The pond knew it was a false dawn, a story at the top of the digital lizard Oz suggesting strong action was required, with talk of quotas ...
Looking down, it became clear that the sun had already set, thanks to the firm stand of the Caterist ...
What a strange triptych, but first to the Caterist ...
Now if anyone can make sense of all that - not quotas, but targets, which arguably discriminate against men - then they can probably also discern the movements of floodwaters in quarries ...
Yes, it's a sign of the pond's weakness that it's going for cartoons early, but we must press on ...
Ah, yes, bloody women. How tiresome the harridans are, always screeching for attention and special treatment. The bloody sisterhood, a pack of bloody lefties, always with the victimhood routine. Not one of them would have the guts to forensically examine floodwaters in quarries ...
Yes, of course, we must shake our minds clear of whatever prejudice may linger and acknowledge that it's all the fault of whining, screeching, complaining women, intent on victimhood and special treatment ... so sayeth the Caterist in Cateristsplaining fashion, and there's an end to the matter ... (except that most likely it won't be).
What else? Well down below the fold there was something of a ferment ...
Inevitably the pond went with the savvy Savva, though it was sorely tempted by the lizard Oz editorialist's plea for MPs to reflect the community they serve ... and the bizarre notion of feeling pride in parliament and their members ...
The pond should feel pride in speaking in tongues, and worshipping dinkum clean Oz coal?
But enough of that, on with the savvy Savva ... even if, right out of the gate, the reptiles lumbered her with a wretched cartoon ...
The pond thought it should remedy the situation by inserting a cartoon of another kind ...
And now to business, which inevitably will involve talk of that puffer fish ...
All he could talk about was Dame Enid Lyons? Do we have to stretch that far back to find parliamentary Liberal women worth a reference?
Never mind, that gobbet also ended with heretical talk about quotas. Where's the Caterist to do a little Cateristsplaining to set the conversation back on the right path?
It was biblical in portent?
The pond couldn't help but think of an ancient Crikey story by Alan Austin, way back in 2018, and so likely outside the paywall for many, for those anxious to make use of the links ...
2018! What a long time for an angle to be brewing.
As noted, the original has all the active links, but now the pond must finish the savvy Savva ...
Fraying? Well she always was inclined to be kind ... just like the immortal Rowe, here ...
And so to the bonus of the day, and as always, the pond simply couldn't walk past the bromancer and the ongoing war with China ...
The bromancer has an almost insatiable thirst for the fight, a common enough attitude, the pond has observed, in armchair generals who've never actually been in a war ...
But the pond is pleased to join the bromancer in the fight ...
Indeed, indeed. The 1930s! There's nothing like fighting the next war by reverting to the mindset of previous wars. Waiter, a serve of cavalry if you please ...
Of course one of the great mistakes that reptile fearless leader Ming the Merciless made in the 1930s can be easily remedied ...
Yes, it's time for the bromancer to crusade against the shipping of coal and iron ore to China, for fear they might drop the iron on him.
Say what? No sale? It's just a fake, phoney war, with a lot of strutting, and pamphlet dropping, and bullying and blustering?
Never mind, on with the war, whatever it is, provided it involves spending up big on war toys, perhaps so the bromancer can get invited to admire them ...
The pond always loves the o'erweening pride and certainty of the bromancer in full stride, even as the reptiles ran this EXCLUSIVE story a few days ago and sent the readership hawks into a tizz ...
Yes, there's the solution. Don't fly the damn things, that'll put the fear of the long absent lord into anyone foolish enough to start a war ...
But sorry Ben, there's no wait-and-see approach from the bromancer.
We're on a war footing, why the shooting will probably start by 2025 ... and the bromancer is already chomping at the bit, cigar at the ready to do a Churchillian impression ... because we must spend, spend, spend ... and become splendid manufacturers of missiles, because we've already done so well at manufacturing under Liberal governments ...
The pond is vastly relieved to learn that deficits and debts are no longer an issue as we go on a war footing, and it's true that the bromancer has supplied a splendidly paranoid momentary distraction from SloMo's troubles of the day, but alas and alack, the pond must revert to the infallible Pope for a final thought this day ...
Oh yeah, talking about Dame Enid, DP, consider this:
ReplyDelete'They only wanted me to pour tea': Enid Lyons and the Liberals' women problem
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/they-only-wanted-me-to-pour-tea-enid-lyons-and-the-liberals-women-problem-20180518-p4zg5g.html
"Yes, there's the solution. Don't fly the damn things"
ReplyDeleteThe Bro still hasn't heard of drones, has he.
