SACKED: Karen Hayes from Guide Dogs Victoria gone!
Karen Hayes, the flamboyant face of Guide Dogs Victoria who controversially threw her weight behind Josh Frydenberg’s re-election campaign has today “resigned” from her long-standing position as CEO following an internal investigation.
The move follows a massive public backlash with the Board blissfully unaware Karen had politicised the charitable organisation – in breach of government guidelines – potentially jeopardising the organisation’s charitable status and in the wake of a massive public outcry on social media.
Many hundreds of donors withdrew their support for the organisation with some declaring they had changed their Wills and Estate Plans potentially costing Guide Dogs Victoria hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions in future donations.
Karen now joins Josh Frydenberg in the ranks of the unemployed bringing her 10 year tenure as CEO to a somewhat undignified conclusion.
The post below from just a month ago turned out to be strangely prescient.
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Karen now joins Josh Frydenberg in the ranks of the unemployed bringing her 10 year tenure as CEO to a somewhat undignified conclusion.
First customers for robodebt?
The pups didn’t see for the politically blind.
Just another Karen …
(Is it just me, or, her make-up – – – or does she look like a drag queen?
How are my teabags? Still crawling out of the wreckage of recently levelled blue ribbon “broad-asylums” unhurt l hope. lt happened, my wettest of wet dreams. l’m saturated. An armada of aqua bulldozers and a small fleet of green bulldozers ploughing their way thru blue ribbon, broad asylum, knot a woman problem, great economic managers. What a shame! (-: (-: (-: (-: (-:
The new Cabinet looks pretty good
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/pm-unveils-new-cabinet-sets-course-for-at-least-two-terms-in-power-20220531-p5apvf
Separating Education … and … Skills and Training is a good move … they are not the same at all … I thought combining … Aged Care and Sport … a bit odd …
However, looks like lotsa relevant players on the Cabinet benches …
Now they have to walk the talk …
Still reactive rather than proactive …
The government is saying the economy is much worse than they ever expected!
Whitlam (just on 50 years ago) was the last incoming government that didn’t make that claim.
Congratulations Jim, on maintaining the tradition.
That Andrew Leigh is not in Cabinet says much about so-called Merit (Truth is he’s not in a faction – so he’s probably lucky to score an Assistant.)
Combining Aged Care and Sport is an ‘inheritance’ – from ex Minister Richard Colbeck who much preferred a day at the Cricket rather that knowing anything about his responsibilities when it came to Estimates etc. Wells has a job on her hands.
Albo’s plan to think in terms of (6 years rather than 3) gives him a ready excuse to delay some his promises. It was a ploy used by Rudd, particularly when it came to ‘funding’ for education (Gonski). But it takes much for granted.
And yes saying things are much worse than expected is a common ploy in in BOTH Business and Government (at all levels). Lowers expectations.
TB, separating ‘Education’ from ‘Training’ can have merit but it’s not common these days to draw that conceptual distinction. (More’s the pity.)
Most people see formal schooling, TAFE and University etc as a ‘preparation for work’ and in a sense it is BUT it should (and could) be more than that.
The previous government wasn’t interested in “education” for its own sake. Not interested in facilitating people rising above the limitations of their own background. Hence downplayed the Arts, Humanities etc. (Yet they claimed to be Liberals.)
It’s understood Mr Morrison is giving his home in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire a lick of paint and a spruce up before he will move back in with wife Jenny and his two daughters Lily and Abbey.
The media is still spreading bullshit, still. morrisons just a prick, end of story
Congratulations Jim, on maintaining the tradition.
I mean, he could also be telling the truth. Both the lived experience, and the figures, tend to show he is
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Yes! What a surprise! The incoming government says our finances are far worse than they’d imagined!
Who’d have guessed!
That’s such an original excuse for taking some unpleasant decisions
Congratulations to Jim on saying it with a straight face
So, yomm doesn’t see an issue with ploughing $billions of taxpayer dollars at companies that are already making a profit, further exacerbating inflation, and then throwing MORE money at them in a futile attempt to maintain their hold of those taxpayer dollars
This, after crying for years over Labors very restrained (and effective) GFC stimulus.
Siri, show me Hypocrisy
Will we be building car parks this year?
