Rostrum: Friday drinks and Jokes edition!

Kung Hei Fat Choy! (Year of the horse.)

Drinks and jokes, you say? I might have my first drink since New Years Eve. (Don’t ask!) Then I’ll rate the jokes.

I’ll join the party with JW and water… ** clink **

This is interesting

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/events/65_anniversary/

“On 26 January 1949 the Nationality and Citizenship Act 1948 came into effect creating the new status of Australian citizen. Prior to this, most people living in Australia were known as British subjects. This important piece of legislation meant that for the first time we could truly call ourselves Australians.”

So we were not Australian citizens until 1949. Before that we were British subjects.

‘I hope that JW is not red label?’

chuckle

Talking of which.

PHILIP MUNDAY: So, what we’ve looked at is a thing called the critical flicker fusion rate, and this tends to be correlated with the activity level and the environment that an animal lives in. So if they live in a very bright environment, they’re very active, they have a high critical flicker fusion rate. If they’re more sluggish or live in a dim environment, they have a much lower one.

ABC / PM

Red label has always been my preferred option, I got this one as a Xmas present and should keep me going until my birthday in June.

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/undersize-tiger-shark-found-dead-on-drum-line-at-perth-beach/story-fnii5thn-1226815535789

I have no problem with culling some of the sharks around popular beaches. Along the surf coast this summer there were beaches were cleared a couple of times because of sharks. I can’t recall that ever happening in the past.

I’d prefer to have a few sharks killed to my daughter, who probably spends a dozen hours surfing each week.

Culling sharks that are near popular beaches is a no brainer.

The surf coast is hardly full of “globe chokers”
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Obviously I like surfing, and I’m no wave snob, I like to watch plenty of kids catch waves on a shore break, and I’m also happy to drive for an hour if I don’t want to share a wave with a dozen others.

I’d like the activity to be even more accessible and popular. It is about the healthiest and most family oriented sport around.

I’m no more inclined to accommodate sharks in the water than I am willing to be happy about bluebottles.

I’m not interested in culling sharks to the point of extinction. It is simply that there have been more attacks during the past few years.

Get their numbers back to the point that attacks are a rarity rather than a regular event.

” asylum seekers are refugees no matter how they arrive”

So what. It means that the people we used to take from UNHCR camps we can no longer take. But you do not care.

And i suspect boat people are just economic immigrants, military types, shysters who are told by the smugglers what to say to milk the system. But once again you do not care.

You don’t care do you??

“if you have a problem target the people who can afford a flight here”

Not that plane people BS diversion again. I suspect that almost no asylum seekers come by plane. We have 200,000 overseas students here on 487 visas. Just before their visa expires they claim asylum because they like it here so much.

“And target the smugglers, not the poor human flotsam and jetsam of the sea who are desperate to get to a safe haven.”

They have safe haven in Indonesia.

“You call yourself a caring human being neil, not in my eyes, more like tough hate!”

O.K. put a number on how many refugees we should take. Should we take all 40 million or have a quota system??

‘asylum seekers are refugees no matter how they arrive …’

Illegal guest workers are asylum seekers no matter how they arrive.

Genuine refugees usually go to the nearest safe haven from the place of conflict and imminent danger. The Syrian refugees are camped next door.

If Abbott stops the boats coming to Xmas Island then the illegal guest workers will return home, leaving only genuine refugees or crooks who cannot go home.

In due course they will find their safe haven in the destination of their dreams, or they’ll live out the rest of their lives in Java.

Australian immigration is not prejudiced, we take Somalis and settle them in the bush. Outstanding human beings.

A white Zimbabwean would fly in on a visitor’s visa and then seek asylum.

“Which would be granted immediately, no need to be locked up on or off shore.”

Why would you want to lock up people legally here on a visa??

I work with overseas students who are legally here on 487 visas. A lot of them apply for asylum before their visa expires because they like it here. Also under new rules introduced by Gillard these 487 visa people are now allowed to stay and work in Australia for 4 years after they get their degree. They usually apply for asylum during this period of time.

