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[SirRumpole]

You just proved to me that what has gone wrong with our political system, people like yourself giving an opinion without knowing.

Did you listen to the discussion?

No you did not, as can be seen by how quickly you commented.

I would have a lot more respect for you if you first absorbed the information shared, and then constructively commented.

Instead you are like any old bully, attack and belittle.

So sad that we’ve come to this, after all our past generations sacrificed for us.

I was alive when JWH was PM so I know what he did and did not do.

I suspect that if I posted a similar piece from a Labor person you would disregard it .

 

[JohnDe]

I was alive when JWH was PM so I know what he did and did not do.

I suspect that if I posted a similar piece from a Labor person you would disregard it .

So was I, so what?

Anyone with a modicum of fairness and manners would have listened to what was said before commenting. Anything else just shows how closed mind works.

I always read, listen, or watch what others post before I comment. Otherwise I risk looking like a fool. But if I do have a momentary lapse in judgment I will apologise. Everyone makes mistakes.

 

[Knobby22]

Bruce Lehrmann has been charged for stealing a 4WD!!!
Can't wait to see his apologists try to cover for him again.
He has hired high profile lawyer Zali Burrows to represent him.

Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court on car theft charge

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann appears in a Tasmanian court via phone to face allegations he stole a car in the Huon Valley, south of Hobart.

www.abc.net.au

 

[PZ99]

hehe... the media were quick to try and make the Resolve Strategic poll of 55/45 for the Libs a self fulfilled prophecy but when Roy Morgan puts Labor at 51/49 afterwards the silence is deafening. LOL

 

[wayneL]

Just accidentally clicked onto the Luvvie luv-in that is qanda.

Mrs forced me to turn it off as she didn't want to clean up my vomit.

#abcpropaganda

 

[sptrawler]

Bruce Lehrmann has been charged for stealing a 4WD!!!
Can't wait to see his apologists try to cover for him again.
He has hired high profile lawyer Zali Burrows to represent him.

Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court on car theft charge

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann appears in a Tasmanian court via phone to face allegations he stole a car in the Huon Valley, south of Hobart.

www.abc.net.au

Certainly seems a strange thing for a hi profile person to do, also with Toyota Prado which I think I read was the car stolen, it isn't a car you could just hotwire.

So he must have stolen the keys, so did he break in? If not how did he get the keys.

Maybe the ABC is writing a thriller?

Interesting story to follow.

 

[Knobby22]

Certainly seems a strange thing for a hi profile person to do, also with Toyota Prado which I think I read was the car stolen, it isn't a car you could just hotwire.

So he must have stolen the keys, so did he break in? If not how did he get the keys.

Maybe the ABC is writing a thriller?

Interesting story to follow.

On Sky News as well.

 

[sptrawler]

On Sky News as well.

Obviously a chasing the same story then,
We don't watch the news, so hoping ASF can keep me current. Lol

 

[JohnDe]

I wonder where Lidia Thorpe got her training as a Senator from.

The former Greens senator, who defected to sit as an Independent, spoke of her ambition to run Blak Sovereign candidates in every state and territory, and outlined her provocative plans to “f*ck the colony” in a closed-door address to an anti-racism symposium organised by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.​

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Senator Thorpe, who earns a base salary of $233,660, told the symposium how much she hates going to work in Parliament House.​

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“It is a very violent workplace that I have to go to, every parliament sitting,’’ she said.​

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“I hate going there, I hate dealing with the people I’ve got to deal with, but I have to do it for my people and for all our ancestors that are watching down on us.’’​

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Senator Thorpe blamed her ancestors for her heckling of King Charles during his visit to Australia last year, when she shouted that “you are not my king’’ and “f*ck the colony’’, after he addressed the Great Hall of Parliament last October.​

Senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Indigenous Australians to ‘decolonise’ by planting Aboriginal flags and charging white people rent
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Senator Lidia Thorpe screamed in protest as Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla attended a Parliamentary reception in Canberra in October 2024. Photo Victoria Jones/Pool via REUTERS

Turncoat Senator Lidia Thorpe has urged Indigenous Australians to plant the Aboriginal flag on land and make white people pay to visit, to “assert sovereignty’’ over Australia.

The former Greens senator, who defected to sit as an Independent, spoke of her ambition to run Blak Sovereign candidates in every state and territory, and outlined her provocative plans to “f*ck the colony” in a closed-door address to an anti-racism symposium organised by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.

“We have to organise and strategise and take over our land like they did,’’ the Victorian senator said to applause from the audience.
“We need to start putting our own flags into our own land and f*ck the colony.’’

Hailing the academic conference as a “safe space’’, Senator Thorpe ridiculed “white Karen’’ supporters of the voice referendum, claimed that police were launching daily raids on Nazis threatening to kill her, and declared that her ancestors had spoken through her to “tell off’’ King Charles.

