The pond apologises in advance for today's outing in reptile la la land.
It's a thing of rags and patches... just look at the line-up littered with red, with the lizard Oz editorialist even projecting that Tasmania would go red ... three times!
By golly, the reptiles seem short of a dime for contributors ... and so the lizard Oz editorialist is forced to work overtime ..
It means there's very little for the pond.
Petulant Peta on the voice is an immediate red card ban, though it did remind the pond of this tweet ...
What? Where's petulant Peta? That beefy boofhead windmill hater with an office in Goulburn makes the cut and so does dead head Mark, and even a nattering "Ned", but no Peta? She can't even make the cut? Perhaps in the deleted scenes that used to feature when discs were a thing?
Up top on the far right was Dame Slap and she was out and about today in the lizard Oz with this offering ...
The pond couldn't believe it and waived the automatic red card just long enough to check on one thing...
They did, they did ... the new favourite reptile image for the potato head is this ... a demonic figure, a villain straight out of a Potter novel, or perhaps a shadowy, lurking babadook ...
All that did was remind the pond of this ...
Note to self, can't turn the pond into a subsidiary of The Shovel ... it's too tempting, with esteemed correspondents drawing attention to high comedy of The Liberal MP is on the brink of extinction kind ...
Speaking of News Corp there was this tweet a few days ago ...
Cruden Farm? He'll end up in crud? If you followed the link, you ended up with this story ...
If it's an industry, what's all the fuss about? Sheesh, one day it's y'artz, next day it's an industry, and still the reptiles carry on like pork chops ...
The pond did have one glimmer of hope ... instead of bashing of difficult, uppity blacks, as heavily featured yesterday ...
... perhaps that news of a wealth gulf might lead the reptiles to turn away from bashing uppity, difficult blacks, and indulge in some union bashing ...
Yep, thar they blow ...
It's beyond the valley of the caricature ...
Meanwhile, the pond needed to run at least one token reptile so it could at least pretend to be a journal of herpetological studies, and Dimitri was one of the few reptiles left standing without a red card in hand, and so still on the field ...
So, about Jim 'Mr Denmore' Parker's Four-Square look-n-see list of who's opposing the Voice: "What? Where's petulant Peta?" Yeah, well maybe she'll make the second 16 ? After all, does she really rate against any in the first 16 ?
ReplyDeleteI'd send Cash to the bench to make way for Credlin. Perhaps nobody would notice the substitution.
DeleteYair, close Merc; but personally I'll stick with Cash: nobody waltzes with whiteboards quite like she does.
DeleteThe pond would vote for Barners Merc, on the basis that you should never have a beetroot in a salad ...
DeleteAh, just think of the good ol' days when Miranda Devine would have been an automatic pick.
DeleteBut 'never put a beetroot in a salad'? I've never heard that one before.
Oh come on GB, canned beetroot and canned pineapple are two of the greatest abominations ever to test humanity with infinite cruelty and cosmic jest ... but yes, where's Miranda the Devine these days? Oh that's right, poisoning American minds, thanks be unto the Chairman ...
Deletehttps://nypost.com/author/miranda-devine/
Still as vile as ever ... just US reptile vile ...
Oh, 'canned beetroot', DP. Yeah, never put canned beetroot anywhere remotely civilised.
DeleteGB - we should not forget that the unlovely Miranda did 'donate' something in the order of $200 000 to the then 9-year-old Quaden Bayles, apparently to help him on his way through life.
DeleteOh yes, Chad, her generosity is 'legendary' (ie unreal).
DeleteThe good D'mitri: "For a long time, Australian governments have told the electorate they can have their cake and eat it. ... This charade of costless government expansion was enabled by 20-plus years of indulgent monetary policy taking Australia to near-zero interest rates and, in the process, significantly distorting the economy." Ok, I'll bite: "distorting the economy" how ? By raising the price of houses and apartments precipitously perhaps ? And was it "the government" - usually taken to mean the elected parliament - or the Public Service, having been appointed to be independent of the parliament in the person of Philip Lowe, who staggeringly reduced the interest rates only to now have to even more staggeringly, increase them.
ReplyDeleteBut the way D'mitri puts it makes it seem like there has only been one, unchanging government for the past 20 years; not that there was 5 years of Howard followed by 6 years of Rudd-Gillard followed by 9 years of Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison. Not to mention the 'Great Recession' back in 2008/9 at the start of Rudd's sojourn which Australia - thanks to Rudd, Gillard, Swan and Ken Henry as Treasury Secretary - we spent our way out of and got through better than just about anywhere else in the world
Oh but who, and what, is responsible for the "inflation" that Lowe is destroying the economy in order to reduce ?
