Before getting underway this weekend, please allow the pond to note some vital information provided by the keen Keane in Crikey yesterday under the header Grand Theft Australia? Foreigner News Corp pays no tax, but has the hide to complain about stealing, News Corp’s Michael Miller is complaining about theft by AI. That’s rich coming from a foreign company that pays no tax in Australia and undermines our social cohesion. (Give 'em a hit, though just in case, archive link).
This is the way that the keen Keane started off ...
“We are arguably being asked to surrender our stories, our voice, our culture, our identity, and ultimately, our Australianness,” News Corp Australasia executive chairman Michael Miller warned this week about AI. “If it was a video game, it would be called Grand Theft Australia.”
Quite why Miller thinks he can talk about Australianness is a mystery for the ages. He is employed by an American company, owned and controlled by the Murdoch family, and in particular the American Rupert Murdoch and the dual American-Australian Lachlan Murdoch, who was born in the UK. News Corp isn’t even in a strong position to talk about things like culture and stories: in terms of revenue and profits, News Corp is, in Australia, primarily a digital real estate business — via its 61% share of noted pricegouger realestate.com.au — with some poorly performing newspaper assets and the pay-TV channel Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft tacked on.
As with Fox Corp, the larger and far more successful US media company also controlled by the Murdochs, the business model of those newspaper assets and pay TV channels is to foster division and incite resentment and rage among its older white audiences.
The credentials of anyone from a foreign company that has a business model of promoting division to talk about Australian culture seem akin to those of a cane toad offering tips for management of native fauna.
If Miller is truly upset about what he claims is “grand theft” in Australia, wait until he sees his own company’s record of paying taxes here. “Grand” doesn’t begin to describe the amount of tax that News Corp has failed to pay in Australia. Here’s the company’s record since 2014:
And this is the data:
There's more at the link, on a topic that never gets old, and please note that data, because there'll be questions in the pond's Play Hard herpetology exam at the end of the year (though students might pass by scribbling furiously about the war on Xmas, or better yet, join the Ughmann in the war on China...)
One of the reasons the pond took that elaborate detour was the predictability of the offerings this weekend in the Daily Zionist...
Josh returned out of the blue to offer an EXCLUSIVE...
‘Offensive’ Middle East victory lap a credit risk: Frydenberg
Former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has accused the Albanese government of ‘taking a victory lap over someone else’s finish line’ by arguing Palestinian recognition by Australia and other nations aided Donald Trump.
By Sarah Ison, Ben Packham and Joe Kelly
It took three whole reptiles to re-write Josh's EXCLUSIVE opinion piece and make it a top news item EXCLUSIVE? Indeed it did ...
And Mattie boy is proving a real stayer in his climate jihad ...
Treasury shocker: ex-chief’s blast on tax, spending, climate numbers
Former Treasury secretary John Fraser has criticised the Albanese government’s big tax, spending and climate policies.
By Matthew Cranston
Consider the pond shocked to the core, so shocked it sent Mattie off to the archive cornfield...
The pond took the opportunity to kick another headliner straight to the archive ...
‘Australian politics’ #MeToo moment turned into a #MeOnly soap opera,’ says Anna Hough. Her $120,000 commonwealth settlement over alleged sexual assault and workplace mistreatment is starkly different to Brittany Higgins’s $2.4m. For a start it’s 20 times less.
By Janet Albrechtsen
Columnist
She'll never let go the Lehrmann matter, but it's surprisingly easy for the pond to walk on by ... is there something in the water that makes Liberal party followers into extreme bitches? Only the archive cornfield knows.
And why not disappear Dame Slap?
Given the way the reptiles sent the news of the new Nobel peace prize winner to their own "disappearing" hive mind graveyard, it's only fair...
Over on the extreme far right, the reason for Josh's EXCLUSIVE became apparent ...
