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Afghanistan and Iraq are both bog Muslim countries. We can’t change them and don’t belong there unless our interests are seriously threatened. If middle-class Muslims won’t stay there let them go to another Muslim country, not come here with the same ideologies that created the mess from which they wish to retreat. The West should try in foreign policy aims to assist Iran and Turkey to change back to the secularizing nations they once were and to keep the lid on Islamism in Indonesia and Malaysia. Africa will have to sort out its own Islamic problems; China and Russia, in the West culturally these days but not fully of it, will help them.
The West probably does have to retreat to regroup and reclaim back its civilization.
Forgot to say that Israel needs strong support from Western nations. The vote on Jerusalem was a disgrace, and does not auger well for the West recognizing a good thing when they see it. Stay safe, President Trump.
Reading back comments and following a blogger’s link ? yesterday to an amusing youtube song –
Knuckle Dragger pre New Year @2.46pm re ages and dating forums
It’s Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long
The fruit of war’: Pope orders harrowing image of boy carrying his dead brother following the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki be printed and distributed.
If you want to see something truly “harrowing” google the image of the Chinese woman and her baby being beheaded during the rape of Nanking. Then consider the litany of Japanese atrocities during WWII.
Just how was this barbarism and the doctrine of racial superiority that fueled it to be overcome but by bringing the Japanese nation to its knees?
This is key, and key to our civilisation has been our struggle to enable individual freedom. Democracy was touted to deliver that. It hasn’t. A new system will have to evolve out of the wreckage that democracy has wrought. For it to be “western” it will have to respect individual rights. I suspect that the issue of collective rights will have to be addressed and finally Christianity will have to be recognised as the prime religion of the state to provide a bulwark against other more destructive beliefs.
That’s a pity; it looked interesting.
What matters that in the scheme of things if you are innovative and agile, M of M?
I’m glad you’ve had those eight good years out of it and aim to tick off another twenty.
Don’t bother. It’s rubbish.
Awwh really! Damn, I was hopeful.
C.L.
#2598334, posted on January 1, 2018 at 11:32 am
Blackout on this in Australia but the federal case against hero Cliven Bundy has been dismissed.
The left-wing Feds deliberately hid 3000 pages of exculpatory evidence.
The Bundy trial is a farce.
It was supposed to be the show trial of the century to put those yokels back in their box, and has instead shown the government agents to be duplicitous assclowns.
It would be funny if it wasnt for a bloke being gunned down in an ambush and the time these blokes have spent in prison.
From the Oz. Governments in trouble, wheel out the Republic.
Hillary’s list:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1969198483403403&set=p.1969198483403403&type=3&theater
Re-educating the educators is a primary task at present in the ‘save the West’ movement. Teachers pumping global warmening b/s into children is an immediate invitation for children to hate their own history and culture as a destructive force. It is not and teachers need to tell children that; universities need to open their minds to other perspectives than failed hippie ‘environmental’ visions that drifted down along with the 60’s and 70’s Marxism. Gramsci is dead, should be the message. No more institutional lunacy, back to our roots.
Mike of Marion
#2598346, posted on January 1, 2018 at 11:52 am
Mike, sorry to hear about your problem.
I missed this, but presumably you’ve had a tissue biopsy recently, where is the primary tumour? (I may be able to help with my $0.02..)
Prince Phillip showing hes still got it at 96…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/31/is-that-a-terrorist-prince-philips-joke-about-bearded-bystander
Prince Philip has been accused of making a gaffe on a walkabout at Sandringham on Sunday after he reportedly pointed at a bearded member of the public and asked: “Is that a terrorist?”
The Queen’s husband, 96, was attending St Magdalene church, close to the royal family home in north Norfolk, on New Year’s Eve along with his daughter Anne, the Princess Royal, when he allegedly made the remark.
Philip spotted a tall man with a long ginger beard and made the comment to his minders, according to an unnamed witness quoted by the Daily Mail and Sun, who said the man in question found the apparent joke hilarious.
“The man appeared to be his with wife and child,” the Sun reported the witness as saying. “Philip was wishing lots of people a happy new year and then he spotted this guy with his distinctive beard. He pointed at him in a funny way and turned to one of his royal bodyguards, saying: ‘Is that a terrorist?’
“He was obviously having a little joke, but he said it within earshot of the man who burst out laughing and appeared to find the whole thing hilarious. I think Philip knew he was going to be overheard.”
Hang in there, Your Majesty. Rug up in the cold, and cut your workload.
We need you more than ever now.
Mike of Marion
#2598223, posted on January 1, 2018 at 8:39 am
egg
The Vulcan
Tally-ho!!
Looking for Argentines?
I know current politics is at a tipping point but back in Joh’s day it wasn’t much chop either:
https://www.facebook.com/dallas.beaufort/posts/10155342323739370
Not wishing to reopen the recent wounds suffered in the artistic crossfire, but a reminder to musical Cats that the annual concert from Vienna is on WOG Vision tonight. The Vienna Philharmonic is one of the world’s great orchestras and this concert might be deemed ‘light entertainment’ as it usually comprises Strauss waltzes and the like. This is not to say, that the music making is not taken seriously and it gives a chance to watch a top orchestra in action, whilst tapping the toe. Maestro Muti will put them through their 3/4 paces.
This is key, and key to our civilisation has been our struggle to enable individual freedom.
Freedom without virtue deteriorates into licentiousness (in the broad sense of lacking moral discipline, not just in terms of sexuality), which corrupts a society to the core eventually.
A society needs either a communal religious belief or a strong civil ethic to inoculate itself against the moral corruption that is the natural condition of human beings (what is known in Christianity as the doctrine of original sin).
We really should fear the enemy within more than the enemy without.
Vic Police website: A Vermont man is probably wishing he had of filled up his motorcycle
Bad grammar is the least of their problems.
Now we have shoot to kill laws aimed at fixated individuals, with get of jail free cards for the paramilitary che Guevara’s of the State:
Australia’s Bundy cases will be called domestic terrorism by fixated individuals and their families billed fifty grand for the State’s time spent gunning them down.
The Bundy’s of Australia must be purged, so the State can earnestly tell the Faithful Cousins that the State is not racist.
The informant industry and the deradicalisation industry run out of our imported Ponzi mosquebunkers are our strength.
Comrades.
Tasmania Police now patrol in threes.
Two blokes and one sheila.
Just my opinion on that movie, folks. i found myself waiting for something interesting to happen throughout and then the movie ended.
I see Australian police are thrilled that Muslims didn’t kill anyone overnight.
That’s the new low bar in law and order.
This is correct. However, “civil ethic” just does not cut it. It has no answer to those who prosecute their religion with faith and conviction. The failure of Christianity in the West has been it’s leaders refusal to fight and energise the faithful to fight.
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/islam-in-australia-myths-and-common.html
that was no “gaffe” you humourless puritan. It was deliberate and gave me a chuckle.
Sorry that mixture of quotes got mish-mashed and was in response to Roger’s comment:
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/islam-in-australia-myths-and-common.html
It was once high treason to discuss/anticipate the death of the monarch.
Some laws need to be reinstated. Just for a single case, mind.
Demographically, our republican elites have imported millions of people to vote black handed with the turnbullites.
