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Lots of throwing toys out of the cot given Jacindargh Arghderns appointment at Sydney Uni.
But here are the questions that should be asked.
1. Was this role an existing need for the university or have they, amidst a time of apparent fiscal dilemma, drummed this role up out of nowhere? I'm presuming her part time 5 year contract is circa $400k per annum....if this was discretionary spending, surely someone had to stump up a business case? Else this likely fails probity and due diligence...
2. How do the rank and file regard this? When they get laid off by sydney uni in their hundreds over the next two years...and this is inevitable....will they wonder if their careers were destroyed thanks to Jacindaaaargh and mates?
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I call on the Premier of Queensland, @DavidCrisafulli, to get on the phone to Santos MD and CEO Kevin Gallagher.
Santos is being kicked from pillar to post in South Australia.
If they're not actively campaigning against it on their university campuses, we now hear there's a petition to boot them from the Santos annual roadrace.
In Queensland, we're serious about promoting energy businesses.
We know gas is critical to underpinning data centres, and data centres are key infrastructure for promoting domestic AI capability.
Make the call Premier, and get Kevin to relocate Santos HQ here in Brisbane.
It's much closer to their Timorese, PNG and US operations as well.
No brainer for them, for the LNP and for Queenslanders.
Earn your vote Premier
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Look I don't hate the @dallascowboys
Like most sane people, I love to hate them, and that's unequivocally different
Each week it's that same dismal feeling - what will it take to get them to a #SuperBowl which they can then lose in a cliffhanger? That would make the #NFL so much more enjoyable.
Dak is a great QB - but the chemistry is not there. Something needs to change.
Trade with SanDiego - the whale's vagina.
#makecowboysalmostgreatagain
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For reference, I curtailed the chart for brevity.
But at request of this halfwit, here it is going back a further 20 years.
There's an old saying - don't ask questions if you cannot control the answers.
#aninconvenienttruth
You (perhaps conveniently) omitted a very important point in your summary? That was the Coalition (Howard & Costello) predisposition for selling all the Gov’s assets. EG. In ‘97 they sold 2/3rds of our gold for $2.4 Billion, it would be worth 30 today. Not to mention Telstra etc.
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Does anyone have any contacts in at the various State, Territory and Federal education departments?
I'm seeking a grant to sharpen the colouring on my proprietary CDAC (Cognitive Dissonance Amelioration Chart) ™️
I propose this be adorned in every schoolroom, hallway and in all public toilets. As well as public transports and overhanging major toll road gantries.
Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner has confirmed in senate estimates that men who claim to be women are covered by breastfeeding protections in the sex discrimination act.
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4 reasons why science is so highly compromised.
I will call it the SPIC paradigm
1. Stupidity - it is incontrovertible, scientists are not the smartest amongst us. As evidenced by the lowly tertiary entry scores to become a 'scientist'
2. Prejudiced - we see this with the universities. People who clamour for these roles are already of a particular dogma. They have their world view - now they just have to shape the method, the equipment, and the data to support it
3. Inculcated - if they're not already cognitively impaired from a young age, they soon become tainted by the 'groupthink' of their colleagues. It is neither trendy or economically expedient to be right-leaning in any academic environment. Witness Joanna Howes.
4. Compromised. You follow the money. Science is now about championing narratives for large corporate interests. Nothing to do with human curiosity.
Anyone can be a scientist. Only the most stupid amongst us pursue it as a career.
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I feel this is a more enlightening and less dishonest chart Craig. But dishonesty comes naturally to you.
Let me describe the clear trend lines:
Series 1 LNP continuous surpluses
Series 2 Krudd ALP immediately to deficit where it remained
Series 3 Abbott LNP incurred fiscal overhang from Wayne Swan poison pills namely NDIS and NBN. Later LNP deficit exposition due to Covid spend with massively reduced income tax receipts. Position worsened by ALP opposition agitating for even further spending
Series 4 Albanese inherits tail end of LNP efforts to reduce deficit, lands small surplus and immediately trends back to KRudd style deficits.
It will be even worse next year
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It's actually not a laughing matter.
This country diverts extraordinary sums of money to the ideological pursuit of transgenderism.
Leading the charge are our nation's universities (need I remind you for the umpteenth time, they are NOT primarily funded by overseas students, they are mainly funded by YOU the taxpayer)
Some universities give many, many weeks of *additional* leave to people who merely claim to be transgender.
As we have now concluded, gender identity is both a clinical illness and a scam, and ought not consume ONE SINGLE CENT of taxpayers money.
Which goes for 'everything pride' - L,G,B,T,Q,A+
Cut every last cent of funding.
