Bit late with this one due to the distractions of last week, but the latest reading of the BludgerTrack poll aggregate records discernible movement to Labor after a period of stasis, with both Newspoll and Essential Research recording 53-47 leads to Labor. Labor is up three on the seat projection, with gains in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. Both pollsters produced leadership ratings this week, but they haven’t made much difference to the relevant aggregates.
From the above mentioned article….”Mr Dutton declined to comment on rumours that the turnback had been accomplished by paying the moon to turn around, telling The Backburner that he cannot comment on suspended-far-above-the-water matters.”
Check out these 3 lucky or unlucky Hereford’s stranded when the land around them fell away during the NZ quake
And the cow who made a bid for freedom in Fremantle!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/14/cow-destined-live-export-leaps-harbour-swims-freedom
Looks and sounds like Rich Hall’s dad
Sorry should’ve hashtagged “qanda”
Lord Haw Haw Of Arabia
Go the cow !! Check out this cow 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkoVIWvEMk
Cows? How about these poor buggers, victims of the NZ earthquake. Who will rescue them? 🙁
https://www.facebook.com/dcbpets/photos/a.1512188539102428.1073741828.1512166082438007/1718983258422954/?type=3&theater
Confessions
“From Donald Trump’s triumphant slogan to the Brexiteers’ ‘take back control’, political discourse is saturated with powerful images or ‘frames’. Should the left fight fire with fire – or will that make things even more toxic?”
The left should communicate effectively. We live in an age of short, strong, powerful slogans. Get with the program.
bemused,
The docs are probably on it, but did they consider pernicious anemia or B12 deficiency?
Just walked home from work to the first clear night in months, the wet season is just finishing, and moon is certainly super.
What an amazing sight, it’s almost too bright to look at.
Tonight’s moon is beautiful. We rarely have clear skies to view it, so I’m taking advantage tonight.
Ryan Cooper is right about the Democratic Party:
http://theweek.com/articles/660929/what-hillarys-astounding-loss-means-democratic-party
Turdball’s got a ring of steel?
Morning all. There are many laws broken in this story of forced child marriage in Australia, yet no reported prosecutions. I have heard similar stories before, all from Sydney. This only plays into the hands of right wing hate groups. Cultural tolerance should not include child abuse, whether the perpetrators are christian or muslim. Time to act for AFP and NSW police.
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/escaping-child-marriage-in-western-sydney/8023798
CTar1
😆
A good article from Ross Gittins about the impossibility of Trump economics. Those manufacturing jobs are gone for good. Only robots will replace them. The infrastructure spend is a good idea but after that it is Reagan repeated with more tax cuts for the rich. How long before the mid west realises it was conned by a master salesman.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/little-right-much-wrong-with-trumponomics-20161112-gso2br.html
Lizzie
I’d be happier if hhe had a spine. Have a good day all.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Peter Hartcher writes that we have a secret weapon to keep Trump on side – Pine Gap. Worth reading.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/australia-has-a-secret-weapon-to-keep-donald-trump-in-our-alliance-20161114-gsor2j.html
Paul Bongiorno writes on Trump and “post truth politics”. Paul’s not happy.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2016/11/14/the-trump-effect/
Amy Remeikis on the transformation of the support base of Assange.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julian-assange-shifts-from-darling-of-the-left-to-trumpedup-hero-of-the-altright-20161110-gsmbyq.html
Trump appears to be installing white nationalists into his administration. Not a good sign.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/donald-trump-faces-backlash-over-stephen-bannon-appointment-critics-say-will-empower-white-nationalists-20161114-gsp9bb.html
What a circus it’s going to be.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/ivana-trump-wants-to-be-us-ambassador-to-the-czech-republic-20161113-gsoixu.html
And he immediately sets up White House rivalries.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/trumps-choices-of-priebus-and-bannon-as-top-advisers-split-power-in-two-20161114-gsovju.html
Paul McGeough tells us that Trump’s split personality may make it hard for him to unify the country.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-election/trump-wants-to-unify-the-country–but-his-split-personality-may-need-attention-20161114-gsot2n.html
Does the Trump victory have a silver lining for the world’s progressives?
