We now have as much in the way of results out of the federal election as we’re ever going to, with the Australian Electoral Commission finally publishing preference flow by party data. The table below offers a summary and how it compares with the last two election. They confirm that YouGov Galaxy/Newspoll was actually too conservative in giving the Coalition 60% of preferences from One Nation and the United Australia Party, with the actual flow for both parties being nearly identical at just over 65%.
The United Australia Party preference flow to the Coalition was very substantially stronger than the 53.7% recorded by the Palmer United Party in 2013, despite its how-to-vote cards directing preferences to the Coalition on both occasions. A result is also listed for Palmer United in 2016, but it is important to read these numbers in conjunction with the column recording the relevant party’s vote share at the election, which in this case was next to zero (it only contested one lower house seat, and barely registered there). Greens preferences did nothing out of the ordinary, being slightly stronger to Labor than in 2016 and slightly weaker than in 2013.
The combined “others” flow to the Coalition rose from 50.8% to 53.6%, largely reflecting the much smaller footprint of the Nick Xenophon Team/Centre Alliance, whose preferences in 2016 split 60-40 to Labor. This also contributes to the smaller share for “others”, with both figures being closer to where they were in 2013. “Inter-Coalition” refers to where there were both Liberal and Nationals candidates in a seat, some of whose preferences will have flowed to Labor rather than each other. The “share” result in this case records the combined Coalition vote in such seats as a share of the national formal vote.
While we’re here, note the blog’s other two recent posts: Adrian Beaumont’s account of Brecon & Radnorshire by-election, and my own in-depth review of the legal challenges against the election of Josh Frydenberg in Kooyong and Gladys Liu in Chisholm.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/august/1566136800/jo-lle-gergis/terrible-truth-climate-change
[Given how disconnected policy is from scientific reality in this country, an urgent and pragmatic national conversation is now essential. Other-wise, living on a destabilised planet is the terrible truth that we will all face.]
However did we come to be ruled by a bunch of backward-thinking, narrow-minded fools? How good is that!
I suspect that Trumps little tariff war with China is not doing Trump’s vote any harm. It will also help bring the US budget under control. I reckon he might get a second term.
With the cancellation of the nuclear treaty with Russia it looks like MAD is back on the agenda. I suppose there are a few that don’t know what MAD stood for.
The scariest thing, 1984 might not be the year but it is coming to pass. Google and facebook own the telescreen.
The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.
Please remember:
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
If thought can corrupt language, language can corrupt thought.
I suspect Putin, Morrison, Trump, Xi Jinping and Johnson all understand.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
George didn’t get it all right, a couple need updating.
The best web sites are those that tell you what you want to know (books, they are the things that sit on shelves and turn to dust-HG Wells Time Machine).
Control the narrative and you control the future. ( you don’t need the past, people forget).
For those that have not read 1984, a book that makes Nostradamus look like an cooky salesman:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
I suspect Briefly has the strongest grip on reality. We are fucked.
lizzie @ #1 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 7:10 am
Sheer blind luck. I suspect alien intervention by a lizardlike band of planet hopping shape shifting psychologists using we pseudo humans as subjects in order to test the limits of stupidity. The working title of the experiment is “Compulsory dickheadedness in the form of voting for your own extermination – the great attraction and the link to chocolate”.
Whew. Better get up and put the kettle on.
However did we come to be ruled by a bunch of backward-thinking, narrow-minded fools? How good is that!
Amusing to contemplate that people voted in horror at the prospect of a ‘Death Tax Scare’ but not in horror at the prospect of their species own imminent (in the next century or so), demise via Global Heating?
‘How good is Coal!?!’ 🙄
when can I expect that apology C@t? You claimed that I had said some terrible things. I think it’s only fair.
C@
As I’ve said before, part of the problem is that politicians who accept climate change is real have jumped straight to the solutions, when a lot of people still don’t understand the nature of the problem.
Barnaby Joyce took the trouble to wander around the country ‘educating’ people to believe climate change isn’t real. No politician from the other side has bothered to put the ‘yes’ case.