BUT LEAVE SUPPORT FOR 'I' in place - it is incredibly rare; it is indisputably a physical condition, and sufferers often have little idea. if or when they do learn of this condition, we should assist, in the same way as we don't turn our backs on people with MS, or MND, or CS, etc.
But it is the left who are largely responsible for this scam - it is classic misdirection.
The magician's trick? It's called the Motte and Bailey.
The Motte? Everyone 'identifying' as any of LGBTQIA+ is afforded extreme entitlement
The Bailey? When asked, they misdirect back to 'I' DSD conditions, as if that justifies the lot.
It does not. Repeal the scam.
@DavidCrisafulli - this is absolutely rife in your state government departments. You've done bugger all to unwind it. Time for this unaffordable and unfair lurk to end.
If you've read and comprehended the below, then:
* If your IQ is < 100, you likely won't change your mind
* Else, you likely may
I'm the first person I am aware of to openly advocate for the I cohort / community, and it is an open and shut case.
But the rest? (which constitutes the overwhelming majority) - is nothing but a scam.
The suicidal empathy of the west, expedited through nonsensical ideology
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If you've read and comprehended the below, then:
* If your IQ is < 100, you likely won't change your mind
* Else, you likely may
I'm the first person I am aware of to openly advocate for the I cohort / community, and it is an open and shut case.
But the rest? (which constitutes the overwhelming majority) - is nothing but a scam.
The suicidal empathy of the west, expedited through nonsensical ideology
I was recently talking to a friend, she's something of a rabid greenie (is there any other type?), and debating her view the world is a cornucopia of magical sexes and genders and (I tuned out to the rest).
Whilst asserting the XX / XY split is sufficient, she proceeded to rail about the various types of *incredibly rare* chromosomal, hormonal, gonadal or other 'DSD conditions' that are scientifically demonstrable.
And right she is. Except for the inconvenient truth - which is that that same science shows us no positive correlation between having a DSD condition and identifying as another gender.
Welcome to the I-T schism (as in, LGBTQIA+).
The more I learn, the more I realise the 'I' is a legitimate cohort (still conforming to a single sex association) - who genuinely deserve support.
If you read and consider, you'll understand why. In fact, my support reads like this:
1st level - Intersex - born with a DSD condition, extremely rare, genuinely medically proven, treatable in some cases, most don't want to get caught up in the transgender debate. These people deserve whatever support we can offer.
2nd level - L, G, B, A. I mean, really, I don't GAF about your orientation. Just be legal and decent about it. And don't ask for screen savers and street party lockdowns and funding. It's your choice - do with it what you wish. get the fu** out of my wallet. The A by the way is for Asexual. OK, if you'd rather pat your cat than stroke your pussy, that's also on you. Whatever. Just keep it to yourself.
3rd level - T, Q, +. If you want to dress 'unconventionally' that's on you. Sounds strange, but if a bloke really had to put on a skirt and call himself Sonya....whatever. It is absolutely without doubt a psychiatric condition, and we should provide taxpayer funded treatment only to the point of helping you navigate the issue (as opposed to proposing surgery or chems). This should be registered on at least one government database and made clear to any insurer. It is quite likely transient and / or treatable, but if you are an adult, and you really have to mash your nads, this is entirely on you. It should also exempt you from certain high risk activities. How in fuc*'s name this country assigned a TQ to the head of the Defence Forces is astounding. This should not be funded by the taxpayer. It is elective and should be regulated. Performed in private hospitals only. No liability to the taxpayer at all.
Back to the 'gender fluidity' argument.
It is this simple.
Biological sex in anisogamous species such as humans is defined by the two gamete types an organism is organized to produce (small/sperm versus large/ova). There is no third gamete class, so the category stays binary even when some individuals have chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical mismatches.
Done. So if you have a DSD, we ought to really wrap our arms around you (if you are aware of the condition and want assistance).
If you are L,G,B or A - fine, just STFU
If you are T, Q+ - get help. There will be conditions and restrictions, and no 'perks'
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I was recently talking to a friend, she's something of a rabid greenie (is there any other type?), and debating her view the world is a cornucopia of magical sexes and genders and (I tuned out to the rest).
Whilst asserting the XX / XY split is sufficient, she proceeded to rail about the various types of *incredibly rare* chromosomal, hormonal, gonadal or other 'DSD conditions' that are scientifically demonstrable.
And right she is. Except for the inconvenient truth - which is that that same science shows us no positive correlation between having a DSD condition and identifying as another gender.
Welcome to the I-T schism (as in, LGBTQIA+).
The more I learn, the more I realise the 'I' is a legitimate cohort (still conforming to a single sex association) - who genuinely deserve support.