“The death threats are every day, every day an AFP (Australian Federal Police) officer is raiding some Nazi that wants to kill me,’’ she said.

Senator Lidia Thorpe says her ancestors spoke through her as she heckled King Charles III during the ceremonial welcome and Parliamentary reception at Parliament House on October 21, 2024.

Senator Thorpe outlined her plan to seek re-election when her term expires in three years – and then hand her seat to the Blak Sovereign movement by creating a casual vacancy in the Senate.

“I have three years left but I’m gonna run again,’’ she said in a recording of her speech to the QUT academic symposium on January 23, obtained by The Australian on Tuesday.

“The media don’t know that. I don’t want be there for another six years.

“The only reason I’m going to run again is to win it back for the Blak Sovereign movement and then I’m gonna hand it to the next generation.’’

Senator Thorpe said Blak Sovereign candidates could win the “bottom senate seat everywhere … we can have (the) balance of power.’’

Senator Thorpe, who earns a base salary of $233,660, told the symposium how much she hates going to work in Parliament House.

“It is a very violent workplace that I have to go to, every parliament sitting,’’ she said.

“I hate going there, I hate dealing with the people I’ve got to deal with, but I have to do it for my people and for all our ancestors that are watching down on us.’’

Senator Thorpe blamed her ancestors for her heckling of King Charles during his visit to Australia last year, when she shouted that “you are not my king’’ and “f*ck the colony’’, after he addressed the Great Hall of Parliament last October.

“It was my ancestors that threw me out into the middle there and told that king off, it was my ancestors that done that,’’ she said.

“I am just the body, I am just the mechanism.’’

Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe was taken away by security after yelling at the King and Queen inside Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire

Senator Thorpe called on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to “put the flag in’’ to assert sovereignty over Australian land.

“We have to take it into our own hands … put the flag in,’’ she said.

It was Aboriginal flag flying at a free camping site at Mystery Bay, on the southern NSW coast, that gave Senator Thorpe her inspiration.

“I said, that’s an assertion of sovereignty,’’ she told her audience. “You put the mob’s name there, start getting’ people to sign the visitor’s book, and don’t leave, so Black Fellas don’t have to pay camping fees at Mystery Bay, (but) all the white folks have to – $40 a night.’’

Senator Thorpe boasted that she has Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s number in her phone: “He doesn’t answer my texts no more but that’s alright.’’

Senator Lidia Thorpe in Melbourne, 2023.

She said Mr Albanese had only called his failed referendum to change the Constitution to give First Nations Australians an official voice in 2023 “for the votes, to make people feel good’’.

“I had white Karens coming to me saying this is going to be really good for your people,’’ she said to laughter from the audience, using a derogatory term for opinionated middle-aged women.

“The referendum was a strategy to divide us further, to cause the racism that we see, and to stop a treaty.’’

Senator Thorpe dared Opposition leader Peter Dutton to sue her for defamation “because I called him a racist and a violent man’’.

“He can come at me for defamation,’’ she said.

“I don’t own my house, I don’t own my car.’’

The Parliamentary register of members’ interests shows that Senator Thorpe owns residential real estate in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, with a mortgage from an Australian bank, and has two savings accounts.

A Pedestrian walks past a gate painted in the Aboriginal flag on the day of the voice referendum in South Yarra, Melbourne. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Senator Thorpe likened the office of the President of the Senate to “the principal’s office – getting suspended, or barred from parliament’’.

She revealed jostling over seating positions with Independent Senator Jackie Lambie and One Nation’s Pauline Hanson, who sit together in the Senate.

“I don’t give a f*ck,’’ she said.

“I’m sitting down the front, I want front bench, I’m a black sovereign woman, and we need to be heard.

“You need to be seen and we need to rise up.’’

QUT vice-chancellor Margaret Sheil has appointed former Federal Court judge John Middleton to conduct an independent review into the controversial symposium by QUT’s Carumba Institute in January.

She publicly apologised for the ‘hurt and offence’ caused by a presentation at the symposium’s “great race debate’’ that depicted “Dutton’s Jew’’, after federal Education Minister Jason Clare phoned to remind her of the need to enforce the university’s code of conduct.

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[Smurf1976]

Bruce Lehrmann has been charged for stealing a 4WD!!!
Can't wait to see his apologists try to cover for him again.
He has hired high profile lawyer Zali Burrows to represent him.

Bruce Lehrmann faces Hobart court on car theft charge

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann appears in a Tasmanian court via phone to face allegations he stole a car in the Huon Valley, south of Hobart.

www.abc.net.au

How strange.

Mountain River isn't even a town in the normal sense, it's a recognised place but it's just a few small farms, houses south of Hobart but it's not a place with a main street, shops etc.