(Someone just spent 10 million on a carpark and three netball courts locally – haven’t seen a game played on it, ever, in well over a year? And no cars parked either)
Yes Tom R, congratulations to Jim! Did he only just discover how Jobkeeper operated? Did you only just find out? Are you really surprised about the state of the economy? Or did you expect it?
Did he only just discover how Jobkeeper operated?
No
Did you only just find out?
No
Are you really surprised about the state of the economy?
Yes
Or did you expect it?
No
So not sure what your issue is with his comments. Obviously, we knew it was bad, but, every day, we hear worst, as the extent of the mismanagement is exposed. And some dipshits want to blame Labor lol
Then you’re not very well informed. And I’d expect Him to be better informed
Then you’re not very well informed.
So, you knew it was this shit?
I mean, we all knew it was shit, but THIS shit?
Inflation was already high and increasing, and public debt mounting. We’ve known for months that there would be an energy problem due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and that there would be an associated economic contraction.
Couldn’t Jim see this? Or even you?
And as I said, no one should pretend that there isn’t an economic challenge.
But it is stupid and disingenuous to pretend that it is surprising
Happy 50th anniversary! That’s how long it has been since a government didn’t use that excuse
Couldn’t Jim see this? Or even you?
Even economists are surprised at how bad it is. The only ones who really could have known, had they shown interest, would have been the previous mob, who kept most of it a secret.
Yes, we knew about those things you mentioned. We didn’t know about these other things, such as how much inflation is rising, and how desperate our gas supply issues are.
Everyone said it was bad. No one said it was THIS bad
Or did you know, and keep it a secret?
Honestly, what exactly is the surprise?
* High public debt?
* Increasing energy prices?
* Increasing interest rates?
* Inflation?
* Slowing economy?
None of it is a surprise.
Congratulations!! Half a century since an incoming government didn’t do this!
I agree with ToM …
… obviously ToM had also figured out that the LNP are liars, cheats, deceitful, corrupt, untrustworthy, unreliable, reactive, short sighted, arrogant, manipulative, conceited, selfish, greedy, blameless, con artists and lousy economic managers …
And I’d expect Him to be better informed
I’m sure He will do better than the last little treasure – r.
Praise the Lord and and pass the ammunition! 😎
Is the economic situation a surprise to you TB?
None of it is a surprise.
Except the extent of it
What exactly is the surprise?
Is the economic situation a surprise to you TB?
Did you read (and comprehend) my last comment, ToM
BTW, I forgot to mention how inept, Snotty’s kindergarten was …
Christ Almighty! Even my kids/gkids were taught to spend half, save half (happily they actually save more than half!)
1)None of it is a surprise.
2)Except the extent of it
-1)What exactly is the surprise?
😯
Should I fly the Australian flag on tomorrow …?
Should I fly the Australian flag on tomorrow …?
Which one? Or all three?
Well, TR, I own the current blue iteration … and also the original Eureka flag … (fuck the CMFEU for stealing it!) … don’t have a white one its used by the wetalots (navy) anyway and the red duster is now “owned” by the merchant navy …
So the bluey I guess … half mast perhaps?
Tom R, do you understand what “exactly” means?
** hintw- it doesn’t mean “everything”
** hintw- “extent” doesn’t mean “everything”
That’s an incredible level of detail for you
yor welcum
I see ToM’s finally gone mad … the gravatar says it all … 😋
Speaking of mad … (my bold)
Chuckle … house of fkn cards!
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jun/02/liberal-led-senate-inquiry-into-abc-and-sbs-abandoned
Chuckle …
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/ex-fire-chief-predicts-labor-will-strengthen-2030-climate-target-after-meeting-minister
Greg Mullens thinks the CCP will sit up and take notice if we’re doing something!
What an ignorant tool
“Greg Mullens thinks the CCP will sit up and take notice if we’re doing something!
What an ignorant tool”
Meanwhile….
I trust you sent your congratulations to Penny Wong YoM…..??? 😆
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I trust you sent your congratulations to Penny Wong YoM
It’s obvious now, she’s a cccccccp sleeper agent 😉
I’m entirely happy with the ALP carbon emissions plan.
But those former chief firemen were pretending that we could control bushfires by emission reduction.
Mullens was saying the CCP would pay attention to us
What a complete f***with, naive or ignorant.
He should stick to holding the hose
f***with — what’s a — f***with ?
f***with — what’s a — f***with ?
ith a good quethtion thB
don’t fuck***with me? 😉😄
—- ith a good quethtion thB —- still chucklin’!
