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.
Here comes the footy, with the first AFLW game overnight.
Sarah D’Arcy of Collingwood lays a vicious kick in to the groin of Carlton’s Sarah Hosking, who modestly said she’s glad she’s not a bloke but might have a bruise there later.
Any chance th girls will train with the boys to toughen them up JTI?
The local women’s team here did some damage to the reserves on day. It was interesting to watch.
Cape Town facing water rationing. Yes, it hasn’t rained – but the Zuma government has ignored all warnings for the last few years and done absolutely nothing about infrastructure to cope with a burgeoning population growth.
So Capetonians are looking at having to collect 25litres of water per day per person from a pick up point .when thecwated gets switched off . One has to assume they will know who has has collected their ration for the day.
Given that the average Australian household uses 600-900 litres/day this is quite drastic. Deodorant sales will no doubt soar.
The wealthy are collecting and hoarding bottled water as fast as they can. Stocks don’t even reach the shelves.
It’s the poor citizens in the shanty towns who will suffer. But then they have never had the luxury of water on tap anyway.
Problem is that they have no idea of how many people actually live in Cape Town. No census has been taken since 2011 and there is a constant flow into the cites.
So how they came up with the 25litres is interesting.
Sad to see my home town become third world. It’s a beautiful part of the world.
That should read 50litres/day. Bit better I guess
Just e-mailed my step daughter there to get a report on how she’s coping.
They turn the taps off on April 1.
Well that’ll be a world first. I think even Zimbabwe managed to keep the water running.
The taps will be turned off because there is no water left. I doubt we can blame a government after four successive years of record low rainfalls.
Just goes to show that people who deride desalination plants and say that ‘it’ll rain again, it always does’ can be well wrong. Yes it will, but will it be soon enough? Plenty of water surrounding Cape Town.
Chris Kenny’s column today was from the outer limits-he totally ignores the Liberal’s train wreck on unemployment (Labor had unemployment as low as 4.9%…the Liberals have never been in cooee of it), underemployment, the doubling of the deficit, gross debt of half a trillion, the doubling of electricity prices,the acidic hate between the Looters and the UnNationals, the fact that the economy actually grew during the carbon tax era, the denial of science, and then goes on to say Turnbull must expose the high risk of a return to Labor. Next page Paul Kelly puts in the boot as usual. This has been a 24/7 tirade against Labor for 8years now. Such bias I have never witnessed. Sigh! In good global economic times this must be the worst govt ever but all these can see is a stellar Liberal govt.
I guess there are other newspapers that do the same to the Libs, Bassy?
So Bassy the guardian, the Age etc. haven’t put the boot into the Coalition for 8 years?
I don’t read the Guardian but the Age…Fairfax editorials, before the last 2 elections
editorials wrote in favour of returning Libs to givt U wont see that in The Hun The Oz, The Terrror at the 2019 election and this mob are the worst I have seen. U also forget the 24/7 2GB branch of the Liberal Party and shock jocks broadcasting 70 stations across Oz patting the Looters on the back and piling soft interviews on them As I say…count the columns for and agaimst labor. I stopped counting in the Oz as they got over several hundred against one side of politics. I have polls on newspapers that show this: tell me if you have EVER seen this on the front page of ant Fairfax paper…especially the German gestapo one
https://www.google.com.au/search?source=hp&ei=95d2WqvmNIK20QS2p5vQBA&q=images+of+biased+murdoch+front+pages+elections&oq=images+of+biased+murdoch+front+pages+elections&gs_l=psy-ab.3…1562.17675.0.18161.48.41.0.0.0.0.484.6223.2-20j2j2.24.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..24.18.4525…0j0i131k1j33i21k1j33i160k1.0.DsbcQx40HLQ
Your brief critique appears to expose your own bias BASSY. Prejudical, superficial, unconscious, discriminatory, emotional. Take your pick.
as per.
http://www.roymorgan.com/
They inherited a mess, Bassman. Debt, structural deficit, detention centres overflowing, middle class welfare etc. All the stuff leftover from the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd years. The coalition have always had to mop up Labors mess. First Whitlam then Keating (thank-you Costello) and finally the RGR fiasco.
This is what the inherited and by the way the largest structural deficit of $90billion was left by Howard and Costello. Yep this is what Abbott inherited and if Labor win the next election they will be left a train wreck of debt as I have said.