Of course, it shouldn’t all be left to politicians – but if you want people to go with you, they have to understand why they should.
nath
But what would it be worth? The standard you’ve set is that you apologise one day and then repeat the same slur the next, so you obviously don’t think apologies mean anything.
zoomster
says:
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 8:00 am
nath
But what would it be worth? The standard you’ve set is that you apologise one day and then repeat the same slur the next, so you obviously don’t think apologies mean anything.
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Only you could still be worked up over #selfiegate
nath @ #7 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 7:58 am
No apology. I just realised that I probably won’t be able to find the offensive comment any more because Mr Bowe deleted it. Hence your confidently standing up on your hind legs demanding an apology. You’re a cunning one, I’ll give you that.
Ummm. I suspect Briefly is an optimist.
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/august/1566136800/jo-lle-gergis/terrible-truth-climate-change
It’s not difficult to understand; once the ice on the esky is gone the beer gets hot. OK to explain it you have to understand “the heat of solidification”. You don’t need the science to know the beer gets hot and when it comes to the planet, we are the beer and the ice cubes sit at the poles.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers. I’ll be back soon with Part 2. The animals need feeding.
A brilliant contribution here from Peter Hartcher demanding a federal ICAC.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/where-s-the-outrage-there-s-a-bigger-problem-than-the-lame-inquiry-into-crown-20190802-p52del.html
Meanwhile Fairfax-Lite reveals that another key junket partner in casino giant Crown Resorts’ high-stakes Chinese gambling business allegedly led a violent organised crime racket smashed by Chinese police.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/threatening-people-by-force-another-crown-junket-operator-falls-foul-of-the-law-20190802-p52ddp.html
Nick Toscano and Nick McKenzie go inside the Crown Casino boiler room.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/sell-to-the-end-fight-every-battle-destroy-the-competition-inside-crown-s-vip-boiler-room-20190729-p52br4.html
RBA governor Phillip Lowe has a pretty good idea on why the old rules of macro-economics are not working so well any more writes Ross Gittins. Not a happy experience reading this.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/star-pupil-philip-lowe-gives-tips-on-why-inflation-is-so-low-20190802-p52d7v.html
The SMH reveals that a small group of private certifiers have signed off on 130 buildings with compliance problems, including allowing residents to move into one property that did not have toilets or taps fitted. Surely this deserves jail time!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/building-certifiers-leave-a-trail-of-chaos-20190802-p52ddn.html
Extraordinary claims including a bag containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash was delivered to NSW Labor Party’s headquarters to evade the state’s donation laws are set to be exposed in a fresh corruption inquiry later this month. This looks crook.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/bag-of-cash-labor-bracing-for-icac-revelations-20190802-p52de5.html
Peter Fitzsimons wonders where the outrage over fate of the other Folau is. Suddenly, a strange and awkward – if amusing – silence settles on the land, he says.
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/where-is-the-outrage-over-fate-of-the-other-folau-20190802-p52dcd.html
Former ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft warns a decline in auditing could be the next black swan event.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/call-for-rules-shake-up-to-avoid-enron-style-collapses-in-australia-20190802-p52db7.html
Crispin Hull writes that Australia is facing its biggest trade change in half a century.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6306250/australia-faces-its-biggest-trade-change-in-half-a-century/?cs=14258
Adele Ferguson writes that time’s up for NAB’s Ken Henry but also for the billion-dollar audit club.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/time-s-up-for-henry-but-also-the-billion-dollar-audit-club-20190802-p52dak.html
The SMH editorial accuses the critics of the NSW abortion bill of putting up a smokescreen.
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/critics-of-abortion-bill-are-putting-up-a-smokescreen-20190802-p52der.html
And Kate Aubusson reports that legal and medical experts have rubbished a “scare campaign” from religious leaders and conservative MPs claiming a new bill to decriminalise pregnancy terminations would lead to “open slather” late-term abortions.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/late-term-abortion-claims-dismissed-as-scare-campaign-20190802-p52dbf.html
One of the firms handpicked by the NSW government to bid to rebuild the stadium says they are not interested. I wonder why.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/thanks-but-no-thanks-construction-firm-won-t-bid-to-rebuild-sydney-football-stadium-20190802-p52dfh.html
Meanwhile in Melbourne The Age reports that creaking noises louder than a vacuum cleaner that disturbed residents through the night at a Southbank highrise were caused by incorrect building techniques, a report reveals.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/incorrect-construction-techniques-behind-loud-creaking-in-melbourne-high-rise-20190730-p52c5q.html
The Prima Pearl tower was built by Multiplex, which is now dealing with complaints from residents about loud cracking and creaking noises in a new building, the yet-to-be completed Australia 108 tower in Southbank.