He should stick to holding the hose …
If he did, its more than, Snotty, ever did …
don’t fuck***with me?
NEVER! 😉 (twust me)
LOL! @ TR 😎
Re:
Only in the longer term. Then again, he was trying to
with Morrison who believed in
Rumor has it, he will join Brian Houston on the grifting circuit. God willing!
Unf***withbelievable
Re:
One wonders whether the US ‘culture wars’ translate easily, if at all, across to Australian classrooms. While the ‘ climate is a common concern, don’t see evidence that replacement theory or critical race theory would take root..
Although the latter will probably get a run when the Uluru issue reaches pariament.
Mal Peters
And yet we don’t learn. Yesterday, ‘gas’ and today ‘lithium’.
Time we kept Australian resources (and profits) in Australian hands in much the same way as some European Nations did.
It seems Labors hit that sweet spot again.
Half the cuntry are outraged because they are banning the Live Sheep Trade, and the other half are outraged because they AREN’T banning the Live Sheep Trade.
People are cooked lol
At least the NSW ‘ICAC- recognises it’s a problem with our (democratic) government.
“Berejiklian told a parliamentary inquiry into the Stronger Communities Fund: “Governments in all positions make commitments to the community in order to curry favour. I think that’s part of the political process whether we like it or not.””
High time this issue was addressed because it goes to the heart of how “government” operates – at all levels and across the political aisle.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/pork-barrelling-at-an-industrial-scale-in-nsw-icac-forum-told-20220603-p5aqxf.html
Shock, horror – Constitutional law professor Anne Twomey on The Drum (currently) addresses the issue above and doesn’t once refer to ‘tax-payer’ dollars. Instead, she describes same as ‘public’ and/or ‘government’ funds.
No ‘security blanket’ terminology for her – just the legal reality.
If Australia was getting a decent return for our off shore gas supplies similar to other countries, Government would have funds to help offset consumers cost.
Thank you Mr Howard for giving it away.
What has former PM Howard who lost office 14 years ago got to do with the price we get for our natural gas exports??
Furthermore what has the PM of Australia got to do with the price we receive for any of our exports eg wool, wheat, bananas, copper, coal, iron ore etc etc? The market sets the price not the PM of Australia
And yet we don’t learn
Agreed MN
You never learn.
You never learn that most things said about Howard are false
You never learn that most people from “”the left”” of politics mislead and deceive people
You never learn that misleading people does not help
You never learn that people from “” the left “” of politics have an agenda and cannot be trusted
The Chinese had got the deal of a lifetime because the consortium of Australia’s North West Shelf operators hadn’t thought to insert a clause into the contract that would raise the price of gas from what was, in 2002, a historically low level.
As world gas prices rose and rose, the price paid by China for what Howard had called “a gold medal performance” stayed at rock bottom. Australia’s gas exports of 3 million tonnes a year from that single agreement were contracted to stay at basement prices until 2031.
https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html
The Chinese had got the deal of a lifetime because the consortium of Australia’s North West Shelf operators hadn’t thought to insert a clause into the contract that would raise the price of gas from what was, in 2002, a historically low level.
Even if true— so what??
You really think the PM of Australia sits around and haggles the price for natural gas??
TomR do you know what a good price for natural gas is?? Neither do i and neither does the PM of Australia
What is a good price for our wheat exports? Coal, iron ore, bananas etc??
The market sets the price not the PM of Australia.
You people never learn because you are brain dead.
You mislead
You decieve
You lie
You make stuff up
Also from your link
The deals kept coming after Australia changed governments.
The Labor administrations of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard were only too pleased to keep announcing huge exports of LNG to China, Japan and South Korea.
The gas price for most of these deals was linked to the price of oil.
Those deals by LABOR is what is causing our gas shortages. LABOR were warned that if they signed more contracts we would have shortages.
But LABOR never learns
LABOR 77 seats …
The Chinese had got the deal of a lifetime because the consortium of Australia’s North West Shelf operators hadn’t thought to insert a clause into the contract that would raise the price of gas from what was, in 2002, a historically low level.
OK. What has that got to do with the PM of Australia?
Our new PM is PM Albanese
Do you really think when we sign a new gas contract the PM of Australia (Albanese) sits around and haggles about the price we get for gas?