If you read and consider, you'll understand why. In fact, my support reads like this:
1st level - Intersex - born with a DSD condition, extremely rare, genuinely medically proven, treatable in some cases, most don't want to get caught up in the transgender debate. These people deserve whatever support we can offer.
2nd level - L, G, B, A. I mean, really, I don't GAF about your orientation. Just be legal and decent about it. And don't ask for screen savers and street party lockdowns and funding. It's your choice - do with it what you wish. get the fu** out of my wallet. The A by the way is for Asexual. OK, if you'd rather pat your cat than stroke your pussy, that's also on you. Whatever. Just keep it to yourself.
3rd level - T, Q, +. If you want to dress 'unconventionally' that's on you. Sounds strange, but if a bloke really had to put on a skirt and call himself Sonya....whatever. It is absolutely without doubt a psychiatric condition, and we should provide taxpayer funded treatment only to the point of helping you navigate the issue (as opposed to proposing surgery or chems). This should be registered on at least one government database and made clear to any insurer. It is quite likely transient and / or treatable, but if you are an adult, and you really have to mash your nads, this is entirely on you. It should also exempt you from certain high risk activities. How in fuc*'s name this country assigned a TQ to the head of the Defence Forces is astounding. This should not be funded by the taxpayer. It is elective and should be regulated. Performed in private hospitals only. No liability to the taxpayer at all.
Back to the 'gender fluidity' argument.
It is this simple.
Biological sex in anisogamous species such as humans is defined by the two gamete types an organism is organized to produce (small/sperm versus large/ova). There is no third gamete class, so the category stays binary even when some individuals have chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical mismatches.
Done. So if you have a DSD, we ought to really wrap our arms around you (if you are aware of the condition and want assistance).
If you are L,G,B or A - fine, just STFU
If you are T, Q+ - get help. There will be conditions and restrictions, and no 'perks'
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Cost of living blah blah. Inflation blah blah.
So many politicians having a gripe.
But gripes are not a solution.
Just as high-level statements of intent are very far from a solution too.
I was recently asked how I would approach the problem.
But to be clear - what is the problem statement?
It is this
"Government actions are a key driver of inflation in the Australian economy at present, and consequently they should be seeking to modify this behaviour in a way that is economically beneficial to Australians"
It is turning the temperature down, on public expenditure that is overheating demand and forming inflationary pressure
However, we ought to recognise a solution is not that simple because:
· Government is not a Cessna it is a Boeing - it does not turn on a dime, and many of its actions don't realise immediate outcomes
· Cutting government spend can have brutal impacts on sectors of the economy, so we need to be mindful of what we cut, and where.
In order, my recommendations are:
· Fixing the operating model of public service departments and agencies
o Think work from office
o Think superannuation rates back to 12% SGC
o Think leave entitlements reduced to 4 weeks leave, 10 days sick leave
· Improving Capex design and delivery
o Think improved investment and project governance, such as Snowy 2.0
· Rationalising the estate portfolio
o Think not selling Defence estates, but rationalising departmental CRE leases
A thread
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For those who don't understand how the treatment modality works...
Psychiatric illness used to be treated across a number of 'insane asylums' in a given state, such as Victoria where i grew up
This was from the 1800's all the way into the 1970's and 80's. The Kew Asylum being the best example, I've heard stories about how my great grandfather took his children their on weekends....as if it were some kind of public circus
Eventually society began to suggest that these facilities were dehumanising, and so they were shuttered in favour of a hybrid, 'community integrated living' approach.
This meant 'wards', dedicated psychiatric wings attached to major hospitals, combined with dedicated housing facilities and, where possible, treatment in their own home... invariably their family's home, because few such people can maintain employment
Despite not being as bad as the asylums, these wards could still be shocking places (not an intended pun).
I worked in one as a security guard whilst undertaking psychology as one major in my undergrad.
Potentially violent perpetrators were sedated most of the day. Suicide attempts, despite best efforts in design and practice, were a weekly thing.
Invariably, for those in integrated living, patients would be found wandering the streets of their neighbourhood, barking religion at nobody in particular, until the CATS, or crisis assessment teams, would coerce them into an ambulance, under police guard, back to the hospital ward.
When you walk the streets of any CBD in the early morning you'll see those with psychiatric conditions wondering the streets, shouting to themselves.
They are highly dangerous, but usually to themselves, simply because they cannot be inconspicuous, and so will frequently get dropped by a big fella who doesn't understand why they're yelling at him.