Delete"The Reserve Bank has wrongly dismissed corporate profiteering as a cause of inflation, according to new research, and instead continues to warn against a nonexistent wages breakout.
A paper by the Australia Institute, a progressive thinktank, has been published amid an intensifying debate over the causes and remedies to inflationary pressures that are weighing on households."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/13/rba-accused-of-dereliction-of-duty-for-dismissing-corporate-profiteering-as-a-cause-of-inflation
Hi DP. This one was prompted by that fabulous silhouette pic of Dutton. You can't tell if he's coming or going so I'm trying to shed some light on his situation. Apologies to Paul Simon.
ReplyDeleteResounding Silence
Goodbye Spud this is the end
No one will talk to you again
Because the silent now are speaking
They've raised their voice and now you're freaking
If your mission is to plant doubt in our brain
It's all in vain
No one will stand for silence
It won't be long before you're thrown
Into the Liberal twilight zone
And as the leader of the no voice camp
You will be cast into the cold and damp
When you're in rehab
And you're thrashing around all night
There'll be no light
Only your pounding silence
All because you were afraid
Of a statement that was made
So you whistled up a warning
That insurgencies were forming
Now the signs say that you're gonna cop it
And the legacy of your downfall
Will be resounding silence...
"People writing songs that voices never shared
DeleteAnd no one dared disturb the sound of silence"
Beautiful thanks, Kez.
:)³ So there was some use in that snap of that rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouching towards Bethlehem to shout "no" into the empty, silent void ...
DeleteVery nice, Kez!
DeleteFor some reason, that silhouette of Dutton brought to mind the old song “The Shadow of Your Smile”. After all, we rarely see more than a shadow of one on Spud’s mug…
Cheers all!
DeleteOoh, just a teensy sidetrack:
ReplyDelete"The push to become a world leader in clean energy exports isn't just hot air, with almost half of worldwide hydrogen projects being in Australia.
About 40 per cent of announced hydrogen projects around the world are in Australia's pipeline, with a total value of between $230 billion and $300 billion."
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/news/new-hydrogen-pumps-hundreds-of-billions-into-economy/ar-AA19N2WF?
I can't wait for the denialist reptiles (especially that renewable energy expert, NickyC) to tell us all that this will never happen.
Good to see that News Corp is exploring new revenue opportunities -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/13/news-corp-australia-publishes-mater-lottery-promotions-presented-as-news-stories-about-winners
Hmmm - Warren Mundine seems to have dropped the 'Nyunggai' - apparently a Bundjalung skin name - in his identification, even though sources say he made this a legal part of his name in 2013. Senator Price retains what I understand is her skin name, 'Nampijinpa', but not the 'Yangapi' - for which I cannot find a derivation. Just wondering why that might be, as in - does this better fit an assimilation meme?
ReplyDeleteDuly noted Chadders ...
DeleteI suspect that you’re correct, GB. It certainly wouldn’t be surprising if Mundine adjusted his name depending on the crowd to which he was playing. Which, of course, also tells you everything you need to know about the Oz’s audience profile.
ReplyDeleteOops - apologies - I meant,Chad, not GB. I’m guilty of indulging a little name-adjustment myself…..
DeleteNo need to fret, Anonymous. I agree with your suggestion - Mundine does seem to be adaptable, and marrying into the Polonius family was an interesting manoeuvre.
DeleteYeah, no need to fret, Anony; I'll happily accept credit for anything that Chad says.
DeleteAnd contemplating our governments:
ReplyDelete"New national study to be launched to document deterioration in basic reading and writing skills, particularly in Tasmania.
Millions of adults Australians are living with a secret shame. They’re hiding the fact they cannot read recipes or bus timetables, apply for a driver’s licence or financial support, or sign rental agreements without supervision."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/13/warning-decline-in-australias-adult-literacy-being-hidden-by-lack-of-data
I can't precisely remember how many times I've heard that in my lifetime, but it has been several - and it dates from quite a way back. So, have millions of Australians failed their Naplan or what ? Is this just an ongoing failure of Australian education - particularly in that Coalition bastion, Tasmania - or is it due to our high migrant intake: many who can read quite well in their native language but maybe not quite so well in English ?
And if it is a failure of Aussie education on Aussie kids, how did they graduate from school ? When they couldn't even read their test and exam papers, how could they ever have passed ?
I guess we'll all be much better informed 'real soon now'.