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First anniversary of the Australia Day Race Riot

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Written by Sinclair Davidson

January 26th, 2013 at 6:00 am

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And the first anniversary of Gillards christening as “Gingerella”.

Pickles

26 Jan 13 at 7:50 am
Wonder what Labor has lined up for today? There must be at least one anti Abbott comment, I mean after all he invaded Australia with the First Fleet didnt he?

Mother G

26 Jan 13 at 8:14 am
Last year it was a race riot directed at Tony Abbott. This year she has stuffed up by trying to shoe horn the ‘Maid’ into Parliament.

It’s becoming an Australia Day classic.

Fortunately this will be her last Australia Day stuff up.

Johno

26 Jan 13 at 8:41 am
“Gingerella, come get your shoe!”

Good times, good times.

sdog

26 Jan 13 at 8:42 am
A protest with a lot of shouting but no property damage, no people hurt, and no arrests = Catallaxy definition of ‘riot’.

A protest mostly by Aborigines but that wasn’t racially motivated, didn’t target people specifically for their race, didn’t target random non-Aboriginals = Catallaxy definition of ‘race riot’.

Jarrah

26 Jan 13 at 9:14 am
Jarrah, how deeply have you buried your head in the sand? I have a shoe to throw at it, courtesy of the Ranga’s office, if you can ever bring yourself to the surface of reality.

mareeS

26 Jan 13 at 9:35 am
Last year Gillard’s crew stirred up indigenous Australians against Tony Abbott. This year,she has gone one better in her politics of division. In the NT she has now stirred up indigenous people against other indigenous people. Has there ever been such a divisive PM in our history?

Bud of Buderim

26 Jan 13 at 9:45 am
Quite so Jarrah. It was quite a peaceful protest in reaction to an extremely provocative speech by Tony Abbott. The over-reaction (eg the shoe) by the security forces might have made good photos for the press, but it did not represent what was actually happening. To call it a riot was worse than hyperbole, it was mailiucious misrepresentation of the facts.

Desperation by the right again.

hammygar

26 Jan 13 at 9:50 am
Happy Australia Day, Nova. It’s nice to be needed, eh.

Septimus

26 Jan 13 at 10:10 am
Lovely to see Shammy and Jarring out early enjoying We Won, Done Yers Like a Dinner Day.

As blogstrop reminds elsewhere, Year Zero of multiculturalism ought to have been welcomed by the “stone-age native culture which had no national government, just local tribes.”

The lads’ favoured locals haven’t come real far in all that time, based on their failure to extend the hand of inclusion or to put on a smoko ceremony for the Tongans up at Woodridge and Logan.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

26 Jan 13 at 10:14 am
Call it whatever you like it shouldn’t have happened, McTernan is a creep, Hodges lost his job, it was wrong and admitted to be wrong by the slapper. Even the troll hamburgar agrees it was wrong.

Honesty

26 Jan 13 at 10:15 am
It was a full-on sherry flagon fuelled riot.
But the voters will get their say on this and other cock-ups, so never fear.
By next Australia Day she will but an awkward skid-mark on the size 22 Cottontails of history.

Leigh Lowe

26 Jan 13 at 10:34 am
Leigh, a ‘full-on sherry flagon fuelled taxpayer funded riot’. Your taxes at work.

JakartaJaap

26 Jan 13 at 10:54 am
Hammy and jarrah still rewriting history. It must be nice to live in delusion ville where history is what ever you want it to be.

Bronson

26 Jan 13 at 11:03 am
That video shows why parents should smack their kids. The tent embassy is full of loonies.

Andrew

26 Jan 13 at 11:05 am
Last year the Stupid Cow attempted to use Aboriginals for her own corrupt political purposes. She came a gutser. This year the Stupid Cow is at it again,attempting to use an Aboriginal woman for her corrupt political purposes and once again it’s blown up in her face

Lew

26 Jan 13 at 11:20 am
“If you get to senior positions, you have to be able to kill your opponent. It’s not pretty; it’s not pleasant, but if those at the top can’t kill, then those at the bottom certainly cannot. High politics demands very low political skills too.”

– McTernan, gillard’s strategist and Australia Day race riot architect.

Gab

26 Jan 13 at 11:37 am
A protest with a lot of shouting but no property damage, no people hurt, and no arrests = Catallaxy definition of ‘riot’.

A protest mostly by Aborigines but that wasn’t racially motivated, didn’t target people specifically for their race, didn’t target random non-Aboriginals = Catallaxy definition of ‘race riot’.