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ReplyDeleteThe Man Who Won’t Deliver
ReplyDeleteThere was much anticipation for the word had spread around
That Scott would face the press that fateful day
Over sordid allegations that were doing all the rounds
So all the hacks had gathered to the fray
All the tired and jaded writers from publications near and far
Were crowded in the gallery that night
For the press do love reporting on the sleazy and bizarre
And they sniffed a Scomo bombshell with delight
Then Scott bemoaned the tawdry tales that kept the mob engrossed
And emphasised his shock and his disgust
Yet he had only learned this news “a month ago at most”
‘Twas then that he began to self-combust
It started with a quivering lip, then Scott went misty eyed
And blubbed that he was “only trying to help”
But no one was persuaded by his sham attempt to cry
We knew those phoney tears were for himself
The man from marketing is a household word today
Deletebut not in any good way
I feel that when he leaves we will never hear about him again.
Nice one, Kez.
DeleteBut c'mon, Bef: this is the only land in the civilised world that has a tearful Daggy Dad as its leader; a small touch of fame that will last forever.
:)³
DeletePaul Syvret taking a good hard swing at Cater - and not missing
ReplyDelete"The "Menzian legacy"? It wasn't until the old troglodyte left office in 1966 that Australia finally got rid of the "marriage bar" that forced women to resign from the public service as soon as they married."
https://insidestory.org.au/the-long-slow-demise-of-the-marriage-bar/
If you don't like the facts make up your own.
One has to be very blind indeed to miss the Cater. Especially when he can't tell the difference between a 'quota' and a 'target'. Strewth but our Nick is thick.
DeleteOf course what is really entertaining is how any attempt to rectify the discrimination against women is taken as evil and intolerable discrimination against men. The only reason why men so outnumber women in parliament, the public service and corporate boardrooms is that they have been unconscionably discriminated against for millenia, and still are. But clearly, that implies that some number of men have been appointed in preference to clearly better qualified women - but nothing should be done about that.
Indeed, try to correct any of those gross and unforgivable acts of discrimination ? Oh no, no, no - that would punish the men who only have their position because of the punishment of women.
Even in partially liberated Australia - which allowed women to open a bank account in their own name without their husband's approving signature (dunno what spinsters did) as far back as 'mid 19th Century' - and thereby allowing some of them to be paid employees - prohibited women from getting a bank loan - and thereby preventing them from taking out a mortgage to be able to buy a dwelling of their own - unless they had a male cosignatory/guarantor. Just one of those many public-spirited acts to protect women from their own follies.
:)³ The pond should have remembered the marriage bar:
DeleteIn 1958, Prime Minister Robert Menzies commissioned a committee, chaired by Sir Richard Boyer, to review the marriage bar. The Boyer Report recommended removal of the marriage bar on the grounds that it wasted female talent in the community; that women—rather than the state—were best-placed to manage the demands of work and home; and that comparable countries had already removed the bar. Despite this advice, the Menzies Cabinet did not support change.
The Menzies Cabinet considered that a woman’s primary role was to care for her family and that a man’s role was to be the breadwinner (that is, the provider). They thought that married women would not be able to manage the competing demands of domestic work and the paid workforce. They were also concerned that male unemployment rates—already high—would rise further if married women could enter the workforce, and that this would be unpopular with voters.
Despite these attitudes within Cabinet, there was public support for the removal of the marriage bar. The advice provided to Menzies was that he would lose votes on the issue regardless of his position and it was better to remain quiet. For the next seven years, when questioned, Menzies would respond that the matter was still under consideration.
At the beginning of 1966 Menzies retired as Prime Minister. Pressure from the public, the Opposition and members of the Government led to the removal of the marriage bar.
https://www.naa.gov.au/learn/learning-resources/learning-resource-themes/government-and-democracy/appointment-women-commonwealth-public-service-note-cabinet-discussion
Yeah, but who remembers Ruby Payne-Scott ?
Deletehttps://womeninscienceaust.org/2017/08/21/the-ruby-payne-scott-award-at-csiro/
Incidentally, I probably should have mentioned, just for the sake of informative perspective, that it was about 110 years between women being able to have their own bank account and them being able to have their own bank loan.
DeleteBut then, you wouldn't want to rush these delicate matters, would you.