“We can well afford to take more than we do now. They will work and become good tax paying citizens”

I have no problem with that. In fact i would prefer refugees than skilled immigrants.

But you sidestepped the question. Should we have a quota system???

Why would you want to lock up people legally here on a visa??

Why would you want to lock up people legally seeking asylum??

But you sidestepped the question. Should we have a quota system???

I didn’t sidestep it at all, we should continue to have an increased quota which include boat arrivals within it. the boat arrivals should not be treated differently to plane arrivals who seek asylum.

Importantly this asylum seeker has papers to verify he’s not a cunning devil.

What a simplistic and bigoted view of people who suffer real hardships.

Only people without papers are cunning devils, that would mean all the jews escaping hitler would not be accepted here, nor anyone who comes from a country where you can’t apply for papers without giving yourself away and putting your family at risk. Too bad if you are a known government dissenter etc [life and death for them ].

ya`daughter has fcuk-all chance of being nibbled,

do you let her cross the road.? or ride in a car.?

This is the first close-up look at one of the 11 lifeboats that the Abbott Government has sourced out of Singapore in its uncompromising fight to stop the boats – a fight that it appears to be winning.
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The fully enclosed and submersible 8.5m x 3.2m survival capsule, fitted with safety belts, navigational equipment, life jackets, food, water and an inboard diesel motor, came ashore in remote Cikepuh, in West Java, on the afternoon of January 15.
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l think these things cost us 49K$ a piece. #Yay.Bonfire.Time
Story said it was `parked` on reef somewhere.
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””””Abbott Government has sourced out of Singapore”””’
#Yay.for.buying.Aussie.made

””’if i washed up on some beach i would expect to be locked up””’

wish granted. when ya`goin.?

I am not going anywhere. But do you agree with AO when she said this

“Why would you want to lock up people legally seeking asylum??”

So a bunch of people come in by boat and we let them walk around without checking who they are??

Somebody is Lock stepping as usual.

‘that would mean all the jews escaping hitler would not be accepted here’

After crystal night Hitler encouraged jews to get a visitor’s visa to other countries and not to come back. They had papers.

‘Off the cuff opinions of history don’t cut it, egg … ‘

It wasn’t off the cuff, the German Jews had time to get out up until the mid 1930s, but they continued to suffer deprivation because the idea of emigration was unacceptable. Then it became too late.

Scroll down to the relevant part ….

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1309

Interesting year ahead.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/01/chinese-new-year-bbc-welcomes-year-of-the-whores-in-caption-fail-4286753/

“‘that would mean all the jews escaping hitler would not be accepted here’

Apparently they would not be accepted here. Speaking of plane people, apparently people who fly in by plane have to sign a document saying they will not seek asylum after they arrive. I have seen this written many times so it appears to be true.

If so, i think that is wrong. People should be allowed to fly here and claim asylum but apparently if they want to they have to lie. Plane people have to sign a document saying they will not seek asylum after the arrive.

That is one rule which should be changed.

“l don`t mind sharks nibbling a few bogan flavored snacks.”

No danger to teabag, he’d never go anywhere near any water (or land) based activity.

Ta

I must admit Sunday may not be the day to talk about this but i don’t get ALP supporters re: asylum seekers

““The impact of boat arrivals on Australia’s migration program is very small,” he said.”

Based on the monthly figures just before Rudd lost office boat arrivals were numbering 40,000/year which is a significant number and a large % of our total immigration (~200,000). And they may not effect you lot but it means we now take no refugees from UNHCR camps.

But you don’t care do you.

They’re just doing what they’ve been told to do rather than coming from a very ­informed place.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/arts/archbishop-philip-wilson-asks-premier-jay-weatherill-to-cut-controversial-come-heckle-christ-show-from-adelaide-fringe-festival/story-fnintxwl-1226815567722

Yep. That`s them.

Ambient air temp here just hit 44.3c. Pretty sure that’s a record high for this part of the world.

The turbine measures T1, the temp of the air it draws, so it is a very accurate indicator.

Jet streams acting naturally, due to a quiet sun.