Twenty years of die offs for obsolete Australia.
In the bag for the Waleed for president crowd.
Only way to make it unlosable is to invite their Hussein Obama to be first president of Zimbostralia.
If the Victorian Government is requesting Federal intervention into breaking up apparently local and non-aligned gangs, is this an abrogation of responsibility for the protection of the community by Victoria Police? Is it tacit admission that the issue is a national security one?
Is it also an admission that the Victorian Government will run with the foxes and feed with the hounds according to the focus groups if the Feds take up the offer and things get untidy?
I think the Socialists are sniffing the wind and are approaching panic mode with no plan that involves protecting the herd.
From Catholic Online
Nagasaki
There is a reason the pope chose a victim of Hiroshima rather than one of the victims of Pearl Harbour, Nanking or Auschwitz. He is saying that the United States is the greatest threat to world peace in today’s world. Tangentially, this is also a nod to Muslims worldwide who believe that same thing, dogmatically. This comes a week after this man of ‘change’ demanded the “status-quo” be maintained regarding Jerusalem. By status-quo, he means Israel being surrounded by exterminationist animals who are gaming the world’s governance structures to destroy the J-ws by gradualist means.
Just how was this barbarism and the doctrine of racial superiority that fueled it to be overcome but by bringing the Japanese nation to its knees?
The Pope comes from a failed 3rd world Socialist country where general belief is that all it’s local ills stem from the oppression of those rich developed countries. Like Obama, he loathes western superiority in fact he feels ashamed and embarrassed by it now he’s in the Vatican at the centre of western civilisation. So, any opportunity to display the beast (in this case the US nuke bombing of wartime Japan) represents a great virtue signalling opportunity. He’s very hypocritical in that respect. Better to let the murderous EJ regime go on for years with millions more dead?
How I would chuckle if turnbull is crushed by a bollard, and Good Queen Liz outlives the prick.
Her Majesty has a Secret Weapon.
and may Queen Charles never reign.
As much as I dislike Charlie, this is one of the oldest most stable democracies going. Why the need to fuck around with it. To all intents we are a self governed Republic.
The Australian Defence Force’s actual spending in 2017-18 is expected to be about $32.5bn.
Don’t forget to add the Centrelink and State Govt (read taxpayer) billions paid to jahadi’s and jihadi enablers.
becuase maocolm has a massive ego and the Left never rests when it comes to pulling down anything established under conservative rule and history.
Sorry that mixture of quotes got mish-mashed and was in response to Roger’s comment:
Cohenite, I note that excellent extract on Islam was written by a Mitchell Goff, ALP member and unionist.
The penny is dropping…?
We watch turnbull gloating as he anticipates squandering the inheritance after Her Majesty dies.
This loathsome creature was really jammed up Australia’s clacker, because Tone matters?.
Mad Dog Mattis’s Ask Me Anything – it seems the questioners are all Marines, too, which is good. He has some interesting observations on leadership and other skills and abilities that are applicable outside of fields of combat, as you might expect.
Harpy new year!
JC
#2598410, posted on January 1, 2018 at 12:45 pm
Because Lucy is agitated
However, “civil ethic” just does not cut it.
I agree, a communal religious belief, i.e. Christianity, is the ideal because it inculcates virtue by change from within, but if that is not possible – thank you multiculturalism and mass migration – the civil ethic might at least inspire outward virtue.
I would have thought the left would be very happy with Charles. He oozes leftist dogma at every opportunity.
Maolcolm wants the be Australia’s first president. Resistance to a Republic comes principally from conservatives. To neutralise resistance, conservatives must be fractured and destroyed as a bloc. Maolcolm is an election away from achieving this.
Why settle for PM when you can supplant the queen as Head of State.
Apparently, the bearded guy was a ginger, which seems to have been left out of that retelling, surely by accident! So glad that Phil the Greek has never had the slightest bit of concern about the pinheads who lose sleep over his ‘gaffes’.
Dear lord, Prince Philip’s grandson is a bearded ginger!
Airlift the Christians out and then walk away.
I got shit canned for this some years ago but as far as I am concerned we should strip bomb every f**king inch of Afghanistan and just take it off the table forever. Men, women and children.
Then we can turn our sites to Pakistan which is just as evil if not more so than Iran.
They use the word ‘gaffe’ because of the connotations attached to that word (stupid, senile old fool).
They are jibes, not gaffes.
What Gab said +1000
As much as I dislike Charlie, this is one of the oldest most stable democracies going.
As much as I dislike Charles I dislike the people who would seek to replace him with a President much more.
Latham still plugging away:
https://www.facebook.com/MarkLathamsOutsiders/?hc_ref=ARRJ6YVlHEk2fcNo9TAbgIK3YImeGEnc2m0vpj5XzhoL5IIR-PTQgaRSltT-z4KD2bg&fref=nf
I think the ‘yes’ vote will always have an extremely difficult case to make to get over the line – assuming our Head of State is not a complete wally who everyone despises (ie. much moreso than Charlie, who I suspect most will regard with indifference). Our betters all assumed we would cop a HoS determined by our politicians. They assumed wrong, thankfully. Even if Republicans can deliver a direct vote model, it’s going to be extremely hard for them to deliver a constitutional change that doesn’t require a significant rewrite of the constitution. The No campaign will focus on the risks of altering the document to such an extent. It’s not as easy a sell as ‘say No to the politicians’ republic’ but it isn’t that hard, either. ‘Don’t know, vote no’ has been effective in many a referendum. The No camp will just have to sow enough doubt regarding the effects such a significant constitutional change could bring.
The only way I can see a republic getting up is if the sovereign is a completely detestable individual.
JC
I read a paper at the time of the first tilt at becoming a Republic.
Bottom line.
Sell everything and get out of Australia because bad and all as you may think it is at the moment there will be NO LAW in Australia if they introduce a Republic.
People do not understand that our quaint system of Government, bad and all as it may be, actually has some rules like common law which underpin it.
As far as I am concerned anyone that is pushing for Australia to become a Republic is just a traitorous dog.
republicans, even. Stupid over-efficient autocorrect.
Lord Waffleworth emboldened by his homosexual marriage success proposes government by motherhood statement mail-out questionnaire.
Trust us, we’ll fill out the details later. With the support of the Greenfilth in the Senate.
I could write the list – Malcolm Turnbull, then Julia Gilliard, followed by Gillian Triggs, then David Morrison.
Regarding Mal Stumbles desire for a postal vote on a republic.
Someone (Cory come on down) should use the language Paul Keating used against the John Hewson GST.
It stays, no matter how bad it is.
Great scare campaign that! h/t Ritchie Benaud.
I could write the list – Malcolm Turnbull, then Julia Gilliard, followed by Gillian Triggs, then David Morrison.
And eventually Tim Southpossumarse.
God save the Queen!
If Tim Wilson stood for President we could still say ‘God save the Queen.’
No ZK2A
Lucy Hughes and then China.
The prospect of President Abbott!
That should get them thinking.
Mater, the left believe everyone hates Abbott, so that scare wouldn’t be convincing.
One, the postal vote cannot cancel out our Constitution.
Any change to our constitution must be done via a referendum.
