Federal polls may be coming down the line shortly from Resolve Strategic in the Age/Herald and Freshwater Strategy in the Financial Review. Until then:
• The West Australian reports three potential contenders for Liberal preselection in the new seat of Bullwinkel in Perth’s eastern hinterland, which by my reckoning has a notional Labor margin of 2.9%: Matt Moran, an Afghanistan veteran and former Ten Network reporter who ran unsuccessfully for the Curtin preselection in February; Holly Ludeman, a veterinarian and activist in the campaign against a ban on live sheep exports; and Jonathan Crabtree, a commercial and estate planning lawyer who led the Senate ticket of Cory Bernardi’s Australian Conservatives in 2019. The paper earlier reported that Labor preselection would be contested by Kyle McGinn, a former Maritime Union of Australia organiser who has served in the state Legislative Council for Mining and Pastoral region since 2017, and there are suggestions the Nationals candidate will be former state party leader Mia Davies.
• InDaily reports five candidates for Liberal preselection in the regional South Australian seat of Grey, which will be vacated with the retirement of Rowan Ramsey, its member since 2007: Dean Johnson, mayor of Kimba and president of the Local Government Association; Tom Venning, Barunga Grains farming manager; Rikki Lambert, former chief-of-staff to Family First senator Bob Day; Matt Sampson, a Whyalla police officer; and Suzanne Waters, who ran in the seat for the United Australia Party in 2022.
• Nine Newspapers reports on expectations that Michelle Ananda-Rajah will run in Liberal-held Deakin or Menzies with the proposed abolition of her existing seat of Higgins, which she gained for Labor from the Liberals for the first time in the seat’s history in 2022.
• Labor has announced candidates in its Coalition-held targets in Brisbane: disability advocate Ali France in Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson, where she also ran in 2019 and 2022; Rebecca Hack, a former school principal now of the Queensland Teachers Union, in the Greens-held seat of Ryan; and Rowan Holzberger, electorate officer to Senator Murray Watt and candidate from 2022, again to run in Forde.
You were playing cricket at 3 am in the morning, Mavis?
Kudos.
Do those idiot Republican heavies that immediately came out accusing Biden of ordering the shooting of Trump, I wonder if they realised that the current president could be immune form prosecution.
Probably not, those mental giants!
Mavis – what time were you playing cricket on 23 11 63?
The news hit Australia about 4 am. I was woken up by my mother crying while listening to the 7am ABC Radio News.
Of course it wasn’t in the papers and you could go through the day without the constant news feed we get now
Mostly Interested @ #498 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 8:27 pm
The Melania one I saw made me lol
I was at saturday morning cricket practice when the news came through that Wally Grout had died.
He was 40, so it didn’t seem a big deal to a 10 year old.
Badthinker:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 8:33 pm
[‘You were playing cricket at 3 am in the morning, Mavis?
Kudos.’]
To the best of my memory, we received the news of his death at around 11 am on Saturday, November, 23. The news was slow in those days. Haven’t you got better things to do with your time?
Arkysays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 8:16 pm
Sad to see Mary Kostakidis a raving anti-Semite but hey, I got to give her props for highlighting a Hezbollah speech that makes it explicitly clear that the from the river to the sea line is still about genociding all Jews in that region, for the benefit of naive protesters in the West who don’t realise what they’re chanting for.
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So what does the Likud party mean when they say it?
And who is currently doing this genocide?
https://www.theage.com.au/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-more-than-90-people-in-gaza-safe-zone-20240714-p5jtgf.html
When JFK died, I was around -20 years old. However, I’m sure that, if there is some sort of celestial waiting room that exists for people before they’re born, there was a bit of shock there that day. Don’t know how it compared to the similar news about Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln or Franz Ferdinand but I am sure the gravity of the moment was appreciated.
Oakeshott Country:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 8:35 pm
See my post in response to Badthinker’s…
Richard Marles is in UK, visiting Sheffield Foregemasters, who are UK state owned like ASC, and supply parts to the UK sub and shipbuilding projects.
He was given a lovely model of a submarine. A snip for a $5 billion Aussie investment!
We all remember submarine models. This one ended up costing us $2.5 billion.
Ah, i see we are playing “that person is an antisemite” game again tonight…
Shameless weaponisation of ‘ antisemitism’ again.
”He was given a lovely model of a submarine. A snip for a $5 billion Aussie investment!”
Just add water?