””’It’s the caveman fear of devourment”””’

and the silly bunts insist on dressing-up as shark food,
and wear the black suits that make`en look like a seal

Less than 10 people per year out of a (growing) population of 25+million is a rare occurrence.

In that case so is death due to king hit

‘There was even a moral objection against emigrating. I remember that as a child I sometimes caught the phrase: “Der musste nach Amerika” — that is, “So-and-so had to go to America.” This was said of someone who, perhaps generations ago, emigrated to avoid army service, to evade the police, to escape creditors, or someone who just could not make a living at home.

‘In short, the association with emigration was negative; a person “in good standing” did not emigrate. We had been brought up on the precept Bleibe im Lande und nähre dich redlich: “Stay in the land and make an honest living.”

‘Ironically, most of us had no idea that this so typically German proverb was nothing but Luther’s translation of a verse from the Hebrew Psalms (37:3). In some families this prejudice against emigration in any form went back to emigrants after the political upheavals of 1815 and 1848, to the very scions of “our crowd” in this country.’

German Jew

‘Britain was not particularly receptive to Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi regime in Germany, and the other fascist states of Europe. Approximately 40,000 Jews from Austria and Germany were eventually allowed to settle in Britain before the War, in addition to 50,000 Jews from Italy, Poland, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

‘Despite the increasingly dire warnings coming from Germany, at the Evian Conference of 1938, Britain refused to allow further Jewish refugees into the country.

‘The notable exception allowed by Parliament was the Kindertransport, an effort on the eve of war to transport Jewish children (their parents were not given visas) from Germany to Britain. Around 10,000 children were saved by the Kindertransport, out of a plan to rescue five times that number.’

Wiki

5 hours ago….

Swimmers fled for their lives after a shark alarm forced the evacuation of hundreds of beach-goers from a popular Victorian beach following the sighting of a four-metre shark only 200 metres from the shore.

Local surf lifesavers said it was more than 20 years since Lorne beach had been evacuated because of a shark.

Too many of them around at the moment.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/second-shark-sighted-near-anglesea-20140202-31up1.html#ixzz2s9RCEye1

Second shark sighted near Anglesea

Only hours after the Lorne sighting, a member of the public reported another shark, this time off the coast of an unpatrolled beach near Anglesea.

…so that’s 2 in the day, the first headed towards Apollo Bay. Anglesea is in the opposite direction, about 20 kms away.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/second-shark-sighted-near-anglesea-20140202-31up1.html#ixzz2s9gykrcf

I think the purpose of measures against the increasing prevalence of the king hit is pubic safety.

I doubt whether the objective is punishment for it’s own sake.

It is simply a matter of balance and public safety.
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I was discussing this issue with a selection of surfer types from the surf coast recently.

Most were against culling, but I think they’re the types who are very happy to see fewer surfers in the water.

A shaper (he made 2 of my boards) and has been making them for almost 40 years, preferred fewer sharks.

I agree with him.

US Drug Law Reform

‘…the country that for decades led the world in a war on drugs, often punishing countries that didn’t follow its draconian enforcement policies, is now leading in the opposite direction. The war on drugs is seen as a failure and the cannabis business is beginning to bloom over its grave. Grassroots activism is pushing the U.S. into a new era of tolerance.

‘The payoff is big. Colorado estimates it earned about $1.8 million U.S. in taxes in the first week of retail sales and predicts at least $70 million U.S. in tax revenue this year. Consider the additional savings in law enforcement and prosecutions (the U.S. arrests one pot smoker every 37 seconds, according to FBI statistics) plus the steep annual licence fees, and it is no wonder 14 other states, plus Washington, D.C., are contemplating similar legalization laws.’

News

…and the headline could equally have been “Only 1 in 4 still think the ALP should retain union links”

””””””’so is death due to king hit””””””

yeah, sharks are nibbling AND `king-hitting`

#suckitup.princess

””””’Only hours after the Lorne sighting,”””””’
teabag panic,
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””””’reported another shark,””””Anglesea.”””’
more teabag panic,
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victorias teabag-media seem to be whipping-up a bit of `unsubstantial` panic among the bogans,

number of victorias bogans nibbled #zero

Wow. After reviewing the whole thread,

somebody is doing considerable panty-wetting over `toothed-fish`,

Somebody should grow a couple.