The real tragedy here will be when this happens in the regions...where services are spread thin. For someone like Brendan Nugent, the poor parents are left to wear the impact. Some parents disown their children and shun them, others do their very best in near helpless circumstances.
But as we now see, Nugent was highly agitated and aberrant for several years at least. A powder keg waiting to explode or implode at any time. It doesn't always happen, but it's ugly when it does.
Sadly, the fix isn't easy, because the catalyst isn't uniform. In my limited experience, and in talking to the psychiatrists on the ward:
- usually their is an underlying congenital, neurological illness. But it can remain dormant, potentially forever
- drugs, especially marijuana, and to a lesser degree meth, can easily trigger this, or without the underlying trigger given sustained use. I never saw inpatients from coke, MDMA, gbh, etc
But here's an interesting pivot. If it weren't so hard to find work in the regions and, moreso, if welfare wasn't so lucrative for so many, it's highly likely that the rigour, disciplines and self esteem effects of being in work would significantly reduce these impacts
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Why are some influencers and - potentially - political candidates seeking to stir up the hornet's nest that is abortion?
I am now seeing numerous people taking to X / FB / IG, all stating quite clearly 'do not give your first preference to One Nation'.
My understanding is that this is based on their personal feelings of opposition to gestational limits.
I understand that if you do not support gestational limits on abortion, you align better with Family First but why are One Nation supporters platforming influencers .... who are directly not supporting One Nation.
All it is going to take is for someone to register a 'pro-life' party and many will be arguing One Nation down to 3rd on the ticket.
@discernableco
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Wow, just wow. When an LLM refuses to generate a somewhat innocuous image, on the basis of 'harms', you know we've already lapsed into extreme censorship.
This is not a guardrail, or ensuring 'alignment'.
This is absurd curtailment of free speech
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Fatality data for conflict zones in the past 12 months
I recognise every cognitively impaired halfwit wants to wave a Palestinian flag around, but their lack of public expression for atrocities across Sudan is....
...perplexing?
Seems we have a genocide unravelling in Sudan.
Not elsewhere.
Why the misdirect?
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Pauline – when’s the last time you were proposed to?
Because I propose to propose to you right now.
But before I get down on bended knee, I believe Australians are owed an explanation.
As you know, One Nation has a well-known policy around citizen-initiated referenda.
Now, this is not quite as easy, as economical, or as practical as it may first sound. But there is no reason not to deliver upon this noble pursuit. The juice is well and truly worth the squeeze.
For the most precious thing any of us should aspire to in western democracies is the true voice of the populace is heard and honoured.
But sadly, Australians are forever being gaslit by the supposed ‘mandate’ - where a party is voted in as much by discontent with the incumbent as it is with the vision of rival parties – but then proceeds to implement all manner of ideological agenda.
Nothing fits this description better than Albanese’s shameless pursuit of Indigenous ‘recognition’ despite his ‘Voice’ referendum being soundly defeated - an abhorrent violation of democracy and abuse of taxpayers’ funds.
So back to my proposal.
A polling system
Integrated with the ON member portal (not the current Nation Builder portal, but the new VoterID platform you will be moving onto shortly)
From a member's perspective - it will seem they are still in the portal
Authenticates member credentials so only members may participate in these polls
ON can run as many polls as you want, and segregate them by Federal vs State, by jurisdiction, electorate or demographic
ON can publish or conceal data from whichever user cohort you wish (you might want members to only see poll results once it closes, but ON HQ can see polling data in real time)
This will be built and maintained by Australian citizens in Australia with existing security clearances
ON can own the product entirely fee free – this is not COTS (Commercial off the Shelf) kit, it will be a bespoke product for ON requirements (it’s not that complex a specification).
I just want democracy to flourish
I am confident you know, and even more confident James knows, this will drive yet another surge in membership – like what you saw in Q1 and 2 this year.
Seventy thousand members will want their voices heard – and this becomes a powerful membership attraction and engagement tool.
Which means more party revenue, fast.
So, what do you say Pauline?
Is that a yes?
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Just don't reassign them to the Department of Education.
It's full of illiterate retards already.
If we're going to help future generations, we need to do this at the eary leels.
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The intellectual depravity of Western elites is breathtaking.
Historically, von der Leyen has admonished the right for demanding lesser immigration.
Now, having realised the cesspit she's turned most of Europe into, it's somehow Russia's fault.
The globalists always offer zero accountability
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This one was funny / not funny
The missus car copped a belting to the FLS wheel on a country road. Buggered it. Wheel was + $6K
Then on the tow back to Melbourne - lo and behold - that is actually a boat sitting on the road. The trailer it was on hit a nasty one and broke the suspension.
I still can't fathom how that forces a boat off the trailer and onto the road, but....it did.