Elizabeth Farrelly applies the blowtorch to the NSW government.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/sydney-stuck-with-the-bad-decisions-of-those-blinded-by-big-piles-of-dosh-20190801-p52d03.html
Elizabeth Knight examines the buy now pay later groups that are popping up like mushrooms and disrupting the banks.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/credit-card-killer-buy-now-pay-later-groups-popping-up-like-mushrooms-20190802-p52d7x.html
Dana McCauley reports that the nurses’ union has moved to distance itself from the militant CFMMEU, appealing to the Senate crossbench to spare its “respectful” campaigns for patient safety from a union crackdown aimed at bringing the John Setkas of the movement to heel.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/we-are-not-the-cfmmeu-nurses-plead-to-be-spared-from-union-crackdown-20190725-p52an8.html
Benjamin Priess says now that Melbourne’s major recycling firm SKM has collapsed, trashing the recycling programs of more than 30 councils along with the jobs of hundreds of workers, it’s time for every household in the state to face the truth.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/our-backyard-environmental-catastrophe-was-a-long-time-coming-20190802-p52dds.html
Julie Szego says that as loyal subjects of the Crown, we can expect our rightful status in the mother country to be restored after Brexit.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/britain-is-on-the-brink-and-it-s-an-exciting-place-to-be-australian-20190801-p52cw3.html
Nick Miller tells us that an electorate where sheep vastly outnumber people kicked out a Conservative politician for an anti-Brexit Lib Dem. Boris’ parliament just got even more hostile. Boris has failed his first electoral test.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/boris-johnson-failed-his-first-electoral-test-20190802-p52deu.html
Rob Harris writes that brewers are calling for a review of the “unreasonably high” taxes on beer, with Australians paying more tax on the amber nectar than almost everywhere else in the world.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/enough-to-make-you-weep-beer-prices-to-rise-as-aussies-slugged-for-more-tax-20190802-p52das.html
Tony Wright wonders how we’d manage getting around these days without GPS.
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/we-found-our-way-by-memory-once-or-asking-around-but-now-20190801-p52cru.html
With Trump’s latest salvo, the trade war may finally hit Apple.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/with-trump-s-latest-salvo-the-trade-war-may-finally-hit-apple-20190802-p52d4r.html
This guy is a standout nomination for “Arsehole of the Week”!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/prisoner-jailed-for-carving-islamic-state-slogan-into-cellmate-s-head-20190802-p52dbz.html
Then again . . .
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/melbourne-businessman-charged-with-13-counts-of-rape-20190802-p52de9.html
Cartoon Corner
This cracker from David Pope says plenty!
Great work from Jim Pavlidis.
And from Andrew Dyson.
Dark work from Alan Moir.
And Moir gives us Angus Taylor’s year from hell.
David Rowe lines up Trump and Mitch McConnell.
from Matt Golding.
Jon Kudelka updates the pearly gates.
https://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/dc65351f0727bd124048fabf34ea8afa?width=1024
I Like this.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1157039952099627008
From the US
Anyway, back to being Blocked by me, nath. You’re not going to browbeat me into submission. I KNOW I’m right.
Thanks for giving me the win (again), nath. It’s very good of you.
C@tmomma
says:
Saturday, August 3, 2019 at 8:05 am
nath @ #7 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 7:58 am
when can I expect that apology C@t? You claimed that I had said some terrible things. I think it’s only fair.
No apology. I just realised that I probably won’t be able to find the offensive comment any more because Mr Bowe deleted it. Hence your confidently standing up on your hind legs demanding an apology. You’re a cunning one, I’ll give you that.