Wow. After reviewing the whole thread… you still don’t have any informed opinions or rational contribution to make.

Perhaps try your other activity…sitting on the couch with your best friend – the remote control.

And aunty should be broken-up and sold off, or merged with SBS to cut costs. Wally’s earlier comment that the regional wings should be retained is a reasonable suggestion.

Yeah, well they would. Honest, its just a coincidence.

“………the ABC has a duty to seek, probe, ask and get answers…”

No one denies that.

But it would be good to see that applied to the ABC as it seeks a response from the Navy before running what turns out to be a reporter’s bullshit

”””””””’Power prices, agricultural, drought news etc never gets mentioned””””””’

Absolutely WRONG.

ls that teh-ipa/bolt/ Mr-Rabbit/teabag talk-point this week.?

“Sounds like they went to great lengths to get at the truth to me.”

Crap……………….they didn’t wait for a Navy response they just reported it immediately.

“Our contacts on the ground in Indonesia were strong, and we worked them relentlessly”

Like who ?

The Indo military, the pissed off asylum seekers who have just blown their $10K ?

Oh yeah really impartial NOT

Well it didn’t take long (4 months) After years of locking up record numbers of asylum seekers and record numbers of children we now are to have an investigation now the Coalition is in power.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australian-human-rights-commission-orders-inquiry-into-children-in-detention-20140203-31vni.html

“Australia’s Human Rights Commission has launched a national inquiry into children in detention, following concerns about the health and wellbeing of ”unprecedented” numbers of children ”living behind the wire”.

Where was Gillian Triggs when the ALP was locking up record numbers of people?????

I haven’t followed the politics of Thailand at all, but I’d be interested in the layperson’s opinion of-

• Sympathetic reporting here by news agencies of a group that is disrupting an (apparently) democratic election
• Why there doesn’t seem to be much condemnation of the group that is trying to force a military takeover
• Why some people in Bangkok feel their vote is more important than those in regional areas

Is there an explanation?

”””(apparently) democratic election”””’
but aren`t they all yomm,
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””’some people in Bangkok North-Shore feel their vote is more important than””’
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so-called `democracy` is only any good when it delivers `equitably` to `all` citizens, we only need to recall the amount of folks that didn`t even bother to enroll in the 2013/Fed election, who can blame`em,

Thanks AO.

That’s kind of how I understood it, and I struggle with the lack of media scrutiny of protesters who are aligned with the military, who seek to oust a democratic government.

There is little reporting of their actual agenda.
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Have fun reb! Are you going to wear a red or yellow shirt?

“This might go some way to explain this Neil of Sydney”

Really?? Have a read of this

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/child-detention-study-two-years-too-late-says-gillian-triggs/story-fn9hm1gu-1226817109064#

“But Professor Triggs said the agency had only “limited resources” and Ms Branson had decided a report into Indonesian people-smugglers who had been imprisoned as minors should be commissioned.

That report was released in July 2012 but then, according to Professor Triggs, she decided not to pursue a formal inquiry into children in detention because the nation was heading into an election year, even though she considered the PNG solution and the no-advantage asylum policies egregious breaches of our human rights obligations.”

The usual suspects only come out when the Coalition is in power. Not when the ALP was locking up record numbers of asylum seekers.

Labor will no doubt spend a decade in the wilderness.

‘THE nation’s conservative premiers are backing an unprecedented trade drive into Asia as Tony Abbott prepares for the first time to showcase to the international community the economic benefits of wall-to-wall Coalition governments. The Abbott government has set a timetable for the nation’s premiers to attend a trade mission, headed by the Prime Minister, to China, Japan and South Korea in April.’

Oz

The free trade agreement is happening in a hurry.

It’s reported in the Oz yesterday that SPC workers get 9 weeks annual leave per year plus 5 days off during Melbourne Cup week, and 104 weeks redundancy pay.

And the hand is out for $25M

Coca Cola Amatil and the SPC workers themselves can go and get well and truly fucked.