Or feed it for 30 years so it will grow to full size?
clem, do you think these people realise that Palestinians are also… Semitic?!
Shock horror
One for Boer to digest and assess tomorrow, which pretty much confirms exactly what he has been saying for the past year. Forget about Project 2025, this is the Greens “Project 2040”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13553625/Project-2040-Chandler-Mather-PM-Greens-government.html
Lordbainsays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:06 pm
clem, do you think these people realise that Palestinians are also… Semitic?!
Shock horror
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I did put forward a thesis. Not well received here, that the Roman Empire were the true anti-semites. Not just because of their treatment of Judea. More so due to the genocide of the semitic people of Carthage.
Though the big question we really need to address from the Punic Wars. Is whether taking elephants across the European Alps was crueller than the live sheep export trade. Also if they were African elephants how did they domesticate them?
Entropy, I like your logic… but if you take your logic one step further, I would argue theres a very famous ethnicity that wiped out quite a few Semitic tribes in the region.
And ill end it there
Nadia, shush, dont give the greens plan away 😉
BK ”Do those idiot Republican heavies that immediately came out accusing Biden of ordering the shooting of Trump”
That is the most dangerous nonsense. If Trump (who seems to have got through the incident with only very minor injuries) were any kind of statesman he’d come out as soon as he can and tell his supporters to cool it.
Did not know that Franz Ferdinand visited Australia and went koala hunting in ItzaDream country.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-28/franz-ferdinand-profile/5542910
Will Peter Dutton be getting a model nuclear reactor? Maybe a tiny model of an SMR.
[‘Unmarked cars and secret orders: How a pharmacy prepared drugs for Texas’ executions.]
The state of Texas, blocked from purchasing lethal injection drugs by major pharmaceutical companies that refuse to participate in executions, bought them instead from an in-state compounding pharmacy with a history of more than a dozen safety and cleanliness violations, NPR has learned.
Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply in suburban San Antonio produced injectable pentobarbital from 2019 through at least late 2023 for Texas to use in executions, records from the state Department of Criminal Justice and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration revealed.
According to inspection documents from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, Rite-Away was cited more than a dozen times over the past decade. Over the course of multiple inspections, the pharmacy repeatedly failed to maintain clean and sterile facilities and failed to keep complete and correctly labeled records and drugs in stock, among other violations.
Federal authorities alleged that another Rite-Away branch, owned by the same family, “fueled and profited from the opioid epidemic” and was implicated in the overdose death of a patient.
Death penalty opponents say the revelations raise questions about whether the state is being cavalier in its treatment of inmates it intends to execute.
“They’re literally relying on those who have been known to cause harm to carry out their death penalty, their execution,” said Bianca Tylek, a lawyer and the executive director of a nonprofit that advocates against exploitation of prisoners. “They are exhibiting a tremendous amount of carelessness that should never come into contact with the death penalty.”]
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/10/g-s1-9016/unmarked-cars-and-secret-orders-how-a-pharmacy-prepared-drugs-for-texas-executions?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20240714&utm_term=9588415&utm_campaign=news&utm_id=65939782&orgid=&utm_att1=
Per capita, Texas is second to Oklahoma for execution rates. And it ranks 4th for incarceration rates: 452 per 100,000.
Oakeshott Country @ #503 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 8:35 pm
OC.
I was in London (hiding behind the couch because the first broadcast episode of Doctor Who had scared the shit out of the 7 year-old me) when I heard the BBC accent say “President Kennedy was dead”. I remember, most, my parents’ shock. We had lived in Chicago 1960-61: Camelot felt real to them. I think it was the first time I realised that death could happen to someone I “knew”, was irrevocable & could pierce even the most privileged life – even mine. I had a visceral reaction to today.
Lordbainsays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:14 pm
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Nadia, shush, dont give the greens plan away
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Yes, I might be stirring. Ok, probably enough for me this evening. No polls. No “raison detre”.
The Greens plans have been on the table for a decade or so.
Remember Bob Brown with his comment on the Greens plan to overtake Labor.
Below link from 2011
Link: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bob-brown-aiming-for-major-party-status/ulyo74y58
Coming to fruition Lordbain
Nice try Entropy. But the Jews have never said anything like ‘From the river to the sea,’ which means the total elimination of the whole Jewish nation and everyone in it. It is true that they are intent on wiping out Hamas, with very good reason and are in the process of doing so. But only one side is intent on killing every last man woman and child of their adversary and it isn’t Israel.
