In which the pond shuffles the Ughmann into a gender-bending aside, kicks garrulous Gemma to the curb, all the better to focus on Polonial prattle and a dog bothering litany ...

 

Continuing the theme of the pond's reluctance to cancel access to any reptile for its correspondents, consider the case of the Ughmann this weekend...

Yes, it's sordid and ugly and frequently terrifying, and the pond, on reading this latest foray into demonising TG folk, knew that it would personally cancel him, what with the pond having close TG friends who routinely get agitated by the reptiles.

Possibly a more amusing read would be Parker Molloy:

Your Tax Dollars Are Funding AI Founding Fathers Who Quote Ben Shapiro
PragerU teamed up with the White House. Oof!

A perfect storm of AI and stupidity.

Alternatively ...

The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not

Pop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?
If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of … well, you know the rest.
We always want what we can’t have, of course, which is why Trump this week had to settle for Farage grinning gormlessly next to his Oval Office desk like a competition winner, while Kim laughed it up with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping at a vast military parade in Beijing which featured, among other deranged martial curiosities, robot wolves. Good times. If you regard China as the US’s chief rival, then you can definitely see putative prime minister Nigel casting the UK as North Korea in the equivalent western pecking order. In a few short years, Farage might well be honking with laughter as the US’s robot coyotes slink past at Washington’s biannual Big Beautiful Ballistic Parade.

Warning, irony overload ahead ...

Setting that fun aside, consider this closing Ughmann sample, all the more wondrous because at one point he was a seminarian in a religious institution which has denied, mocked, berated, cabin'd, cribb'd and confined women for centuries...

...Institutional betrayal of women
Parliament left this door ajar but the commissioner’s reasoning is as scrambled as its priorities. It ignores the common understanding of words, leaps across logic, and concludes that law can remake biology. That is like parliament declaring gravity does not exist. You can write it into a statute, but the apple still falls from the tree.
The terrifying thing in this is it takes a highly intelligent person to make an argument so reckless. Only an academic or a lawyer could do it. Only a court, a campus, or an inner-city dinner party could entertain the argument that the ­ordinary meaning of male and ­female is meaningless. It would not pass the pub test anywhere west of Chippendale.
The Sex Discrimination Act itself recognises that women sometimes need protections that are single-sex. Section 32 permits single-sex services where the nature of the service requires it, and section 42 expressly allows exclusion in competitive sporting activities where strength, stamina or physique are relevant. So, the act was written with the clear understanding that biology matters, and that there are circumstances in which women need spaces and protections of their own.
In dissolving the boundary between sex and gender, the commissioner is engaging in institutional betrayal. The office created to defend women now seeks to erase them. If the word “female” can be colonised by biological males, the law cannot protect women as women and every protection won over generations collapses. Even the experience of pregnancy and childbirth will be claimed by those who can never endure it. In the end, women lose not only their rights but their recognition. They will be pushed into a legal limbo, where their very existence as a class is denied.
The most insidious part of the commissioner’s argument is that it acts to silence women who dare to dissent. Women’s organisations already face orchestrated pressure to change their language and practice to accommodate aggressive activists. If sex is stripped of its biological anchor in law, on what grounds could any male who declares himself female be denied entry to real or virtual single-sex spaces?
Does the commissioner truly believe that in a world where any man can change gender by nomination alone, predatory men will not exploit that licence to prey on women?
The erasure of sex is just one skirmish in the war on reason waged by identity politics. It is an ideology aimed at dissolving the foundations of meaning, built on the belief that all human relationships are exercises in power. Confusion is the objective. When the meaning of basic terms is unmoored, power flows to those who dictate the new definitions.
The commissioner seems determined to etch a dangerous precedent into law. Its staff may feel on the right side of history, but they are morally adrift. They are defending a lie – and no law or court can make it true.

That's as much as the pond could bare to quote, let alone dress up the garbage with images, and try to take the unreformed seminarian seriously.

The pond has no room for this sort of fundamentalism and bigotry, but for those who want to sample it, the pond has a special room in the archive for the Ughmann's column, free to any correspondent...