Penny Wong claiming credit for ending the war in Gaza is wrong, offensive and does not stand up to a second of scrutiny. She is treating Australians as fools.
by Josh Frydenburg
The pond had only one thought. Now that Josh can see how well the lettuce is doing in its race with Susssan, is the grand equivocator getting around to another attempt at a political life?
Does he reckon he's got the lettuce's number? Is one soft, limp lettuce better up to the task of tackling another lettuce, what with Susssan already wilting and browning at the edges?
Both the dog botherer and the bromancer were also harping on similar themes ...
There’s every chance Trump gets phase one completed. There’s little chance he gets phase two. There’s no chance at all that he gets phase three.
By Greg Sheridan
Foreign Editor
Protests have been portrayed as a mainstream movement when they are an affront to human intelligence and decency.
By Chris Kenny
Associate Editor (National Affairs)
And with only so much Zionism the pond can take in a day, that's why the pond ended up with the Ughmann, just for the novelty value ...
The pond's heart sank a little at the opening wretched gif ... which saw the image start with white, and then become flooded in a left to right wipe with a terrifying RED ...
The header: China spy case collapsed over ‘enemy’ semantics, Everything about this story underscores that language matters. But it also reveals something far more disturbing.
The caption for the terrifying uncredited visual gif style action: Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing questions about a criminal case against two alleged Chinese spies that collapsed this week..Picture: iStock/Getty Images.
The pond gave another groan. A good 6 minutes of Ugh time, so the reptiles said, but on the upside, it was all about the war on China, still hopefully by Xmas, and climate science denialism took a back seat:
The men, Christopher Cash, a former parliamentary aide to two Conservative MPs, and his friend Chris Berry were arrested in March 2023 and charged under the Official Secrets Act with passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese agent. Both men deny the accusations.
The act makes it a crime to give documents that might be useful to an enemy. The case ended when prosecutors said they could not proceed because the evidential standard was “no longer met”.
The Times revealed that the trial unravelled after senior Whitehall officials met to discuss it. At that meeting, Jonathan Powell, the Prime Minister’s national security adviser, reportedly said the government’s star witness would have to base his evidence on the latest national security strategy, which stops well short of calling China an enemy state and instead describes it as a “challenge”.
“This meant Matthew Collins, the deputy national security adviser due to give evidence for the prosecution, would be unable to defend the notion that the People’s Republic was an enemy or overtly hostile to UK interests,” The Times reported. “It appears that, in the circumstances, the trial was doomed: the Official Secrets Act specifically requires prosecutors to show a defendant acted for an enemy.”
Simpleton Sharri, full disrespect, was on the case ... Sky News host Sharri Markson discusses the serious allegations of Chinese espionage on Australian shores. “The broader point here is the absurd foreign policy position of this Albanese government,” Ms Markson said. “It freely and frequently criticises Israel and Trump’s America in the harshest of terms yet Chinese security services are alleged to have ordered a Chinese woman spy on a Buddhist group in Canberra and Albanese and Wong are strangely silent.”
Guess simplistic Sharri won't be lining up for an EV in the BYD November launch, as the Ughmann carried on ...
“There was no role for any minister or member of the government in this decision-making process,” the spokesman said. The statement later was extended to include officials.
As a rule of thumb, you should forensically parse every sentence uttered by a government in denial. This statement is a masterclass in misdirection. It notes, correctly but irrelevantly, that governments do not decide who stands trial. What it artfully avoids is that government policy might have created the conditions in which the decision to abandon the prosecution was made.
Clearly the sub-editor started to feel bored, because two very big snaps quickly came along, Christopher Berry outside the Central Criminal Court in London in May 2024. Picture: AP; Former parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash outside the Central Criminal Court in London in May 2024. Picture: AP Photo
Not such a distraction when reduced in size ... on with more talk of those terrifying, inscrutable orientals ..