He cannot change us to a republic with a postal vote (corruptible anyway) and then a vote in Parliament, so there is no point in a postal vote.
It has to be via a referendum.
How much corruption exists in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, let alone our so called “Public Servants and Services”?
Where’s Grig’s update on Scheiss of the Seas?
A plebiscite, postal* or other, won’t help Turnbull to be become President of Oz. He needs a referendum to change the Constitution for that. Any attempt to replace the role of the Monarchy with something inferior will be roundly defeated.
* postal plebiscite idea claimed by Dutton wasn’t it? As an ex cop, maybe he wishes he had “of” copyrighted it.
Can we start a petition?
One, the postal vote cannot cancel out our Constitution.
Struth, I think Dear Leader’s present intention is to spend a few hundred million to test the waters before proceeding to a referendum…or not.
Trumble is so shit at this politics game. He is wildly overplaying his hand thinking he’s on strong ground to relaunch the republic debate with him at the helm because he ended last year on slightly stronger ground than he was on throughout the rest of the year. This is a “slam dunk” in the same way that Gillard’s kangaroo knitting Women’s Weekly photoshoot was a “slam dunk”.
Yes, this was the one. I am still in shock at the words of support from a senior WAPOL officer. Mind you, I’ve never heard of him since …
Oh fuck off you pedantic cockhead.
Disagree Struth.
You cannot change from our system of Government to a Republic without an insurrection.
Doesn’t have to be violent as in the American War of Independence but at some point in becoming a ‘Republic’ you have to overthrow the old way to usher in the new.
And it is in that ‘overthrow’ period when there is NO LAW.
ZK2A;
1. It has to be a Referendum.
2. Have a go, mug. There will be blowback.
There is a reason the pope chose a victim of Hiroshima rather than one of the victims of Pearl Harbour, Nanking or Auschwitz. He is saying that the United States is the greatest threat to world peace in today’s world.
No doubt.
Yep.
Trumble is so shit at this politics game.
This is obviously a thought bubble that emerged at the Turnbull’s Christmas dinner which Lucy & Tom have handed to dutiful Maladroit to run with after his stunning success at subverting marriage last year.
Thanks Bruce in WA.
That was the case I was thinking of.
They produced nice fruit from their little block.
The arzholes figured the old couple had all this buried Treasure.
Would the postal vote run along the same lines as the SSM postal vote? Would they say, just vote and we will sort out the rules, regulations and consequences after the vote? If that is the case I reckon the Mugabe method of rule would be favoured.
There are plenty of republics around the world. Anyone who wants to live in one can fuck off and do so.
I suspect the idea underlying this is to have a postal vote on the rather generic “Should we be a Republic?” question.
Assuming that gets up – and I reckon it would have a decent chance – they can then present a choice of two models in the referendum. No need to include the “stay as is” option, because they will already have “proved” that isn’t necessary with the postal vote.
No idea if that is constitutionally valid but I suspect it may be, and smells just like the sort of cunning stunt the left would like to pull.
Iowahawk’s father has died:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/947475688029798401
Mark from Melbourne – Exactly. Hence the expression, Beware of Lieborals bearing Trojan butt plugs.
No chance. The REFERENDUM must have questions containing the proposed changes to the clauses of the constitution with clear YES or NO options. That is YES we want the clause changed as specified or NO we don’t want to change the clause.
Check out Iowahawk Sr’s ripped physique.
That’s not weights.
That was just life, back then.
Yes, I agree thatn he is just testing the waters now.
These subjects of complete irrelevance like SSM etc, considering how much shit we are in is the side show, to keep us on the back foot while they do the U.N’s bidding regarding wrecking the country.
Remember the first thing Turncoat brought up upon the election of Trump, is to assure everyone we will not deviate from Paris agreement and the U.N.
That was all that was on his mind.
These side shows are just there to keep us occupied with bullshit while they wreck the joint.
If he happens to be able to turn us into a banana republic in name as well as condition, he will consider it an even bigger win.
This guy is a sick piece of shit, to his very core.
He is very dangerous because he is totally focussed only on himself.
To an astounding degree, he is quite literally mentally ill.
Psychotic.
Joe, the Uniparty will just ignore the Constitution.
You’re probably right, Joe.
In which case the whole idea is yet another pointless Waffleworth thought bubble.
Re my earlier post, it seems that an elderly male of Latin descent can shoot intruders (or could a few years ago).
Eugenio and Maria Valenti.
Very sad. Iowahawk’s old man must have been something – his kid is the sharpest wit on the blogosphere.
Plenty of the NO voters from 1999 will have died, so the termites will think they are in with a chance next time.
Their biggest problem is finding a credible slogan.
Giving every Australian child the opportunity to become Head of State didn’t cut it in 1999.
Postal Survey with barcoded ballots conducted by the ABS might be their best bet.
Struth
If they get a yes vote for a Republic then I think the dogs of war might become unleashed.
Roger
#2598455, posted on January 1, 2018 at 1:39 pm
Couldn’t happen, Tom died last year.
We’re talking about it, and not the nation’s crumbling power supply, housing costs, decaying infrastructure, and their forced importation of hundreds of thousands of U.N. decreed nation wreckers killing us.
So another year gone and Trumble still there. Are we just going to sleepwalk into a peanut head gov? Hard to imagine a government worse than the one we have now I know. The LNP seems to be perfectly ok with all this.
Maolcolm is sowing the seeds again, with the help of the MSM. They even wheeled out Keating this morning.
There will be another tilt at constitutional change, and he’s hoping for a popular movement to back it, similar to the SSM campaign.
It’s a long-held aim, not a thought bubble.
With A directly-elected High Court?
The Golden One on loyalty.
Mark is right in that the government can use whatever system it wants to determine which question it puts on a referendum ballot slip, but the legislation enabling a referendum still needs to make it through parliament via the standard mechanism. I strongly suspect that if the referendum question was worded in such a way that the constitution would be changed regardless of how you voted would be declared unconstitutional by the HC.
I am not sure how many politicians actually understand that Australia was basically created from refugees from Christian Europe.
The f**kheads think they can drop a mob of stinking animals in here that have nothing to do with Christianity and actively want to wipe us out.
I would suggest to any police anywhere in Australia make sure you know your racial background because you could end up a slave.
If you are fine with that then fuck off.
Yeah, we’ll let our blue heelers and border collies off the leash, and they can let their armed forces go to town on us.
Thanks John Howard.
A republic is so far down the list of relevant issues as to not even be there.
The only Royals I have any respect for are HM and the D of E. But I think even Chilla and Wills are a better option than our marxist , self styled Australian ‘royalty’.
Gee, how surprising, the HRC wants to fold religious discrimination into the section 44 making criticizing protected voteherds illegal.
RTWT, these people are evil swine.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/31/human-rights-commissioner-ed-santow-on-religious-freedom-its-about-potential-conflicts
During the marriage debate, the meaning of “religious freedom” was hotly contested. The Liberal senator Dean Smith, at first supported by Malcolm Turnbull, maintained that his bill did not restrict religious freedom; senators James Paterson and David Fawcett argued that a raft of legal changes were needed to allow service providers to refuse to cater to weddings.