If Management and Unions want to sign joint suicide notes written into an EBA then so be it.

SPC can just go back to being a farmers cooperative like Murray Goulburn Dairy is

From Sev Ozdowski

“Yesterday the Australian Human Rights Commission has announced the second inquiry into the human rights of children in immigration detention……………………Between 2002 and 2004 I as the Australian Human Rights Commissioner have conducted the first inquiry…………..In response the Howard Government released all children and their families from immigration detention few months later.
Certainly the repetition of my inquiry is the highest form of flattery but timing is very odd. When the boats were arriving in large numbers and Labor was at its peak of cruelty towards the boat arrivals AHRC almost did not see the problem and the newly appointed Children Rights Commissioner was proclaiming that her jurisdiction is limited to domestic matters.”

with blatantly extortionate demands and standover tactics.

Like nine weeks leave?

Why do the lefties always link to a pommy newspaper???

””””””””””’It’s reported in the Oz yesterday that SPC workers get 9 weeks annual leave per year plus 5 days off during Melbourne Cup week, and 104 weeks redundancy pay.”””””

These platinum-plated fruit manglers are on $300 an hour and go onto double-time after 7am, other juiced-up benefits they receive also includes trips to interstate whore-houses on the coca-cola credit card.

Why do the lefties always link to a pommy newspaper?

Because the Australian ones can’t get simple facts correct perhaps?

https://theguttertrash.com/2014/01/31/rostrum-friday-drinks-and-jokes-edition/#comment-43731

this is how l feel about coke`s bludging

You’re still basing your assumption on what the PM has said? Really? Even after his lies have been so easily exposed. Perhaps seek the truth first, then form an opinion

This package, as would have been the Holden assistance package, been more likened to an investment than a handout. It is a clear case of Penny Wise but Pound foolish, and of ideology over-riding the good of the country

Is that, in itself, a reason to give SPCA’s parent Coca-Cola Amatil a $25 million free kick? In theory no, but in practice the welfare, retraining and lost tax revenue of those workers quickly makes it a cost to the federal budget bottom line, not a saving.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2014/1/31/agribusiness/rogue-liberal-spills-beans-spca?utm_source=exact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=570271&utm_campaign=kgb&modapt

”””’it looks like Qantas has totally fucked us”””’

When l see the prick running the joint, this doesn`t surprise me.

Hope you end up getting important (if-any) bags back minimum, don`t want to lose `irreplacable` stuff, not that losing anything is good. Maybe you can twist their nuts for future free flight for fcuking you guys about.

”””””’But what about all of the other workers and farmers?””””””’

none of that is cokes responsibility, neither here nor there

coke is saying upgrade

I thought they were re-tooling for different packaging, which might reduce or might increase the workforce?

none of that is cokes responsibility, neither here nor there

But the people who may or may not lose their job is the Governments responsibilty, whether they like it or not

“Senior government officials had claimed the workforce had nine weeks’ leave a year. The company said the actual figure was 20 days.”

Is it not possible for both statements to be true?? SPC workers may only get 20 days of annual leave which is normal but if you add up annual leave, RDO’s, Public Holidays, Food Preservers Picnic Day, Five Day Melbourne Cup Weekend they may get 9 weeks paid leave.

If it was me i would give SPC the $25M since it is such a small amount of money and then tell them no more.

Look what l found.

SPC workers may only get 20 days of annual leave which is normal but if you add up annual leave, RDO’s, Public Holidays, Food Preservers Picnic Day, Five Day Melbourne Cup Weekend they may get 9 weeks paid leave.

How do you get 9 weeks out of a monthly RDO and some public holidays? A long weekend is not an extra week.

Everybody else in the population gets public holidays and picnic day and melbourne cup day is a vic public holiday isn’t it? Do you expect these people to have less conditions than other aussie workers?

RDOs are for extra hours worked, only one per month and it is because they work 40hrs per week instead of the normal 38 hr week. It is not an extra day paid to them for nothing, it is a day they’ve already earned by working an extra 2 hrs/week and not claimed as overtime.

These workers don’t seem to be enjoying any more days off than anyone else.