Australia’s transgender debate is creating a dangerous precedent,Like trying to measure temperature with a ruler, it takes a terrifyingly intelligent person to make an argument this reckless. (Yes, it's slow, yes it drops out, but no complaints about the price please)

Bigots gotta do what bigots do, but the pond doesn't have to bigot with them.

As a hoot, the pond refers the Ughmann to The Kybalion, a not so ancient source of alleged wisdom sounding very much like Jung ... (in full pdf here, the wiki about the book here. The pond's excuse? It found a copy of the centenary edition of the 1908 release in a street library)

VII. The Principle of Gender.
“Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine
Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”—The Kybalion.

Oh heck, in for a TG penny, in for a gender fluid pound ...

This Principle embodies the truth that there is gender manifested in everything—the Masculine and Feminine Principles ever at work. This is true not only of the Physical Plane, but of the Mental and even the Spiritual Planes. On the  Physical Plane, the Principle manifests as sex, on the higher planes it takes higher forms, but the Principle is ever the same. No creation, physical, mental or spiritual, is possible without this Principle. An understanding of its laws will throw light on many a subject that has perplexed the minds of men. The Principle of Gender works ever in the direction of generation, regeneration, and creation. Everything, and every person, contains the two Elements or Principles, or this great Principle, within it, him or her. Every Male thing has the Female Element also; every Female contains also the Male Principle. If you would understand the philosophy of Mental and Spiritual Creation, Generation, and Re‑generation, you must understand and study this Hermetic Principle. It contains the solution of many mysteries of Life. We caution you that this Principle has no reference to the many base, pernicious and degrading lustful theories, teachings and practices, which are taught under fanciful titles, and which are a prostitution of the great natural principle of Gender. Such base revivals of the ancient infamous forms of Phallicism tend to ruin mind, body and soul, and the Hermetic Philosophy has ever sounded the warning note against these degraded teachings which tend toward lust, licentiousness, and perversion of Nature’s principles. If you seek such teachings, you must go elsewhere for them—Hermeticism contains nothing for you along these lines. To the pure, all things are pure; to the base, all things are base.

Make of that what you will, gender bend as you like, gender stretch if you will, but to add a coda, to the reptile bigot, to the impure former seminarian, all minorities, the different and the other, all things are targets for base bigotry, all the more ignoble when dressed up as an excuse for pretending to care about womyn when really an excuse to demonise the other and the different.

Moving quickly along, as usual for the pond's Sunday meditation, Polonius is always first out of the gate with his prattle ...

The header: How Andrews and Carr became Xi’s useful idiots, Dan Andrews and Bob Carr are not idiots. Quite the contrary. That is one reason Andrews and Carr, intentionally or otherwise, contributed to President Xi’s big day out.

The caption: That image this week of Chinese President Xi Jinping, wife Peng Liyuan, glad-handing former Victorian Labor premier Dan Andrews as he arrives for the Victory Day parade. ‘It seems that Andrews has illusions about his political importance.’ Picture: supplied

Lay on McPolonius ...

The term “useful idiot” is frequently attributed to the Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin who became the first totalitarian dictator of the ­Soviet Union. I have never been able to source this quote and it does not appear in Lenin’s written work. However, it’s possible that he said this in private company since it was not likely that he would want useful idiots to know about what he thought of them.

Dearie me, the pond realises that googling has now been overtaken by the evil empire's wayward use of AI, but all the same, it's not hard to find some help ... ‘useful idiot’: meaning and origin

To quote:

And again ...

That's the great thing about reading useless idiots with bees buzzing in the hive mind - such as Polonius: you can wander off the tracks at the drop of a hat, have fun with useful idiots, and have trouble returning to the musings of said useless idiot ...

I am not of the view that Dan Andrews (the former Labor Party premier of Victoria) and Bob Carr (the former Labor Party premier of NSW) are idiots. Quite the contrary. But they are particularly useful to China’s President Xi Jinping due to their participation in what China’s State Council Information Office called China’s V-Day commemorations.
Of the Australian duo, Carr would probably have been Xi’s most welcome guest due to his previous role as Australia’s minister for foreign affairs. But Andrews is also significant since he – among all Australian political leaders at the time – was the only one to embrace Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Really? They're both well past their 'use by' date, featherless chooks joining a long parade of other politicians turned fowl, and the pond suspects that Polonius is pumping them up for his own purposes.