Santow explains that international human rights law protects religious freedom in two main ways: the right to hold a religious belief, which he says is “absolute and there can be no restriction on that”; and to manifest it, which he says is “very important but can be subject to some restrictions under human rights law”.
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He says Australia “hasn’t fully implemented” provisions that ban hate speech against people on the basis of their religion.
That may entail something like applying section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – which bans speech that insults, offends or humiliates people based on their race – to discriminatory speech against religious people.
In a textbook case of the difficulty of balancing rights, in March the Senate blocked the government’s push to weaken section 18C by nudging the balance in favour of freedom of speech and away from non-discrimination.
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Aroney has argued that recognising religious freedom should include acceptance of sharia within “strictly justifiable limits imposed by the general law”.
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Asked if private disputes, such as wills or divorces, could be handled differently because participants are adherents of a particular religion, Santow says it “happens anyway”.
He gives the example of an Orthodox Jewish couple who divorce under Australian civil law. A parallel “second religious set of requirements” can exist to deal with the religious marriage according to Orthodox Jewish principles “provided that second set of requirements isn’t going to harm each other or anyone else”, Santow says.
Marriage equality advocates expect Santow to have the careful, rational approach to legal problems that will guarantee a judicious and influential contribution from the AHRC to the debate on religious freedom.
Thank Maolcolm for your truely Liberal approach to the coming censorship boom..
From the Oz. The Labor Party a tough, working class party? The Party that gave us Julia Gilliard and Kevin Rudd?
Couldn’t happen, Tom died last year.
Reports of his death may have been exaggerated.
We are and have always been a christian based country with Christian based Law.
From the first sentence in our constitution to the first Easter and Christmas after Jan 1st 1901 being national holidays, it is an indisputable fact.
Moderated by the dead sea pedestrian word again…
Gee, how surprising, the HRC wants to fold religious discrimination into the section 44 making criticizing protected voteherds illegal.
RTWT, these people are evil swine.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/31/human-rights-commissioner-ed-santow-on-religious-freedom-its-about-potential-conflicts
During the marriage debate, the meaning of “religious freedom” was hotly contested. The Liberal senator Dean Smith, at first supported by Malcolm Turnbull, maintained that his bill did not restrict religious freedom; senators James Paterson and David Fawcett argued that a raft of legal changes were needed to allow service providers to refuse to cater to weddings.
Santow explains that international human rights law protects religious freedom in two main ways: the right to hold a religious belief, which he says is “absolute and there can be no restriction on that”; and to manifest it, which he says is “very important but can be subject to some restrictions under human rights law”.
…
He says Australia “hasn’t fully implemented” provisions that ban hate speech against people on the basis of their religion.
That may entail something like applying section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act – which bans speech that insults, offends or humiliates people based on their race – to discriminatory speech against religious people.
In a textbook case of the difficulty of balancing rights, in March the Senate blocked the government’s push to weaken section 18C by nudging the balance in favour of freedom of speech and away from non-discrimination.
…
Aroney has argued that recognising religious freedom should include acceptance of sharia within “strictly justifiable limits imposed by the general law”.
..
Asked if private disputes, such as wills or divorces, could be handled differently because participants are adherents of a particular religion, Santow says it “happens anyway”.
He gives the example of an Orthodox Jhooish couple who divorce under Australian civil law. A parallel “second religious set of requirements” can exist to deal with the religious marriage according to Orthodox Jhooish principles “provided that second set of requirements isn’t going to harm each other or anyone else”, Santow says.
Marriage equality advocates expect Santow to have the careful, rational approach to legal problems that will guarantee a judicious and influential contribution from the AHRC to the debate on religious freedom.
Thank Maolcolm for your truely Liberal approach to the coming censorship boom..
He really is terrible at this politics game. It will go down like a lead balloon. The SSM postal survey was controversial due to the cost and SSM was an issue that many people cared about and wanted to have their say over. People don’t care all that much about Trumble’s republican ambitions, and they will be even less impressed if this involves a referendum AND a $125 million opinion poll!
Trumble is such a dummy. Although, now that I think about it, he is a monarchist’s best friend.
LOL
It really isn’t, Beazo.
“The Labor Party in its essence is a tough, working class party,” Mr Beazley told Sky News
What was Beazley b4 becoming a politician? An academic? Very working class not.
Narrator: “He’s lying”.
Sixty years ago …
Sez Pony Boy.
We are and have always been a christian based country with Christian based Law.
For the destruction of which our ruling class introduced mass 3rd world migration and multiculturalism.
Don’t know about your areas, but people are really starting to hurt around these areas.
Personally, I shake my head at their surprise, but many were expecting a bit of a kick over Christmas that didn’t come.
Pubs and restaurants in shock!
I don’t know about your area, but I would suggest this little carry on about a republic will be pissing many people off, to the point of actually starting to grizzle to their local member.
The beauty of a Constitutional Monarchy such as ours is it doesn’t matter a damn who sits on the throne.
The Golden One why you shouldn’t fap the porn.
Not even then.
Struth;
Yes, we’re talking about it.
But we’re also talking about the other problems, struth.
Malcolm hasn’t had another fart bubble – he’s turned the heat up another notch and added another weight to the release valve of the pressure cooker that is Australia.
Nothing will happen until the pressure cooker explodes, and it is foolish to do anything that removes those weights on our behalf.
The Nation will survive a Turnbull/Rudd/Gillard/Shorten Prime Ministership, but it cannot survive a polity that votes continually for them. The drunk must wake up in the gutter before they realise they have a problem.
Reports of his death may have been exaggerated.
By me, anyway.
Thanks for the good news, Roger.
Hah.
I’ve got the most viscous Shizu you would ever want to meet. Lick your toes to death is his favoured attack.
I’ve had a blue heeler and a border collie in previous life times.
John Howard is and was one of the greatest ‘whatevers’.
Remember how he bailed his brother out with Commonwealth Legislation.
And to think that the prick stood in front of honest people whilst wearing a bullet proof vest.
Pure projection on his part.
Don’t get me started on arzhole Costello. The scum thief.
Having watched the slide to the left in all the Parties and their total disregard for the Constitution plus the apathy in general of the voting public and the ability of the fake, feral media to convince the voters that black is white, the vote for a Republic would sail through. There may be a few token protests from Abbott, Hansen and Bernardi but they are proving they are gutless and love talking and giving their opinions but as far as saving this country against the march into Marxism, it isn’t happening. Everybody seems quite happy with Turnbull to remain so our fate awaits us.
That’s why the Left hate it so much. They are always looking for a Dear Leader.
So is the uniparty going to try and dampen down the citizenship fiasco in the new year?
If Maocolm’s republic push is fair dinkum he should offer us an Islamic Republic. It’s where we are inexorably headed anyway. And it would be a hoot watching the LGBTI mob urging a No vote.
Er no. They would be the loudest proponents in favour of it. Remember, these are the same people who set up ‘Queers for Palestine’.
Jo Smyth
Why do you think I tag myself as OneWorldGovernment?
A small correction. It is being deliberately sabotaged.
Saying that we will overcome the inevitable shortfall by reducing industry demand is as anti-progressive as someone saying: “Don’t worry about that wheel thing, we’ll just carry less!”.