Or in other words it's not a place anyone would normally be. If you don't live there, aren't visiting someone who lives there, you're not the postie or a tradie doing work etc then even just being there would be odd.

 

[SirRumpole]

Insider trading ?

Peter Dutton purchased shares in banks a day before a government bailout during the global financial crisis.

He was an opposition front bencher at the time and may have had the advantage of a briefing given to Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull.

This is a job for the Anti Corruption Commission in my view, the silence has been deafening so far.

Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases

A spokesperson for Peter Dutton denied he had prior knowledge of an impending Rudd government bank bailout when he purchased bank shares.

www.abc.net.au

 

[JohnDe]

Insider trading ?

Peter Dutton purchased shares in banks a day before a government bailout during the global financial crisis.

He was an opposition front bencher at the time and may have had the advantage of a briefing given to Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull.

This is a job for the Anti Corruption Commission in my view, the silence has been deafening so far.

Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases

A spokesperson for Peter Dutton denied he had prior knowledge of an impending Rudd government bank bailout when he purchased bank shares.

www.abc.net.au

Which, at the time, government ministers gave out the information.

 

[sptrawler]

Insider trading ?

Peter Dutton purchased shares in banks a day before a government bailout during the global financial crisis.

He was an opposition front bencher at the time and may have had the advantage of a briefing given to Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull.

This is a job for the Anti Corruption Commission in my view, the silence has been deafening so far.

Labor says Dutton has questions to answer over timing of share purchases

A spokesperson for Peter Dutton denied he had prior knowledge of an impending Rudd government bank bailout when he purchased bank shares.

www.abc.net.au

maybe they are too busy looking into Albo's proposed Federally funded driveway.

 

[SirRumpole]

maybe they are too busy looking into Albo's proposed Federally funded driveway.

Meanwhile, in the clown world, a DJ causes OUTRAGE among the fems and wokes by daring to criticise our darling Matildas.

How DARE He..

Anthony Albanese slams 'offensive' Marty Sheargold's Matildas comments on Triple M as 'disrespectful'​

'Shocking', 'unacceptable' and 'offensive': Albanese slams Sheargold

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese adds his condemnation to Marty Sheargold following his comments about the Matildas, while former athletes Libby Trickett, Melissa Barbieri and Kate McShea also speak out.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Another bit of irony, coming from Kevin Rudd and Jim Chalmers, they obviously have forgotten about Iraq and Afghanistan and the uproar about being there.

MSN

“We are an all-weather ally of the United States,” Rudd said. “Every single war that the United States has been in of a major nature since the First World War, of the last 100 years, we are the crazy guys in the foxhole next to you.”


“I think it does augur well,” Chalmers said. “Australia’s got a free floating currency, we’ve got a very productive relationship between the steel and aluminium sectors in both countries, our products are often an input into domestic production here. BlueScope and Rio [Tinto] and others are making big investments in the US
“We’ve got a different story to tell than other countries here in Washington, DC, when it comes to our case to be exempted from these tariffs. We’re also a very willing and long-standing defence partner.”

 

[sptrawler]

Meanwhile, in the clown world, a DJ causes OUTRAGE among the fems and wokes by daring to criticise our darling Matildas.

How DARE He..

Anthony Albanese slams 'offensive' Marty Sheargold's Matildas comments on Triple M as 'disrespectful'​

'Shocking', 'unacceptable' and 'offensive': Albanese slams Sheargold

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese adds his condemnation to Marty Sheargold following his comments about the Matildas, while former athletes Libby Trickett, Melissa Barbieri and Kate McShea also speak out.

www.abc.net.au

Apparently from what I read he said, he would rather nail the head of his penis to a plank, than watch them play a game.
I would have thought many would pay to watch him do it.

Yep you can say what you like about most people, especially politicians, but god help you if you criticise certain sports people.

 

[wayneL]

Apparently from what I read he said, he would rather nail the head of his penis to a plank, than watch them play a game.
I would have thought many would pay to watch him do it.

Yep you can say what you like about most people, especially politicians, but god help you if you criticise certain sports people.

Although I can't imagine any circumstance where I nail my penis to anything, I do have a certain sympathy with his view there

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Although I can't imagine any circumstance where I nail my penis to anything, I do have a certain sympathy with his view there

he didn't strike me as a Performance Artist...
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the lasses are pretty woeful. Maybe like tennis, they could play shortened matches?

 

[SirRumpole]

he didn't strike me as a Performance Artist...
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the lasses are pretty woeful. Maybe like tennis, they could play shortened matches?

Soccer as a game, played by either sex is plain boring and while I wouldn't go to the extremes that some would, I can think of a lot of things I'd rather be doing than watching it.

 

[SirRumpole]

Yep you can say what you like about most people, especially politicians, but god help you if you criticise certain sports people.

Yes, you can't attack the Sacred Cows.