‘THE ABC has backed down in the controversy over its reporting of claims that navy personnel tortured asylum seekers, apologising “if our reporting led anyone to mistakenly assume that the ABC supported the asylum seekers’ claims”.

Tim Blair / Daily Terror

(One ‘material support for bikies’ charge coming right up: http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/campbell-newman-says-lawyers-for-bikies-are-part-of-criminal-gang-machine/story-fnii5v6w-1226819588317

Although, hardened criminal outlawyers do have this golly-gosh for Premier Newman…

Prominent criminal defence lawyer Michael Bosscher said Mr Newman’s comments were “political dribbling at its best”.

“A year 10 student undertaking legal studies at school would have a greater understanding of the various elements of the justice system than the Premier has expressed in these comments,” he said.

“His comments are disgraceful, ignorant, indefensible and embarrassing

“Queensland’s reputation has already been tarnished – nationally and internationally – by the premier’s stance on these laws and a premier of a state making comments such as these will further damage that reputation and hold this state up to ridicule.

“Clearly he has no understanding whatsoever of the role of a criminal defence lawyer in the justice system, what the onus of proof means and the fact that every person who is charged with an offence is entitled to be properly defended and is presumed innocent until proven guilty.”

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Martian View

(Just FYI, your link has been ‘updated’, TB: ‘No need’ for Newman apology to lawyers, February 07, 2014 1:26PM: http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/bar-association-rounds-on-newman/story-e6frfku9-1226820239454; but, then again. so has mine, without acknowledgement anywhere on the piece. I guess it’s as easy as ABC123 to rewrite news/history.)

“And as one who has never smoked pot but watched as others dropped off the planet from using it … the “moderation” rarely happens … the “let’s try something else” is the problem …”

I happen to know someone who smoked some pot back in the early 1980s when they had just left Uni. They had a cone with a few friends then went to a disco which with Devo playing in the background was projecting Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” onto a huge wall.

The person I know got a bit freaked out because his friends claimed he said something was “pecking at him, and he left said disco ”( “Archies” in Bondi Junction) and got completely lost driving on Cleveland Street Surry Hills at 2am.

Then he had to wait an hour in a sidestreet because he could not determine whether his car was traveling in a forwards motion or whether it was just the residences out the window actually traveling in a backwards motion.

Apparently he stayed away from the stuff after that…………LOL

Abbott surfing –

The surf is solid, the big ones overhead, and the exception is the wave that doesn’t close out. Abbott is amiably pensive, sitting on his 10-foot board out the back. ”I’m just sitting here working up my courage,” he muses.

Soon enough, he commits, kamikaze-style, makes the drop and is lost in the close-out of a wave that demands respect.

Abbott uses a 10 foot board at Manly on a beach break? With Overhead waves??

Abbott proves to be a dill. He needs to cut 3 feet off the board, or wait until the swell is about half the size.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott–a-man-of-fire-and-water-20140207-3278y.html#ixzz2shXxPn3f

‘ACTU president Ged Kearney also questioned the likely cost of the inquiry, coming days after the Government rejected a $25 million rescue package for the Shepparton, Victoria-based food processor SPC Ardmona.

“This is $100 million of taxpayers’ money being wasted, wasted on nothing but a political inquiry for Tony Abbott when just last week he could have put $25 million into saving 3,000 jobs and perhaps an entire rural community,” she told a news conference this morning.

ABC

‘AUSTRALIA does not have the infrastructure to seize the full potential of the Asian century, Ken Henry, a former Treasury secretary and current NAB and ASX director, has warned as he called for “more creative, innovative thinking” about the nation’s infrastructure needs.’

Hepworth / Oz

When Labor, the unions, or the Greens question a policy based on its cost, you know they can’t think of a logical argument against it.

The illogical thing is having an expensive RC when we are supposedly broke and being told everyone has to tighten their belts, the age of entitlement being over [except for an ideological attack by the entitled upon the only mob who stand in the way of big capital taking over]. No more snarling rottweilers on wharves or farmers having combat training overseas [not a good look and very unpopular], so we just have a very one sided RC.

sb, tell me again where the govt has said they will look at both sides.