Then the Prime Minister, a former DPP, pulled on his lawyer’s hat and rolled out an amended excuse, noting that officials could never have provided such evidence because China had not been designated a threat to national security by the previous government, when the alleged spying took place.
Everything about this story underscores that language matters, from how you define a threat to how you read between deliberately blurred lines. But it also reveals something far more disturbing.
China and the West are not even playing the same great game. While Beijing ruthlessly seeks advantage, we argue over adjectives, afraid to name an enemy even as it burrows into our institutions.
In cases such as this we should always ask, “What would Beijing do?” You need not look hard for the answer because The New York Times reported that between 2010 and 2012 China methodically hunted down and destroyed the CIA’s spy network, killing or imprisoning as many as 20 American assets. One reportedly was shot in the courtyard of a government building in front of his colleagues, a warning to anyone tempted to cooperate with the US. The purge was so effective it blinded US intelligence operations in China for years, and to this day there is dispute over whether Beijing achieved it through a mole inside the CIA or by hacking the agency’s covert communications system, or both.
Either way, it was a chilling reminder that the Chinese Communist Party plays for keeps.
Like London, Canberra plays for engagement, believing that is an end in itself. It does not seem to matter what the bully does as long as he keeps talking to us and buying our stuff. So, our foreign policy has multiple personalities. We fear China but crave its money, mock Donald Trump but hide behind America’s guns. And when you seek to disguise your true purpose, you hide in a thicket of bulldust words.
Time for explosive allegations, Former federal police detective superintendent David Craig warns of serious foreign interference as Beijing denies any role in espionage following explosive allegations of Chinese spying on Australian soil. “The AFP… have a criminal case against someone who is spying on a foreign national on behalf of the Chinese government, spying within the Australian borders,” Mr Craig said. “They don’t charge people without any proof… and the alleged actions of this woman are very serious indeed. “This is a disgraceful act.”
That sent the Ughmann right off ...
Defence’s deputy secretary for strategy, Hugh Jeffrey, was clear that the big risk was a confrontation between the US and China.
“The trajectory is becoming more risky, not less risky,” he said.
But, as this paper reported, Jeffrey declined to match language used by the New Zealand government, which warned recently the region faced “the most dangerous environment” since World War II.
“I think we use ‘challenging’, which is the word. ‘The most challenging strategic environment since World War II’,” he said. “But I wouldn’t quibble with the word ‘dangerous’ as opposed to ‘challenging’.”
Which is why it was so refreshing to read a candid public speech delivered to an Australia-Japan business conference by this nation’s most senior intelligence analyst, the director-general of the Office of National Intelligence, Andrew Shearer.
Shearer’s message is familiar and stark: the post-war order that delivered stability and prosperity to nations such as Australia and Japan is breaking down. And he hinted that Beijing was weaponising our timidity.
“Our adversaries are exploiting our preference for restraint and de-escalation and leveraging coercion, cyber attacks, sabotage and disinformation to test us without triggering outright conflict,” Shearer said. “These tactics exploit the openness of our economies, societies and polities, and are very hard for liberal democracies to counter.”
“A broad international coalition of security agencies, including from Australia and Japan, has publicly attributed Salt Typhoon and related intrusions into telecommunications, transportation and energy infrastructure networks to China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army,” Shearer said.
When Shearer mentioned Salt Typhoon, he wasn’t describing a nuisance hack or data theft. He was confirming that Chinese state actors have penetrated the digital control rooms of our societies, the routers, networks and operational systems that keep the lights on, planes flying, ports open and communications alive.
Time for a last snap, Defence’s deputy secretary for strategy, Hugh Jeffrey at an estimates hearing. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
Of course if China stopped buying Australian raw materials, in the same way King Donald has been agitated about rare earths, the reptiles would be outraged, an important part of getting them coming and going ... and so to the last part of the getting ...