The former Menzies Liberal Party of Australia has been taken over by spivs, charlatans and bull shit artists.
I’m glad that I can’t get my hands on one of the c*ckheads because I would beat their f*/*king head in.
NSW Liberal Party should be burnt to the ground.
+ 1 billion
Why waste money on another postal survey? Just go on the result of the SSM vote.
NSW Liberal Party should be burnt to the ground
Liberals in NSW are running surplus budgets and the State is now debt free like the Commonwealth was in 2007. Liberals are doing a good job in NSW
Nah.
Just build a f**king huge coal fired power plant.
And wipe South Australia off the map. (all due respect to Cat SA folk)
If they get a yes vote for a Republic then I think the dogs of war might become unleashed.
I’m surprised that a taxpayer-funded Fridgelamic group has not yet brought a legal case that dogs are hate speech, and therefore must be either banned in certain suburbs or taxed out of existence.
Liberals in NSW are running surplus budgets
ok give us a tax cut- how about a payroll tax reduction. Why bank money for your opponents to spend when you lose office?
Created solely from stamp duty theft from the housing ponzi.
Somebody is suggesting a solution to the yoof gangs in Melbourne – bring back National Service to teach them decency and respect. God give me strength……
Re my dogs are hate speech comment above, I have no doubt that local councils will jump on the opportunity to beef up their enforcement powers.
So OneWorldGovernment what’s your solution. Mine is simple but far too complicated to ever happen. There are enough conservatives and true Liberals in this country to vote out the rabble that rules now. All it would take is for the gutless few i.e, Abbott, Hanson, Bernardi and others (I would include Mark Latham), all experienced politicians, to join forces and get rid of this mess. Are their individual egos too big to ever do this? Could they ever work together? That would depend on what they put first, themselves or their country.
National Service
Yup. So who will train these little feckers? Doesn’t the ADF have enough issues raising the standard of their Mardi Gra float for next year without worrying about training people for war?
Latho’s latest manifesto is spot on.
Hard to believe it, but he makes Milo seem demure by comparison.
Created solely from stamp duty theft from the housing ponzi.
I knew someone would say that. They said the sames things about Howard. Mate even if what U say has some truth the ALP would just spend/waste the money on some weird scheme and their would be no surplus.
We are running surplus budgets in NSW and the Libs have paid off all State govt debt. Give them some credit
Somebody is suggesting a solution to the yoof gangs in Melbourne – bring back National Service to teach them decency and respect. God give me strength……
Great idea, but one flaw. The moment the RSM raises his voice there would be a rush to the safe spaces, and an immediate phone call to the ooooman rights mob, or maybe the UN even.
Surely you meant ‘pork up’ enforcement powers?
Because of the housing ponzi, there will probably never ever be a conservative government elected again.
They can suck my balls.
G.M.
True, except that the title of RSM is far too sexist and patriarchal, and will be replaced by a Participation Encouragement Enabler who is not permitted to make eye contact with the trainees, or even remove her hands from her pockets.
We’re all going to vote for the faaaabulous Islamic Republic of Australiastan! Hey, why are all those cranes being assembled in Fed Square?
I actually believe that Bernadi made a mistake using the word ‘Conservatives’ in the party title.
There are plenty of traditional Labor voters who would support the policies of the AC’s. However, being traditional Labor, they have been conditioned to instantly oppose anything ‘conservative’. They won’t even get past the title, let alone consider the party platform.
Something a little more inclusive might have yielded better results. It’s just human nature.
Surely you meant ‘pork up’ enforcement powers?
Snoopy, you’re aware that mentioning the ‘p’ word is hate speech, right? Please replace the ‘p’ word with the concise ‘transient-soft-bollard-filthy-infidel-meat (spit)’.
Anyone can do that by selling assets! For a while, until there’s no assets remaining.
Seriously, they sold the “poles and wires” along with the monopoly rights that go along with a business where newcomers are not allowed to compete. Then spent the cash on rebuilding sports stadia for bigger and better bread and circuses. The only good thing is they are not the ALP.
The libs in Vicco ran a surplus too I believe. The average Joe would never notice or care. If you cut taxes he does. And you shrink the size a government.
Let’s face it IT. Anyone can suck your balls.
I would imagine you’d have to teach most of them to read and write, first.
and will be replaced by a Participation Encouragement Enabler
But she’d be a strong woman shurely.
You miserable excuse for an unhatched egg, mummy won’t be powdering your hairless bottom here you skinny little worthless worm. Now move that bloody power pole from A , which is here, to B which is over there, and in double time or I’ll squeeze every ounce of shit out of you with one hand.
Especially GrigRae.
Somebody is suggesting a solution to the yoof gangs in Melbourne – bring back National Service to teach them decency and respect.
Teach them handy military skills, you mean.
Not a bad idea when Australia was a mostly Anglo Saxon country.
Now- not so much.
NSW Liberal Party should be burnt to the ground
Liberals in NSW are running surplus budgets and the State is now debt free like the Commonwealth was in 2007. Liberals are doing a good job in NSW
Then why are they RE-building perfectly functioning stadiums for billions?
Why don’t they reduce rego for vehicles?
Yup. So who will train these little feckers? Doesn’t the ADF have enough issues raising the standard of their Mardi Gra float for next year without worrying about training people for war?
I would imagine you’d have to teach most of them to read and write, first.
National Service sounds great in theory, but would place an enormous logistical burden on our current forces, unless you made the trainers ARes only, but then you need the extra facilities, and what are they supposed to do once they’ve been trained? Movable Bollard duty?
test
From the Oz website – very witty indeed.
zyconoclast
#2598541, posted on January 1, 2018 at 3:26 pm
NSW Liberal Party should be burnt to the ground
Liberals in NSW are running surplus budgets and the State is now debt free like the Commonwealth was in 2007. Liberals are doing a good job in NSW
Then why are they RE-building perfectly functioning stadiums for billions?
Why don’t they reduce rego for vehicles?
The NSW Government is running surpluses because they sold polls and wires (and other things) and are riding a stamp duty revenue wave.
The question is whether, like Howard, they leave behind recurrent spending at levels above average revenues.
One suspects they are.
Yeah, great idea. Let’s teach the little shits unarmed combat, survival skills, communications, to shoot straight; show ’em where the armouries are … terrific train of thought.
Anyone can do that by selling assets! For a while, until there’s no assets remaining.
Labor can’t. Hawke/Keating sold Qantas, CSL, Commonwealth Bank and the debt still increased. Come on U have to give NSW Libs some credit. We are running surplus budgets and the State is debt free. An amazing achievement
Field Marshall Sir William Slim provided the best counter to the “puddem in the Army, and pound some discipline into them.” Speaking at a time when the Brits conscripted 18 year olds for 18 months, he wanted to know why the Army was expected to do in 18 months what their parents, schoolteachers, the police, schoolteachers and society at large, had failed to do in 18 years.
The greyhound racing ban was the finish for me. Spiteful.
Vatican crib ‘homoerotic’
Traditionalists have slammed this year’s Vatican Nativity scene as covert gay propaganda describing one naked figure as homoerotic. The Oz
This surprises me. Isn’t there a basement in the Vatican full of male pudenda, chipped off all those naughty statues in the Museum above? This oversight, is down to the fact that Cock Chipping is now a trade that has moved on to the real thing, in this the era of sexual confusion.
