We’ve always known it. We are miles ahead of the New Zealanders.
Last night in tortured reminiscence of our own political events post the 2010 election, NZ king/queen maker, Winston Peters announced he would support Labour and the Greens in loose coalition and allow Labour to form minority government. Thus Jacinda Ardern became NZ’s fourth prime minister in the last 18 years.
We have proven we can manage that feat in the space of about 18 months.
Bill Shorten got so excited he forgot how to spell or at least forgot how to spell the name of the freshly anointed political big wig of New Zealand, omitting the second ‘r’ from Ardern.
A correctly spelled missive was quickly dispatched but it did make me wonder. For the last 50 years the Americans have been having fun with our prime ministers’ names. From the simple misunderstanding over Malcolm Fraser’s preference for using his middle name as the more familiar to his first, all the way to our current PM who is known in Washington DC as Marlon Tumblington at last check.
Full column here.
Malcolm says there is no money for the NBN.Yes there is.We could have the best broadband in the world.We dnt need to spend $50billion on subs that will be obsolete before we get them and we definitely do not need to give the big end of town a $60 billion tax cut when only 17% of them pay the full tax rate ajyway.Subs and tax cuts are not nation building events.The NBN is if we are to be part of the global economy.Malcolms copper wire will have to be dragged out of the ground anyway according to the 2nd in charge of NBN Co.The old wire costs a billion a year to maintain as it is.We must return to fibre to the home NOW.The reason we are in this mess is because Turnbull wrecked the original plan.Recall this….In 2009 Abbott said he wouls smash the NBN.Put bluntly the Liberals just dnt believe in it.Howard sat there for years whilst the rest of the world drove past him
Pathetic games again from the Libs. Remember I used to support Malcolm? Not anymore. He is worse than Abbott. At least Abbott was openly vile, Turncoat tries to hide behind civility. They have done nothing for this country in four years. And he still endlessly blames “the previous government” for all their failures.
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Today, we are on the smear trail again. Poor old Bill, been through the Royal Commission, nothing found. What a waste of Taxpayer time and money. And yet they persist in this endless mudslinging thinking we are impressed.
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WE ARE NOT IMPRESSED MR PRIME MINISTER! The NBN you corrupted and ruined, the electricity prices soaring that you want to blame on me and my panels, you are complicit with the coal companies, the health system failing, no jobs to look forward to, all of it Liberal Failure. You are a total reject, a dud, a sterile stallion, bring on the election, NEXT!
Hear Hear Wraith, Hear Hear. just not nxt in SA another wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Old jelly Turncoat has done it again on Tony’s energy requirements so now he’s scrambling & spinning away trying to make any sense of it.
I want to know why journalists never ask the questions that would expose the spin on camera but perhaps I already do.
Maybe journalists could be replaced by trial lawyers, especially now the parasites, beholden to their donors, are transitioning us into a third world country.
They chased Slipper for how much? and totally ignored Ashby. Perception is everything…
Terrible night for the government. Cash under the pump. Staffer resigned. They cannot take a trick and every time they pull one of these stunts, it backfires quickly. No matter what happens to Cash, this is yet another week turned to shit for the Turnbull govt. On Friday, the High Court hands down its verdict on the seven duals. Newspoll on the weekend. The thought occurs that Turnbull is not very good at this.
I feel the same way about Bill Shorten-HOPELESS!
So on the London underground “Ladies and Gentlemen” is no longer used – it has been replace by Everyone.
This one take the cake though:
“The UK government has upped the ante. And they’ve taken their rabid PC campaign global.
It comes as UN delegates discuss proposed amendments to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The part in question is intended to highlight the special protections needed for pregnant women.
The UK’s position is that the term ‘pregnant woman’ be swapped with ‘pregnant people’.
Why?
Because it excludes transgender people.”
The world is mad.
How about “oi, you lot”. That shouldn’t offend anyone.
No, just the bits of it that we could describe as the Anglosphere, along with some of Europe. Pretty sure the entirety of South America, Africa, the Middle East and the bulk of Asia will be having a good old chuckle at whitey over that one.
Qantas ditched the greeting altogether. Straight into the message. Weird.
The gormless PM Turnbull getting desperate as his 22nd consecutive negative Newspoll looms. Electoral oblivion awaits him and his government. Ex ousted PM Abbott must be chuckling to himself.
You’ve gotta love US politics. What a Corker of a Senator this guy is!! http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/10/25/06/08/donald-trump-mocks-republican-senator-in-angry-twitter-rant
Bob’s had enough of the Donald. Quite a few others doing the same including GOP Senator Jeff Flake (AZ). This might not end well for the Donald if Mueller goes in hard as expected.
Almost time to give Patriotism another rattle, Jack.
Turnbull’s next backdrop will be a tell. I predict more flags and a brace of Darths in the wings.
Anyone reporting on the street price of cocaine? No? Didn’t think so, that would be “unpatriotic”.
I see Gordon Ramsay was traipsing around the jungles of Colombia watching the production of cocaine from cocoa leaves to marching powder and being appalled throughout. I guess his angle is that those helping themselves to a line or two are not going to go the foie gras and the confit of lamb, opting for a bowl of chips instead which sit getting cold on the table. There ain’t no interest like self-interest.
Ramsey isn’t high on my list of chefs to watch but his attitude may have come from a brother who was (still may be) into Heroin.
That’s true. I quite liked his schtick for a while there but it has beome tiresome.
Prefer Gordy to that pompous Pierre White. Hard to beat Floyd and/or Bernard King!
Actually coke use in the restaurant industry is high. I would guess he was checking into why his sous chef had a runny nose for 10 years.
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i think he knows why, in HK i would say that F&B are right put there with fin services and broking in the marching powder stakes, the last two can afford the Russian and South American hookers to go with it.
I know snorting coke is rampant in our kitchen but I had to give it away because the bubbles made my eyes water!
Jack, a shameless plug, if you don’t mind:
While we’re throwing (mostly) good-natured jokes at our cousins across the Tasman it’s also a time to remember our other good friends to the north in Papua New Guinea. This year is the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign. At the time and date that I write this, seventy-five years ago, hundreds of Australian soldiers were in the very middle of the scarifying Battle of Eora Creek, clinging in the dark to precarious mountain perches and huddled in exposed hollows, waiting for dawn and the inevitable re-commencement of relentless Japanese artillery bombardment.
It’s worth taking a moment to think about the campaign, including the role of the PNG natives as carriers, guides and carers to our men in the awful months-long campaign. Network Kokoda, a philanthropic outfit set up by Charlie Lynn and dedicated to the memory of the veterans, the carriers and the welfare of their descendants, has adopted 03 November – the date on which the Australian flag was raised after the retaking of Kokoda – as a day of remembrance. Here is Charlie’s speech from last year: https://www.networkkokoda.org/kokoda-day-dinner-why-3-november/
I met this year, for the second and almost certainly last time, the last known surviving Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel, Mr Havala Luala of Kagi village on the Kokoda Trail. Havala is somewhere around 90 years old in a country where the average life expectancy is 62 – 63. Until a couple of years ago he was still working in the village gardens where they grow their subsistence crops. Every day the phrase “First World Problems” pops into my head when I look around at the country we inhabit.
Please consider supporting Network Kokoda: https://www.networkkokoda.org/
Thanks, Jack.
By all means.
Nice to see you calling it The Kokoda Trail
Are the Chinese serious about renewables, you reckon?
https://www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-target-2476947208.html
And a couple of weeks ago they halted the building of 150 coal fired power plants.
Put that hat on him and he looks like Stan Laurel…who? Bill Shorten.