During the GFC 32 countries went into recession we were one of 3 that didn’t.. Abbott in 2013 inherited a government with the third lowest debt in the world, unemployment as lows as 4.9 in 2012 under Labor soon escalated to 6.3% under Hockey and Abbott, record low interest rates, record low inflation, a AAA credit rating from ALL international rating agencies…a rating Costello never achieved.
It was a largely a Northern hemisphere problem BASSY, you’re inflating the issue and being influenced by hyperventilating journos.
Labor had years to sort out Howard and Costello’s structural deficit they didn’t. They chose to squander all the coin that was in the coffers.
Oh dear.
Night be worth a read:
http://takimag.com/article/a_never_trump_press_in_near_panic_patrick_buchanan#axzz561dDfYTj
Nake that might.
Mice one, Nilton
hehe
Talk about obstruction of justice by Trump:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/releasing-the-nunes-memo-is-trumps-most-unethical-act-since-firing-comey-20180202-h0t1pf.html
Devin Nunes is a disgrace, too.
Total bs TO, try some reason with your Cornflakes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-reckoning-for-the-fbi-1517617641?mod=djemMER
I can’t access the article. However, the preamble makes the rest fairly predictable.
As for reasoning, what do you think of the notion that it’s OK to declassify a partisan Republican memo without doing the same for the Democrat minority rebuttal?
A further point is that even the Trump-appointed FBI head, Christopher Wray, advised against declassifying the memo.
The notion of a deep state working against Trump is absurd beyond words – maybe you should stick to Infowars.
You guys need to settle on a narrative. This can’t simultaneously be the worst thing ever and a nothinburger. Pick one.
Lying to a judge to obtain a warrant is a crime. Live with it.
You know full well Dwight that once you’re a confirmed Trump hater reason goes out the door.
Razor, I can just feel the love and reason radiate in some quarters when Gillard, Rudd, the Clintons, Obama et al come up in the discussion.
Are those blinkers weighing you down?
Where’s your proof? It it’s true, it will come out.
One this is clear, though – if it’s OK to release a partisan memo criticizing a government agency, it’s also OK to release the Democratic rebuttal, too.
I see that James Comey slammed the decision to release the memo. I recall that you were a fan of James Comey when he announced the investigation re Hillary Clinton – you know, Diogenes etc. I’m guessing that you’re not a big fan, now. Maybe it’s you that needs to settle on a narrative.
Meh, it’s all as captivating as the Superbowl. Trump is coated in Teflon (tm Dupont). But it turns out that even orange Teflon is toxic.
On the plus side at least they uncovered only minutes of the meetings. Imagine if they had tapes and having to listen to the cussing and cursing of K Rudd for hour on end.
How clever is this short skit, “Groundhog Day”, on POTUS Trump, Mr Insider. What a joy it is to live in a Democracy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCbLxvBdquE
Punxsutawney Phil the Groundhog predicts 6 more weeks of Winter in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6yUQfywJSw
Great article by Loughnane. Putting aside the partisan recommendations the bulk of his piece sums up the current situation well. His point about a reduction of those in the mainstream having both conservative and liberal values is particularly instructive. A lesson here for those who are part of either the centre right or centre left.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/2018/02/01/united-joins-delta-updating-policies-deal-flood-comfort-animals/1086683001/
Have to check with Qantas about their policy. My comfort goanna might now be a problem.
God, some of these people are just strange!
Your comfort goanna? Well I suppose that might show up on the Xray. Tidy yourself up and don’t carry any coke, you’ll be right.
How could a monitor show up on an Xray?
Thanks mate! Being that every time I pass through security I get a patdown, I’m always on my best behavior.
Tell me about it Dwight…..the only place I like flying into now is Malaysia, no pat down AND a smile. As my old primary school teacher used to say “wonders will never cease”
You guys are naughty!
To a normal person this is beyond comprehension. What a pathetic sentence.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/crime-and-justice/mother-allowed-daughter-to-be-raped-by-older-obese-man-on-girls-weekend-in-toowoomba/news-story/26beeda53b1449e032a55b4acfdc12ac
Sadly or otherwise, the CM has a paywall now Razor, and I’m not paying it. Sounds appalling though.
12 months?
No go to the link without subscriber status Razor, but given the headline I don think I need to. Dont tell me the perpetrators got off lightly. We need a better judicial review system.
4 years to do 12mths. Will the usual reductions she’ll be lucky to do 6.