This coming Monday is the last date on which an election can be called for this year, specifically for the December 11 date spruiked recently by Anthony Albanese, which few if any still expect. The parlour game thus seems likely to move on now to the alternative scenarios of March and May. A complication in the former case is a South Australian state election set in the normal course of events for the third Saturday in March, i.e. March 19. If I understand the situation correctly, the South Australian government will have the discretion to delay the election by up to three weeks if a federal election is called before February 19 for a date in March.
Here’s what we do know:
• Max Maddison of The Australian reports grumbling within the New South Wales Liberal Party over its failure to have finalised candidates in the important seats of Dobell, Warringah and Gilmore. The report cites Liberal sources, no doubt with an interest in the matter, accusing Alex Hawke of using his clout on state executive to delay proceedings to the advantage of candidates of his centre right faction. “Other senior Liberal sources” contend the problem is “a lack of quality candidates and impending local government elections”. Prospective nominees for Dobell include former test cricketer Nathan Bracken, along with Michael Feneley, a cardiologist who has twice run unsuccessfully in Kingsford Smith, and Jemima Gleeson, owner of a chain of coffee shops.
• Further on Gilmore, the ever-readable Niki Savva reported in her Age/Herald column a fortnight ago that “speculation is rife” that Andrew Constance will not in fact proceed with his bid for preselection, just as he withdrew from contention Eden-Monaro ahead of last year’s by-election. If so, that would seemingly leave the path clear for Shoalhaven Heads lawyer Paul Ell, who is reckoned a formidable opponent to Constance in any case.
• Labor has not been breaking its back to get candidates in place in New South Wales either, with still no sign of progress in the crucial western Sydney fringe seat of Lindsay. However, candidates have recently been confirmed in two Liberal marginals: Zhi Soon, an education policy adviser and former diplomat, in Banks, and Sally Sitou, a University of Sydney doctoral candidate and one-time ministerial staffer, in Reid.
• In Victoria, Labor’s candidate in La Trobe will be Abhimanyu Kumar, owner of a local home building company.
• In an article by Jason Campbell of the Herald Sun, JWS Research says rising poll numbers for Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party are being driven by “skilled labourers and lower-end middle-management”, supplementing an existing support base that had largely been limited to people over 65. Maleness and low education remain common threads.
• An article on the voter identification laws by Graeme Orr of the University of Queensland in The Conversation makes a point I had not previously heard noted: that those who lodge a declaration vote in lieu of providing identification will have no way of knowing if their vote was ultimately admitted to the count. This stands in contrast to some American states, where those who cast the equivalent of postal or absent votes can track their progress online.
New South Wales by-election latest:
• It is now clear that the by-elections will not be held simultaneously with the December 4 local government elections as initially anticipated. The Guardian reports that the state’s electoral commissioner, John Schmidt, told a parliamentary committee hearing yesterday that “it wouldn’t be possible or sensible to try and aim earlier than the middle of February”, in part because the government’s “piecemeal funding” of his agency had left it with inadequate cybersecurity standards.
• Labor has announced it will field a candidate in Bega, making it the only one of the five looming by-elections in which the Coalition and Labor are both confirmed starters. James O’Doherty of the Daily Telegraph (who I hope got paid extra for pointing out that “Labor has chosen to contest the seat despite Leader Chris Minns last month criticising the looming by-election as expensive and unnecessary”) reports nominees for Liberal preselection will include Eurobodalla Shire mayor Liz Innes and, possibly, Bega Valley Shire councillor Mitchell Nadin.
• Anton Rose of Inner West Courier reports Liberal hopes in Jodi McKay’s seat of Strathfield are not high, particularly if Burwood mayor John Faker emerges as the Labor candidate, and that the party would “not be mounting a vigorous campaign”. One prospective Liberal nominee is said to be Natalie Baini, a sports administrator who was said earlier in the year to planning a preselection against Fiona Martin in the federal seat of Reid.