Cue a snap to reinforce the conspiracy ... Ahead of the 2025 China Development Forum in March, which included global corporate CEOs, Daniel Andrews sat down with China Global Television Network's Cui Yingjie in Beijing. Source: CGTN

Now on with elevating comrade Dan ...

He did so in Beijing in October 2019 when he used the occasion to criticise Australia’s prime minister Scott Morrison. As I wrote in these pages on October 26, 2019, “it’s impossible to imagine a provincial leader of the Communist Party of China criticising President Xi Jinping’s foreign policy while on an ­official visit to, say, Canberra”.
It would appear that circa 2019 Andrews believed that the state of Victoria could run its own foreign policy. He was soon disabused of this view when Morrison intervened in December 2020 and any Australian role in the BRI was ­junked.

Quick, an AV distraction showing the famous comrade Dan smirk ...Former Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has defended his controversial trip to Beijing, following criticism over his attendance at China’s national military parade. In a statement, Mr Andrews said it is in Australia’s “national interest” to have a “constructive” relationship with China. The former Victorian premier also reaffirmed his position on the war in Ukraine, saying he has condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and his “illegal war”.

The tell? It seems that Polonius has illusions about the importance of comrade Dan and comrade Bob - why else would he spend so much time belabouring them? - and yet he tries to get out of his self-imposed jail by attributing that illusion to them...

It seems that Andrews has illusions about his political importance. How else to explain his lining up in China’s Tiananmen Square on Wednesday to meet President Xi and his wife Peng Liyuan. Andrews soon took to the rear as Xi led the party – accompanied in the front row by Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
Included in the procession was Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. What a quartet. Three communist dictators and one head of a brutal theocracy which punishes women for defying the dress code. Plus one Western politician.

One Western politician? Who would that be? Didn't comrade Dan retire from politics, ditto comrade Bob? 

To out-pedant the pedant, did he mean "Plus one former Western politician"? And was there only one former one? 

And so on.

The pond supposes you can take the Godard/Wenders view that everything is political, and so we're all political until the cows come home ...

...but one of the joys of voting is that sooner or later every politician loses their tail feathers, and wanders like the narcissist onion muncher through the wasteland of Substack seeking relevance...

Another distraction, Bob Carr, as foreign affairs minister and second from right, with then prime minister Julia Gillard and then trade minister Craig Emerson and President Xi Jinping. Picture: Luke Marsden

Polonius moved on to a history lesson, in a vain attempt to prove he was more than a match for our Henry, but managing to remind the pond that he was peerless only in his taste for pedantry ...

On August 20, Carr wrote an opinion piece in Nine News­papers titled “A commemoration in Beijing I will be honoured to attend”. His column commenced: “When Australian radios heard of China’s victory over Japan in 1945, they knew this was the victory of an ally. World War II had started with the Rape of Nanjing in 1937 and the Chinese lost 20 million people resisting the invasion.”
In fact, Australia’s Victory in the Pacific or VP Day is celebrated on August 15. It is also called Victory over Japan (VJ) Day. Sure, Australians would have been pleased to know that China had prevailed over Japan. But, to Australians, the Pacific War ended with Japan’s informal surrender on August 15 – not long after the United States dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima and then, Nagasaki.
The formal surrender to the US took place on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.
It is appropriate to commemorate the end of the China-Japan war. But the Communist Party of China had little to do with it.
As Miles Yu wrote in these pages on September 2, “from 1937 to 1945, it was the Nationalist ­government, under Chiang Kai-shek, that bore the brunt of Japan’s military assault”.
He pointed out that Chinese “Nationalist forces, not the Chinese communists, fought nearly every major battle”. While the CCP under the leadership of Mao Zedong was “holed up in its Yan’an stronghold” and “sustained minuscule losses”. China’s Nationalist Party was sometimes referred to as the Kuo-Min Tang.
The Soviet Union, from which Russia emerged in 1991, took virtually no active part in the Pacific War. Between August 1939 and June 1941, Stalin’s Soviet Union was an ally of Nazi Germany under what was termed the Nazi Soviet Pact. On April 13, 1941 the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact was entered into under which the Soviet Union effectively protected Japan. The Soviet Union did not declare war on Japan until August 5, 1945 – just weeks before the conflict ended.