Seems that to some, anything labor does is just too expensive for the common riff raff to have and a waste of money [gonski, nbn.] Yet there is no expense spared for grand ‘go get em’ schemes to hobble their political opponents. Hypocrisy = LNP.

“…..except for an ideological attack by the entitled upon the only mob who stand in the way of big capital taking over”

Since you see them as guardians of the rights of the industrial weak I suppose we will soon see “Vote 1 Comancheros” on the next Senate ticket.

Imagine the Parliamentary ALP being replaced by a Coalition of Comancheros and Bandidos……..?

Probably more effective I must say

Since you see them as guardians of the rights of the industrial weak I suppose we will soon see “Vote 1 Comancheros” on the next Senate ticket

Yep, there are some unions who don’t have much sway in anything, female dominated unions and those whose work is more social or community minded than the brawn dominated ones.

We may as well have the comancheros, they can’t cause more harm than the 4WD nuts, the huntin’, fishin’ & shootin’ party and the sports party, or, the religious right who insist on infiltrating every election!

Perhaps we could see some political action from their legal reps:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/bar-association-hits-back-after-premier-campbell-newmans-criminal-gang-machine-comment-20140207-325dp.html

Most of the ABCC investigators came from a policing background, that’s what the unions (and corrupt businesses) didn’t like – people who had the singular objective of ensuring lawful behaviour on construction sites.

Those with the habit of delivering on their plans through bullying and intimidation don’t cope with the lawful framework. Without the ability to intimidate, they have no advantage.

Piers has been sacked from Insiders.

‘INDUSTRY leaders are backing the Abbott government’s royal commission into corrupt dealings between unions and business, claiming companies have been “forced” into criminal activity by crooked union representatives.

‘Tony Abbott will this afternoon formally announce the high-profile inquiry, headed by retired High Court judge Dyson Heydon, which he said would shine a spotlight on the “dark corners” of national life.’

Oz

“Piers has been sacked from Insiders.”

LOL

In that case it looks like Barrie Cassidy is “upping the ante” so to speak

Who are they replacing him with ?………….. Bob Ellis or Mike Carlton ?

The Bolter is naturally putting the boot into aunty and Fairfax for omitting the culprits are a gang of Africans.

Channelling the Bolter

‘The auto-play clip embedded in the online article describes the men as ‘African’ in appearance. I caught readers also sledging the ABC for omitting ‘African’ from descriptions elsewhere on this blog. The ABC reports I caught (ABC online and ABC News Breakfast program) did not do this.’

I love how Tony Arsehat takes it upon himself to speak the mind of all ‘Australians’…

exactly, he is every australian, forget the indulgent, cosseted life of privilege and toadying up to influence, he is one of us, in spirit, I suppose.

Not long ago he wanted it to be the Abbott Broadcasting Commission.

Commenting on the car losses today he quickly glossed over the jobs impact and slimed on with… “but, the important thing to remember is…there’ll be other jobs”

”””’will transform the country””””

to a more Detroit-like state of affairs

‘Last year Australia’s population grew 1.8 per cent, or 407,000, compared with 0.7 per cent for the United States, 0.5 per cent for Europe and China, and minus 0.1 per cent for Japan.

‘The extra 400,000 or so people a year is the reason Australia has not had a recession for 23 years and it’s why GDP growth is now around 2.5 per cent. On a per capita basis, Australia’s economic growth is among the weakest in the world, and per capita consumption growth is zero.

‘In other words, population growth is the only reason it looks like the economy is growing.

‘One obvious consequence of Australia’s population boom, apart from disguising a fundamentally weak economy, is rising house prices because not enough houses are being built as a result of restrictive planning laws and high construction costs.

‘Not enough infrastructure is being built either, to the point where a national emergency is approaching.’

Alan Kohler

‘MOST voters believe the ABC is “fair and balanced” but one in five believe it is biased against the Coalition and one in three Liberal voters believe the national broadcaster is biased towards the Labor Party and against the Coalition.

‘Just on half of all voters believe the ABC’s treatment of different political parties is fair and balanced and another quarter of the electorate is “uncommitted” on the issue.’

