’, which I’ve been after for ages.
So I’ve watched two series (the third isn’t out yet) and really liked it, even though it’s not much like the book. TV and movie writers just love to muck around with Phillip K Dick’s work – ‘Blade Runner’ was nothing like the book ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” either. That doesn’t matter though. If you like alternate realities, especially one where the Nazis and the Japanese won WWII, with a dash of time travel thrown in, then you might find this intriguing.
I won’t say more, for fear of posting spoilers, but if you have some sort of device that allows you to access Amazon Prime then give this a go, and while you are there have a look at ‘The Night Manager’ as well. It’s terrific, Tom Hiddleston does a great audition for being the next James Bond.
I’m going to start on ‘American Gods’ later tonight.
One of his I haven’t seen or heard
Well, I have. But not the introductory bit.
Vote 1 The Borge. As was sorta said on some star Trek episodes.
Featuring actual LBDs, a vid of a park in Dannevirke NZ, birthplace of Joh 🙂
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LOL at the chosen music for a drive though country town Dannevirke
Any suggestions? (I’ve got nuffin.)
(N.B. Not a suggestion.)
Jaeger
Yee haw suggestion
Hmm, I guess I’ll have to pay that, KK.
(When did “country” become music?!)
Just before Western!
Canavan – what a lying arse.
Christmas lunch at Tony’s is going to be a bit frsoty this year – first sister Christine criticised her brother, now daughter Frances has not only made a video for the ‘Yes’ campaign but is supporting Macklemore.
i wonder what side Margie is on ….
‘Go harder’: Frances Abbott at odds with dad Tony over pro-same sex marriage song
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/28/go-harder-frances-abbott-odds-dad-tony-over-pro-same-sex-marriage-song
The trouble for Dutton is that the entertainment industry has generally been very progressive for the past 70 years, so a popular song that tells the story of the No side about how us of the “gay lobby” are inferior and/or evil probably would be kind of hard to find.
Of course he could hire someone of the likes of Fred Nile to attempt a song.
Although you can imagine how THAT would go down if they tried it for real.
*after the applause for Macklemore dies down*
“And now, ladies and gentlemen. Please stand up for the Coalition Government sanctioned response to that blatantly pro-Yes Campaign song, Fred Nile singing “God Will Have His LGTBBQ”
Can’t imagine that would go over well.
I’d like to see that!
ahahahaha
Just some stuff about gas –
God I hope that somehow these Coalition shitlords can be kept out of the Artesian Basin with their disgusting fracking goals.
If they can’t get the gas out cleanly, LEAVE IT BE. Do NOT pollute what little resources are there inland.
Has QLD fracked itself?
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/08/has-qld-fracked-itself/
I just love the ‘explanation’ in the comments about why drilling for gas and fracking are not the same. They are actually very similar. The easy process described – you just drill a bore hole, pump water down the hole and the gas comes back up with the water – is almost identical to fracking, the difference is fracking uses high pressure water, chemicals and sand to fracture rock, releasing gas.
Both leave us with huge amounts of polluted brine that have to be stored. There’s the issue. That water could have been used for agriculture, once wasted on drilling/fracking it’s full of brine and who knows what toxic chemicals it’s useless. Worse than useless, because it kills vegetation and ruins soil. If it gets into aquifers they are ruined for ever. The usual method of storing this muck is in big plastic-lined ponds. Leaks happen all the time. The salt that is allegedly used for ‘agriculture’ is usually just dumped where the gas company hopes no-one will notice. People around drilling sites often tell of convoys of tankers taking the polluted water away, probably to be dumped in a river somewhere.
Both drilling and fracking are dangerous to the environment.
Announced about 1.00 AM on the Saturday morning (assume released to the Press on Thurs but under ’embargo’ until today) … of the AFL football grand finals long weekend …
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/adf-botched-bombing-raid-on-iraq-possibly-killed-children/9002852
Our involvement in the M-E should be ‘ended’.
Not only should the A/C be returned home but the secluded desert base area we have at Al Minahad, Dubai (distance to both Mosul and Kabul about 1600 klms) should also packed up and the equipment and stores we have been keeping there for quite a number of years now should either disposed of or returned back to Australia.
The permanently staffed base serves as a local ‘home area’ for operations not only in Iraq but also in Afghanistan.