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No. William has not deleted anything I have posted. That’s because I am careful with my words and don’t post anything offensive. The fact is you have imagined this post. Actually, you have inflamed the post Jolyon found yesterday into a heinous crime.
I remember you also claimed last year that I said something terribly offensive to Lizzie last year. Which I denied. Despite days of searching for it all you came up with was something I said to BW that was fairly tame. The fact is your relationship with reality is at times tenuous.
zoomster
To control the narrative a lot of effort has been put into undermining science. They have in a short decade undermined a central tenant of western civilization. When you look at it what power has succeeded in doing is pretty amazing.
frednk
My son’s just finished reading ‘Merchants of Doubt’. He got very depressed by it.
Oh I do love a good euphemism in the morning ,”incorrect building techniques” sounds so much nicer than what actually went on that led to the shit they are now in.
Everything Trump Touches Dies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ratcliffe-withdraws-from-consideration-for-intelligence-chief-trump-says/2019/08/02/9f3c42cc-b551-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?utm_term=.288c12f4345a
To misquote Bob Hawke
“Anyone who buys a unit in a high rise building today is a fool.”
Confessions @ #20 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 8:20 am
He was caught flat out lying about how many immigrants he had rounded up on the southern border in one day. In order to please King Rat, of course.
lizzie @ #21 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 8:26 am
Reminds me of this song:
https://youtu.be/n-sQSp5jbSQ
The SMH reveals that a small group of private certifiers have signed off on 130 buildings with compliance problems, including allowing residents to move into one property that did not have toilets or taps fitted. Surely this deserves jail time!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/building-certifiers-leave-a-trail-of-chaos-20190802-p52ddn.html
But! But! The Builders are ‘having a go!’ 😐
zoomster @ #18 Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 – 8:14 am
If one were determined to give oneself a good kicking – get a load of this lot –
“Depresions R Us.”
In the meanwhile the sun has risen. Today in Newcastle will be a pleasant day with the temperature expected to be 21℃. 🌞
Mutual Assured Destruction mentioned back there.
From a personal & Australian point of view, I never worried much during the MAD years. I figured (correctly as it seems) that despite the feinting, arms testing, minor conflicts & general nastiness engineered by both sides that ultimately rational people* would not go all the way.
I’m not so confident anymore. Rational people at that level are hard to find.
* I figured Reagan’s minders would keep him in check.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-let-the-winnowing-commence/2019/08/02/ca6c0dfc-b488-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html?utm_term=.2ce212387c1a
I don’t necessarily agree Biden is the best candidate to beat Trump next year, but I think this is unfair. Trump is way less healthy than Biden, both physically and mentally yet gets a pass on the subject of physical and mental capacity because he is incapable and inappropriate in every other way.
Part 2. I have barely got my eyes open and already there is a “wait there’s more.”
Checking the suspicion bump on my head (phrenology) – which, what are who/whom are the “animals” ❓ Could it be horses, cows, goats or
No- o- ooo can it be the Poll Bludgers.
Please somebody say it isn’t so :?!
Like lizzie said, why in blazes would anyone buy or move into high rise apartments these days?
Dawn Patrol Part 2.
Paul Bongiorno writes, “Tasmanian independent Jacqui Lambie has returned to the senate convinced that people don’t trust politicians. That’s the message she received anywhere she went in the island state during her enforced exile from parliament over citizenship eligibility, she says. And that’s why she and other crossbenchers in both the house of representatives and the senate are calling for the urgent establishment of a national integrity commission.”
https://outline.com/u4bPns
The AFR explains how to find the best returns in a low-rate world.
https://outline.com/VcyJtx
And it warns us we should buckle up for a wild ride as a capricious and campaigning US president is in the mood for a currency war.
https://outline.com/JdzK2S
Another scoop from Karen Middleton who writes, “Australia’s law-enforcement agencies are sidestepping the courts to obtain the vast majority of their phone-tap and email interception warrants from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) – a body that has attracted criticism for the number of its political appointees, some without legal qualifications.”