It was organised by the Prime Minister to intimidate Abbot, and she herself was put in danger.

Can one be charged with treason against one’s self?

.

26 Jan 13 at 11:42 am
“If you get to senior positions, you have to be able to kill your opponent. It’s not pretty; it’s not pleasant, but if those at the top can’t kill …”

What a tosser, the Pommie blow in so full of his own importance he finds it necessary to express himself as the deadly, courageous SAS warrior concealed within.

He must have studied and memorised Liam Neeson in “Taken” – “I will find you and I will kill you.”

Low grade planker.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

26 Jan 13 at 11:48 am
Lots of ‘-ker’suffixes could be applied to Mr McTurnip as well as a word that sounds just like ‘ker’.

Tintarella di Luna

26 Jan 13 at 12:21 pm
What a tosser, the Pommie blow in so full of his own importance he finds it necessary to express himself as the deadly, courageous SAS warrior concealed within.

He’s right though. He’s got a few things wrong like the Australia Day riot, but he’s been pretty good.

Don’t ever underestimate your opponent.

JC

26 Jan 13 at 1:29 pm
JC is right, McTernan is incredibly nasty and dangerous, yet this is also his vulnerability, he needs to be relentlessly attacked. Brought out from the shadows he is nothing just a peice of scum looking for a handout.

Honesty

26 Jan 13 at 1:38 pm
Honesty – you are quite correct. McTernan needs to be attacked for what he says and does – I would imagine it wouldn’t take much to get a major meltdown/blowup from him – those type of people are very good at handing it out, but notoriously bad at taking it.

TonyO

26 Jan 13 at 1:49 pm
McTernan is the sort whos last words would have been “If only Stalin knew hed intervene and save me” just as the bullet entered the nape of his neck.

Hes the sort whod sign an opponents death warrant and still be surprised when someone else signs his own later on.

Heres McTurdmans ideal audience..

thefrollickingmole

26 Jan 13 at 1:56 pm
Ms Gillard’s shambles with the appointment of Nova Peris is astounding. The lack of communication, tact, diplomacy, sensitivity to colleagues’ feelings ….
She is like a CEO of a large company but she’s missing some baseline skills. I understand she’s the third highest paid politician in the world.

candy

26 Jan 13 at 2:01 pm
“If you get to senior positions, you have to be able to kill your opponent. It’s not pretty; it’s not pleasant, but if those at the top can’t kill …”

Is he talking about his own political death in Australia?

He is like Hitler in the Reichchancellery, ordering phantom legions of children and great grandfathers around in Tiger Mk IV Panzers that were never delivered because the factory was bombed to smithereens by the allies 10 months ago, and now fucntions as a Red Cross camp for refugees…

.

26 Jan 13 at 2:03 pm
I understand she’s the third highest paid politician in the world.

Of course.

Who in their right mind would give her a job after the 2013 election?

.

26 Jan 13 at 2:03 pm
Sinclair, please get the title right.

It was the Gillard Race Riot.

It was the first and only race riot organised by a prime minister’s office in Australian history.

C.L.

26 Jan 13 at 2:04 pm
Hamish McSporran – International Man of Fail.

In less than 9 months he will be prised from the Australian taxpayer’s tit and go back to that rain soaked island to continue his imaginary class warfare. Unless Gillard puts him in the Senate.

H B Bear

26 Jan 13 at 2:14 pm
When McTurd was quizzed on the anniversary and the current situation of Hodges, he referred to him as a “former member of my staff.” Wonder how many of the PM’s staff he considers to be his employees subject to doing his bidding? Obviously there’s Gillard herself, dancing on his strings, wonder how the others feel knowing in reality he is their boss, according to him?

The Realist of Queensland

26 Jan 13 at 2:15 pm
Aboriginals of ALl colours should celebrate Australia Day! It celebrates the arrival of some of their Ancestors and the people who invented Centrelink! Where would they be without those things.

Borisgodunov

26 Jan 13 at 2:33 pm
We shouldn’t let the day pass without commenting on the hysterical behaviour of the police and Gillard’s security detail. Watch the clip. The only danger to Gillard and Abbott came from these bedwetting morons. Evidently, all of them have watched too much television.

C.L.