This is the cyber-age equivalent of planting bombs on the power grid, transport links and telecommunications backbone – not to detonate now but to ensure they can be switched off when it suits Beijing. These intrusions give China the ability to paralyse civilian infrastructure at will, to blind governments, cripple economies and sow panic before a shot is fired.
Pete Luban, field chief information security officer at California-based cyber-security firm AttackIQ, calls Salt Typhoon an “Avengers-level threat”.
What makes the warning stark is that it came from an international coalition of agencies. When all intelligence agencies go on record, it means the threat is not hypothetical; it is present, proven and already inside the system. Now that sounds more than a little dangerous. Alas, Shearer spoke like a man liberated by the understanding that this government is not about to reappoint an official who speaks truth to power. His term is almost up, we will miss him when he is gone.
We should value the honesty of people such as Shearer because our intelligence chief was not warning about what China could do. He was warning about what it has already done.
Just don’t call it an enemy.
Good on the Ughmann, and his note to Gina to call China the enemy when it comes to selling her iron ore to them will no doubt be much appreciated. Ditto all those lobster and wine and wheat floggers ...
A small complaint.
Why couldn't the reptiles, or even the Ughmann, have focussed on more fun topics?
And so to the bonus, and to the pond's dose of Zionism, served up fresh each day in abundance in the Zionist Daily, and worst of all, in the form of a nattering "Ned" Everest climb ...
The header: Why a truce in Gaza won’t heal the hate at home, The core target for activists isn’t Israel’s tactics. It’s Israel’s existence. The shadow of the Hamas October 7 massacre and Israel’s war in Gaza will long endure in the politics of the West, even after the violence stops.
The caption for the hideous, wisely uncredited collage, so nakedly alarmist it might well have found a home in a 1930s German newspaper, only with a different object of revulsion: Anyone who thought the main protest motive was peace – just think of the good people who marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge – will be disappointed, predicts Paul Kelly.
On the upside, this "Ned" Everest climb was clocked at just 8 minutes, more K2 than Everest, what with "Ned's" weekend rambles often taking up 10-12 minutes, a lifetime wasted ...
"Ned" was in his usual gloomy, Chicken Little, the sky is always falling, mood ...
As the Middle East enters a new phase, the sad legacy in Australia needs to be met with realism and courage.
Cessation of war in Gaza and release of the hostages will surely curb some of the inflamed hostility towards Israel over its military campaign and its killing of innocents.
But it misunderstands anti-Semitism in Australia to think its embedded sources will disappear or be busted.
That won’t happen because the core target for activists is not Israel’s tactics but Israel’s existence.
This difference is foundational.
The shadow of the Hamas October 7, 2023, massacre and Israel’s war in Gaza will long endure in the politics of the West after the violence stops.
The Palestinian cause over the past two years has become an ideological priority in Western nations including Australia – seared into progressive politics – in an alarming, long-term trend.
This week was dominated by campaigns for protests by pro-Palestinian activists simultaneous with the expected ending of the war off Donald Trump’s remarkable initiative.
What, pray, were the Australian protests about, given the ceasefire, hostage releases and aid flows?
Anyone who thought the main protest motive was peace – just think of the good people who marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge – would be disabused.
The reptiles interrupted with a snap designed to alarm, a national icon desecrated, Protesters march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip, in Sydney on August 3, 2025. Picture: AFP
"Ned" took the cue...
It was heartening to see Jewish MPs, the Liberal Party’s Julian Leeser and Labor’s Josh Burns, share the McKinnon Prize for Political Leadership.
Yet Leeser warned Australia faced a domestic crisis “that I sadly don’t think will abate even if there is a peace deal”.
Burns earlier in the week lashed Greens leader Larissa Waters for her appalling comments on the ABC when, asked about anti-Semitism, she kept complaining that Labor wasn’t tough enough on Israel, with Burns saying he found her comments “staggering” – the implication being Jews were legitimate targets because of Israeli government actions.