You know what Albanese knows what is a good price for natural gas? Same as you and me. NOTHING. The PM does not have the time or expertise to determine prices for coal, iron ore, copper, beef etc
The market sets the price.
The PM can ban exports for security reasons. For example we need the gas for ourselves or we are at war with the people we are selling gas to.
Gillard/ALP were told if they signed more gas contracts there would be shortages. Well Gillard/ALP ignored the advice.
The market sets the price.
And the “owner” of the resource – the Australian people – are entitled to a reasonable reserve price for domestic use … any remaining gas can be sold at the “market price” … if the reserve price is too low then Australians are being ripped off …
Australians are paying higher prices for a product, they “own”, than overseas clients of gas extraction companies …
If you see that as OK … its no wonder you rant and rave about Li’l Johnny & The Private School Bullies.
Once again – do your research – and stop listening to 2GB …
If you see that as OK … its no wonder you rant and rave about Li’l Johnny & The Private School Bullies.
What has you comment got to do with a PM who lost office 14 years ago?
Anyway Labors plan is to ban natural gas and coal exports because they produce CO2.
I am sure you will be happy after destroying Australia
But the fact that you, MN, TomR etc thinks the PM sets commodity prices just tells me you are a person who cannot be trusted.
I see Labors first move is to ban the live cattle trade.
Next to be banned will be coal exports
Next to be banned will be natural gas exports
Next to be banned will be anybody who disagrees with the ALP
Next to be banned will be fucking idiots
I am sure you will be happy after destroying Australia
I’ll be delighted if we manage to save EARTH! For my children’s children and theirs …
… just tells me you are a person who cannot be trusted.
And you a person to be ignored …
Next to be banned will be anybody who disagrees with the ALP
I think Australian voters just did that to the LNP … 😋
Next to be banned will be fucking idiots
And fuckwiths … 😎
And fuckwiths 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
👍 Wurrrs ToMMMM … 👀
(How are my teabags?
There are some very strange things out there; that’s all I (pretend to) know.)
Beware of vaccines:
http://ianmcauley.com/saturdays/sat220604/week22060403.html
NoS, no doubt, will argue that Howard resisted any form of socialism because he wasn’t vaccinated against …
ToM – something to consider (seriously).
Important that ‘thinking’ evolves and that includes ‘disciplines’ more broadly. Good to see that Chalmers, Gallagher (and probably Leigh) are playing in that field.
Note also:
Perhaps this time around, (some) adults might be in charge. One would hope so.
http://ianmcauley.com/saturdays/sat220604/week22060403.html
A good ‘macro’ view of what’s going on re Russia and its place in the world
And you a person to be ignored …
TB
You come from the side of politics that misleads people. Like the tweet by MN saying Howard gave away our natural gas too cheaply.
Do you really think the PM of Australia could or should get involved in prices we receive for commodity exports? The PM knows as much as you and me about what is a good price for natural gas- nothing.
The PM can ban exports in the national interest like if we have a shortage of something or we are at war. Gillard/ALP were warned we could have problems if we kept signing new natural gas export contracts. But Labor ignored the advice
Re:
Clearly the answer is NO. Howard should have recognised that the price paid (and therefore the money received) is determined by the market, particularly over the longer term. But he didn’t. He signed a ‘fixed price’ contract and caused much hilarity, disbelief and contempt among the Chinese negotiators. They had the deal of a lifetime – thanks to Howard.
And yes, Gillard et al should have listened to their advisors as well.
Note that under the incoming Labor government, some (single) departments will advise more than one Minister. That has its strengths (and its problems) with no doubt that there will be a tension around the Cabinet table. But less likely that the Howard blunder will be repeated.
After all, MPs are elected to pass legislation that (supposedly) represents the attitudes, values, interests etc of their electorates, they are not professional administrators. That their ‘legislative’ and ‘executive’ roles overlap is a clear ‘conflict of interest’ as recognised by French philosopher Charles de Montesquieu in his book L’Esprit des Lois (the Spirit of the Laws) (1748).
It’s just one reason why Australian democracy needs to be rethought.
The PM knows as much as you and me …
You maybe … I wrote the nationally recognised … learning and assessment material for Extracting and Compressing LNG
It’s just one reason why Australian democracy needs to be rethought.