https://outline.com/b7qhFu
Katharine Murphy begins her contribution with, “The 46th parliament is beginning to ease into itself. The Coalition’s collective shock at winning the election is transforming, bit by bit, into swagger. In the bear pit, the government hovered on the brink of braggadocio.” She really gives Morrison a serve.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/03/how-facebooks-hall-of-mirrors-led-to-the-prime-ministership-of-go-sharks
David Uren tells us that as George Calombaris returns wages of $7.8 million to his employees, the latest research shows widespread underpayment of casual workers – particularly those earning the least.
https://outline.com/N8ecVw
Michael McGowan explains how Australia’s right wing speaking circuit went from ‘PR stunt’ to cash cow.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/03/cpac-how-australias-rightwing-speaking-circuit-went-from-pr-stunt-to-cash-cow
Mike Seccombe writes that while the government argues it needs tough new powers to break up thuggish, militant unions, experts say the average union member is a 50-something woman working in aged care. He concludes by suggesting John Setka is not the reason for the proposed legislation, but the excuse.
https://outline.com/9cgAuA
The NAB has launched an investigation into the misuse of its products including allowing self-managed super funds to borrow to invest in managed funds, a practice that is banned.
https://outline.com/DCLaFx
Laura Tingle bemoans the deafening silence from Canberra over the Crown Casino revelations.
https://outline.com/NPshKC
Crown Resorts takes extraordinary steps to deny crime link claims, but faces five separate inquiries and calls for a royal commission
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/03/this-is-new-territory-australias-powerful-crown-casino-faces-scrutiny-like-never-before
The abuse of power exhibited by Peter Dutton’s Home Affairs Department has made a mockery of our tourist visa system, writes Murray Hunter.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/peter-dutton-and-the-great-australian-tourist-visa-scam,12960
According to an Dunlop and David Spratt Australia’s climate stance is inflicting criminal damage on humanity.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/03/australias-climate-stance-is-inflicting-criminal-damage-on-humanity
Beefing up security isn’t the only way to make hospitals safer explains Jacqui Pich.
https://theconversation.com/beefing-up-security-isnt-the-only-way-to-make-hospitals-safer-121301
This week, John Wren looks at why our economy is stalling as well as more Liberal Government failures.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/wrens-week-our-slowing-economy-and-inept-parliament,12963
Amanda Meade goes after Gerard Henderson’s spirited defence of Angus Taylor on Insiders.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/aug/02/unaware-hendo-defends-angus-taylor-over-grasslands-saga
A recent breach of patient confidentiality by the Department of Human Services has raised legal and ethical questions.
https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/dhs-uses-personal-details-to-recruit-patients-into-medical-study,12961
BSA Bob
Putin and Xi are very rational so although not nice people running crap political systems I don’t worry about them testing ‘MAD’ . Can’t say I’m so relaxed about the empire in decline aka The US of A . I can see some nut at some stage feeling the need to ‘show who still boss’ and that they still have what it takes…………..even if they don’t . Decline of Empire and instability probably go together.
poroti
Good point. I realise now that when I wrote that I was thinking pretty much of “our” side, plus a few nutters on the other. Which makes your point about the decline of empire still more depressing.
A glimmer of hope for 2020:
Thanks BK for the early Dawn Patrol.
From the BK Files.
Meanwhile in Melbourne The Age reports that creaking noises louder than a vacuum cleaner that disturbed residents through the night at a Southbank highrise were caused by incorrect building techniques, a report reveals.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/incorrect-construction-techniques-behind-loud-creaking-in-melbourne-high-rise-20190730-p52c5q.html
Carefully considering the article it would appear that a deal of the wind is coming from those associated with the building being constructed by Multiplex and developed by World Class Global which is set to be the tallest building in Australia and the highest residential building in the southern hemisphere.
Another theory put forward from the Gummints Department of Global Falsification and Denial is that the OzScience proven poltergeist phenomena is at play in the building with playful ghosts tickling the tootsies of unsuspecting inhabitants.
Or – in line with information just to hand – the whoosh and swish of those huge rotating blades planned for Taswegia may be transmitting through time to effect tall towers in Melbourne.
Or – I should go back to bed. 🛌
A tuned damper tank. Crowd funding possibly required to purchase ex Murray/Darling liquid from resource centre in Cayman Islands.