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/trump-victory-comes-with-a-silver-lining-for-the-worlds-progressives-20161113-gsofrc.html
Will Trump become America’s first declinist president?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/14/president-donald-trump-declinist-american-experiment
How sick and disgraceful is this!!!!!!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/11/14/donald-trump-women-may-have-to-go-to-another-state-for-aborti/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
Section 2 . . .
Lessons from the great American “whitelash”.
https://newmatilda.com/2016/11/14/lessons-great-american-white-lash/
Australia is not a fertile ground for Trumpism writes Shaun Carney. Google.
/news/opinion/australia-not-fertile-ground-for-a-donald-trumpstyle-revolution/news-story/3741db80e6bbae06bf6d79f85c62d31c
John Passant thinks otherwise.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australia-a-trumpland-in-the-making,9724
The Trump train is heading for Europe according to this article.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-trump-train-is-already-heading-for-europe,9725
Richard Di Natale’s op-ed piece on 18c.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/14/repealing-18c-will-consign-the-idea-of-a-fair-go-to-the-dustbin-of-australian-history
Senate crossbenchers are baulking at the lifetime refugee ban legislation.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/lifetime-visa-ban-for-refugees-in-doubt-as-crossbenchers-baulk-20161114-gsou12.html
Mark Kenny on how Shorten is doubling down on jobs and emphasising local employment.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-to-put-local-jobs-first-shorten-20161114-gsp44e.html
In the aftermath of the Orange by-election Baird presses on with forced council mergers. Crazy brave?
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mike-baird-to-continue-with-council-mergers-after-orange-shock-20161114-gsoqy8.html
Troy Grant takes one for Mike Baird.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/troy-grant-takes-one-for-mike-baird-20161114-gsou58.html
Using the Orange by-election as an example Andrew Street tells us that Australia has not seen the last of the rise of the deplorables.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/orange-byelection-we-havent-seen-the-last-of-australias-rise-of-the-deplorables-20161113-gsoltw.html
Gabrielle Chan puts it to us that the Nationals have plenty to worry about.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/14/the-national-party-has-more-to-worry-about-than-a-trump-wave
Section 3 . . .
Workers in the Department of Human Services resoundingly vote against the government’s latest pay and conditions offer. Where to now?
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/not-even-close-department-of-human-services-workplace-offer-smashed-20161114-gsomew.html
Our apprenticeship system is broken and must be fixed if we are to go ahead economically.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/trade-up-fixing-apprenticeships-will-forge-an-economic-powerhouse-20161110-gsmtbk.html
Will Australia follow the lead from other countries and introduce a sugar tax?
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-health-bodies-call-for-sugar-tax-as-beverage-industry-suffers-blow-in-us-20161113-gsoaax.html
The world is headed for its hottest year on record.
https://theconversation.com/world-set-for-hottest-year-on-record-world-meteorological-organization-68567
Troy Bramston’s research shows that Hawke and Keating both deserve the credit for floating the dollar. Google.
/opinion/columnists/troy-bramston/floating-the-dollar-credit-where-its-dual/news-story/292478283f4bb599750ad3ce0f9284b5
Australians are set to ditch private health insurance as dissatisfaction grows.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/satisfaction-with-private-health-insurance-providers-continues-to-decline-20161111-gsn9oz.html
Look at Joe Hockey’s new office.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-design-unveiled-for-australian-embassy-in-washington-dc-20161114-gsor33.html
Katherine Murphy says that despite Turnbull’s US deal the nightmare of fear and scapegoating for refugees is not over.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/13/australia-refugees-asylum-seekers-malcolm-turnbull-turns-towards-humanity-but-refugees-nightmare-of-fear-and-scapegoating-yet-to-end
So SA’s big power blackout was caused by seven tornados. What a surprise! Google.