I once asked a couple of newly elected pollies, quietly, what they saw as their role as parliamentarians … neither said anything about formulating laws … luckily (or not) in a democracy you can do anything … unless a law legislates against it …
That their ‘legislative’ and ‘executive’ roles overlap is a clear ‘conflict of interest’ plus politics and greed!
“Vive la liberté”
I like reading you comments, MN!
😎
Planning for a net benefit doesn’t make expenditure into an “investment”
I would hope that just about every form of government expenditure is intended to provide a net benefit
Companies will call expenditure on people development an investment
Financial reports will list the cost as an expense that isn’t amortised
TB, “Government” broadly defined to include public administration, politics, policies, factional warfare, etc became a whole lot more interesting for me with the election of a new government.
Of particular interest is the appointment of Glyn Davis as head of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Davis was appointed by Wayne Goss to the PSMC in early 1990 soon after becoming Premier. Since that time he’s moved (often) between the ‘academic’ and ‘practical’ worlds.
So his latest ‘experiment’ (yes it can be called that) will be watched very closely.
Our Gas Led Recovery is going well
Aren’t Gas Companies fearful for their futures in the longer term? Isn’t demand for ‘gas’ (a fossil fuel) predicted to be in decline? And so on …
Perhaps this shortage is ‘contrived’ (to some extent at least) in an attempt to lock in government(s) to long-term deals? To demand that new pipelines, for example, (large capital expenditure) be built with accompanying lengthy contracts?
Would like to hear from some insiders (because I don’t know.) Do know that gas company executives aren’t always ‘pure of heart’.
But not leftists:
Gee, it’s almost as if this blog works only when there’s a ‘conservative’ government to complain about. Now their preferred green-leftists are in office, the cheer-leaders have gone quiet.
Mission accomplished, I guess.🤷♂️
And Palmer spent $32mill in a few weeks and got no where.
And Skynews didn’t swing votes.
But the left complains about both
Now their preferred green-leftists are in office, the cheer-leaders have gone quiet.
Just putting this out there, but perhaps there isn’t anything to whinge about?
It’s like nobody has an issue with the new Government 😉
And Palmer spent $32mill in a few weeks and got no where.
Fool me once ….. 🙂
“the cheer-leaders have gone quiet.”
To be fair they are rigorously consistent little cheerleaders. Labor Good – Liberals Bad. That will never change. Not only are they are incapable of giving reason priority over politics, they don’t see anything wrong with that.
“but perhaps there isn’t anything to whinge about?”
See what I mean?
See what I mean?
No
Perhaps you can point out what we are ALL obviously missing? What have they fucked up so badly in TWO WEEKS?
I’m on a break from bashing Albo to give the cunt a fair go. So far he is a bit better than I expected.
Awks splats
Trivial comment from monumentally unfunny commie cartoonist.
And what exactly is the point from Eagar the stupid? Biased, half-baked factoids may be effective politics but to what end? What is the point of telling us that Dandrews is stuffing up when we’ve known that since he murdered 800 Victorians with his great hotel quarantine fiasco.
You know you are living in a fascist state when they hold an inquiry and nobody (least of all the Commissioner) actually inquires – turns out the murderous decision just made itself. (Same applies to Pallachook and her police lab scandal).
And now Dandrews has his secret domestic spy agency, Insights Victoria, which he fought so hard to keep the public from knowing about.
And now Dandrews has his secret domestic spy agency, Insights Victoria, which he fought so hard to keep the public from knowing about.
lol It’s on the Victorian Govt’s website.
But yet:
>“The agency was only made public after a Freedom of Information request which the government attempted to deny.”
Note well from the link above:
Yet – here in Australia, all we do is cut the tax rate.
https://michaelwest.com.au/revealed-australias-top-40-tax-dodgers-for-2021/
Then there’s the cheating unAustralians.
Legal but unethical. It’s Time!
Fuck me this is hilarious, it’s like something out of the Cafe Whispers convention at Darling Harbour…!! (For those of us who’ve been around long enough to remember)…
😆
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/06/defamation-trial-hears-malicious-text-message-pauline-hanson-sent-former-senators-wife?CMP=share_btn_tw
“the cheer-leaders have gone quiet.”
Or perhaps what’s left of the Liberal party are just rapidly sinking into irrelevance.
As Angus Taylor discovered earlier today… LOL…
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“Mission accomplished, I guess.”
Like this…?
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Dutton and Taylor believe Wong is speaking in tongues.
Mean girls do that!