Cripes BK has already put up part 2 of the ✔ Dawn Patrol. ✔
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-02/widow-slams-native-vegetation-clearing-amnesty/11377676
Dorothy dixers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-03/how-dorothy-dixers-are-turning-the-wa-parliament-into-a-sham/11378152
The same can be said of all other state jurisdictions as well as the federal sphere.
Strange that ICAC can go after Chinese $10k donations to the ALP, yet ignore the ‘hiding in plain sight’ multiple $500k donations from the Packer family to the Liberal Party.
Payola from the $10k to Labor? Zilch.
Payola from the multiple $500k to Liberals? Barangaroo Casino with no tender. Facilitation for Chinese Whales at Crown establishments.
Apologies to BK if he linked this, but I didn’t notice it if he did. After all, it was back in early BC. (Before Coffee) 🙂
One not just for the cricket tragics. It’s a good yarn in itself.
A lovely piece about Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins’ rise in world of cricket journalism and broadcasting.
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-03/geoff-lemon-adam-collins-changing-cricket-coverage-in-australia/11345286
Concerns about Joe Bidens health may be well founded. But from my vantage point the real concern is with Trumps health. He is deteriorating by the day.
Something is going to give.
Crown Casino
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-03/crown-casino-corruption-silence-major-parties/11379226
Given the bipartisan agreement on so many issues relating to corruption, if it wasn’t for the crossbench, business as usual would prevail without any real scrutiny, scrutiny that keeps these same issues on the boil.
I’m not normally an Elizabeth Farrelly fan, but her article today outlines brilliantly how money talks in Sydney…
“When a competition to nickname Barangaroo casino flared briefly on Twitter, suggestions included The Toilet Brush, The Vibrator, The Speculum … and anything meaning total and utter sellout – Barry’s Bottle of Grange, say, or just Barrangawrong. Then, inevitably, came the phalloids; Barrangaprong, Barrangawang, Barrangaschlong … and my personal pick for what will soon be Sydney tallest building, Packer’s Pecker. Or, not to overdignify the thing, Packer’s Peckerdillo.
A similar competition for the sad-looking hole-in-the-ground that was once Philip Cox’s pretty Moore Park stadium might produce metaphors of a more feminine persuasion, but similar doubts pertain regarding the proponent’s capacity to get it up.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/sydney-stuck-with-the-bad-decisions-of-those-blinded-by-big-piles-of-dosh-20190801-p52d03.html
Sprocket
Yep. Funny that. Should we be surprised.
Jamie Clements – now thankfully ‘boned’ from Sussex St HQ – was so dumb he failed to see the downside of allegedly flaunting the donation laws. One could almost imagine that this was a set up.
From the BK Files.
Beefing up security isn’t the only way to make hospitals safer explains Jacqui Pich.
https://theconversation.com/beefing-up-security-isnt-the-only-way-to-make-hospitals-safer-121301
Having had, in the long ago, some involvement with the subject matter, the idea put forward
Sounds good to me. In the good old days the security people would turn up after the ball was over then wander off. I suspect that teams as described above would be excellent in some circumstances although m0st events happen very quickly and are only managed by personnel on hand. The teams as above would need to be available 24 hours and the funding would not likely be readily available. Possibly prayer is the answer.
Somebody please phone the Prime Minister to sort out this problem. 🙏🙏
Police bypass courts for warrants
https://outline.com/b7qhFu
Coalition and Labor in lock-step.
Morrison’s version of government has a compliance problem.
This government will not last its full term as reality seems to have hit the ground so early in the government’s tenure. As a country we are one outrage from away from “marching in the streets”.
It will happen, as a mob we are just a little slow. Queensland standard time!
Test
While paying close attention yesterday to my lipstick plant – in the corner of my eye appeared this —
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Peter Hartcher
https://www.smh.com.au/national/where-s-the-outrage-there-s-a-bigger-problem-than-the-lame-inquiry-into-crown-20190802-p52del.html
The political duopoly has consequences.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/03/anthony-albanese-says-indigenous-voice-must-come-first-to-achieve-reconciliation