Poll news:
• A Redbridge Group poll conducted for Simon Holmes a Court’s Climate 200 non-profit group records Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s primary vote as having slumped from 49.4% in his blue-ribbon Melbourne seat of Kooyong to 38%. With the Greens on 15%, well short of the heights achieved with Julian Burnside as candidate in 2019, such a result would put Frydenberg under pressure from Labor on 31%. Around half of the balance is attributed to the United Australia Party, which seems doubtful in an electorate such as Kooyong. The objective of the poll was to test the waters for a Zali Steggall-like independent challenge, and responses to some rather leading questions indicated that such a candidate would indeed be competitive or better. The survey was conducted from October 16 to 18 by automated phone polling from a sample of 1017.
• Liberal-aligned think tank the Blueprint Institute has results from a YouGov poll on attitudes towards carbon emissions policy, conducted in nine regional electorates from September 28 to October 12 with samples of around 415 each. In spite of everything, these show large majorities in favour of both halving emissions by 2030 and net zero by 2050 even in such electorates as Hunter and Capricornia. Even among coal workers (sub-sample size unclear), the results are 63% and 64% respectively.
• The Australia Institute has published its annual Climate of the Nation survey, based on a poll of 2626 respondents conducted by YouGov in August.
• It took me a while to update BludgerTrack with last week’s Resolve Strategic and Roy Morgan results, but now that it’s done, I can exclusively reveal that they made very little difference. Labor is currently credited with a two-party lead of 53.8-46.2.
Also:
• Antony Green has published his analysis of the finalised Victorian state redistribution.
Rex Douglas says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:55 am
The polling results re the state seat of Kew were clearly decisive enough for any remaining Tim Smith backers to finally abandon him – which is a lesson for other Libs that Smiths style of politics is electoral poison.
Smiths exit and a less outspoken opposition over the next 12 months will narrow the election margin somewhat I think which perhaps will set a platform for a competitive 2026 Vic election.
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Nostrarexamus has opined!
There is no reason a Labor Government couldn’t pivot back to French Subs if the enquiry so recommends.
The barrier that exists at the moment between France and Australia is clearly Morrison, Macron made that abundantly clear.
Boerwar @ #1447 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 12:07 pm
narc !
Singing Bloos @ #1446 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 12:06 pm
So if the Greens supported motherhood, Labor should oppose it?
Have I woken up in the wrong universe this morning or something?
Coastal flies? Wimps and pissants all of ’em!
Outback flies are truly ferocious, persistent and plentiful. The further north you go, the worse they get. The warmer it is, the worse they get.
I seem to have an intolerance for flying, biting critters. Some people are barely bothered by them. They just brush them away. Me? I not only seem to attract them, but my skin reacts badly to them. Whether it’s Outback flies, coastal mozzies, or NZ midgies, I break out from their bites, sometimes suffering from hives for weeks as a sort of “afterglow”.
As a result, I tend to psychologically react to biting insects as well. It’s a definite mental feedback loop in operation. I can well believe the comment up-thread that people go mad from being swarmed by flies.
And now that I know there’s Ross River Fever about (courtesy of HI’s recent diagnosed bout) I spend as little time outdoors, certainly in the early evening still air, as possible.
I read somewhere that they are attracted by CO2. I’ve sometimes thought that one of those mozzie zappers which also slow-released a trickle of CO2 could work to divert a few away from me.
The trouble is: there doesn’t seem to be a universal attractant for mozzies, one that could lure them into a trap. So designing a system that works with all species is difficult. Maybe I could hire myself out for outdoor parties, barbeques and weddings?
This is a cracker of a presentation if you have an interest in the historicity of *Jesus*.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTllC7TbM8M
“Singing Bloossays:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:12 am
“Firefox says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:07 am
“Labor must never again parlay with the Greens…not if they ever wish to govern again. Iron law.”
True story. There are some immutable truths in Australian politics. That’s one of them. The Greens are a No-Go area for Labor. Gillard, a Victorian, could not see that. Labor eyes from other States see it very clearly. Albo is Green-resistant. He’s not for dealing.”
Agree with the no-go zone but the Gillard/ Victorian reference is stupid.