'only in Victoria, where all the residents are potential Darwinians'
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I went on a bit of a gander for the gf the other day.
Let's talk diamond solitaires. Genuine diamond > lab grown.
It's the real McCoy - nature is just being put on 10K x speed.
Do you know that the cost of truly top shelf solitaires (we're talking G/VS1 round - let's say 5 carat) is now 98% cheaper than 5 years ago?
That is, when comparing the blood diamond vs the expedited product.
In AUD, that is from just north of $200K, to just south of $10K?
At the risk of sounding absurd, the cost (hence the price) of these diamonds is rapidly heading to zero. Who knows where it bottoms out, but there is clearly some way to go yet.
Forget what you've lost on your mortgage - who's lost 6 figures on a solitaire?
First it was diamonds heading to zero...perhaps PM's are going the same way?
One has to consider the potential for AI / Quantum to solve these challenges of physics, chemistry and ? metallurgy.
Because perhaps rare earth elements can be engineered, and indeed are not so rare after all (I am just musing, I have no relevant background and did not consult slopbot)
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For anyone fretting over falling property prices, stagflation, etc
We're gonna be ok.
I've just been to DJs, and the Chinese girls there buying the new summer range of Stanley cups? Stampede.
Looks like we'll get through this.
They all look the same to me. The cups i mean.
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Shame Pocock has to be such an ideologically captured MP on matters that suit C200.
Otherwise, he's saying most of the right things
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2/ How can Albanese 'turn down the temperature'?
These would be a good start. It's a 10-point plan:
1. Personally apologise to Helen Haines. We've seen Pauline Hanson man up twice now and offer up apologies. In light of the dirt file you shopped on Helen Haines, the least you can do is apologise. Everything else is a non-starter if you cannot do this.
2. Stand down Justin Lloyd, who issued the document. Look, we all know its ceremonial and you'll get him another job elsewhere, but accountability needs to be visible. Give him a 6-month spell before he can return.
3. Commit to improving parliamentary standards – where do you think this all starts from? We see you behaving like a bunch of prats all day every day. Allow a behavioural psychologist to sit in the chamber somewhere and intervene the moment an MP devolves into useless mudslinging. We pay enormous taxes, yet your workplace is easily the most childish and unproductive any of us have seen
4. Palestine is not an official nation at this moment. With a clear 12-month sunset clause, immediately rule the public display of the Palestinian flag a Federal offence punishable by jail. Everyone sees this - even leftists would have to concede the point - there is not a single flashpoint anywhere in the west where the Palestinian flag is not waving. If Australians feel so motivated, they should fly over there, pick up a stick and go full tilt at the IDF - but we here in Australia are utterly sick of this BS
5. Pause migration - between yourself and Tony Burke you have created an unmitigated disaster here. It is clearly the most contentious topic in Australia - and the polls show extraordinary support for heavily reducing immigration. When you ignore the democratic wishes of your people, you are turning the temperature up. The solution here is clear.
The next 5 are nice to haves
6. Reduce your expenses - commit to paring back MP expenses and allowances to 15% below corresponding quarter the preceding year. Every other Aussie is doing it tough. We need to see you feel and share our pain.
7. Do your cabinet reshuffle now – just get it over with so nobody is bit**ing and moaning later. Burke, Chalmers and Bowen - they're the main ones. Charlton will replace Chalmers - we know that much already. Give immigration to Jason Clare. Try for once in your lives to hire someone with 10 years private sector experience
8. Pause ADF property sales and commence BOM and CSIRO property rationalisation instead. Reduce the service offerings of both and reduce their operating budgets by 20%
9. Reduce super for all Commonwealth employees to the 12% SGC rate. This is what it was always meant to be - per Keating's vision.
10. Establish a national indigenous taskforce that outlines 5 key social metrics, and commit to a measure of improvement on each under your stewardship. Enough of the navel gazing, the blame shifting, the proselytising and the pork barrelling - less money spent, for more results
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The extreme left truly are a paragon of virtue and humanity. We are witnessing their cultural zenith in real time. I get this on the quarter hour (below)
pay it no mind. one of them might have a stroke in their sleep tonight.
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I mean, I'm not offended.
I'm just bemused that people waste their time to post up a comment and then frenetically act to block someone.
(as an aside, I am certainly seeing a spike in the deranged lunatic left coming out of the woodwork. seems as if they pay no heed to their leader's impassioned pleas for turning down the temperature. If they won't listen to him, and he's not taking his own advice, he seems like a leader of nothing?)
COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
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What does it mean to turn down the temperature?
Let me explain.
The technique is called HALA.