Cue another distracting snap, Former foreign minister Bob Carr has defended his presence in Beijing for China’s military parade, even though he didn’t attend it. Speaking to the ABC, Mr Carr said his visit to Beijing is to recognise the commemoration itself. He added that his visit is not an endorsement of China’s military show of force.

Time to wrap up the history lesson ...

So there you have it. The communist leader Xi and his communist friend Putin led the commemorations in Beijing. This despite the fact that their predecessors, Mao and Stalin, played little role in the defeat of Japan. As to Korea – it was occupied by Japan from 1931 to 1945. However, the non-communist Korean provisional government, based in China, committed forces to the war against Japan.
It was the US which defeated Imperial Japan – with the help of its allies, including Australia. But the US was not at the V-Day commemorations in China, and Australia did not send its ambassador. Andrews and Carr were invited by Chinese officials in Australia.

There was a final AV distraction, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the world was facing a choice between peace or war at a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday (September 3), flanked by Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un in an unprecedented show of force. Gabe Singer reports.

Amazingly Polonius held his tongue when reporting on his viewing of the perfidious cardigan wearers...

Interviewed on ABC 7.30 on Wednesday, Carr said that he “wasn’t there for the (military) parade” but for “the commemoration of China’s enormously historically significant victory over the Japanese aggressor” and for some “terrific meetings” which were arranged for him by the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
Maybe. In which case Carr is somewhat naive. Sally Sara interviewed Chatham House senior research fellow Yu Jie on September 4. Sara asked Yu “what message is Beijing trying to send internationally with such a large military display”? Yu replied that China’s “very clear message (is) basically to deter America’s allies in the region” and to demonstrate how the “world order should be ­organised”.
Namely that “it should largely be multi-polar but led by China with a diminishing leadership role for the West”.

A final snap, featuring the recalcitrant, Bob Carr in Beijing this week. Picture: X

And then it was a wrap, and hopefully the end of the reptile jihad about that parade.

Polonius always tends to come late to these jihads and perhaps this was the swan song for comrade Dan, though no doubt the cries for war with China no later than Xmas will continue unabated...
Intentionally or otherwise, Andrews and Carr contributed to President Xi’s big day out. Particularly Andrews who posed for a school class, or sporting group, photo and shook hands with Xi. But Carr contributed as well because he gave intellectual weight to the occasion.
I was critical of Donald Trump’s decision to welcome Putin to the US state of Alaska with a clap and red carpet. But Trump is unpredictable and not an advocate for contemporary China. Unlike Andrews and Carr, he is not necessarily useful to the CCP.
Gerard Henderson is executive director of the Sydney Institute.

As an aside, Polonius provided a link under the words "not an advocate".

As always happens, such links only keep readers deep in the hive mind ... and so any innocent clicking landed on that lesser member of the Kelly gang, Joe ...

The pond only offers it as an example of how it's possible to get stuck in the hive mind...

For those who love the archive:

Beijing bias: Donald Trump confronts while Anthony Albanese embraces
Anthony Albanese and Donald Trump have adopted competing approaches to the management of relations with Beijing, and there are key warning signs it could strain the alliance relationship.

It's meaningless of course. 

The real mood was one of exclusion, a sense of missing all the fun, and a resulting sorrowful sigh, a bitterness and resentment at the way the mean girls had exiled King Donald, when he knew what passed for a heart that he was the smartest and prettiest king in all the world, an ugly duckling waiting to blossom ...

While the pond's in the mood for catching up with the infallible Pope...

And here, have another 'toon, it will set the mood for the dog bothering that follows ...

But first to a matter of some importance. 

Some correspondents have drawn attention to the ongoing absence of garrulous Gemma from these pages.

It's not malicious, it's not malign, it's just pressure of volume. So many reptiles clamouring for attention, so little time.

Sure the pond could spend time with her...

Let her help out? The pond needs no help breaking dishes.

But for anyone who wants more, and heads off to the archive, what they'll find is that garrulous Gemma helps out with a word salad ...