2010 was a long time ago in Greens-undermining-Labor years and it was a particularly specific set of conditions given the hung parliament.
There must be some chance that a Labor Government might switch to the French nuclear subs. The subliminal issue is the intelligence surrounding nuclear technologies – who has them, where they’ve been shared, whether this gives rise to security risks – and how this relates to the non-proliferation treaty.
I think the most likely thing – if Australia is ever to get new subs – is for them to be co-built in Australia and the UK, and to employ Anglo-American technologies and systems.
The French gear might be great. But it’s not the only issue. The wider issue is strategic force and purpose. The subs will be chosen to bolster those strategic purposes. Labor will not deviate from this orthodoxy. I would think a Labor-led project would increase our participation/contribution in every sense.
‘Bushfire Bill says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Maybe coastal flies aren’t as bad as interior flies?
Coastal flies? Wimps and pissants all of ’em!
Outback flies are truly ferocious, persistent and plentiful. The further north you go, the worse they get. The warmer it is, the worse they get. ‘
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In dry areas they love to have a sip of moisture. Flies meet eyes
Rex Douglas says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:10 pm
Boerwar @ #1447 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 12:07 pm
Rex Douglas says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:06 pm
Boerwar @ #1439 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 12:02 pm
Rex Douglas says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:57 am
I’m finding SH-Ys latest photo ops far less cringeworthy than Morrison’s and Albanese’s.
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troll fail
Not my fault you’re triggered by such an innocuous personal perspective.
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yet another Rex troll fail
narc !
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yet another troll fail
The defence/security issue is China….the capacity to deploy force against China in the South China Sea and in the protection of Taiwan, Japan, Korea, VietNam and the Phillipines….Given this, it makes a lot of sense to use nuclear powered machinery…and this has to be considered in the theoretical context of actual conflict.
Chinese hegemony is not a transient moment. It is an eternal feature of geography. This is long run business. It will be essential to get it right. Very notably, Labor has not been running a critique of the Libs on the subs deal per se.
Firefox says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:20 pm
Green advocacy will ensure this bill fails.
They smell your fear, Bushfire Bill! 😀
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Bandt and stunting go together like a horse and carriage.
Boerwar @ #1425 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 11:15 am
Geologists fought long and hard against plate tectonic theory (first postulated by a meteorologist). They dont have a good record on science.
To quote Sheldon in the BBT;
@Boer:
“ Is there a contract for subs to replace the Collins? Or just some sort of MoU or some such?”
There is a study, leading to a report. In 18 months. Good luck.
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They will do everything in their power to bodgie something into place before the next federal election. Haste makes waste.
EVERY.SINGLE.THING.THEY.TOUCH.”
I agree. Probably with the Brits: I expect something along the lines of the following announce-able in about March-April 22’:
“Australia will acquire 6-8 ‘Australianised’ Astute Class Submarines, with the first 4 to be build in Sheerness, Scotland between 2029-40, with the balance of the fleet to be build in Adelaide from 2040. Huzzah and rule Britannia! The boats will come with American combat systems and weapons.”
there will be no budget, or costing, no details about training up a nuclear industry to sustain these boats, only a promise to rotate half a dozen officers and sailors through the RN submarine service ‘in preparation’. Mordor will shoot its jizz, Coorey will write churchillian hagiographies and Albo will … welcome the announcement.
After the election (and hopefully a change in government) a ‘review’ will establish the deal as a mirage, and an inquiry will blow everything up (hopefully) and when the dust settles, we might be able to get down to business like adults (although I suspect that someone will have to also take the Wolverines to the knackery).
If however, Scomo pulls out miracle election 2.0, then the next half dozen years should at least provide a veritable soap opera of shared BoJo-ScoMo incompetence, as they try to turn a marketing scam into an actual policy outcome.
The difference between this China and all the previous Chinas is that this China aims to be a maritime as well as a continental great power.
SK
I sort of agree and disagree. There has been many a fantastic thing puzzled out by geologists. The best geologists have worked hard to integrate geology with the other sciences to generate the knowledge base for climate science.