” he tried to blame Labor for unnecessary government spending fueling interest rate rises.”
Bit soon for that!
Tom R is about to be outed!
Yep – definitiely Tom R:
“PRguy “was established in 2020 to defend and justify everything Dan Andrews says and does”.
In fact Tom R aka PR Guy has been giving this fine establishment a bad name:
“Social media has become a coward’s palace where people can just go on there, not say who they are, destroy people’s lives and say the most foul and offensive things to people and do so with impunity,” he said.”
Pretty sure the rest of us don’t do anything like that!
Ever wondered why Tom R is always posting tweets from PR Guy?
Obviously gets high on the stench of his own stinking turds!
Shanks wanks and Google swallows: result Barilaro benefits by $715k.
Meanwhile one of the many stupid mongrel Greens has backtracked fearing come-uppance for her lies:
“Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O’Connor has apologised for her controversial comments on the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial.
Sounds like Cassy shit her own bed! Or maybe she just wants a playdate with Edward Penishands!
Amber Heard has damaged the #Metoo movement. Meanwhile, Misogynists Anonymous have changed their slogan to “All women should be Heard!”.
Same with Australian energy prices – they have to rise to enable the bankers to cash in onb their bird-munching windmills and eyesore solar panels.
If we’d begun commissioning nuclear plants in the 90s when the climate cunts started their bitching they would have nothing to bitch about now. And that really is the point – the entitled upper-middle classes and the children of the rich need a cause célèbre du jour for their virtue peacocking.
OK Groomers:
Sleazy Pelosi hires a Hollywood producer to produce her prime-time election campaign ad:
True – two-tier system of justice:
Stairman Dan’s Korean doppelganger (in thought word and deed):
It interesting about the current defamation actions
It seems the current laws have the balance about right.
Stairman Dan’s Korean doppelganger
He’s going to be very disappointed in Penny Wong
It seems the current laws have the balance about right.
I don’t mind being exposed as prguy. It appears many people are looking forward to it lol
If you have the NUMBERS then you have a MANDATE .
That’s the brutal reality.
“ BUT it should (and could) be more than that ” Now who’s deluding themself, Knot under the blue gaggle as they’ve been sabotaging and looting. Every system “should’n could” be More, Better, Cheaper, Securer, Robuster etc with ‘baked-in’ betterment for all, and true savings, but since 1996 we have had know noughts with know ambition, know vision and know leadership steering the olympic class island while sovereign risk burns below deck, spreading from bunker to bunker. @they.can’t.even.manage.trash`
If you have the NUMBERS then you have a MANDATE .
just needed repeating 😉
Some of the replies here are gorgeous. Also, it appears the media don’t want to ask him these sort of questions, but they are quite happy to repeat his statements. Interesting?
l see poor old kooyong is failing his ‘sums’ again! lf we were to add the one trillion bucks of pre-superbug shoddy, grenfell, surfside, construction repairs needed down-hole to the back-in black josh’s one trillion bucks jobBeeber down-hole. Then by my guessing there is now Two trillion bucks down-hole. That is before we add on, the robodebt backfire settlements, the invisible fleet of canoes from frogland, commuter carparks with know rail station, (haw-haw) and all the other snippets of pure waste. The baby primates Are definitely well on way to having three trillion bucks down-hole. Then the interest rate moves north. @plus.global.cooling`
“@.plus.” two decades of cash re-living and re-unlearning vietnam in afgan`
“ Now their preferred green-leftists are in office, the cheer-leaders have gone quiet. ” After the armada of aqua bulldozers and fleet of green bulldozers ploughed thru blue ribbon “broad asylums” last week, the red team cheerers are probably realising that the next three years may be merely ‘borrowed time’ and perhaps the last non-coalition, non-watermelon federal govt for quite some time. After all, more voters have been leaving the duopoly gaggles for quite some time. They may be realising their gaggle will end up beating their own head into the ground 2009 style, then voters will send the bulldozers thru red ribbon asylums as well. Now in all fairness they’ve only been in office a week or so, and trying to claim they’ve fcuked it all up would just be plain wrong. So give them time.
Clearly the answer is NO. Howard should have recognised that the price paid
(and therefore the money received) is determined by the market, particularly over the longer term. But he didn’t. He signed a ‘fixed price’ contract and caused much hilarity, disbelief and contempt among the Chinese negotiators.