26 Jan 13 at 2:45 pm
Perhaps they were just following the script C.L.

Lew

26 Jan 13 at 3:21 pm
Notice when they are running to the car that’s its only police and reporters….

Mundi

26 Jan 13 at 3:46 pm
We must also remember that while everyone else was feeling appalled that a PM – and a female one at that!! – would undergo such security risk and such treatment, even though most cannot wait for the shrieking wench to be removed from office, it was one lonely voice that spotted the debacle for what it was: a trumped up incitement of racial tension targeting Abbott but one that went seriously wrong.

That’s right, you heard it first at the Cat thanks to the ever prescient JC.

Gab

26 Jan 13 at 3:48 pm
There was a fat union woman, can’t remember her name, that passed on the message from the Gillard staffer to the on stage Abo speaker at the time.
I wonder how her career has gone since then. Promoted is my guess.

jumpnmcar

26 Jan 13 at 4:29 pm
“That’s right, you heard it first at the Cat thanks to the ever prescient JC.”

Frankie Walker? I didn’t know that. Onya Frank.

Mick Gold Coast QLD

26 Jan 13 at 4:42 pm
has jarrah gone and topped himself? i ask this as surely life doesn’t get much worse than have lemmiwinks in full agreement with you.

Harrys on the Boat

26 Jan 13 at 4:52 pm
Even the troll hamburger agrees it was wrong.

Great stuff, but I prefer the moniker “Hamburglar“…

Rabz

26 Jan 13 at 4:57 pm
The Hammy/Jarrah synergy speaks volumes. One is composta-like parody, with an occasionally malfunctioning spew-valve when the mask slips, while the other sees itself as an intellectual gadfly but comes off as just a bothersome layabout.

blogstrop

26 Jan 13 at 5:17 pm
Mick

It’s Frank thank you very much.

JC

26 Jan 13 at 5:39 pm
I’m not on Facebook but a little googling found JCs page.
I personally happen to admire Frank Walker as a business man.
And you know that farther of 7 is not a lefty.

jumpnmcar

26 Jan 13 at 6:03 pm
Jump

He’s an irritating douchebag. No question.

JC

26 Jan 13 at 6:09 pm
‘There was a fat union woman’

Kim Sattler, Labor Mate-ess, failed to get ALP preselection to the ACT Legislative Assembly in IIRC, 2004, so whatever faction she belonged to felt obliged to console and look after her, She’s now head of Unions ACT – a sinecure, anyone who wants to get anything done industrially in the ACT goes straight to the relevent individual union – and also CEO of the ‘National Museum of Labor’, apparently a ‘virtual’ museum whose website hasn’t been updated since mid 2012.

In between these gigs, her Labor mates reputedly found her various jobs in the ACT public service. I remember her as a temporary ASO 6 in the Chief Minister’s Department in 2005, she was actually quite a nice person.

Des Deskperson

26 Jan 13 at 6:10 pm
Why does my PC keep intermittently running a loop “Helloooooo It’s Frank Walker National Tiles whooo hooo hooo hooo hooo hooo … Helloooooo It’s Frank Walker National Tiles whooo hooo hooo hooo hooo hooo” over and over and over again?

Could it be that I did or said something wrong?

Mick Gold Coast QLD

26 Jan 13 at 6:23 pm
“”Kim Sattler”"
That’s her, thanks Des.

jumpnmcar

26 Jan 13 at 6:28 pm
JC

He’s an irritating douchebag. No question.

Compared to Gillard, in every category, he is a Saint.
He may just be the Anti-Gillard.
St Frank, the patron Saint of hard floor coverings.

jumpnmcar

26 Jan 13 at 6:35 pm
He/she was quite a nice person …

Famous last words.

blogstrop

26 Jan 13 at 6:45 pm
“Compared to Gillard”
I thought Gillard is an adjective, not a noun.
Is not Gillard a brief way of saying carbon liar, PM backstabber, senate selection racist, spendthrift, Timor Solution negotiations incompetent, Malaysia Solution incompetent, lurer to drowning death of thousands, and torturer of language.

WhaleHunt Fun

26 Jan 13 at 6:46 pm
Whoops, left out … promoter of misogynists to speaking positions and defender of the use of collected funds for interesting purposes.

WhaleHunt Fun

26 Jan 13 at 6:48 pm
hmmm… is there any moral turpitude , any depth unplumbed? Might it not be easier and faster to list the few vile things not equatable with that adjective

WhaleHunt Fun

26 Jan 13 at 6:52 pm
Thank goodness Julia didn’t come to any serious harm. It must have been quite unnerving for her to be caught in the middle of the fallout of Tony Abbott’s hamfisted criticism of the Tent Embassy.