But it seems to be the profession most heavily peppered by climate science denialists who seem to have lacked the ability to step outside the boundaries of there discipline.
This may be because of professional links to the mining industry.
It may be something peculiar about the way geologists geologize.
OTOH, we should not forget that Humboldt, one of the world’s greatest intellectuals and science synthesizers, had a very strong grounding in geology.
Mr Darwin was also richly rewarded for looking at fossils in rocks.
China is spending more than 5% of its GDP on the military.
The upward trend in this percentage is virtually linear and is quite steep.
Spending on guns is always at the expense of spending on butter.
Boerwar @ #1470 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 9:31 am
I think you’re confusing Geology the Science with how different fields of science interact with each other.
BiTJ
Explicate, please.
Hard not to see a point where both Libs and Labor will crush each other as they try and squeeze simultaneously through the door labelled “carbon pricing” if they see some political expediency in it. All squealing about it aside.
Seems even so-called heavyweight Liveris, who went head to head with SHY on Q and A once, and was also involved in Smoko’s gas led recovery plan, is jumping on board the carbon pricing train.
Seems things are really getting desperate when it comes to the reality of reducing carbon emissions.
Australian business heavyweight drives push for global carbon price
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/australian-business-heavyweight-drives-push-for-global-carbon-price-20211105-p596ir.html
Glasgow: High-profile Australian business executive Andrew Liveris is preparing to lead a new push for a price on carbon, arguing that neutralising emissions by 2050 will require political consensus to finally swing behind the polarising policy.
Liveris, a former chief executive and chairman of the Dow Chemical Company and co-architect of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s so-called gas-led recovery, recently entered discussions with John Kerry, US President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, over how the world should design and implement carbon-pricing regimes.
“Governments are asking business to lead the way because they can’t get consensus within their own parties, let alone other parties,” Liveris told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age at the COP26 summit.
“Pretty much everyone in the business community has realised that the best way to make the most of the proclamations and progress here in Glasgow is to align behind a common way to price carbon, AKA an emissions trading scheme.”
The Revisionist says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:13 pm
“Singing Bloossays:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:12 am
“Firefox says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 11:07 am
“Labor must never again parlay with the Greens…not if they ever wish to govern again. Iron law.”
True story. There are some immutable truths in Australian politics. That’s one of them. The Greens are a No-Go area for Labor. Gillard, a Victorian, could not see that. Labor eyes from other States see it very clearly. Albo is Green-resistant. He’s not for dealing.”
Agree with the no-go zone but the Gillard/ Victorian reference is stupid.
2010 was a long time ago in Greens-undermining-Labor years and it was a particularly specific set of conditions given the hung parliament.
The spectacle of power-sharing in 2010 was greeted with profound dismay in WA. A hung parliament….this is the goal of Green politics. Their ambition is blackmail. Gillard got it wrong. This must ever happen again. That deal helped the Liberals back into power and has helped keep them there. The idea that Labor are a Trojan Horse for Greenware…this must be dispelled forever.
‘Quoll says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:43 pm
Hard not to see a point where both Libs and Labor will …
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Jacinda’s embrace of the genocidal and megalomaniacal Xi bears fruit:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238356.shtml
Barney in Tanjung Bungasays:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:09 pm
There is no reason a Labor Government couldn’t pivot back to French Subs if the enquiry so recommends.
The barrier that exists at the moment between France and Australia is clearly Morrison, Macron made that abundantly clear.
Other than being electoral suicide.
The ALP likes the deal what they don’t like is how Morrison has gone about it,
How do you not know this.
They arent just stepping out, Plimer takes wild leaps out.
There are two factors at play. Conservatism and interdisciplinary defiance (pride, demanding respect, oneupmanship). Ties with mining could suggest more a cultural factor rather than being bought.
I have worked with geophysicists, geotech engineers (with earth science PhDs) and geologists. All quite conservative but geologists are a special breed of it. You can be a conservative and a scientist. But you cant be a conservative scientist and do good science.