Keeping the Al Minahad base is a ‘promise’ we’ll be back.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers
Paul Bongiorno criticises the name calling that is going on with the energy debate and other issues. A typically good article from this veteran.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2017/09/30/name-calling-the-energy-debate/15066936005280
Tony Wright tells us how Australia blew its future gas supplies.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
Jack Waterford describes how Turnbull is being kept afloat by surface tension. A long article well worth reading.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/the-surface-tension-holding-a-prime-minister-afloat-20170929-gyr4zs.html
A excellent contribution for a Fairfax journalist about his friendship with Liberal MP Dean Smith and how he watched Dean transform over the years from a same-sex marriage sceptic to a passionate supporter.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/the-senator-and-i-across-the-divide-shared-hopes-on-samesex-marriage-20170918-gyk1nv.html
The SMH editorial explains why the YES vote should win.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/why-yes-deserves-to-win-20170929-gyrjw8.html
Richard Ackland begins this article with “It was uplifting to see Father Paul Kelly, editor-at-large of The Catholic Boys Daily, beating the drum for a religious freedom bill. Never mind that already we have too much religious freedom; Father Kelly wants more. It was one of his traditionally wordy pieces, but he still didn’t have enough words to explain just how religious freedoms would be trampled should same-sex couples be treated equally by the law, or just what freedoms were at risk.”
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2017/09/30/gadfly-coleridge-and-the-rime-the-ancient-marrier/15066936005278
Michael Koziol examines the many claims in the SSM campaigns.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/testing-the-many-claims-of-the-samesex-marriage-campaign-20170929-gyrd1s.html
The whineosaurus Gerard Henderson says a YES vote will be a plunge into the great unknown. Google.
/opinion/columnists/gerard-henderson/samesex-marriage-yes-vote-a-plunge-into-the-unknown/news-story/5773bb147fe2e8cb7101a16970831f64
Mike Seccombe and the money case for SSM. Another interesting contribution from him.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2017/09/30/the-money-case-gay-marriage/15066936005287
Back in 2014, Welsh crooner Tom Jones starred at the AFL grand Final. Among the songs he performed was his hit Delilah, which graphically tells the story of a jilted man who knifes his girlfriend to death. This song was deemed unworthy of complaint by the then Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/09/28/nobody-complained-when-the-grand-final-had-a-song-about-a-bloke-killing-his-girlfriend_a_23225813/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
Section 2 . . .
Mark Kenny reports that Paul Keating has moved to rebalance the historical record by elevating former Labor leader Bill Hayden to centre-stage for his formative part in what is usually referred to simply as the Hawke-Keating period.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-hayden-an-unsung-labor-hero-paul-keating-20170929-gyraji.html
Simon Cowan says that Coalition must stop gaming budget forecasts if it wants credibility
‘http://www.smh.com.au/comment/coalition-must-stop-gaming-budget-forecasts-if-it-wants-credibility-20170929-gyr8xt.html
Crispin Hull looks at a recent study on the relationship between cognitive ability and bringing about change. He touches on the current SSM issue as well.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/samesex-marriage-survey-important-lesson-for-yes-campaign-buried-in-the-data-20170928-gyqhfv.html
Phil Coorey on how some Coalition MPs are voting NO by hoping for a YES outcome. Google.
/news/politics/vote-yes-or-you-wont-be-hearing-the-end-of-it-20170928-gyqws5
A quick trip through the inglorious history of marriage, inequity and angry inequality campaigners in Australia, by Kelly Jenke.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/marriage-macklemore-and-inequality-in-australia,10767
Cory Bernardi’s nice work on behalf of Craigburn Primary School. Not quite what he intended though.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/news-and-views/opinion/how-cory-bernardis-attempt-to-smear-wear-a-dress-day-ended-in-a-windfall-20170928-gyqzdz.html
Senate powerbrokers Pauline Hanson and Nick Xenophon say they cannot support a lower tax rate for medium and big businesses in the current climate, delivering a blow to the government’s efforts to legislate its remaining company tax cuts. Google.
/national-affairs/nxt-one-nation-reject-further-business-tax-cuts/news-story/16fd0a2c7016d1feee23ec566660da7e
A neo-Nazi who fantasised about shooting up a shopping centre has been sentenced to at least four and a half years in jail for weapons and child pornography offences, with a judge pointing to his obsession with “sex, guns and death”. Yes, definitely a special breed!
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/white-supremacist-michael-holt-sentenced-to-45-years-for-weapons-child-porn-offences-20170929-gyrmuf.html
States that fail to permit coal seam gas mining would be penalised under a fresh proposal from the Grants Commission to change the method of distributing goods and services tax revenue. Petulance perhaps?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/victoria-nsw-to-be-penalised-for-outlawing-fracking-under-grants-commission-plan-20170929-gyrljh.html
The push for coal seam gas continues to leave communities wary.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/still-cowboys-why-the-rush-to-develop-coal-seam-gas-leaves-communities-wary-20170928-gyqkqc.html
Section 3 . . .
