Psst. Anyone know where I can get my hands on some top-secret documents?
Never mind. It turns out they can be purchased in second-hand stores. Look for locked filing cabinets without keys, collapsible document files that read “Top Secret” or “AUSEO” (Australian Eyes Only), or brown paper bags marked “Cabinet-in-Confidence”.
Welcome to the thigh-slapping comedy that is the commonwealth of Australia.
Perhaps we shouldn’t be too harsh. This could be a brilliant ruse. Certainly, the Chinese will be completely confounded by it. They’ve been spending the big bucks on electronic surveillance and satellite tracking to get access to national security information when all they really needed was to drive around Canberra and do a spot of low-level antiquing.
Full column here.
Whilst people are out antiquing could they keep an eye out for a Cone of Silence in good condition please.
Looking for a hat Milton?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q8CpaejCk8
Conehead?
Surely this can’t be! Eddie told us this wasn’t happening!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/optus-to-roll-out-5g-services-next-year/news-story/20fc4339ac099656ffc70afbf8b92907
Oh yeah, and that will be so cheap I bet. Go for it Razor.
No idiot I said 5G still requires Fibre. You are a FN stupid. Stick with your chicken wire up the telephone pole idiot. It is more than enough data for you. As usual your pathological dishonest is highlighted. No surprises. Seriously you have some sort of mental health issue.
No you said 5G was years away.
you just cant stop yourself from lying can razor. I highlight you are wrong constantly and you just cant handle the facts. No Surprises.
Hang on what’s this all about? Surely we haven’t wasted billions on superseded technology. This is the sort of thing morons design on the backs of drink coasters!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/rising-threat-of-the-activist-left/news-story/fb4f303d8d9eafed138974f7a1086f3f
Not only do they appear to be “second-hand secrets”, they’re also reportedly ambidextrous.
I see your man Tony Abbott got a big mention in them too Carl and not in a good light either. “Surprise, surprise” as Gomer Pyle used to say. Cheers
I wouldn’t know offhand. STOP IT!
Could be a third or fourth hand secrets Carl as they were cabinet papers inside cabinets.
Funny how Penny Wong says the cabinets were left there locked because a staffer had left who had the keys. No spares left with someone responsible? Smacks of incompetence or or a breach of security protocol to me, but Penny insists she takes security matters very seriously. Yep, Blind Freddy can see that.
So you reckon that every Minister is personally responsible for their all their Department’s filing cabinets, Mack?
Give us all a break, eh?
But a covering doc referring to 195 separate t-s and c/w-p docs were reportedly found in Wong’s office shortly after she skedaddled post the 2013 election. The various unprotected docs were apparently bundled with the covering note and placed in the fcs during the time Labor were licking their shellacing.
At least an alleged misdemeanor on the Minister’s part one would have thought.
The buck has to stop somewhere, Labor or Liberal. Bit touchy ain’t ya?
Having seen The Post just yesterday, I’m wondering about high-speed photocopiers. Probably much faster these days than they were in the 60’s
The right look: Conservative politicians look better and voters reward it
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272716302201
“The beauty of the conservative is skin deep, ugliness then continues on into the bone.”
Emile Gustav Baptiste.
Definitely
“Do not judge by appearances.
A rich heart may be under a poor coat.” Proverb
Talk about vanity leading with the chin.
Whop it up ’em Bella. I’ve got about a hundred in the magazine.
Oh My Gawd what a laugh.
You know what I mean? Real ‘special’ like.
Also odd & utterly delirious in Australia’s case.
Let’s see, there’s Turncoat, yeah nah, Joyce nah, Morrison nah, Bishop, yeah nag, Frydenberg nah, Hunt nah, WAIT…there IS Dutton. Now that’s one real beautiful hunka man right there.
Couldn’t knock Abbott in his budgies hey Bella?? You got it bad girlfriend!!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, beholder.
Didn’t mention Abbott, he’s gone, only he & you don’t know it.
I note the study’s most recent beauty data for politicians is from 2010. I’m pretty sure the subsequent elections of Ardern and Trump would each alone have been enough to tip the balance the other way.
Still, the parallel finding that conservative voters are more easily wooed by beautiful candidates no doubt still stands. Given the well-established result from many other studies that they are less intelligent than their progressive counterparts, it’s hardly surprising they are more easily swayed by form than substance.
So that would be why Jacinda ran in NZ and Christina was selected in Bennelong? Need to sharpen up your baby lawyering skills JOH. A decent advocate will wipe the floor with you at this rate.
Well if it was Brad Pitt v. Christian Porter, for example, I don’t care what the IQ is – I’d go for Brad
But then I’m a bit shallow
Ah yes, it is well known in security circles that it is easier to protect yourself against the hostility of enemies than the incompetence of friends.
Courtesy of the ABC, Mr Insider, the Cabinet Files without the pesky cabinets themselves.
https://tinyurl.com/yba3bb9x
Dismayed says:
February 1, 2018 at 3:48 pm
” I know I have helped Nations provide power for their people and helped give young people skills and knowledge ….”
Gulp – you cannot be serious! (to quote John McEnroe)
Why, that’s almost Trump-like in its magnificence. Well done!
Hmmmn? Quoting a tanty chucking brat like Mac the Mouth? Hmmmn, double hmmmmn and hmmmmn again.
But that’s why I’m quoting JMac, JB. Quite appropriate I thought.
Yvonne you are just a nasty old thing. you have some serious sort of comprehension deficit. The difference between things like you and people like me is I enjoy seeing other people do well. Your obsession is of the hook again. Get the nice carer to take you back inside and give you your medication. Don’t start complaining you are the victim as usual either you nasty old thing.
Sorry Gary. But you’re just funny. One has to laugh. Do you write Trump’s stuff for him? There is a similarity .
You enjoy seeing other people do well? Good to hear.
Bloody hell, one would struggle to believe you enjoy anything.
Not sure who this Gary is but I bet he would prefer you leave him out of your obsession. I see you only put part of my comment in. Bu you like razor pathologically dishonest and the worst example of wannabe Australians. Things like you sicken me.No surprises.
Dismayed = El Magnifico? Saw a comment that you are obsessed with him Boa, think it is the other way round. Churlish comes to mind.
I’d be worried about myself if I was MtK!
If you were MTK ? Why, what is his obsession?
Very droll, old thing . I’ll get more comma friendly
Real secrets? Let’s not jump to conclusions just yet. The items in question may well be left over props from that immensely entertaining ABC series “Utopia”.
Rather elaborate props aren’t they? I’d have thought a cover page would be sufficient.
Now “scripts” would be plausible.
What if it’s all fake and someone’s having a wind-up?
Bit bemused by this.
Documents (allegedly) from assorted governments, Kevin (I’m from Queensland and I’m here to help) has wheeled out his lawyers (as you do) and journalists getting their knickers in a twist because the very thing they’ve been gloating about to cupboard/toilet boy now might land them in a 6×4? courtesy of her maj.
Of course when you buy a pice of furniture that is less than perfect (should have gone to Ikea) the first thing you do is rush off to the ABC, what’s wrong with a Current Affair?