“ The difference between this China and all the previous Chinas is that this China aims to be a maritime as well as a continental great power.”
Honestly, can we at least try for some historical accuracy and context? Throughout its long and storied history China has at many times been a great naval power. At all stages in its history up until the 18th century it has operated a maritime version of the Silk Road – a veritable merchant marine superpower. Then along came the Dutch, Portuguese and Johnny Company.
I think that what China desires now is three fold:
1. A recognition of the rights and privileges that flow from being the world’s largest economy;
2. Specifically to reinforce its position as a renaissance trading superpower via its belt and road plan and associated initiatives; and
3. To be recognised as having Primacy in East Asia – hence replacing America – in the same ways as America has primacy in the Western Hemisphere.
Greta gets a cameo in a Honest Government Ad! 😀
It’s awesome that the world is seeing that Morrison doesn’t speak for all of us via the likes of SHY and The Juice. Love their ads…
Watch: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1457289482840035329
Since we seem to have so many IT people here, regarding the discussion of programming languages the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uEFrE6cgVNY
(there’s some interesting history regarding medical science in there too :P)
For those interested, I present:
Bubsy, or “Butcherbirds INNNN SPAAAACE!” – Day #10
Well, not quite “In Space”, but his flying lessons are producing results.
Yesterday we let him out onto the deck and, after thinking about it for a while, he flew up onto the roof of the house. We let him stay there for a few minutes, gazing wistfully at the tree tops, but as it was a tin roof and quite warm, I fetched the ladder and rescued him.
His tail feathers, while definitely lengthening by the day, are still far too short for serious navigational flying. He can flap his wings madly and move in the general direction of something, but he still sometimes has trouble landing.
Those who know butcherbirds will know that while they are justly famous for their beautiful singing, they are also absolutely superb flyers, among the best in my opinion. I’ve seen adult BBs fly in between the pickets on a fence, or the wires between deck posts without a second thought. Bubsy is nowhere near that class yet. So his flying lessons continue.
One of his favourite destinations is our roof fan, where he can roost and sleep for hours while both casting his beady eyes around the living room, or terrifying the humans below with the possibility of being pooped upon from a great height.
His appetite has greatly improved. We have found you can buy live crickets from the pet shop, and will be doing so once he discovers he can feed himself. Thinking about a week for that stage of development to eventuate. One thing is for sure: if a moth flies anywhere within 5 metres of him it receives his instant rapt attention. So the instincts seem to be in place.
At other time he just likes a cuddle and a pat from me. Maybe it’s because my name is “BB” too? Whatever the reason is, the trick is to not stop patting, or you’ll cop an energetic complaint.
An interesting, short YouTube on raising a baby butcherbird can be found at the address below. Bubsy’s tail feathers are only about 40% the length of the bird’s in the picture. When we found him they weren’t much more than stubs. Whatever, it has given us some hope that Bubsy can be returned to the wild.
https://youtu.be/4Es-JuOwNqw
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Dog’s Breakfastsays:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 9:30 am
Lizzie, I fully agree but listening to him give this hokey analogy of ‘dismounting the PM horse with dignity and walking off…not keeping a foot in a stirrup and being dragged through the horse manure…’ , going hard with the bush imagery ( but speaking as an accountant)
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DB/AE/Mavis
Can I provide an anology for AUKUS deal?
There is this married couple {Australia (female) and France(male)}. They are living with differences in attitude, thoughts and way of living.
Then comes a male friend (US), who is close to both the people in the family.
Friend is smitten by the female, promises her better life and starts having affair with her without the knowledge of the male (who is also A close friend BTW). The female hides the affair from her husband. Male friend thought that the female will tell her husband and he kept quite about the affair. Then the male friend and female decided to get married because she says she is no longer in love with her husband. After the male friend and female decided to marry, the above couple had an anniversary and the female expresses undying love to her husband.
Even before the day of marriage, the female does not tell her husband about the marriage to his friend. Once male friend comes to know about this, he contacts the husband the day before marriage (AUKUS deal announcement) and tell him about the impending marriage the next day.