David Speers accuses state leaders of being blind to the ramifications of the energy crisis. Google.
/news/opinion/state-politicians-blind-to-ramifications-of-energy-crisis/news-story/580683052d3cf415f63755ece26c901d
Meanwhile thousands of Canberra’s low-income households are facing a “double whammy” from gas bills, with gas-related debt in the ACT the highest of any jurisdiction on the national energy market. With average gas bills rising in the ACT from between $833 and $881 in 2012-13 to a whopping $1481 to $1688 in 2015-16, so too have related debts.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberras-lowincome-households-face-gas-bill-double-whammy-as-debts-soar-20170929-gyrbxd.html
Rodney Croome writes that Australia’s homophobia is deeply rooted in its convict past.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/30/australias-homophobia-is-deeply-rooted-in-its-colonial-past
John Power in The Saturday Paper tells us why we won’t be getting a federal ICAC any time soon.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2017/09/30/why-were-not-getting-federal-icac/15066936005284
A vaginal mesh implant made by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was launched without a clinical trial, and then marketed for five years after the company learned that it had a higher failure rate than their two earlier devices. The lawyers around the world will have a field day no doubt.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/29/revealed-johnson-johnsons-irresponsible-actions-over-vaginal-mesh-implant
Peter Hartcher tells us that we are in a moment between techno-rapture and techno-panic. He then goes on to explain how we can thrive when the robots come.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-to-ensure-australia-thrives-when-the-robots-come-20170929-gyrgr9.html
On the same subject Ross Gittins says that our bulldust detectors are on the blink.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/our-bulldust-detectors-seem-to-be-on-the-blink-20170929-gyr68u.html
This lawyer and former Wallaby says why the NRL is right and that sport and politics should mix.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-the-nrl-is-right-and-sports-and-politics-should-mix-20170928-gyr15q.html
Adele Ferguson writes that when veteran retailer Solomon Lew let fly at the woeful performance of Myer he put the spotlight on the value of consultants, saying the department store chain was a “basket case” being run “primarily” by consultants after losing a lot of good retailers. Yes – there are consultants and there are consultants! There is so much in this article that is right.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/consultants-borrow-your-watch-to-tell-the-time-then-charge-you-for-it-say-critics-20170929-gyrciv.html
The iconic Australian engineering company, SMEC, formerly the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, has had five of its subsidiaries banned by the World Bank after the discovery of “inappropriate payments” linked to projects in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-bank-bans-iconic-australian-firm-over-inappropriate-payments-20170929-gyraf8.html
Section 4 . . .
A broadcaster and former MP writes about the damage being done by the inability (unwillingness) of the government to do its proper job in legislating SSM.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/neighbourly-love-lost-samesex-marriage-experiment-galvanises-bullies-20170928-gyqxvt.html
Harvey Norman’s audited 2017 accounts released on Friday show how the group has moved off its balance sheet up to $782 million of franchisee debt. The result is that the franchisee accounts are more opaque than ever. And Gerry wonders why people get upset with him! Google.
/business/retail/harvey-normans-782-million-franchisee-mystery-20170929-gyrf9a
Richard Wolffe writes that Trump is the puppet of his rich business friends. You don’t need a special counsel to find the evidence. Twice this week, when given the choice between his wealthy buddies and the working Americans he claims to care about, Trump has taken the gold-plated path.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/29/trump-doesnt-care-poor-taxes-puerto-rico
Elton Musk is on track with the big battery farm in SA. Google.
/news/south-australia/tesla-founder-elon-musk-inks-deal-with-energy-regulators-to-build-worlds-biggest-battery-in-jamestown/news-story/741ec11c08568ee679f9ca1736696414
Jay Weatherill has made lemonade from the lemon he was handed exactly 12 months ago.
https://theconversation.com/a-year-since-the-sa-blackout-whos-winning-the-high-wattage-power-play-84416
Since the City of Port Adelaide Enfield publicly declared its support for an increase to Newstart in August, six more South Australian councils have joined the push to boost this meagre allowance.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/local-councils-say-yes-to-raising-newstart,10769
Desperate Pacific islands at risk of sinking beneath the sea say Australia is “stuck in the Dark Ages” by relying on fossil fuels, in response to alarming data showing this nation’s energy emissions have hit record highs. As if we didn’t know!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/stuck-in-the-dark-ages-pacific-island-leader-vents-after-australias-emissions-hit-record-high-20170929-gyrbi6.html
Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane from livestock are somewhat larger than previously thought, posing an additional challenge in the fight to curb global warming, scientists have said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/29/methane-emissions-cattle-11-percent-higher-than-estimated
There is nearly $18 billion sitting in the super system without a home according to new figures and some of it could be yours. The Australian Tax Office has reported that the amount of money held in unclaimed superannuation accounts jumped 21.3 per cent to $17.9 billion in the year to June 2017.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/superannuation/2017/09/29/you-could-be-owed-some-of-the-18-billion-in-unclaimed-super/
Section 5 . . .
