That fucking man ughhh

Useless, corrupt, self-satisfied wanker.

And yet I do not trust Australians to do anything about it.

How dare you!

Definitive proof that the holly-roller, huckster Christian ethos of fuckin' over thy neighbour and feeling smug, has no place in our body politic.

quote="Banno;d10876"]The Centre for National Resilience.[/quote] It's a marvellously Orwellian title.

Useless, corrupt, self-satisfied wanker. — StreetlightX

Ah, I see you've met him.

Meanwhile, our not-at-all guilty of sexually-assaulting-women-minister for industry, science, and tech:

https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/84512/Defence-7-May-2021.pdf
Well, it's not for us, not until Scotty has had a chance to spin it...

Hah, it's as if they had an art attack and stuck a bunch of Malevich's Black Squares there at the end.

Dalit — Banno

Daleks? Geez. And they say we have problems.

while we make sure they are not Dalit — Banno

On point! The pot calling the kettle black. We're all sinners I suppose, saints are mere myth.

We find in the Bible in the eighth chapter of the Book of John, a story of a woman caught in adultery. The Bible says that Jesus was in the temple teaching and the scribes and pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery.

They told Jesus that according to the law she should be stoned. Then they asked Him, what do you say. This was done to test Jesus so that they might have something to accuse Him of.

At that point the Bible tells us that Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear them. When they continued asking Him, He got up from the ground and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”

Then Jesus stooped down again and wrote on the ground. At that point, the Bible tells us that many were convicted by their conscience and walked away one by one. — The Good Book

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

He was called to do God’s work as prime minister

And yet I do not trust Australians to do anything about it. — StreetlightX

Perhaps the trouble is, it's too fucking nice here. We can do "She'll be right" and "No worries". We can afford to have a useless, corrupt, self-satisfied wanker in charge because the States do all the hard lifting anyway.

The Feds had two jobs: Quarantine, which they left to the states, so that now we can't look after returning Australians, and vaccination... now that's going well, hey?

The Feds had two jobs: Quarantine, which they left to the states, so that now we can't look after returning Australians, and vaccination... now that's going well, hey? — Banno

What I don't understand is how these are not easy wins for the coalition? Like, who says 'we don't have a plan', rather than just fudge it and say 'yes, here's our plan'? (and if it doesn't work out, then I dunno, keep doing what these shits do and shunt responsibility elsewhere?). Like, these guys lie for breakfast - what's keeping them from lying here? Is it a tacit acknowledgement of their utter incompetence? Or are they really so comfortable that they really reckon 'nah, we'll wing it' is really OK with the electorate? And are they right about that? I don't get the politics of what they are doing (maybe I'm naïve?). Like, what's the angle here?

Coalition and Morrison gain in Newspoll, and the new Resolve poll

Haven't understood Australian voting since 1975.

He was called to do God’s work as prime minister — Banno

I think, good or bad, it's usually the other,way round: Prime ministers are called to do God's work :grin:

We're a scared, petty nation.

We're a scared, petty nation. — StreetlightX

Who isn't?

Stan Grant...
How can Australia achieve economic growth when the Treasurer can't name China in his budget speech?

The Liberals cannot address difficult issues. They cannot plan for the future because they cannot see past tomorrow's headlines. Their party mechanism promotes mediocrity.

Federal government will spend $600 million on new Kurri Kurri gas plant in the NSW Hunter Valley

That'll fix covid.

I don't know why I think of this anecdote.

1977 - Kerry Packer rings an adviser/friend: "Idi Amin has invited me to go elephant shooting with him in Uganda, should I go, or will it harm my reputation?"

Adviser: "I don't know about your reputation, Kerry, but it will fuck Idi's..."

We are so lost....

:wink:


Here's the spin, straight from the Marketing Division of AGL:
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/gas-fired-recovery

“Our plan for Australia’s energy future is squarely focused on bringing down prices, keeping the lights on and reducing our emissions and these interconnectors bring us a step closer to that reality.”

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin, again? I notice an Ordinary Bloke's collection of baseball caps behind our apparently desk bound Scotty. Did he get rid of the MAGA one?

Did he get rid of the MAGA one? — Tom Storm

I suspect he is sitting on it.

Meanwhile, shunted in the middle of budget frenzy:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/may/13/new-law-allows-australian-government-to-indefinitely-detain-refugees-with-criminal-convictions

"Human rights groups – and parliament’s own human rights committee – say a new law pushed through parliament gives the government the power to indefinitely detain refugees, potentially for the rest of their lives. ... The law allows for the government, where it had cancelled the visa of a refugee but could not send them back to their country of origin because they would face persecution there, to detain them indefinitely. ...
The new law also gives the minister a broad unchallengeable power to withdraw a person’s refugee status recognition – declaring they can be returned to the country they fled."

Despicable bastards.

...and the bit about the 20,000 folk with disabilities, who can't get vaccinated despite being a top priority - that's "Good enough".

Please welcome today’s guest Senator Ian the Climate Denialist Potato who is here all the way from Canberra!

A dossier of lies and falsehoods

Crikey.

+1 :vomit:

It'll be amusing to watch Scotty spin this:

Report into Australia Post's handling of Christine Holgate's resignation calls for Scott Morrison to apologise

Apology is not in his vocabulary. He's Trumpian in that regard.

Tracking Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout numbers