That stands for High Affinity, Low Accountability.
It is the art – the science in fact – of speech which sounds immensely virtuous, but when efforts are made to unpack the true meaning, it is in fact vaporous.
The US democrat party are renowned for this – with slogans such as ‘build back better’
For their part, the Australian left is almost as prolific:
‘nation building’
‘moving forwards’
‘standing shoulder to shoulder’ and
‘the clever country’
Logic and literal meaning have given way to virtue signalling
It is this brazen technique of cognitive dissonance that gives us ‘turning down the temperature’.
So, let’s examine what this can and should mean.
But first, let’s start with one observation and two principles:
Observation – Australia is at its most divided at any time in its history.
Whether it be a military force, a business enterprise or a sports team – if such division were present in these environments the leader would most certainly be required to fall on their sword.
Alas, that will not happen, and let’s not bother asking.
Principles:
1. If the Prime Minister seeks to tell Australians to turn down the temperature – he needs to be the one to extend the olive branch first, with some truly substantial gestures. Which I discuss below.
2. Leaders of the Liberal, National, Greens and One Nation parties need to contribute meaningful gestures for their part.
So, what can Albanese start doing, right here and now? A thread….
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UPDATE 21/10
Thanks to @DrewPavlou who's knocking out some stellar investigative work lately
For those who asked.
Here it is. YOUR SMOKING GUN.
Credible evidence of the actual information payload (and comms metadata, which is curious) which confirms:
1. The dirt file is real
2. It was initiated by Joshua Lloyd, Deputy Director of Communications to the Prime Minister of Australia.
Lloyd works within the team of 60 or so personnel in the Prime Minister's Office.
He is paid over $350K per annum
And here he is, doing anything but toning the volume down.
By now, we can conclude the ALP are nothing more than vile grubs
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Has mendicancy killed Australia?
It's now emerging that Brendan Nugent was on a disability support pension for a considerable time.
Yet not only did he complain about the difficulty in obtaining this pension, he then railed against the system making it difficult to wean one's self off this welfare.
Read that again: society's fault he couldn't get sit down money. Society's fault he wouldn't go back to work.
I've known a few grubs like this over the years.... Always quick to claim chronic fatigue, but never short of adrenaline when a protest came to town.
Always ready to bemoan 'the rich', but eager to extract as much money from the system as was possible.
Its my observation that the proudest Aussies are the ones whose contributions are oversized.
They pay huge tax bills. Additional imposts as the cost of business. They struggle on and work hard, yet genuinely love their country.
Which contrasts greatly with those who seek perpetually subsidised uni degrees of little economic worth, spending their days protesting about climate, gaza, first persons or whatever is the outrage de jour.
We seem to be approaching that moment when we need to have a serious conversation about *forcing* people back to work.
Reduce immigration
Incentivise employment of hard core unemployed, youth, first persons, elderly, etc
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2/ The criticality of enabling truer democracy faster
I'm not sure for how many centuries casting a vote on paper and tallying those votes has been de rigueur, but a replacement is long overdue.
But more importantly, so too is the notion we vote for a party, and then have to accept each and every policy or program they stump up.
A far better mechanism would be for propositions to be raised and voted on at the same time as a broader election.
Imagine allowing each of the Top 4 parties on proposition each, and potentially another 2 or 3 through some side runoff process.
Imagine this allowed the entire country or state to vote on the more contentious policies of the day.
Should we ban abortion?
Should we ban coal?
Etc etc
In a manner that obligated the successful government to abide by the outcome.
Realise two things:
1. If run as a paper ballot in conjunction with an election, the delivery costs are massively reduced
2. This could potentially be administered digitally instead
I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
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I really hope we can salvage just something out of this awful situation for Dr Haines. I've been truly sickened by some of the commentary today, not merely the left, but a tiny percentage of quite revolting commentary from some right leaning accounts too.
So whilst we wait and hope for Dr Haines to make the fastest and fullest recovery humanly possible, what can we expect to learn from this?
I'm going to offer up some normal themes, and one that borders on the impossible.
Please share your ideas too.
A thread.
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Bit of a hairbrained concept from Paul Murray on Sky24.
Security for all politicians.
If we run the numbers - that's about 220 for the Feds.
Naturally State MP's then ask their share too.
Which is 847 MP's for all houses, all levels.
Given there'd be at least 4 per MP, maybe 5 (weekends, evenings, etc) - that's 4250 security personnel.
At an assumed cost of $200K per person inc kit, that's $850 million per annum.
Of course, Paul did say 'only when needed' - but Helen Haines was shopping on the street. Hardly a high risk event.
So 24x7 it would likely be.