Then came an image suggesting that a little ethnic cleansing and genocide shouldn't ruin cross party friendships, Jewish MPs Julian Leeser and Josh Burns at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman
Back to "Ned", still shocked ...
Two domestic flashpoints highlight this story. On Tuesday night, the two-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre by Hamas, and despite bipartisan urgings by political leaders to respect the day, the Stand4Palestine protest group held a rally to celebrate the murderous event under the banner “Glory to Our Martyrs” at Bankstown’s Paul Keating Park in Sydney.
I attended this event as a journalist. It was a fusion of religious belief and aggressive ideology. The speakers had no interest in any agreement involving Hamas to end the Gaza war. Indeed, President Trump’s peace plan was mocked and attacked. While our leaders have denounced the atrocities of Hamas, this event celebrated Hamas.
With a peaceful crowd estimated at 300 to 400, the speeches and atmospherics had two essential meanings – the illegitimacy of Israel as an occupying power in the Middle East and the justification of all means to wage resistance.
Resistance is cast as a religious mission. To a large extent this is inspired as a religious war, as was the October 7 massacre.
It is misleading to think that all Muslims and all protesters think this way. Obviously, most don’t.
But the reality of political causes is that the core activists drive the campaigns and increasingly set the agendas.
The banner promoting the event read: “Confronting Two Years of Genocide – Honouring Two Years of Resistance”.
The protest, in effect, was a religious justification for the murder of Jews and the justification for more murders in the celebration of martyrdom.
Unsurprisingly, Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun, who said after the initial attack two years ago that he was “smiling” and “elated”, told the rally: “The Zionists themselves know the resistance is justified.” Warming to his theme he said: “Zionism is at an end, it’s going to die.” In short, Israel will die as a state.
He was explicit saying that “resistance is justified” including “in all its forms” while ever Palestine was occupied. He likened Zionist organisations to “the Nazi regime that came before us”.
Israel was variously denounced by speakers as a “homicidal, genocidal” state, an “ethno, nationalist, supremist” state.
Um, has "Ned" seen anything at all of what's been happening these past few years?
Probably not, probably just stayed inside the hive mind, cowering in fear and fright, Bilal Merhi speaks during the United Community Protest for Gaza held at Paul Keating Park in Bankstown on Tuesday night Picture: Jonathan Ng
Carry on "Nedding"...
This mirrors a central theme of the past two years: anti-Zionism has blended into anti-Semitism. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is now a universal chant, and while many protesters seem unsure of what it means, many are sure – the elimination of Israel as a state and Jewish homeland.
Um, must the pond keep noting that other chant, "From the river to the sea, and Gaza will be a great new Riviera, a great place for settlers to expand from their always expanding West Bank settlements" ...
Never mind, on with the smearing ...
While many Muslim groups declined to support this event, Stand4Palestine is linked to the radical Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. Zionist Federation of Australia president Jeremy Leibler said the protest should not be allowed. He said: “Speakers have openly supported Hamas, publicly praised the October 7 massacre and called for sharia law to replace democracy in Australia.”
Time for another visual interruption, Some of the crows at the United Community Protest for Gaza in Bankstown. Picture: Jonathan Ng
The pond enlarged that caption to look for the crows.
Did the pond read that caption right? It did, it did ...
Some of the crows at the United Community Protest for Gaza in Bankstown. Picture: Jonathan Ng
The pond supposes that they could have been called bats or ravens, so that caption's something of a relief ...
Yet their appeals and the Stand4Palestine reaction belong to completely separate worlds.
The fundamentalist Muslim groups that Australia has nurtured now operate to a significant extent in a separate political zone with different values to the Australian norm.
Such differences are now supercharged by the recent conflict: they constitute one group of Australians locked into permanent and dangerous conflict with another group of Australians.
Appeals by politicians based on secular rationalism don’t work.
They don’t even register.
Any such growing religious-based anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism would be an unacceptable outcome for Australia.
The truth is our political leaders don’t know how to manage this.