/news/politics/sa-blackouts-caused-by-seven-tornadoes-20161114-gsp0z9
Is an increasing demand for cash an indicator of concern for economic uncertainty?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/coin-flip-mysterious-rise-in-demand-for-cash-linked-to-economic-uncertainty-20161104-gsi8v1.html
The high cost that Big Data may bring.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/big-data-revolution-comes-at-a-huge-cost-20161114-gsorct.html
Section 4 . . . with Cartoon Corner part 1
Gerry Harvey must be Australia’s greatest whinger!
http://www.smh.com.au/business/retail/gerry-harvey-blames-short-sellers-for-franchise-brawl-20161114-gsowc8.html
Salim Mehajer is now the Ugly Australian abroad.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/salim-mehajer-arrested-in-ibiza-after-incident-with-taxi-driver-footage-reveals-20161114-gsp5wx.html
John Shakespeare and a super moon rising for Trump.
This is a disturbing image from David Rowe about the refugee resettlement deal.
Matt Golding and the American heartland.
I do like this one from Ron Tandberg.
Section 5 . . . Cartoon Corner part 2
Matt Golding gives us a view of the ultimate cruelty to asylum seekers.
Paul Zanetti goes further.
Sean Leahy continues with the theme.
As does Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman continues.
Alan Moir also.
And David Pope takes to the “Ring of Steel” in operation.
Jon Kudelka wonders what the quid pro quo for the refugee deal might be.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/kudelka-gallery/image-gallery/c9bba0fb18433a11dc5b8894cf60dbd1
“The left should communicate effectively. We live in an age of short, strong, powerful slogans. Get with the program.”
Agree. The Left also needs to effectively counter the media megaphones supporting the Right.
So SA’s big power blackout was caused by seven tornados.
SA’s huge power blackout was caused by Climate Change.
It was not caused by Renewables.
Surely Malcolm didn’t say he keeps in touch with the average punter by catching public transport – absolute comic gold. I’ve often caught the 324 from Watsons Bay to the City. Absolutely groaning with battlers who want to tell you their hard-luck stories. Patronising git.
Sanders spent six months bad-mouthing Clinton.
Apart from the damage to Clinton’s personal standing, this forced Clinton away from the centre on policy.
Long after he was a goner, Sanders kept smiting Clinton.
Sanders duly swung in behind Clinton but it was too little, too late.
A few progressive Sanders supporters flicked across to Trump.
Many stayed at home because Bernie had told them hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times that Hilary was no damn good.
Now the progressives want to tell us that what the progressives did to Clinton would not have made the difference between getting a POTUS Clinton and a POTUS Trump.
The Progressive Pontius Pilate stuff is in full swing. Not only that but wallowing in outrage is soooooooo satisfying.
The Greens POTUS candidate was never, ever going to elect a president. It was therefore a vanity project.
A Greens vote was a choice between Clinton and Trump foregone.
Again, the Greens votes would have made the difference between Clinton and Trump.
Again, the Greens are doing a Pontius Pilate: POTUS Trump has absolutely nothing to do with them.
Again, the Progressive Pontius Pilate stuff is in full swing. Not only that, but wallowing in outrage is soooooooo satisfying.
Corbyn help give the Brits Brexit. Di Natale helped give Australia Turnbull. Sanders and the US Greens helped give us Trump.
In every single case the progressive race to ideological purity, the quest for everything, has landed the rest of us with 100% of nothing.
The progressives need to understand something here. Our governance systems give us binary choices. To the extent that they disable one pole of the binary, they enable the other pole.
And until the progressives understand this very basic construct, they will continue to promote global warming, racism, xenophobia, homophobia and misogyny.
boerwar @ #652 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:00 am
Bollocks.
Bluey the blue tied octopus giving Turnbull 21 undeserved, unearned, unwarranted points during the election, is what gave Australia Turnbull.
A chart from the US illustrating what the “peasants are revolting about. Neoliberal economics. From 1980 workers have received very little share of the benefits from increased productivity. No prizes for guessing where the benefits went.
Dan
Do you seriously think that Di Natale’s attacks on Shorten and Labor made no difference at all?
Do you seriously think that Labor having to allocate very scarce resources to fighting off the Greens as well as the Liberals made no difference at all?