Isn’t that a small village in rural England?
The Liberal Party is Dead.
The appearance of life and movement is simply an optical, audial and olfactory illusion caused by escaping gases and the breaking down of sub-cutaneous body fat.
Say a few words if you feel nostalgic, then move on before the corpse becomes flyblown.
Excellent article in Quadrant today by Keith Windschuttle on Australia Day. Most instructive is the section where local Melbourne ‘indigenous’ folk complained about various councils banning events on 26 January because it cut off their funding source for performing welcome to country.
Careful what you wish for……
It would just give them another reason to claim grievance. Numbers (Bob) gives us a perfect example.
Preparation to bid for another Sydney Olympic Games.
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Anyone with a microscope.
Cock Chipping
Isn’t that a small village in rural England?
You might be thinking of Tiyght Ayness in Wales.
New Year’s Eve in Rome.
I mixed up mass times at St Maria’s in the morning but took a punt, a 200 metre walk away from there is the church of the 40 Martyrs and Saints were a mass was starting, and where nuns actually outnumbered lay people in the congregation.
It’s a great novelty to be such a short walk from at least five churches.
At the end of mass I was a little puzzled as to why everyone was lining up again, it turned out, to kiss a statue of baby Jesus so I thought what the heck, when in Rome…
I met my sons afterwards then after the second coffee of the day we walked up to St Peter’s to hear the pope speak. Today just to stand in St Peter’s square one had to pass though scanners.
We perched on a ledge in a side street with a direct view of all the potential windows, which paid off, no scanners, no standing for ages in the queue for the privilege of standing in the square. The side streets were also blocked to traffic, much to the chagrin of at least one lady whom I heard said something about mi casa to the officer before doing a uey.
Didn’t pick out more than the odd word in the talk but my very non practicing son wanted to go, the other VNP tagged along and of course I wasn’t going to veto.
The pope is just a speck in the window, in any case.
Wandered up via a circuitous route to Piazza Navone from there, which is also barricaded at every entrance, and noticed numbers in and out were being counted. Don’t know why.
The Italians must be taking the isis ‘Christmas Blood’ threats very seriously because every year I see more and more security measures being taken. The terror tax must be an incredible drain on finances.
We stayed in the apartment for the midnight count down, but the celebrations came to us as fireworks and crackers were being let off on a terrace right behind us. We’re in a rear apartment in the heart of the old section not far from the river, hard for prying official eyes to get to the rear of these ancient higgledy piggledy blocks..
I remember reading last year of official complaints about illegal fireworks but people obviously still get their hands on them.
It was terrifically loud but fun.
Looking forward to scampering across the post celebratory fields of broken glass in a couple of hours time too.
I think the actual ‘first thing you would need to do’ is to have an honest open discussion about exactly what the role and powers of this President thingy would be.
If the position has any political power, of any sort, it would have to be popularly elected, otherwise it is certain the parliamentary scum would game the election to their benefit – and against ours;
If it is a rigidly ceremonial position, it probably doesn’t matter whether the vipers elect some hack ex-politician, or the proles elect Peter Heliyar, Bindi Irwin, or Peppa Pig.
Howard and his NBN spending! Oh wait, that was the other guys.
Howard and his NDIS spending! Ummm… maybe that was someone else.
Howard and his Pink Batts! Oh, that was the bonehead guy.
I know, I know, Howard building the education revolution!! What?!? That came after Howard, really? Oh bums.
Howard and his moronic plan to fix Global Warming. Ah ha! I finally found something, but even then it did get significantly worse after Howard.
Tiyght Ayness – a pretty village in Southern Wales, population 52 (2014), known for its famous blowholes and the medieval wedding chapel built by local noble Noedik Tubigg after a string of failed love affairs left him forlorn and wandering the hills naked, screaming “Love is Love!” until he died of exposure. The village is now a very popular wedding venue, with couples walking the hills after the ceremony in honour of Tubigg.
The RET was arguably the most damaging policy in australian history. I would have little concern about hanging Howard for treason for that policy alone.
Malcolm Turnbull has flagged a postal survey or plebiscite to gauge support for an Australian republican model — including whether to have a directly elected president — if the Queen’s reign ends while he is still prime minister. (etc.)
Welcome to the Chrissy Pyne’s winners circle, my friends.
It was those geniuses General Dutton and Senator Mathias the Belgian, erstwhile members of ‘the right’, that designed the postal survey idea – so they can stay in government a little longer.
And so now the same device is being pushed by the the Black Handers now push their next piece of social reform. Well done those ‘rightists’. Well done.
Now that there wasn’t thousands of suicides attributable to the marriage plebiscite after all, pounds to peanuts the ALP will promise a postal survey on whether there should be ‘a’ republic – and I suspect they won’t wait on whether Liz dies or not. And if that occurred, the Black Handers will require a conscience vote (natch) on the matter on the spot.
(Incidentally, isn’t Turdball a champ suggesting he’s busting to have form of plebiscite the second someone who’s 90+ dies).
That said, this is how Turdball has operated in business – go positive, push your agenda and dare the opponents to stop you. And he knows the ‘right’ will fold: can’t have instability/too many leadership changes etc. Can’t let Labor in. etc.
The realignment of Australian politics will hopefully accelerate after this (although I won’t hold my breath).
(For the record, upstream posters are quite right that a postal vote/legislation won’t deliver a republic; there will still need to be a referendum. However, can you imagine the months of agonising articles and broadcasts from the ABC and friends about how a ‘real Australian republic would look like between plebiscite (if there is a vote for ‘a’ republic) and referendum (that will specify the sort of republic that will be proposed).
Heaven help us.
Any President must have the power to remove a prime minister who violates the constitution. The pollies won’t like that but it’s crucial.
The candidates for president make prince Charles look good by comparison. That’s almost unbelievable, and I can hardly credit that I wrote it.
When other peoples money is flooding in via a tax called stamp duty, there’s nothing amazing about it.
Just one of the many taxes the Stupid.Fucking.Liberal.Party lied about and said would go with the introduction of the GST.
Cheers nota. Keep ’em coming.
He had one win with postal surveys and now thinks that is his salvation? Even Hawke has argued that Australia will not become a republic until the Queen dies. At present we have more important issues to think about. Is this just another pollie distraction strategy?
President Walid Ally. You know it makes sense. There was always that wiff of uncertainty about Barack Hussein Obama. But Wally? He’s the real deal.
I go to mass at St Mary’s Cathedral at Christmas each year, it’s becoming more and more packed. The later mass on Christmas Eve had hundreds spilling out into the forecourt. I have a suspicion that people are giving huge ‘bird’ to Islam and the usual kow towing.
The candidates for president make prince Charles look good by comparison.
Did you mean the Presidential pool Dr B ? Thank the Lord the candidates are not lining up as yet. Anyhow, I totally agree with the sentiment of a kingly Prince Charles radiating glory as opposed to who we may throw up. No matter who is in power, the “President” will come with political baggage, and if from the ALP/Green
cess pit, she will need a couple of porters to carry it.
lol Muddy.