BTW – wasn’t Tony Abbott really suggesting in slightly euphemistic language that the Tent Embassy should come down – and don’t most people here agree with that/him?

Grey

26 Jan 13 at 6:55 pm
Yes Whale, the wonderful and not-so-wonderful people of this Great Nation are are being Gillarded up the Swan.

jumpnmcar

26 Jan 13 at 6:55 pm
Quite so Jarrah. It was quite a peaceful protest in reaction to an extremely provocative speech by Tony Abbott.

People, if you ever wish to organize a mob to surround Hammygar’s house and bang on the doors and windows, calling him to come outside, please go ahead. He won’t object. Same goes for THR, another supporter of the race riot at the time.

Fisky

26 Jan 13 at 6:55 pm
A protest mostly by Aborigines but that wasn’t racially motivated, didn’t target people specifically for their race, didn’t target random non-Aboriginals = Catallaxy definition of ‘race riot’.

It was certainly a race riot, because the ALP deliberately distorted a quote from Tony Abbott (making it appear that he wanted to shut down the indigenous tent embassy by force) in order to incite a mob to surround his location and bang on the doors and windows. That is in fact an act of violence and it was incited on a racial pretext.

However, if you still don’t think it is an act of violence, then I’ll happily pay a few dozen street thugs to surround your home and bang on the doors and windows, aggressively demanding you exit the building.

Fisky

26 Jan 13 at 6:59 pm
We all need to shine the disinfecting light on McTernan and others. Not just Julia.

Watch as he scurries like a cockroach to safety under the fridge.

Billy the Kidder

26 Jan 13 at 7:05 pm
I have told that Hodges is doing very well in his European Bank for Reconstruction job where his input into banking reform is considered invaluable.

Just the other day Dr Eric Strutz, the CFO of Commerzbank was telling me he couldn’t understand out Australia could afford to let people of such calibre go.

Grey

26 Jan 13 at 7:13 pm
We all need to shine the disinfecting light on McTernan and others. Not just Julia.

Watch as he scurries like a cockroach to safety under the fridge.

Disinfecting light? Can we use egg-killing Baygon instead?

Gab

26 Jan 13 at 7:16 pm
I have told that Hodges is doing very well in his European Bank for Reconstruction job where his input into banking reform is considered invaluable.

Too obvious. Try harder.

jupes

26 Jan 13 at 7:21 pm
Commerzbank is considered a dummy in banking circles, Grays, you big noting twit. No one would listen to what anyone from that firm has to say unless it was about how to set up a branch store front.

They are nowhere in any of the league tables for Ibanking which is an indicator about how much they understand about equity or debt raising.

Dickhead, Hodges was a political adviser type- a bad one by the looks of things. The amount he would know about banking would be close to zero.

Shut up and fuck off. No one cares what you think.

JC

26 Jan 13 at 7:25 pm
Christ was that a year ago? So many stuff ups who can keep up

Tal

26 Jan 13 at 8:10 pm
Please can someone view the following footage and help to clear up something that has puzzled me for twelve months.

• From 2:28m, Channel 10 reporter begins reporting on Australia Day fracas
• 2:45: You can clearly hear an off-camera voice advising the reporter:
“Don’t forget to say that Tony Abbott asked for the tent embassy to be shut down.”
3:11: The off-camera voice prompts again, asking why the reporter isn’t talking about something Abbott never said.

So, who is the off-camera prompter?
A fellow channel 10 employee?
Another journalist?
An aboriginal activist?
A non-Aboriginal activist (maybe Trade-union afiliated?)
A member of the PM’s own??? staff
Or ???
And I would really like to know if this is just a one-off case of a young reporter taking orders on what she must say.

Marg

26 Jan 13 at 8:54 pm
Sorry here’s the link to the video footage

(http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/own_goal/)

Marg

26 Jan 13 at 8:55 pm
Please can someone view the following footage and help to clear up something that has puzzled me for twelve months.

• From 2:28m, Channel 10 reporter begins reporting on Australia Day fracas
• 2:45: You can clearly hear an off-camera voice advising the reporter:
“Don’t forget to say that Tony Abbott asked for the tent embassy to be shut down.”
3:11: The off-camera voice prompts again, asking why the reporter isn’t talking about something Abbott never said.