If they did make no difference, why bother?
If they DID make a difference, why not own the consequences?
C@Tmomma
Basic LNP science will tell you that the 7 tornadoes were caused by all those giant fans dotted across the landscape . No mere coincidence that when they were spinning like mad the tornadoes appeared.
I think with Mal and Mr Potato Heads new beaut Ring Of Steel then it will be about time the Aus Navy updated their pollished Join the Navy Advertising campaigns to include these new wonderful operational opportunities for all the new recruits.
Join the Navy and become part of The Cruel Sea.
It was interesting to read the comments last night on prep for a colonoscopy.
The last three times I have taken tablets, rather than drink the revolting solution. It’s quicker and works much better, IMO. I don’t understand why it’s not offered to everyone: you have to specifically ask for it. It’s about $20 for the tablets (you have to take lots), but it’s definitely worth it.
Just make sure you’re no more than 5 seconds away from the toilet once the earth starts to move 😉
I couldn’t remember the name so I looked them up. They are called Diacol. You have to take 12 (in lots of 4 with a glass of water) every 15 minutes.
I also found out they are offering a 4 tablet option now in the U.S.
Sounds even more civilised.
boerwar @ #655 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:25 am
Given that the Greens didn’t gain anything from it, then the answer is no.
Labor still gained 14 seats no matter what the Greens did or said. Any anti-Labor statements from Di Natalie did the Greens no favours at all. The only way they’ll ever win any seats from Labor is if they present themselves as, and field candidates who are, very similar to the Labor incumbents.
The Greens can win seats from the Libs because they are very different. If they present themselves as being different to Labor in safe Labor seats, they don’t stand a chance in hell.
The only way Labor will be threatened by the Greens in safe Labor seats is if the Labor party fields a dud candidate, like Feeney.
The real enemy is, and always will be, the LNP.
Boerwar
Continuing to support the status quo, as you are doing, will get us nowhere..
The racism, xenophobia and misogyny are symptoms, not causes, of economic malaise in large swathes of the western world. It is basic human biology to start attacking other groups which are rightly or wrongly perceived to be in front of you in the queue for resources.
This economic malaise is the product of a perfect storm created by a combination of neoliberal trickle-down economics, technological change, such as automation, and the globalisation of production. To combat the problem we government that is prepared to intervene in this cycle and redistribute wealth, providing living wages to people for a wide variety of jobs that are now considered unimportant in terms of productivity, such as health care, the arts, and environmental projects.
We have the economic means to do this. Technological disruption is pushing productivity through the roof, at the same time as it is destroying jobs. We need to leverage this productivity and divert money away from big capital and towards the regions, where the environmental battles are being fought, and towards those who are being displaced.
Any political party that wants to achieve the best outcomes in a time of rapid change needs to clearly articulate policies that will achieve these aims. Labor is captive of the neoliberal small government agenda promoted by business and the conservatism of the unions. I don’t know about the Greens.
The world is on track for 100% solar renewable energy for all energy requirements by 2030. This is simple mathematical extrapolation from current trends where solar penetration of the energy market is doubling every two years. Self driving cars, trucks buses etc will be the norm within a couple of years.
None of the mainstream parties are even remotely prepared for this and the huge social dislocation that will occur. It is both a crisis and an opportunity.
I don’t know if any of you work for Catherine King (who is evidently Shadow Health Minister, although she seems invisible) but she has really dropped the ball on the governments changes to what Private Health Funds cover. Susan Ley has told the insurers they no longer have to look after patients who have skin cancers on the body, and don’t have to look after precancerous lesions, cysts or benign tumours anywhere (including nose, eyelids etc). 12 million people have just been shafted by the government to increase the profits of the health funds. King should be attacking Ley but she’s completely silent.
Here is a facebook post by a fellow surgeon about it (and no, it’s not me, I’m older and even balder)
https://www.facebook.com/darren.molony/posts/1831957767019803
‘ Dan
Do you seriously think that Di Natale’s attacks on Shorten and Labor made no difference at all?
Given that the Greens didn’t gain anything from it, then the answer is no.’