When other peoples money is flooding in via a tax called stamp duty, there’s nothing amazing about it.
Yes it is amazing. Labor would spend the money on something and there would not be a surplus. NSW is running surplus budgets and has paid off all govt debt under the Liberals. An amazing achievement.
The question is whether, like Howard, they leave behind recurrent spending at levels above average revenues.
Howard and his NBN spending! Oh wait, that was the other guys.
Howard and his NDIS spending! Ummm… maybe that was someone else. (Etc.)
Sadly, the response is confession and avoidance.
Everything Tel says is quite right.
But equally Howard’s Christian Democratic approach of Family Tax Benefit A/Tax Benefit B, beneficial treatment to self funded retirees etc. meant that when Howard left the Budget fell into structural surplus once iron ore receipts fell to average (and then heaps beyond).
The fact The Other Mob went hard, went early and went pensioners, did pink batts, the NDIS, the NBN etc exacerbates matters greatly; however the current Federal Government fully supports the NDIS (because they ‘have to do it for Garry’), supports Gonski II expenditures, has the same timeframe for deficit reduction, will spend anything on Snowy 2 because they can’t walk away from their international global warming targets etc. leads to the conclusion the current Majors are birds of the same feather – which is why a realignment of Australian politics is necessary, at least at federal level.
I do trust the NSW Government (the Government I originally was referring to) isn’t building in structural spending incapable of being supported once the proceeds of sales are dissipated and stamp receipts revert to mean (or below).
Left to their own inclinations, the proles would vote in presidenty mc presidentface as head of the country.
Not one of the sellout, bribe taking quisling scum that have betrayed us.
So a prole elected president will not happen.
A committee of our betters will be announced to pick the president.
Like the ruddfilth had a building full of Australia’s elite cocksuckers come together to think huge thoughts for the future of the country.
How did that work out for us?.
Any of those scumbags predict Bollards and paramilitary shoot to kill death squads to control the proles?.
Neither will the Left – no – one is ever going to do, again, what Kerr did to their idol in 1975.
Fair point… but if we just focus on the narrow issue of government spending, there’s been some appalling post-Howard policy.
Starting various wars could also be seen as a commitment to government spending. Out of fairness I should include that, but hey, the troops need to train somewhere. Those weapons won’t test themselves ya know.
Went to my parish church for midnight Mass and it too was also packed. Haven’t seen a turnout like that in our parish for some time. Mostly people with Chinese, Indian and Filipino backgrounds and a few native Australians to a lesser extent.
meant that when Howard left the Budget fell into structural surplus once iron ore receipts fell to average (and then heaps beyond).
That is garbage of course. The biggest mining boom and best terms of trade in our history happened from 2008-2013 under Rudd/Gillard. Boom started in 2004 under Howard but exploded under Rudd. Commodity prices are still higher than they were under Howard
http://www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/commodity-prices.html
Sorry to be blunt, but that’s total crap. Sync proved that wrong years ago, try here … http://catallaxyfiles.com/2015/04/14/how-is-that-iron-ore-price-looking/
The peak of the mining boom was 2011 and the country was running up big deficits well BEFORE that time. Peter Costello was able to balance the budget long before the iron ore price went “Teh da Moon!”. In comparison with 2011 the Iron prices under Costello were nothing exciting whatsoever. No attempts to re-write history please.
Great idea.
Abbott should suggest a bundle of other issues of public importance to wrap up in the survey at no extea cost…
an immigration freeze, getting rid of subsidies on renewballs, building coal/nuclear generators, capital punishment for terrorists.
If you’re looking for praise of the Stupid.Fucking.Liberal.Party State or Federal, you’ve come to the wrong blog.
Take a look under Z for Zimmerman. You may find solace there.
This from The Oz. Taken in turn from Associated Press. The derangement looks like continuing into the New Year.
Trump cited his success in placing a justice on the Supreme Court, his efforts to cut regulations and his big win on overhauling taxes, which he falsely described as the “largest tax cut in the history of our country”.
Trump offered the video with a New Year’s Eve message: “What a year it’s been, and we’re just getting started. Together, we are MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Happy New Year!!”
He later offered another Twitter message, loaded with his signature bombast: “As our Country rapidly grows stronger and smarter, I want to wish all of my friends, supporters, enemies, haters, and even the very dishonest Fake News Media, a Happy and Healthy New Year. 2018 will be a great year for America!”
From the Oz. Never do these things by halves.
Cut him some slack. It was NYE.
Comment, on Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to raise taxes on da ebil rich.
Gilding the lily more than a bit, maybe as a pat on the back for Berejiklians former role as Treasurer and current role as CEO, less so for Perrotet who has inherited a bit of glow.
Michael Egan produced 9 surpluses in a row during his 10 year tenure as NSW Treasurer, and knocked $10B off the States debt without selling the electricity assets (although he and Carr did try to do so).
Shut up Rae.
Fuck off Gargooglery.
Don’t see why I should.
The Australian rewriting recent history, part 94:
On p.5, Significant Events of 1995 –
Court orders Mundingburra [Qld] by election after finding 22 Peacekeepers in Rwanda were denied a vote.
Independent candidate Liz Cunningham wins by election, votes with the Lib/Nat Coalition, and the Goss ALP Government falls.
That’s just a summary, but there are at least 5 straight out lies in that story.
With regard to the Republic thing. “If” we ever go there, then I suggest that a lotto type draw of all eligible tax paying voters takes place every five years to elect our “President”, but no existing, or wanna be politicians, or public servants are eligible.
President Walid Ally.
You guys have it all wrong.
Heil, President Yammi
Just a comment on the NHS apology Zulu posted.
A slap in the face for the we are women too transgender lobby.
Was the patient a Muslima?
I’ll bet she was but even so it means women have a precedent for insisting on biological female medical practitioners if they so wish.
Transgenders being relegated to the status of an obscure third sex won’t be nearly as much fun and power as they’d hoped for.
Too bad.
If you don’t agree with something, present an argument.
I agree Comrade Boris.
She certainly ticks all the boxes..
A republic just means you elect a King every few years, rather than have an hereditary one.
Seems to sorta work in the U.S., where the House of Representatives plus 1/3 of the Senate face the voters every 2 years, but the ALP want to appoint the President here.
Voters aren’t keen to fall for that.
Because you’re a rolled gold fuckwit who’s been booted from the site multiple times?
Totally correct.
Sinclair linked to Iron and you linked to all commodities, but the story is the same. Neil, I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with you on anything so I thought I might just take this moment in the spirit of the new year and all that to say, UR OK.
Because nominal “free market” parties are in the business of doing whatever the “Other Guy” did before them, but a little bit less radical. Just keep that cigarette paper between you and the opposition and call the job done. So Howard saw what Keating was doing and he figured “I can do that while being a fraction more conservative” and then Tony Abbott had no idea WTF he was doing, but if we overlook that debacle, we have Turnbull trying his best to be Julia Gillard with a smaller backside and putting a little more effort into elaborate displays of hand wringing. That’s how conservative parties win elections, by being a tiny bit less nutcase.