They had the deal of a lifetime – thanks to Howard
Is that really true? I find it hard to believe that the PM has the time, resources or knowledge to be involved in the nitty gritty of contract prices. The market sets the price not the PM.
The PM can ban exports in the national interest eg if we have a shortage or are at war.
I find it hard to imagine the PM sitting around a table haggling the price for any commodity we export.
MN
So Howard as PM (17 years ago) leaned across the table during the natural gas export contract deal and said we should sign a “”fixed price”” contract for natural gas rather than let the market set the price.
And then the Chinese laughed.
You have a link for that?
You have a link for that?
This is glorious 🙂
Greetings from the GC Broadwater. Aboard the Kieko
Says much about our ‘democracy’ and the way it operates:
Time to move from a representative democracy to a more participatory democracy. And not rely on politicians who have an actual or an impending conflict of interest.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-11/gas-belongs-to-us-say-former-western-australian-premiers/101143558
Arrived home this morning …
Meet the Keiko …
http://fantaseashouseboats.com.au/houseboats/keiko/
Looks like fun, TB. Did you populate with family or
drinkingfishing buddies? 🙂Bidenomics:
• 8.6 percent inflation.
• $5.01 per gallon
• 234,088 illegal border crossings
• 39% approval
• 83% dissatisfied
Comparisons with Jimmy Carter are an insult to that other dumb Democrat mongrel.
The attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh was as much an act of insurrection as anything that happened on J6. Given that Mongrel Chuck Schumer called for the attack it is unsurprising that the leftist moron media is uninterested in covering it.
Following the attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh, the US Senate passed a law to give further protection to judges. It was passed on the voices with no objections. Meanwhile Sleazy Pelosi refuses to allow the house to consider that legislation. Because she is an utter mongrel of a human being.
This is the law protecting judges and juries in the discharge of their duty:
Even after an attempted murderer came to Kavanaugh’s house armed with a gun, cable ties, a knife, hammer and nail punch, Attorney General Merrick Garland refuses to enforce it because he is a deep-state stooge incapable of doing his duty or keeping his oath of office.
“Did you populate..” I meant “populate the boat”
Yeah! Course you did … 🙄
Re:
Suppose it may be possible, but not if one has any regard for the usual definition of ‘insurrection’.
Was it ‘organised’? (By a single individual who was so organised that he …) Was it a ‘rebellion’? (By a single individual.) By a ‘group of citizens or subjects’? (So how many ‘personalities’ did this single individual have that made him a ‘group’?)
Perhaps there is a link to this particular and peculiar definition of ‘insurrection’? Until then …
The attempted murderer was the tip of the spear. The instructions came from Schumer in what was much more a direct threat than a dog whistle:
Schumer, when confronted by Chief Justice Roberts (who is apparently not going to vote to reverse Roe v Wade)
The rest of the criminal mob have been outside the judges’ homes attempting to intimidate them and their families in clear violation of the law protecting judges and juries from precisely this type of intimidation. Of course in the US two-tier justice system the Attorney General refuses to prosecute them or even end their insurrection.
To finish the thought:
Schumer, when confronted by Chief Justice Roberts (who apparently is not going to vote to reverse Roe v Wade), laughably suggested he was rereferring to political consequences and he was not referring to Kavanaugh who he personally singled out. Kavanaugh is appointed for life their is no political price he can pay.
At this stage the Democrat court stacking process is clear – dial up the rhetoric, encourage illegal intimidation of judges (as Biden has done), wait for some leftist nutter to kill or maim sitting conservative judge and replace them with a leftist.
The least Biden could do is denounce the illegal intimidation of the judges (which he has specifically declined to do) and promise that if one of them is murdered they will be replaced by a nominee of the Republican Senate Leader McConnell. That might help stop the insurrection against the third branch of government but it would require Biden to do something decent – something he has been incapable of doing since he got caught cheating at law school:
Biden has been doing stupid, racist, sexist, corrupt and creepy kiddie stuff ever since.
Back to the topic…
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Surely reb you’re not so blind as to think charities are run by selfless people serving others and the charitable purposes for which they were founded? You are obviously in need of a guide dog but I don’t like your chances! Maybe you should donate some of your hard-earned to them?
the Democrat court stacking process is clear
“ so blind as to think charities are run by ” Those that are worth “every penny” we have been told so often. lt would break their heart if they ever had to work for mere humble wages. (-:`