...Immigration, like so many other issues, has been politically weaponised. It’s an easy way to shut something down – call someone a racist or a Nazi or a terrorist. This I believe is reflected in the simmering sense of resentment that at least, in part, prompted hundreds of thousands of Australians to take to the streets last weekend. 

Stop right there. The wiki on the topic proposed a total of of c. 52,400, citing sources.

Why the exaggeration? Because she's a useless doofus, not worth the space, blathering on about her "experience" in manure-feeding ...

It’s my experience in 30 years working in and around media and corporate affairs, that either in a large or a small scale, a response like that comes from a sense of disenfranchisement. Or put more simply, when people are given the mushroom treatment. You know, kept in the dark and fed manure.
The Prime Minister, in a sort of backhanded way, acknowledged that this week. Speaking about the “March for Australia” events that took place across the nation, he quite rightly and sensibly pointed out that not everyone who expresses a concern about immigration is an extremist. I would argue that most people who express concern about immigration don’t fall into that category.
Hard conversations are important, no, necessary, and this conversation is about as hard as it gets, electorally at least. But it doesn’t need to be. It just takes strong leadership and a commitment to transparency. Will we get that? Another great question.

Alright, way more than enough already! 

Why should the pond bother? Another not so great question ...

If the pond wants to dwell on invasive alien Krytonians, it doesn't want grate questions, it wants grating, outright bigotry ...

And so to the bonus, and such is the pond's masochism, there must always be a bonus, even if it's the dog botherer, indulging in the usual reptile litany, a goodly amount of devotion to neo-Nazis assaulting alien Kryptonians, a spicy bit of climate science denialism, a devotion to mass starvation, genocide and ethnic cleansing, and of course endless ABC bashing, though to be fair, the cardigan wearers do their very best to take on all the reptile talking points in their coverage, such that on occasions when visiting News24, the pond thinks it's stumbled on Sky Noise down under ...

The header: How the ABC’s one-sided reports add up to a false narrative, The ABC framed anti-immigration protests around the extremist minority, but took the opposite approach to its coverage of the Sydney Harbour Bridge protest.

The caption: It is now almost 15 years since I wrote in these pages about how our media was so consumed by false narratives that they could not see the reality beneath their noses. The trigger then was how almost all the Canberra press gallery (this newspaper’s Dennis Shanahan was the standout exception) had missed the looming leadership crisis that saw Julia Gillard seize the prime ministership from Kevin Rudd.

Strange, it's usually Polonius who spends his time bagging the cardigan wearers, but the pond supposes that the reptiles can tag team in the style of minor wrestlers trying out for a spot in a minor league so they can make it into a show like The Iron Claw ...

Political bias, the disconnect of journalists from their audiences, and the rise of digital media were all playing a role, I argued, leading to the public being misinformed by the very people paid to keep them up to date. Instead of seeing a prime ministership falling apart, they were reporting Rudd’s skewed version of reality.
The bad news is that the situation has become increasingly dire.
False narratives have become so common and dominant that they are doing serious damage to our national project and global affairs. To consume much of our media, especially our taxpayer-funded versions, is to enter a fantasy world where reality is curated to suit an ideological perspective rather than the facts.
There are many examples. Perhaps few are as stark as the contrasting coverage of political protests last weekend and last month.
The national broadcaster’s coverage of the weekend’s anti-immigration protests focused on extremists and neo-Nazis. There was necessary reporting of violence in Melbourne as two groups of protesters clashed, but broader coverage of marches around the country created false impressions.

What did the pond say, bigots gotta bigot, and dress it up so it seems mainstream, Protesters attend the March 4 Australia anti-immigration rally in Sydney last weekend.

Well of course the reptiles were going to prefer 'harmless' flag waving over this sort of image featured in toad land...

The dog botherer ploughed on ...

Sunday night’s ABC report showed a protester unconcerned by the threat of violence (“if it happens, it happens”) and told us that among the crowd were “well known neo-Nazis”. The report also focused on who was behind the protest: “Despite denying its involvement in organising the march, National Socialist Network members were prominent, a neo-Nazi leader bestowed the honour of being the final keynote speaker.”
The vision overwhelmingly featured extremists and, despite no violence occurring in other cities, the reporter said “around the country similar scenes unfolded” as she referenced Sydney where “members of a neo-Nazi group were also among the speakers there” and Adelaide where “neo-Nazis attempted to take control despite a mic being cut”. Clearly, extremists tried to hijack these protests – they succeeded in hijacking the ABC’s coverage.