Steve777 @ #517 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 9:15 pm
But he’s not a statesman, he’s an Authoritarian Narcissistic Demagogue.
Apparently the gunman was aiming for Trumps brain. Someone else said “Nobody is that good a shot”
Bystander, Netanyahu amongst others has said it.
Hell, its well know that member sin his cabinet want territory from Lebanon and Egypt to start with…
Lordbainsays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:14 pm
Entropy, I like your logic… but if you take your logic one step further, I would argue theres a very famous ethnicity that wiped out quite a few Semitic tribes in the region.
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I decided to go on a tangent after that. Still disappointed there is no posts linking the shooter to Lizard people or a Pizza shop owned by Hilary. I really thought “Badthinker” was getting close there for awhile.
nadia88 @ #522 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 9:23 pm
Sometimes I wonder about your, um, perspective.
Okay, how about these numbers, nadia88?
Number of Greens MPs in the Lower House of the Australian parliament, where the government is formed: 4
Number of Australian Labor Party MPs in the Lower House of the Australian parliament, where the government is formed: 78
I would hardly call that, ‘coming to fruition’. 😐
Bystandersays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:24 pm
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Wrong, both sides say it and neither mean it in a nice way.
“The phrase was also used by the Israeli ruling Likud party as part of their 1977 election manifesto which stated “Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.”[11][12][13] This slogan was repeated by Menachem Begin.[44] Similar wording has also been used more recently by other Israeli politicians, like Gideon Sa’ar and also Uri Ariel of The Jewish Home. In 2014 Ariel said, “Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there will be only one state, which is Israel.”[3] The phrase has been used by the Israeli Prime Minister, Likud’s Benjamin Netanyahu, in speeches.[17] Similar wording has also been used more recently by other Israeli politicians.[3]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_river_to_the_sea
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-extreme-ambitions-of-west-bank-settlers
Greens telling the muslim vote party or soon to be party not to target the senate or Wills.
The Australian tonight.
Maybe the Greens and labor are on a unity ticket of massive losses.
Meanwhile in WA the labor gov has placed four current upper house members in unwinnable positions.Thats maybe more than the hapless libs maybe able to achieve!
”Remember Bob Brown with his comment on the Greens plan to overtake Labor.”
Unless the Greens start pitching to people who care more about their power bills and the cost of groceries than climate change, the Palestinians or gender equity, ain’t going to happen.
Panicked Greens senators and MPs fear the burgeoning The Muslim Vote movement could cost them the prized target seat of Wills and upper house votes, pleading with the campaign to leave it and the Senate race alone.
A potential split in the pro-Palestine vote came as Muslim leaders said the Greens’ policy slate would be a “deal-breaker” for the community, regardless of its pro-Palestine stance.
The revelations are part of an investigation by The Australian into the Greens’ policies and electoral strategy as it seeks to win the balance of power in the upcoming Queensland and federal elections.
Amid the five days that saw senator Fatima Payman resign and the emergence of The Muslim Vote, the Greens realised the wedge they drove into the ALP may have been two-edged.
Multiple figures in the progressive party picked up the phone to “preference whisperer” and political strategist Glenn Druery, who had reportedly been advising Senator Payman and, separately and informally, The Muslim Vote campaign.
Mr Druery didn’t respond to questions from The Australian, but insiders said Greens figures, including NSW senator David Shoebridge, quickly contacted the strategist concerned with how an organised Muslim campaign could affect them, particularly in Wills and the Senate.
Sources said some pleaded to Mr Druery that he tell The Muslim Vote to focus solely on the lower house, leaving the Senate alone so as to not take potential votes and spots from the party.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/greens-tell-muslim-vote-to-leave-wills-senate-alone/news-story/c525a1add3ae4f8e56d44679995dbb12?amp
Man, remember when the Australian reported Payman was about to launch the party?
Fun times…
Entropy @ #516 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 9:11 pm
Hannibal’s elephants were much smaller that the sub-saharan species. The North African elephant ((Loxodonta africana pharaohensis) was a sub-species of the larger animal to the south so probably would have been easier to control.
[‘Many have remarked on the number of stabbings in NSW of late and wondered why that might be. Of course, one reason could be that our government’s support of the Israeli-perpetrated Gaza genocide, conveys a message that violence is okay and the maiming or killing of others is no biggie.