The second event was the failed effort by the pro-Palestinian movement to secure a large-scale demonstration in the Sydney Opera House forecourt on Sunday night after the NSW Supreme Court rejected on Thursday the bid by the Palestinian Action Group on the grounds of a “public safety risk”.
The court did not address the politics of the issue. But its decision was convincing and a reversal of the approval given in August for the Harbour Bridge demonstration. This decision has saved Australia from the domestic and global ignominy of having the nation’s architectural icon hijacked for a second time in the cause of a heavily slanted anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic display of hostility by one group of Australians against another group, a violation of every sense of multiculturalism.
After their judicial defeat, organisers from the Palestine Action Group were explicit: they wanted the Opera House for political purposes, to maximise their message and symbolism.
They wanted to send a message to the world depicting Australia as a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli nation. The impact on the same weekend that Trump’s peace initiative was coming to fruition would have been damaging for Australia’s domestic unity and global standing. Organisers attacked Israel as “an apartheid regime that has been suppressing Palestinians since 1947”.
The proposal by the organisers was reckless in terms of public safety and social cohesion. It was strongly opposed by the NSW Premier, who applauded the court’s decision. The court has not stopped a protest.
But by making clear that protesters going to the Opera House would be in contempt of court, it effectively prevented a demonstration at that location. The organisers intend instead to march on Sunday from Hyde Park to Belmore Park.
Time for another terrifying image, Josh Lees and Amal Naser from the Palestinian Action Group celebrate after The Federal Court approved the March for Humanity walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge earlier this year. They were denied permission for another protest at the Opera House this week. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper
Back to "Ned", determined to ignore the ethnic cleansing ...
Alex Ryvchin from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said the pro-Palestinian activists were determined to keep going despite the ending of the war in Gaza.
“They claim to be peace activists, but there’re war activists,” he told Sky News. They would have no impact whatsoever on events in the Middle East but they would damage social cohesion in Australia. He warned that two years of “relentless incitement” against the Jewish community would not be easily undone.
The hypocrisy and false moralism of much of the protest movement is described in an article in The Free Press (republished in these pages) by Gaza native and founder and director of Realign For Palestine, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib.
The author wrote: “Strangely, however, activists and organisations formerly insistent on an immediate ceasefire suddenly appear quite opposed to ending the war in Gaza if it is based on the US proposal, which they have denounced as a colonial attempt to continue the genocide, even though the plan literally stops the actual war …
“I have watched the devolution of the pro-Palestine narrative into widespread adoption of Hamas’s views and positions to such an extent that the Islamist fascist organisation has become legitimised as an actual ‘resistance’ movement. With that false belief comes the false corollary that October 7 was indeed a just, even rational, reaction to decades to failed efforts to free the Palestinian people …
“One of the first steps to freeing Palestinians from the horrors of war is to free them from the ‘Free Palestine Movement’ in the diaspora and Western world. The unholy alliance between the far left, far right and Islamist hooligans who normalise Hamas’s narrative is harmful first and foremost to the Palestinian people.”
At last, smiley people, US envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner flank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting on October 9, 2025. Picture: Israel Government Press Office / X
And right at the very end came a very big butt, a gigantic billy goat butt, of the kind only a "Ned" could produce ...
None of this is to support or justify the most recent Israeli military campaign in Gaza, driven by Benjamin Netanyahu, with mass casualties and many thousands of civilian deaths – a campaign opposed by senior Israel Defence Forces commanders and most of the Israeli population.
This from a man who had just scribbled about ...
The hypocrisy and false moralism of much of the protest movement
This, this is the billy goat butt that you offer as your patented brand of both siderism (patent under appeal from the NY Times)?
None of this is to support or justify the most recent Israeli military campaign in Gaza, driven by Benjamin Netanyahu, with mass casualties and many thousands of civilian deaths – a campaign opposed by senior Israel Defence Forces commanders and most of the Israeli population.