So, who is the off-camera prompter?
A fellow channel 10 employee?
Another journalist?
An aboriginal activist?
A non-Aboriginal activist (maybe Trade-union afiliated?)
A member of the PM’s own??? staff
Or ???
And I would really like to know if this is just a one-off case of a young reporter taking orders on what she must say.

What a fucking disgrace.

A freedom loving plutocrat like Gina, Clive or Singo ought to point out this bullshit with full page ads in major papers.

.

26 Jan 13 at 9:23 pm
“In between these gigs, her Labor mates reputedly found her various jobs in the ACT public service”

I contracted for the NSWSP, and us contractors always wondered how we could not get permanent positions when they were populated by people that obviously could not get a job anywhere else. We couldn’t compete with those who had hygiene issues, were style-challenged, had lost the skill of basic grooming, bolted by 4pm every day, and went years on end without ever working a five day week, let alone putting in 8 hours in a single day, or any day for that matter.

My favourite was Aunty Jack, who was actually a woman, who did the high heels/short skirt/brahman walk/crazy hair better than Graham Bond could in his wildest dreams. She even had red hair and could arm wrestle a gorilla while knocking back a pack of Tim Tams. But i knew deep in my heart that in a one-on-one interview challenge for the same job, i would never stand a chance.

The Beer Whisperer

26 Jan 13 at 9:53 pm
Who cares about a bunch of sherry drinkers in a tent anyway.

Leigh Lowe

26 Jan 13 at 11:11 pm
While the Australia Day riot was a cock up of the first order, Gillard’s response and recovery has been a triumph of the McTernan playbook for crisis management.

you get only one chance to make a first impression, in a scandal you get only one chance to make a clean breast of things.
The key, though, is to realise that you don’t need to tell the whole truth – just nothing but the truth. Don’t lie. Don’t equivocate. But set out a defensible truth: one that you will not have to expand, modify or resile from.
In all crises, there is a similar pattern. Some information will initially be suppressed, but it will dribble out, or be dragged out. In any event, it won’t be kept secret, and when it emerges, you will end up looking shifty or malevolent. Full disclosure is important, but – speaking cynically – only of what will eventually come out.
Be economical if you are sure some sources are utterly secure. Just be honest about what will become public, and don’t try to conceal it. In any scandal, there are some things it is impossible to evade; your only chance of survival will be to endure them.

So despite Gillard’s statement being incompatible with the facts, with the aid of compliant ‘journalists’, her office’s involvement in fomenting a riot has been downplayed, and what should have been a scandal that claimed more scalps resulted in the (‘voluntary’) redeployment of a scapegoat and supreme indifference from the MSM.

Cold-Hands

27 Jan 13 at 12:14 am
And none of the $^@&!!&s ever apologised to Abbott.

Gab

27 Jan 13 at 12:18 am
I’m surprised Hodges didn’t get a gong this Australia Day for “services rendered bringing Aboriginals and LNP communities together in a spirit of lasting reconcilliation”.

Splatacrobat

27 Jan 13 at 12:19 am
Eyewithesses named two staff from the PM’s Office Media Unit (Tony Hodges & Sam Casey) talking to Tent Embassy Protesters before the confrontation at The Lobby This confirms that the Prime Minister’s account of the events on Australia Day must be wrong as it suggests that Tony Hodges acted on his own and his contact with the protesters was only through Kim Sattler. Sattler’s contradictory accounts were shown up by the cell phone footage that surfaced a few weeks later.

Cold-Hands

27 Jan 13 at 12:37 am
I see that the police are looking for a hit-and-run driver who knocked down a pedestrian in Synnot Street Werribee on Friday night, which is where the Prime Minister’s Electoral Office happens to be.

I could give them the name of a serial offender dangerous hoon driver known to frequent that area, who racked up 8 speeding infringements in just 3 months, but I suspect that the cops would be ordered off, just like all the others have been.

Speeding, hoon driving, lying, embezzlement, perjury, fraud, misprision of felony – once upon a time these were all crimes.

Now they seem to be just boxes to be ticked, if you aspire to the office of Prime Minister in an A.L.P. “government”.

Up The Workers!

27 Jan 13 at 6:51 am
I have told that Hodges is doing very well in his European Bank for Reconstruction job where his input into banking reform is considered invaluable.

Which is code for “under the desk man-on-man fellatio skills are transferable from Canberra to Brussels”

I am reliably informed that McTurdman misses Tony terribly.

Leigh Lowe

28 Jan 13 at 12:44 am

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