The husband becomes furious and walks out of the house. Later The husband revives his friendship with male friend after a lot cajoling from male friend because the friend is rich and powerful. Then the ex-husband goes to a party which the newly married couple go. The ex-husband humiliates his ex-wife in front of the whole party goers by calling her a liar and adulterer.
Ven re: AUKUS analogy – very droll, although to complete the analogy one should recognise that the wife always had the friend’s bits inserted into her vitals …
Also, the analogy works nearly as well if one were to substitute America, Australia and France for … Vicky Campion, Barnaby and Mrs Joyce … OR … Simon Benson (he of the Michael Towke defamation campaign and lately on ScoMo’s PMO drip), Mrs Benson … and Senator Bridget McKenzie …
When did the divorce happen in all this?
Bushfire Bill @ #1384 Monday, November 8th, 2021 – 11:13 am
We are in complete agreement, for once. I find it profoundly offensive that supporters of evil arseholes like George Pell and his whole rotten ilk have the hide to claim that he, and said ilk, are more ‘moral’ than I am.
I should mention that the virgin birth nonsense is a post-hoc invention by ‘biblical scholars’ to cover the ‘fact’ that the Matthew ‘gospel’ author (whoever that was) recorded that ‘Mary’ was pregnant when she suckered ‘Joseph’ into marrying her. The ‘church’ (even Luther) continue to promulgate the ridiculous idea that this Mary person remained a virgin for her entire life. For this to be true it must be the case that there were at least SEVEN virgin births.
The ‘Matthew’ manuscript version says: “Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with us? ” (Matthew 13:55–56)
The so-called Mark version says: “Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?” (Mark 6:3)
Do you notice any similarity between these two passages? Remarkable that the same set of brothers are named in precisely the same order. Being a cynic, I suspect plagiarism, or , just possiby (s), slightly differing copies of the same, original unknown source. Horseshit copied from horseshit, wondrously quoting, verbatim, some random onlooker, seventy plus years after the words were (not) spoken. Perhaps somebody found a discarded Dictaphone!
Even less believable than Coorey.
Sam Maiden has the skinny…
‘In response, Mr Sukkar shared the post with his factional allies, describing it as “indulgent and quite frankly bizarre”.
“I was waiting for her retirement from politics but sadly it wasn’t there!” Mr Sukkar said.
Another man in the chat group, who was not Mr Sukkar, then describes Senator Hume as “mad and unhinged”.
In a statement, Mr Sukkar apologised to Senator Hume: “They were unfair and incorrect comments that I should not have made, and I regret doing so. I apologise to Senator Hume.
“I have worked closely with Senator Hume in the last three years since both becoming Ministers in the Treasury portfolio where she has done an outstanding job.”
At the time of the Facebook post and the text messages, Mr Sukkar was one of Peter Dutton’s strongest supporters to replace Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister.
During that tussle, there were reports Senator Hume was the subject of standover tactics and had her preselection challenged.
There were also claims at the time that Senator Hume’s vote in the leadership ballot was monitored or needed to be shown to others to protect her Victorian preselection.
She ultimately signed the petition to have a leadership ballot but is not believed to have voted for Mr Dutton in the challenge in the secret ballot.
At the time, there was speculation that a man had been ordered to check her ballot in the meeting, but that he declined to do so.
“Robust conversations were had but I was not bullied and made up my own mind,” Senator Hume said at the time.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/liberal-frontbencher-caught-badmouthing-female-colleague-in-extraordinary-attack/news-story/8a70c778b061672c44b46f77e02cef78
Downer, thinking himself a superior being, feels qualified to lecture two ex PMs.
Somuyrek has been booted
Sukkar has been promoted
Steelydan says:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:45 pm
Barney in Tanjung Bungasays:
Monday, November 8, 2021 at 12:09 pm
There is no reason a Labor Government couldn’t pivot back to French Subs if the enquiry so recommends.
The barrier that exists at the moment between France and Australia is clearly Morrison, Macron made that abundantly clear.