Former building industry watchdog Nigel Hadgkiss has been ordered to pay $8500 for breaching the Fair Work Act. Somehow I don’t think this will be the last we hear of Nr Hadgkiss.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace-relations/contrite-former-building-watchdog-boss-nigel-hagkiss-ordered-to-pay-8500-penalty-20170929-gyr6o3.html
Jonathan Freedland looks at how leaving the EU would prevent a decent reshaping of the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/29/labour-nightmare-brexit-empties-coffers-corbynite-dream-public-investment
Michael West gets stuck into the big auditing companies.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/audit-superhero-captain-cantcount-to-the-rescue/
In providing a comedic submission to the High Court Malcolm Roberts has emphatically – and empirically – argues his citizenship case is the strongest.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/senator-malcolm-roberts-argues-his-citizenship-case-is-the-strongest-20170929-p4yw6u.html
In an increasingly uncertain world, it is comforting to know that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is just as laughably bumbling and bizarre as ever. Sydney bureau chief for The Independent Australia, Ross Jones, announces his nominees for the 2017 inaugural Gold Ashby awards.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/malcolm-roberts-and-the-golden-ashbys,10768
The area of farmland under partial or full Chinese ownership has dramatically increased over the past year as the level of American and British interests has fallen. Over to you Porline.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/chinese-ownership-of-australian-farmland-rises-american-ownership-falls-20170929-gyrmam.html
Section 6 . . . Cartoon Corner
Alan Moir takes a justified swipe at Potatohead.
Cathy Wilcox on modern multiculturalism in Australia.
Mark Knight is hoping for a Richmond win today.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/17ee6fd285413cf46e78b4ade7af4ad5?width=1024
David Rowe and a certain streaker at the MCG.
David Pope lines up Trump and Kim for the Grand Finale.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0
Ron Tandberg is unimpressed with the government’s utterings on energy policy.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/ron-tandberg-20090910-fixc.html
Jon Kudelka takes Abbott to the footy.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/5aa71074c03e1bb5db5679fed7ccba44
More from Father Rod Bower.
Clash jumpers.
As a teacher I take notice of how people speak to groups they wish to inform. Trump reminds me of a very bad ( I mean, the baddest) infants school teacher explaining the world to his/her class( read : rusted on supporters) in words that they can undrstand.
I think he is demonstrating his own lack of intelligence.
Kindergarten kids I have taught would have been insulted by that sort of talking-down.
I agree, that’s why I say ‘bad teachers’ would use those methods but I think Trump supporters are not people who have had access to good teachers sadly 😟
Abbott talks a bit like that. Dumb!
Regarding the area of farmland owned by the Chinese: someone is selling it to them, ‘follow the money’ and you’ll find self interest.
BK
Lucky we have dreadful weather here, I have managed to get through most of your excellent links. Hope you had a pain free sleep. Enjoy the footy today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/us-to-cut-cuba-embassy-staff-over-diplomat-attacks/9003166
What about the poor buggers in Gitmo…….
I should have said, another of Obama’s diplomatic success now swept away.
Best bush toilets with a view:
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/loo-with-a-view-toilet-named-the-most-picturesque-in-the-world-1.3237351
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/man-tasered-arrested-after-driving-eratically-in-melbournecbd/9003708
A man wearing a motorcycle helmet and dressed in black who was allegedly armed with a knife, was tasered and arrested by police after driving erratically in Melbourne’s CBD on AFL grand final day.
Police were called to the intersection of Swanston and Flinders Streets, outside Flinders Street Station and Federation Square around 8:00am.
Police said at this point in time they were treating it as a mental health incident and there are no links to terrorism.
The man has been taken to hospital to be assessed.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/police-shut-down-parts-of-flinders-st-following-incident-with-car/news-story/394c7362bffa0fe0a6a51a3e273def90
More pics in Hun link. No paywall.
Bernard’s article (from 27 Sept) is free.