There is some relief. The reptiles always insist on offering double bunger dog bothering, but a screen cap always mutes the noise: Sky News host Chris Kenny discusses how neo-Nazis hijacked the debate over Australia’s immigration crisis and analyses the protest coverage bias of the ABC. “I’ve got no appetite at all for this sort of stuff; sickening neo-Nazis and racists ought to be exposed at every turn,” Mr Kenny said. “But we do need to have a thorough debate about our immigration policies, of course, because they are out of control.”

Why was the pond reminded of the keen Keane in Crikey?

Labor, the Coalition, the media — there’s plenty of blame to go around on migration. But it’s the right trying to normalise hate
In Australia’s migration debate, there are few players with clean hands. But one group has particularly malignant intentions, and Trump has shown them a path forward.(*archive link)

Well yes, but back to the dog botherer doing his very own Black Knight impression ...

In Channel 9’s coverage, experienced reporter Mark Burrows shared telling insights that put the lie to the ABC’s false narrative. He interviewed mainstream protesters sharing concerns about record immigration intakes.
Burrows duly reported the openly racist, neo-Nazis claiming pride of place at the front of the march, but he conveyed context. “The front of the march might have presented one picture but the bulk of those marching today,” reported Burrows, “appeared to be anything but extremists.”
Chalk and cheese – Nine covered reality, the ABC framed the protests around the extremist minority, presumably to discredit the motives of all those who marched. The ABC has long tried to equate legitimate concerns about immigration rates and border protection with xenophobia or racism.
Yet, just last month, when up 100,000 people marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest against Israel in support of Palestinian statehood, the ABC took the opposite approach in its coverage. It censored out the extremist elements and portrayed the event as entirely wholesome.
“Despite the rain, they had come from all over Sydney and beyond,” said the reporter before showing clips of mainstream Australians expressing reasonable concerns, as well as highlighting popular green-left figureheads such as former foreign minister Bob Carr, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Republican Movement chair Craig Foster. It talked about the message this protest would take to the world.

You march with bigots, don't whine if you get tarnished by association with bigotry, as the reptiles tried on their both siderist routine, with a marching snap, Julian Assange, centre, joins thousands to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of Palestine in Sydney on Sunday, August 3. Picture: Nikki Short

It was the perfect excuse for the dog botherer to gloss over, in the usual way, all the ethnic cleansing and mass starvation going down ...

The report was telling for what it did not show. The ABC coverage failed to show protesters with their faces covered by Arabic scarves waving the flags of terrorist organisations. It did not show the poster of The Supreme Leader of Iran and sponsor of global terrorism, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, paraded above the heads of leading figures including Carr and federal Labor MP Ed Husic.
The ABC did not show people chanting “death, death to the IDF” and nor did it show Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun who was there claiming to be marching “for humanity”. Dadoun is the same Sydney Muslim cleric who led a crowd of people in a public celebration of the atrocities of October 7th at Lakemba the day after the carnage in 2023 – while Israel was still retrieving bodies and trying to work out how many people had been taken hostage, he proclaimed it as a day of “pride” that was “the day we have been waiting for”.

Cue a snap of the devil, Sydney Harbour Bridge organiser Josh Lees. Picture: Getty

For some reason, all the pond could think of was that story in Haaretz (*archive link):

Of course you won't find any of that mentioned by a barking mad far right, deeply extremist fundamentalist of the dog bothering kind ...

The ABC also failed to include the event organiser in its coverage. Josh Lees is a member of the Marxist organisation Socialist Alternative, and is an avowed “revolutionary” who writes for the Red Flag website, and before becoming a prime mover in the Palestinian Action Group was active in protests over border protection, climate change and Black Lives Matter.
None of these extreme elements made it into the ABC’s coverage. Instead, it portrayed the protest as mainstream.
This was a false narrative about a march that included extreme Islamist elements, called for “death to the IDF” and lauded terrorist groups and leaders. It partly explains why the Prime Minister was able to refer to the protest as “peaceful”.
This media manipulation can have an impact. Just days later Anthony Albanese announced he would formally recognise the non-existent state of Palestine.

