In which "Ned" and others continue the crusades ...

Oh dear … not nattering "Ned" again … and there were such good alternatives too, with a chance to join the careening Canavan caravan taking out the greenies and developing the wilderness into a paradise, and Adam in a state of shock verging on hysteria, in an EXCLUSIVE ...

 

It's noble of the Canavan to prop up the Murdochian business model by putting his message to taxpayers behind a paywall, but that's the way it goes in the deep north …

The pond is reluctant to liberate the careening Canavan - let his delusions stay locked behind the paywall - and so to "Ned", sounding besieged …

By golly, is that a glint of hope in battered "Ned's" eye? At what cost? Does it mean that ScoMo must ignore the reptile hysteria over dinkum clean Oz coal, oi, oi, oi, that has saturated the lizard Oz for the last decade or more? 

Dear sweet long absent lord, he doesn't intend to go socialist and fund a government-owned coal plant?

The pond almost reeled away in Adam Creighton-inspired shock … what could be left, apart from decent, good old-fashioned union bashing?

It took the pond a time to realise it, but it seems "Ned" is channeling ScoMo, a kind of weird cosmic speaking in tongues whereby "Ned" mystically understands everything ScoMo must and will do ...

Will it work? Will the onion muncher stay inside the tent? For that the pond turned to another reptile story …

Oh dear … the onion muncher challenged already? That sounded ominous ...

What did "Ned" say? "But will it work? The answer to that question is critical …"

How could "Ned" doubt the onion muncher doing the work of the Minister in their new shared role, without demarcation dispute and with singular vision?

Why, the onion muncher's previous turns at indigenous business were a stunning success … remember the days when he was talking of scoring the ministry back in 2016?

And then these memories of words and deeds turned up in The Graudian …

As PM for Indigenous affairs, Abbott began with a vow to sweat blood to achieve constitutional recognition for Indigenous people. Never mind that “Recognise” is largely the tame, mostly whitefella politicians’ response, the “look over here” distraction, to the far more pressing need for treaties and meaningful truth and conciliation processes. (That’s the imperial, Anglophile, Abbott I mentioned earlier.) Then came his ridiculous assertion in mid-2014, that: “I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, great southern land.” I guess that’d be why colonial “settlers”, soldiers, militias and others saw fit to kill, by some accounts, up to 60,000 Indigenous people on the um, “unsettled”, Queensland colonial and immediate post-federation frontier, alone. Never mind the rest of the continent. Abbott would soon compound his habitation fallacy with this insult to Indigenous Australians: “The arrival of the first fleet was the defining moment in the history of this continent. Let me repeat that: it was the defining moment in the history of this continent.” Did you get that the second time?

But stay, the pond is reluctant to be too negative about reptile dreams, and was overjoyed when Lloydie turned up with a solution …

And it wasn't just for Adam Creighton, or for ScoMo, but might even come in handy for the careening Canavan as he tries to nuke the greenies or the fridge or whatever...

Now around this point some might be wondering just who this "small group" might be … there's no names, no pack drill, just a lot of talk, and a paper circulated allegedly as a "public service".

But that's our Lloydie, with the most striking feature the absolute anonymity of all that he scribbles about ...

Strong champions?

Didn't Lloydie mean strong, nameless, anonymous, furtive champions too pathetic to put their names to a report, or to put it out into the wider world in the name of "public service"?

And so finally to an update for Luke S. specialists. 

The pond is dedicated to the saga of the Ramsay centre, and following the pond's recent report, was pleased to see another update this day ...

It looks like it's shaping up nicely for another hysterical lizard Oz crusade … with Luke S. the point man, Western Civilisation's Thucydides or perhaps Suetonius, ready to track all the action and record the history ...

Fundamentalist Catholic bigot Joe de Bruyn is on the board? 

Oh that's great news, what an impeccable pick … and if that motley collection doesn't produce a great crusade over the next few months, the pond will eat a raw onion in honour of the success of the onion muncher as envoy…

And now, as one way or another, energy wended its way through all the reptile talk today, how handy that the infallible Pope should also have had a thought about the topic, with more crusading, tilting-at-windmills Pope here ...