In response to the recent knife crimes, the NSW government passed laws in early June to permit the wanding of citizens in designated areas, which amounts to running a metal detector over a person without making contact with their body, in order to ensure that they’re not in possession of a knife.
But these laws are completely ineffective in terms of preventing the type of knife crimes that these police powers have been enacted in response to, and nor did they have any deterrent or detection effect on the knife crimes that have transpired over the last fortnight.
The reason why police running metal detectors over randomly selected civilians wouldn’t have prevented these recent crimes is these incidents, which have all been considered potential acts of terror, couldn’t have been predicted much less headed off by a NSW police officer with a wand.
Yet, the four recent knife crimes, and one other terrorism offence not designated as such, have all served to expose a blind spot in the Australian criminal justice system that’s always existed, and they’ve also suggested this problem is on the uptick, and a clear reason for this is Canberra’s quiet complicity in Gaza.
But the issue that’s been exposed more succinctly than ever before is that the authorities have an extreme resistance to calling acts of politically motivated violence by white Australians as terrorism, while a similar act by a Muslim sees police instantly identify it as religiously motivated terror.’]
https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-refusal-of-authorities-to-identify-white-supremacist-terrorism-will-only-compound-it/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=week-29
I’m not sure I agree with the premise of this article but there you have it. I’m off to London. By the way, Kate might present the trophy to the winner of today’s men’s singles title. Go, Alcaraz!
Ballantynesays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:41 pm
Entropy @ #516 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 9:11 pm
Lordbainsays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:06 pm
clem, do you think these people realise that Palestinians are also… Semitic?!
Shock horror
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I did put forward a thesis. Not well received here, that the Roman Empire were the true anti-semites. Not just because of their treatment of Judea. More so due to the genocide of the semitic people of Carthage.
Though the big question we really need to address from the Punic Wars. Is whether taking elephants across the European Alps was crueller than the live sheep export trade. Also if they were African elephants how did they domesticate them?
Hannibal’s elephants were much smaller that the sub-saharan species. The North African elephant ((Loxodonta africana pharaohensis) was a sub-species of the larger animal to the south so probably would have been easier to control.
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Thanks, i assume that sub-species is now extinct?
Something else i will add to list to blame Rome for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xad5Rl0N2E
Entropy
The statement you have quoted was about proposed sovereignty. There is nothing at all in it that can be taken to mean the mass slaughter of a whole ethnic population, which is what Hamas is all about with the Jews.
The shooter was going after Biden but he got confused.
Some bloke shouted Donald Duck. He was having a Disney spell.
FUBAR @ #539 Sunday, July 14th, 2024 – 9:52 pm
Or was he actually after Harris?
Bystander, i know your not playing in good faith, but ill still bite;
As of now between 85 – 90 percent of gazans have been displaced.
And based on the latest information (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext#%20) the deathtoll could exceed 186,000 based on disease, starvation etc.
Keep in mind the Gazan population was 590,481 in 2017, so… that would be potentially 30 percent of the population dead, with 85 percent of the remainder displaced.
I wonder what that sounds like…
Bystandersays:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 9:49 pm
Entropy
The statement you have quoted was about proposed sovereignty. There is nothing at all in it that can be taken to mean the mass slaughter of a whole ethnic population, which is what Hamas is all about with the Jews.
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Those right wing politician that want the Euphrates to the Nile. In the NY times article i linked. Expect to achieve it how exactly?.
FUBAR
Correct me if I am wrong, but haven’t you stated here before that you would like Trump to lose the election? That doesn’t seem to be the flavour of your posts here today.
Entropy
Yes it is, alas, extinct. Romanes eunt domus, eh?
That was because he was in a defilade position to the Counter Sniper Team.
They had very good drills. As soon as fire was observed they fired into the general area to suppress him and distract him. They then almost immediately killed him with a head shot. They were equipped with silenced 7.62 mm counter-sniper rifles.
Bystander says:
Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 10:02 pm
Yes, I would like Trump to lose, but I am highly critical of the Democrats decisions so far. I also find the anti-Trump hysteria ridiculous.
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Not by mass extermination that’s for sure. That’s Hamas’s specialty. Personally I don’t think it ever will be achieved.
Fair enough FUBAR. Thanks for your response.
Young love Brittany yes that one will be popping out a baby.West Aust.
So the shooter was very smart or lucky?Ignorant question I know does a silencer exist for that weapon?No noise no reaction from the snipers until later ?