Well that answers the Greenscentric part of the question and opens the portal to the Pontius Pilate Gambit.
Good stuff?
‘Trog Sorrenson
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 8:51 am
Boerwar
Continuing to support the status quo, as you are doing, will get us nowhere..’
The Greens and the progressives just handed global warming on a plate to the fossil fuel industry in the United States. They have just guaranteed that we will go 2 degrees plus.
The OLD status quo was that Obama was doing stuff and taking world leadership on this. Clinton WAS going to follow in Obama’s footsteps here.
Trump is going to walk away from Paris, is giving the Energy Department to a couple of oil company executives and sincerely believes that global warming is a Chinese plot.
That is the NEW status quo.
But fie! How dare Obama and Clinton not be the perfect Greens, the 100 per center progressives? How DARE they not the pure characters, the blameless personalities and the perfect Sanders… the powerless Sanders, the worse than useless Sanders, the counter-productive Sanders? How DARE they?
The US Greens and the US progressives with their vanity projects, their 100% purity, and their destructive capacities in the ballot box, have just handed the planet on a plate to the fossil fuel industry. See? You guys DO make a difference!
I will concede this to you, TROG. The Greens/progressives have achieved THEIR US status quo: 100% of nothing, a cooked planet, and the thrill of being outraged.
Dio
Tell Doyley.
chinda
Those tablets are not recommended for the over 60s as they can cause severe dehydration, apparently.
The racism, xenophobia and misogyny are symptoms
, not causes,of economic malaise in large swathes of the western world.libertarian unionist @ #610 Monday, November 14, 2016 at 11:52 pm
The development of anaemia was detected by the Blood Bank when I went to make my regular 3 monthly donation.
It was surprising as I have hemochromatosis – the accumulation of excess iron.
So what could cause the sudden change? I was having regular blood tests so nothing was picked up by way of deficiencies apart from iron.
Once internal bleeding was excluded, I was put on a course of iron tablets until I was back to normal and I was also advised to cease blood donations.
My suggestion, that I was not magnetic enough to hold the iron, was rejected in favour of it simply being changes in metabolism due to ageing.
I never had ambitions to be a doctor, but increasingly I am fascinated by matters medical.
Boerwar and even Bluey might be wrong about some things but I don’t think we can blame him / them for Turnbull.
FYI, the NSW Nationals have new leaders.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/nsw/john-barilaro-elected-nsw-national-party-leader-niall-blair-his-deputy-20161114-gspc4n.html
Trog
‘The racism, xenophobia and misogyny are symptoms , not causes, of economic malaise in large swathes of the western world.’
1. To the extent that any or all of them are used (and they are so used) to justify and entrench or accelerate gross disparities in power and wealth, the ARE causes of economic malaise.
2. Global warming of 2 degrees plus will now happen in any time frame within which it is possible to posit a fundamental fix for the economic malaise in large swathes of the whole world. You are right to couple the two issues to a large extent but the former can be fixed without the latter being fixed. The latter will get worse with global warming.
3. Neither of either sides of 1 or 2 justifies the US Greens and the US progressives partially disabling Clinton and therefore enabling Trump, and thereby cooking the planet.
4. None of Clinton’s personal failings and none of her policy failings are, combined, worse than cooking the planet.
So we get the routine 100% of nothing. While THEY cook the planet.
Well done.
Ah, okay. They do tell you to drink a whole glass of water with each lot of four tablets, and I can imagine that some people might skimp on some of the water, but I can’t see it would be a problem if you drink enough.
Is there a medical reason why the “over 60s” should have a problem with dehydration that younger people don’t? Perhaps the docs on here could explain …
S777
Bluey is too busy painting his rock pool to be concerned about the barbs of the self-obsessed progressives because he reckons that, after the last coral death event, he got bored with all the white.
c@tmomma @ #625 Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 7:46 am
No Cat,
SA’s huge power blackout was caused by THE WEATHER.
Ch
One reason among many men is that they deliberately reduce fluid intake in order to deal with urinary problems relating to enlarged postrates.