COAG met yesterday, the Prime Minister and the premiers of the states and chief ministers of the territories with Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, only allowed in after facial recognition technology was used as no one really knew what he looked like.
When the day came to an end, they all stood around backslapping for the cameras having agreed to everything the Prime Minister had placed on the agenda, including the creation of a national database of drivers’ licence photographs from across the country to give some muscle to photo recognition technology and continue the creeping sense of state surveillance on the citizenry.
It was a brief moment of political unity with Labor and Liberal leaders speaking as one.
How do we feel about this? The idea of a national voluntary non-binding postal survey didn’t get a look in this time, funnily enough, so we’re not quite sure about the national mood but it was one of those moments where clearly government didn’t give a damn what people thought.
Full column here.
I’m sitting here in Guangzhou preparing for reentry. Reading yet another article in the Financial Times agonising over Trump. It quotes MacBeth “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing”.
Now that could well apply to a local correspondent who drew Penny’s ire just recently.
I doubt i’ll be brimming with confidence if the socceroos get to face Italy or Germany but at least we got through to the next qualifiers. Bad spoiling tactics by the Syrians.
Watched the World Cup qualifier tonight. Excruciating. How many fizzers in front of goal? Predictable giving one away too. I can’t see us getting past the next mob going on that performance.
Who’d be a Syrian footballer? At least you get to live somewhere else legally I guess. I feel sorry for them.
I thought some of them were actually dead last night. By gee, they went down hard but happily they managed to sprint away after taking up 2 or 3 minutes of injury time.
It’s the magic spray Jack, quick wiz from the can of wonder and they’re away.
The Syrians got a second wind in their cramped legs when they lost a player and were a goal down. Even with one up and one extra we gave them a chance to send us out of the world cup, with only the goal post saving our skins. Would have been a bad time to give up smoking!
It was a very ethnically true performance (says he expecting to be pinged as a racist) not the least from George Costanza’s dad, er, the coach.
Michael West.This bloke deserve some sort of award.
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/adani-trumps-sale-of-manhattan-as-worst-deal-in-history/
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/fossil-fools-us185-billion-shareholder-wealth-destroyed-over-last-decade/
https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-minerals-council-coal-and-the-half-a-billion-spent-by-the-resources-lobby/
This makes for interesting reading Dismayed.
https://newmatilda.com/2017/10/10/adanis-coal-mine-is-a-symptom-of-the-crisis-in-australian-politics/
they’ll go him
“Labor, the Greens and climate change activists have rounded on Tony Abbott for a “loopy” London speech in which the former prime minister suggested temperature rises caused by climate change could be beneficial because “far more people die in cold snaps”.
http://tinyurl.com/y8vaxrq9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfJXKG4IB20
Abbott = Moron.
Make that deluded moron.
Is he the PM now?
When it comes to Abbott, Henry “Never Say Never”. I hear he is the likely candidate to replace Daniel Craig as Bond, James ahh Bond
And according to the article, even the other members of Abbott’s little kaffeeklatsch within the Liberal Party are keeping schtum on this latest bit of onion-munching.
perhaps it’s better to link to the speech itself, rather than what the SMH says about it, and then have a swing at the contents,
https://www.thegwpf.org/tony-abbott-daring-to-doubt/
A new Search Engine, Mr Insider, allegedly good for the Planet, Trees being planted by the second. Its called ECOSIA.
https://www.ecosia.org/
Is it really only Tuesday🙁
My thoughts as well. Tomorrow is a long day. Thursday a late day and Friday a busy one. Tired thinking about it.
I will probably know by Wednesday!
Smart arse……..
This is just too good not to share: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/oh-my-darling/news-story/a34b72815602b1529b8b042553f0be37
Well done, Tim!
Vive la difference.
Interesting. If he really “strongly opposes the idea that we should change our behaviour, our language, our laws and ideals to placate a minority”, I’m not quite sure why he’s running for One Nation, whose policies are pretty much the exact opposite of that.
Mind you, their campaign material has improved. The 120-odd words quoted by Blair (in his 150-odd word piece) do not contain a single spelling mistake.
Subsidisation of Fossil fuels continues. I will benefit from this but do not agree with it. The NAIF is a slush fund nothing else.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/slush-fund-fossil-fuels-first-naif-loan-deal-slammed-green-groups-36415/
Let Us Pray
Our coal, who art beneath us,
Hallowed be thy name
Thy seams be fracked,
thy wealth be plundered
And burned,
as it is in Hell
Give us this day, our “Energy Security”….
And forgive us our Absence of Policy,
As we forgive those who trash our Natural Heritage
And lead us not into Renewables,
But deliver us from Evidence
For thine is the Business, the Power & the Interest.
For EVER & EVER,
Amen
Conned by corporate criminals & ignorant old taxpayer funded idiots playing one off against the other, Australia is now openly undemocratically not operating in the national interest.
Shame on them all.
I hope their grandchildren will never forgive them.
abbott out to wreck his own party again and Australia’s reputation even further. somebody get rid of this guy for the sake of the nation.
The Fibs trashed our reputation long ago mate.
Now it’s just a matter of being a global joke. 😩🌏