Like the subs themselves, there’s likely to be far more to this story than meets the eye. For mine, I think there has to be a reason Morrison conducted himself in a way that was bound to look so bad. Labor have not objected to the subs project. Perhaps this speaks volumes about the need for it. Who knows!
Australia is trying to engage its allies in its China-resistance strategy. The China relationship is terrible and is getting worse. So everything has is being seen through that prism. This is a profoundly important issue, and yet gets almost no attention.
We are largely in the dark on all these matters. This is a grave issue in itself.
“ Somuyrek has been booted
Sukkar has been promoted”
To which L’arse, Lurker, Steamy, P1, Taylor, michael and Firefox/Quoll rejoin:
“But Labor …”
Bushfire Bill
Love your Busby updates.
On the topic of flies. When my husband and I were setting up our caravan for our first trip my mum sent me two crocheted creamer covers, the type with beads around the edge, she told me we would need them and she was of course correct. In my opinion there is nothing worse than a fly in your coffee.
The worst town for flies in my opinion was Cooper Pedi, they were very persistent and normal fly repellents just had no effect. The caravan park we stayed at sold a brand of cream that was apparently based on native ingredients and it did work on flies in that area.
What I did find was that the flies in different areas responded differently to different brands of repellents and the car ended up with a very extensive assortment to cover all needs.
Whilst I found flies annoying they have nothing on the sand flies around Port Hedland which are not only vicious but so small they can invade even the best screened van.
Somuyrek has been booted
Sukkar has been promoted
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sprocket_
Albanese acted
Morrison wants to “move on”
Gee, some people have gone vewwy qwiet on the issue of branch stacking.
New John Birmingham out.
https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/huffing-on-the-methane-bong
Is Canola oil good for the skin? I have just had a losing fight with a new tin I was trying to open.
Some interesting polling here:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/few-willing-to-change-lifestyle-climate-survey
lizzie
Nice experiment! Please let us know how it goes.
@briefly:
“ Like the subs themselves, there’s likely to be far more to this story than meets the eye. For mine, I think there has to be a reason Morrison conducted himself in a way that was bound to look so bad. Labor have not objected to the subs project. Perhaps this speaks volumes about the need for it. Who knows!”
Please acquaint yourself with this article:
https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/what-happened-to-a-regionally-superior-conventional-submarine/
“ Australia is trying to engage its allies in its China-resistance strategy. The China relationship is terrible and is getting worse. So everything has is being seen through that prism. This is a profoundly important issue, and yet gets almost no attention.”
What an odd thing to do, destroy (art least as between the current heads of government) the France-Australia strategic relationship, given that France is actually a pacific power in its own right (and the specific deal incorporates a heck of a lot of US tech), in favour of a little island on the other side of the world that ignominiously fucked off at the end of WW2 with its reputation, vis-a-vis China (given its behaviour towards the Middle Kingdom in the 19th century) in absolute tatters. One would think that an American-Australian-France alliance would provide the necessary spine and heft to a broader pacific defence Alliance (incorporating Japan, Korea, Singapore and ultimately Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia).
Ultimately in my view America will fail to ‘counter China’, because it will lack the heart to start a nuclear war and will ultimately realise that Chinese primary in East Asia is inevitable. There is however a very very very good chance that it might be able to pivot from a policy of countering China to one of acting in concert with China to manage the emerging geopolitical competition: not just as between China and America, but involving the emerging large powers of India, Indonesia and the rest of the ASEAN block. Astonishingly, every drop of Australian foreign policy since Hawke-Keating (and in fact the origins lie with the Whitlam ascendency in the ALP when he replaced Caldwell as leader) have been tailored to assist in this ‘in concert’ approach to managing the inevitable transfer of primary in East Asia from America to China via the multilateral institutions such as APEC, the East Asia Summit and the G20 so that there will be a sensible and soft landing for this power shift.
All of that has been blown out of the water by the current LNP pirates in this awful, no good, terrible ATM government (with labor’s Wolverine faction – and Crankmomma – cheering on, I note).
I assume the Shire Liar finally got around to reading Labor’s 2019 Green Hydrogen policy…