Shannahan / Oz

MOST voters believe the ABC is “fair and balanced”

Guess they didn’t see another muppet trying to put words in Bill Shortens mouth last night on 7.30

BILL SHORTEN: We would’ve worked on a transition which would’ve seen this bad news avoided. And even if it wasn’t possible in the long term to avoid it, there’s a big difference between Labor and Liberal. We won’t stop fighting for people’s jobs until we’ve turned over every rock and we’ve tried every trick …

BILL SHORTEN: I’m conceding that with a Labor government you’ll get someone who’ll stand up for Australian jobs. The Abbott Government thinks manufacturing’s too hard. They’ve given up the ghost. They won’t fight – do you know there’s been a thousand manufacturing jobs lost every month the Abbott Government’s been in power? Imagine if before the election, Labor had run a scare campaign and said, “Once Tony Abbott gets elected, there’ll be no car industry within five months.” People would’ve accused us of exaggerating and we didn’t say it.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2013/s3941885.htm

Let’s see if this one will interrupt, talk over and misrepresent words when talking to Tony Abbott. They haven’t in hte past, yet they continue to do it with Labor, repeatedly. They are, and have been for while now, as biased as many other outlets.

“I’m conceding that with a Labor government you’ll get someone who’ll stand up for Australian jobs.”

I dont like seeing the ALP doing all this “standing up” as it tends to be the taxpayer being bent over whilst the ALP stands behind them.

Yeah……………..solar energy in SA is so fantastic LOL

“HOUSEHOLDERS will pay an extra $90 a year for the next three years on their power bills to pay for the State Government’s generous solar rebate scheme.

Retailers are bracing for a late rush on solar systems as the scheme enters its final month for new customers to sign up, which could inflate the cost of the scheme even further.

SA Power Networks (formerly ETSA) estimates the scheme will cost $1.53 billion over 20 years – and every South Australian is paying for it via their electricity bill.

It has forecast the average amount recovered from residential customers to subsidise the solar rebates will be $90 a year for the next three years, before dropping to $72 from July 1, 2016, when the 16c scheme closes.”

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/as-utilities-bills-soar-south-australians-to-pay-90-extra-a-year-to-account-for-solar-rebate/story-fni6uo1m-1226689871240

A report on news.com.au……………..

“MERCEDES Corby reportedly broke up with her Balinese husband before her sister Schapelle was released from jail.”

I think it’s supposed to say………

“………before her sister Schapelle’s interview money was released to Mercedes bank account”

Proud to have been gouging the non-solar households for the last few months (finally).

Sarah Ferguson is refreshing, I’m sure 7.30 would agree.

Also, apparently Q & A was balanced last night, both panel and audience, while leftoids Trioli and her sidekick on the morning show are a national disgrace.

Yes.

”””’Anyone else see a problem here?”””’

in all seriousness TB, the list is `end-less`

“the auto-making-welfare-recipients have been in the death-throes for decades”

Correct. If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.

Exactly, which brings me back to infrastructure and the very fast train.

https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/inland/

We need to make widgets and quick.

””’Correct. If something can’t go on forever, it won’t.””’

Well said scales`osy.

”””””””””””most workers can’t be certain they’ll have a job next week. Toyota workers have a job for three years, and Holden and Ford workers are in a similar boat. Many employees would love that kind of certainty.””””””””””’

you don`t find this type of logic somewhat `sinister/retarded`, scales`osy.? l aint sayin`ya wrong by the way, but corporate `certainty` seems so highly expensive.

The point I’m trying to make is that former deputy John Anderson is going to build a freight rail corridor between Melbourne and Brisbane, leaving out Sydney and Canberra.

The land corridor will be cheap and wide enough for very fast trains, so this is clearly their intention.

Brilliant.

Our princess comes good.

Washington, D.C. – ‘February 10, 2014. The Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the only multilateral partnership devoted to getting all children in the world’s poorest countries into school for a quality education, has appointed former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to be the new Chair of its Board of Directors.’

No boats in 8 weeks, Sri Lankans aim for NZ.