Australia cannot afford this. There are better solutions.
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For the sake of clarity, one of the biggest winners from Vic Uniparty decision to cap tolls for consumers will be uber drivers and van drivers.
Which include an outsized proportion of temporary migrants.
Always nice to know that people in regional Victoria are again subsidising the costs associated with immigration
What's wrong with rusted on Libs like Michael Kroger?
Whilst admonishing Albanese for buying votes (hecs reductions), he conveniently ignores the fact that in his home state, Jess Wilson is busy chasing Ben Carroll in a race to the bottom with toll road caps.
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What's wrong with rusted on Libs like Michael Kroger?
Whilst admonishing Albanese for buying votes (hecs reductions), he conveniently ignores the fact that in his home state, Jess Wilson is busy chasing Ben Carroll in a race to the bottom with toll road caps.
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This was one of the first accounts that seemingly ran with the dirt file. ALP functionaries everywhere
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This is the sort of shilling that was likely the result of the dirt file.
I imagine most ALP shills have had the good sense to remove their offending posts by now
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Seems if you want to avoid having ALP shills critique your posts...
The only course of action is to confront them with the truth.
They don't seem to handle this too well.
For clarity, this was smart tactics by @aaronsmith - the best way to suppress these facts is for him to block me immediately.
Censoring the truth is so du jour
@DHughesy
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COULD ALBANESE BE GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER?
Allegations are emerging that the Office of PM&C have been compiling a dirt file on Dr Helen Haines.
Whilst this is as nauseating as it is insidious, I hope all Australians understand this is ‘par for the course’ for all political parties – all the way down to their rank and file, branch levels.
But what may stick in Australians craw is twofold:
1. Is there a tenable link between the existence of this file and yesterday’s incident?
If so, I anticipate the Governor General (no matter how conflicted she otherwise may be) stepping in and calling a double dissolution of parliament.
The ALP will lose both houses.
2. What proportion of the 59 staff within the DPM&C has been expended to this activity, as opposed to more appropriate matters of state?
If this does not bring down a government from within, nothing does.
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Transition state 2 allows Gina to recover her 'investment' in the expatriation of 'greenthink' to Tasmania.
Having been allowed to open her coal facilities in regional Qld, by now powering 5 DC for global behemoth, a co-located STEM facility and brand-new steel foundry and oil refinery, she is paid back in weeks, not months.
For its part, Tassie now resembles the most hellish scenes of '28 weeks later'.
Crops have failed, wind turbines inoperable and nobody with any trade skills stayed behind to keep the hydro plant running.
Malnutrition has set in, and the asylum has taken to cannibalism.
People sit around and read Trotsky by campfire, in readiness for the great debate 'should russian or cantonese become our native tongue'
In Canberra, they're still eking out a comfortable albeit less salubrious lifestyle - they're building igloo out of the millions of polymer $100 bank notes Turnbull and Simon Holmes a Court swindled over the previous 10 years. Much to their chagrin however, NSW and WA have come to their senses. Those who failed to do so embarked on the long march, a perilous trek across the Nullarbor to Ceduna, where they were able to apply for Trauma Counselling APS4 roles, complete with 18% superannuation. Unfortunately, inflation is running at a Peronist 80% so wages don't mean much anyway. With most people now being down to rations of 3 potatoes and a cabbage, the incentive to work is diminishing.
The NT has installed its first Tokamak, and launched its first hypersonic nuke to Mach 15 over Hong Kong.
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Transitional state 1.
This involves funding the mass exodus of left-wing lunatics to Tasmania.
They will be given complete autonomy over this territory, meaning:
* They can provide free public transport on trams and trains they don't have
* They can revamp their education around indigenous science
* They can open their commie supermarkets
* They may shut down all mining
* They can close down all gas which they don't have
* They can stop digging coal that ain't there
* They can leave non-existent uranium in the ground
* They can issue a fully vegan lifestyle mandate
* They can allow inter-special identity and breeding
* They can export keffiyah patterned merkin
In other words, a greenie utopia
The only restraints?
1. They cannot set foot on the mainland
2. They receive no funding from the mainland
3. They get no military protection from the mainland
4. They cannot trade with the mainland
Aside from that, we wish them well.
We will need to move about 10% of the population not already there, down to Hobart. A couple of million people.
To do this, I propose Gina can fund a limited series of biodegradable, hydrogen-fuelled airships, which will depart from all major mainland cities and be required to touch base somewhere in Tasmania. Then it is on them.
Teals must move to Canberra. Many are there already, and the rest have a short drive from NSW Northern Beaches and inner eastern Melbourne.