There’s a huge difference between them in principle. Gillard firmly believed in creeping Fabian socialism, while Turnbull firmly believes in nothing at all, other than perhaps Turnbull. Who would you rather deal with??
You will never understand, septimus , so just fuck off.
BECAUSE the Liberal.Party are stupid.
(Hope that helps Boris out.
the door)
From the Oz. What is it with the Labor Party, and “Captain’s picks?”
If you don’t agree with something, present an argument.
Yeah, well, I probably could do that…, but you see, I am very old, and can not see any advantage in wasting what little time is left to me, debating with people who by their own posts, show that they do not want to debate, just debase.
so… Happy New Year. oh… and fuck off.
Let’s remain a monarchy but give the Windsors the flick after Betty shuffles off this mortal coil.
I nominate Prince Fred and Princess Maz. She’s a nice Aussie girl who did her royal duty and popped out 4 sprogs so the succession is assured and Fred likes beer and sailboats so can’t be all bad.
Queen Mary of Australia.
Won’t domeone help him out?
the door
Only CFMEU members to be allowed to stand for the presidency!
Or else.
Don’t know about your areas, but people are really starting to hurt around these areas.
Personally, I shake my head at their surprise, but many were expecting a bit of a kick over Christmas that didn’t come.
Pubs and restaurants in shock!
I don’t know about your area, but I would suggest this little carry on about a republic will be pissing many people off, to the point of actually starting to grizzle to their local member.
No surprise, struth. I’m in the game and have seen it coming for a bit. The WA EPA can go fuck themselves with this forecasting of another mining boom, self serving dogs. Just check the ‘gumtree index’, more toys for sale than you can shake a stick at and none moving. I bleat on occasionally to my staff, if the thieving arseholes of council and state and federal government’s don’t get their hands out of people’s pockets there is nothing there when they put their own hand in. No loose twenty or pineapple in the purse, no spendy. No coffee and cake, no dinners out, no down to the pub for a pint and a flutter. The fucking rate and tax mooching scum feather and extend their nests yet are rarely seen mingling with the plebs. Fucking socialist slime.
FMD. Who’d a thunk we’d be lucky scoring Holy Billy?
From Pyjamas Media. Theyhas included a photo of theyselfat PJM. The horror!
No scent though of the transperson, thank merciful heaven.
#Myidentityisvalid is now the rage. More at PJ including the latest curse on these sad, sad freaks ‘pronoun violence’
just your not so friendly reminder that you are following a #TRANSGENDER person. i just had to block 20 fucking people for supporting some rank anti-trans posts, and i’m pissed off about it. if you think people like me–trans people, especially trans women– deserve to be harassed, barred from bathrooms, murdered, tortured, forced to be hidden, ashamed, or any other kind of crap, fucking unfollow me now. if you support anti-trans laws, unfollow me. if you’re trying to keep “men out of women’s bathrooms,” fucking unfollow me and rot. there’s nothing wrong with us trans people. our identities are fucking perfectly normal– you assholes are the abnormal ones with so much hate and obsession with us. my name is jessi, and i am #agender #nonbinary #trans. i go by they/them/their #pronouns, and yes, they’re grammatically correct. and yes, #MyIdentityIsValid. yes, that means i have no gender. no, my genitals and chromosomes and my clothing choices don’t make me what you want me to be. no, your opinion doesn’t fucking matter. yes, i am #ProudToBeTrans. and no, if you have a problem with ANY of the above, i don’t give two shits, and yes, i will fucking block you if you do. #TransPride #TransgenderPride #enby #NoGender #NonbinaryPride #EnbyPride #queer #pansexual #QueerAsFuck #TransAsFuck #FuckYesImTrans #FatTrans
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What an entitled baggage that woman is. I didn’t think much of Deane but in this instance good on Keating. His ratty instincts proved correct.
Sinclair linked to Iron and you linked to all commodities, but the story is the same.
Same goes for Terms of Trade. Best ever under Rudd/Gillard and still better now than under Howard but we cannot produce a surplus budget. The GFC is over and my Super Fund is going gangbusters so i think the govt is getting plenty of money.
http://www.rba.gov.au/chart-pack/images/commodity-prices/terms-of-trade-small.gif
Snap Snoops! 😀
Damn!
Ian Chappell made a captain’s pick to open with Lillee and Thomson. The poms didn’t like it at all.
Way to go, Wivenhoe.
Chalk one up for us Oldies.
The RET was arguably the most damaging policy in australian history. I would have little concern about hanging Howard for treason for that policy alone.
I think Big Australia is by far the most destructive policy ever inflicted on Australia. That it is undeclared makes it far more insidious and despicable.
Way to go, Wivenhoe.
Chalk one up for us Oldies.
Cool, MV, I am at the stage where if it makes no difference to me, well let it be. BUT.. if it threatens my children, or grandchildren…, then you had better batten down the hatches, because I will be coming for you, and I WILL cause damage.
wivenhoe
#2598609, posted on January 1, 2018 at 5:03 pm
+100
2018, made it, phew…
Have a good one Mr D and all the crew.
Arresting 200 drunken whities is easy, 200 rioting South Sudanese, not so much.
Whoa, hold on there.
#Myidentityisvalid, #bi-stander
OH, and by the way, yes I do have guns, No never declared, Yes lots of ammo, and yes, very accurate shot….So what can I say other than… Come on down.
Notafan, thanks for the travelogue. Looking forward to hearing more.
A south Sudanese shows how gutless Vicplod and Andrews are;
“A PROFESSIONAL athlete who works closely with young Africans both in and out of prison says Australia needs to face up to its problem with Sudanese gangs.
Nelly Yoa, a South Sudanese footballer, was also injured in a high-profile machete attack in Melbourne in 2011.
His commentary comes after a string of headline-grabbing violent incidents in Melbourne last month. Among them were an attempted ambush on officers, a shopping centre cop bashing, an out-of-control house party riot which forced heavily-armed police to retreat and a mass brawl at St Kilda beach.
In an editorial for Fairfax Media, Yoa wrote he is “furious and in total disbelief” because police and government officials “say there are no Sudanese gangs in Melbourne”.
“Nobody should ever try and cover up or defend this unacceptable behaviour — to do so is immoral and inexplicable,” he wrote. “It is upsetting and completely false.
“It is a fact that South Sudanese are over-represented in crime statistics and are causing great harm and fear across communities in Melbourne.”
I am very old, and can not see any advantage in wasting what little time is left to me, debating with people who by their own posts, show that they do not want to debate, just debase.
Yay! Chalk one up for the oldies.
Thanks, wivenhoe.
I see Teh Dumb hasn’t improved with its summer host lazy eyed Adam Spencer:
Breathtaking ABC insight.
Way to go, Wivenhoe.
Chalk one up for us Oldies.
Oh, my gosh, I just echoed MV without even reading his post.
Must be something in it.
lol Muddy.
Thanks Nick.
The rest of you are a bunch of bloody Palestinians for not getting my joke. Discussing serious issues instead of cheap gay humour. Pffft.
Makka
#2598631, posted on January 1, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for that, Makka.
Any chance that anyone in authority might actually listen to him?
Cats seem to confuse Sundanese whir South Sudanese. Sudan is Muslim while South Sudan is Christian