And then that double bunger offering came again, though for all the pond knows it might have been another damp squib... Sky News host Chris Kenny slams Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for being too quick to demonise the anti-immigration protests. “The government was quick to demonise the anti-immigration protests held around the country on Sunday,” Mr Kenny said. “Anthony Albanese tarred all the protesters with the extremists and the neo-Nazis who tried to hijack those protests.”

Sure, sure, sure, just don't mention the war or the warriors dressed in black ...

Enough already, it's time for the usual litany ...

The ABC was complicit for decades in creating a false narrative around border protection. It relentlessly attacked the Pacific Solution and offshore processing at Nauru, reporting unproven claims of abuse, self-harm and mistreatment.
Albanese bought into this narrative at the time, telling parliament in 2006 that the policy was designed “to promote fear, to promote hatred and to vilify” asylum seekers. He likened the “persecution” of asylum seekers in the “prison camp on Nauru” to the abuse of people under Saddam Hussain in Iraq or the Taliban in Iran.
Yet this week Albanese has done a deal to send criminal non-citizens who can no longer be detained to Nauru. The Prime Minister should apologise for smearing his country for all those years and the ABC should correct decades of jaundiced reporting against detention on Nauru – we will get neither, of course.

Where would a dog botherer litany be without a little climate science denialism?

On global warming and energy, the ABC is three decades into a false narrative that catastrophises weather and natural disasters as “climate change events” and relentlessly promotes renewable energy as cheap and reliable despite all the evidence. Its ideological and political motivation is betrayed by the fact that even with its climate alarmist approach, the ABC rejects the logical solution of nuclear energy.

Only a soupçon mind, must make sure it doesn't interrupt the general whine in favour of genocide too much ...

When the media runs false narratives it is failing in its ethical duty to be honest and it is abandoning intellectual integrity. This can lead our politicians towards poor decisions.
The anti-Israel narrative is the dominant example of the moment. Despite repeatedly being caught out running falsehoods propagated by Hamas propaganda operatives, much of the Western world’s media, including our ABC, continues to run with the Hamas lines.
They have reported a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket into a hospital car park that killed about 20 people as an Israeli missile strike on a hospital that killed 500. They have reported an accidental targeting of an aid vehicle (Hamas terrorists have used aid vehicles and ambulances for cover) as a deliberate attack on aid workers.
They breathlessly reported wildly implausible claims that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours without additional aid deliveries. They showed a photo of a child suffering cerebral palsy as evidence of starvation, cropping out of the picture the child’s healthy and well-fed brother. And they showed pictures of apparently desperate and starving children clamouring for food when subsequent photos showed the event had been staged.
Yet still they go on. Just this week the ABC ran with claims from a group calling themselves the International Association of Genocide Scholars that Israel was conducting genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. What is never explained in this sort of coverage is how this must be the most unsuccessful genocide in the history of humankind given the Palestinian population continues to grow faster than the broader Israeli population – not to mention how 23 months of intensive warfare using the most sophisticated and powerful of weapons in a densely populated area has killed less than 70,000 people, on the highest available estimates.

Ah, the great replacement theory given a new angle ...

And yet ...the cleansing proceeds apace (*archive link)

And so to a last disreputable whine...

As Hamas propaganda would have it, and as is echoed often in Western countries, apparently none of these casualties were terrorists – they are all civilians. This is a grotesquely absurd scenario. If not for the food, water, power and medical supplies facilitated by Israel over the past two years, there would not be anybody alive in Gaza.
Yet the narrative fed to the public by much of the media is the opposite of this reality.
And in the digital age, the falsehoods are amplified to the masses, especially the young, by shallow social media.
It is a depressing situation; when we have access to more information than ever before, society is being dumbed down.
The truth will win out eventually, but so much damage occurs along the way.

The truth will out? 

The chances of it ever being outed in the lizard Oz hive mind is between zero and nil, and in the meantime, much damage occurs along the way to fragile minds who enter the hive without a warning about the barking mad, fundamentalist, denialist, killer bees ...

And so to end with an AV distraction and a few celebratory 'toons, featuring matters that never feature in the hive mind...