They will be disconnected from the grid and encouraged to live off wind power only. They can install as much BESS as they wish - make it 100 stories high, we are a tolerant bunch and want for nothing but there every success.
It is up to the citizens of NSW as to whether they have freedom of movement. Certainly, they will be shot on sight in Qld or NT.
NSW and WA will be afforded some quite reflection time to consider their next move.
SA and Victoria will remain socialist hellholes. They can do what they damn please. Allow roads to decay so that there is more hole than road. Put everyone on the public sector payroll. Give them all jobs as diversity officers at a 3rd rate uni.
For our part, Qld and NT will install bucketloads of coal and gas. This will attract frontier AI vendors, and we will even permit LLM model training as our grid will handle the spiky load profiles.
The entire ADF will move to our region, because they are loathed elsewhere. Which means SA - a green-left hellhole, cannot retain AUKUS contracts whilst simultaneously whining about the perils of the US alliance.
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Does anyone have Gina's number?
I need to present our case. the MALFA 3-step.
The end vision is quite simple.
Where common sense is given free rein.
Where mental illness is quarantined - but in a way that preserves their liberty and dignity. We are after all an empathetic lot.
The end result is an energy powerhouse.
Forget belt and road
This is the Antipodean Resource Arc
The Southern Hemisphere Supply Engine
I have the solution blueprint here on this napkin.
Let's Make Australia Less Fu**ed Again
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Hard to believe - but yet again, the Uniparty is falling over itself to line Transurban's pockets at the expense of regional Victorians (who obtain virtually no benefit from this infrastructure.
I will remind Victorians - it is YOU who reward this craven behaviour ('win office at any cost, fiscal responsibility be damned')
Fast track to bankruptcy down there....
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The perversion and intellectual bankruptcy of the left
If indeed you believe a person with male genitalia can be a woman (and the converse), then:
"Women are the reason men have to get abortions"
Their stupidity is breathtaking
Cost and where you live are the biggest barriers for women trying to access an abortion.
Ben Carroll and Labor will fix that.
Because abortion care is healthcare.
And your right to healthcare should not depend on your bank account or your postcode.
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Are we over-governed?
Aside from 3 layers of government, bi-cameral parliaments* and an absurd variance in voting requirements and counting methods, there is something Australians should consider.
Queensland is the only state with a unicameral parliament.
In layman's terms - this means no upper house. No Senate. Less Parliamentarians. Less support staff. Less office buildings.
And for all intents and purposes - Queensland functions just as well as any other State or Territory (I genuinely believe this state will emerge as the economic powerhouse of Australia through the 2030's and beyond).
So - do we really need a 'house of review' in order to ensure 'proper' governance? I would argue not.
I'm happy to do a deep dive into features of our electoral systems and processes if people see interest or value in this.
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Sure.
Here. It's the Hamburglar.
You goddamn numpties. Stop protecting your jobs and your egos...if you haven't got your POI in a week, then ask the question then. Don't let it go cold in people's minds
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Breaking 🔥🔥🔥
Victorian Greens Leader Ellen Sandell has responded to One Nation's 'patently xenophobic' maternal funding policy, by declaring her abortion policy will only be available to migrants.
Ellen, that's a winner
Of course abortion should be free. It's healthcare.
The Greens would have provided the votes in Parliament for Labor to make abortion free at any point over the last 4 years.
In fact, we asked them to do it many times.
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Look.....i get it. I get it. Honestly i do.
You'd never kill your kid. And they'll kill em all.
But look at these things.
Do you REALLY want your precious little one to grow up surrounded by this?
If you said yes, you need to take a good look at yourself.
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Question for @ellensandell
Will the new Greens Grocer © stores you loons are contemplating stock the following?
- ham and cheese sandwiches
- roll on deodorant
- capsicum spray
Asking for a fiend
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Holy fuck you just continue to say the dumbest shit don't you?
Thanks for your (conspiracy) explanation below.
Thanks for your observation of what's blatantly obvious above.
Quite remarkable you think yourself logical. Trust me when i say, it's stretching credibility to think you have an IQ surpassing 100.
You should observe far more, and comment far less.
For what its worth, the ALP most assuredly set a trap. This is political strategy. They've played it very well indeed.
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Following these events ...
For a wheelchair bound guy in WA, he sure did manage to touch a lot of people across Australia. #FeelsOnWheels
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CSIRO is one of the most potent propaganda agencies for the ALP
It pretends to be apolitical, yet most Australians realise CSIRO delivers very little meaningful science
Question:
Do you think it OK for CSIRO to castigate Australians for the apparent damage our emissions have on animal ecosystems....whilst they kill 750,000 animals a year?
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