The sad reality, however, is that in Australia the extremes of the progressive left have aligned with the extremes of the Palestinian movement to encourage a destructive narrative – exploiting Netanyahu’s military recklessness – their real purpose being to demonise or to eliminate Israel as the desired path to a free Palestine.
Really? Taking Haaretz seriously is extremist?
Then count the pond extremist ... and count down to the end of this "Ned" Everest climb ...
In mid-year when visiting Israel with an Australian media group we were shown the 42-minute video produced by the IDF from the cameras of the terrorists and soldiers on the day. They showed young and old Israelis being murdered, women being dismantled, corpses being mutilated, beheaded, paraded as trophies, all the while the chant “Allah is Great” coming from the perpetrators. This was a religious event; it was a religious massacre, the sort of violent ritual once performed by Christians and other faiths in past centuries.
Most Australians don’t really comprehend what October 7 was about. The upshot is that far too many rationalist, progressive Australians have misunderstood the elemental drivers of this conflict.
The grave risk is that Jewish Australians will continue to need security protection and special measures to safeguard their lives and families. The danger is that politicians – who have largely failed this community – will interpret the end of the Gaza war as an excuse against firmer anti-Semitism measures.
>>It is misleading to think that all Muslims and all protesters think this way. Obviously, most don’t.>>
ReplyDeleteHow nice of Ned to finally admit the role of his employers and their servile minions in spreading lies, propaganda and hysteria. It’s just a pity that it’s a single sentence, as compared to the tens of thousands of word of bullshit churned out by him on this and other issues over the years, not to mention the torrents of crap from his colleagues.
"Good on the Ughmann, and his note to Gina to call China the enemy...".
ReplyDeleteErr, Pig Iron Gina ?
Bingo GB 🚜👷🚧🏗️💸🤑💰
Delete"Um, has "Ned" seen anything at all of what's been happening these past few years?".
ReplyDeleteNow now, they're all just living 'human shields' aren't they ? All 60,000+ of them ? Isn't that what all the best Zionists and their running dog lackeys tell us.
Oooh, "the pond's Play Hard herpetology exam at the end of the year". Will there be separate categories, as they have in that Hard Quiz, that appears on the alternate ABC (you know, the one that so many reptiles encounter, by chance, only as they are twisting the dial to some reliable commercial broadcaster).
ReplyDeleteSome categories would not offer enough separate questions to put contestants through an entire quiz. These could include 'The themes of Ms Ton-yee-nee's columns', 'Statements that have given Sharri respect', 'Errors that the Dog Bovverer has admitted to', 'Predictions from Dame Groan', 'Meaning in the cartoons of the extant Leak'. By comparison, metal (not type-metal) rock groups, known mainly to a couple of pubs in Newcastle, offer almost limitless opportunities for questions.
In place of a Limited Edition Big Brass Mug, might there be enough lead, tin and antimony left over from the dear departed days of hot metal typesetting, to cast an appropriate symbol. Others who come here might like to suggest a suitable icon. Perhaps a minor character from a Rowe cartoon?
I am sure we will all be studying hard, to try to get through the elimination rounds.
"Oooh, "the pond's Play Hard herpetology exam at the end of the year" may be adjusted with...
DeleteThe reverse reptile hard play named Scribbling Hard.
The Leaden Type Award Mug?
Made of depleted Uranium scavenged from war zones.
Tom's Subject > Dorothy's Distractions.
Insert Chadwick's themes.
More points for actual facts.
Dorothy's Wit would put Tom's Sledging back to the Shed of Shame,... the Reptiles warmth room.
The Quick Fire round will be held at the end, just to eliminate and Left Over Reptiles.
The Leaden Type Award will always be awarded to a Reptile, even when another contestant wins. Hey, it is Dorothy's Pond after all.
And the Scribbling Hard Leaden Type Award Mug will be ala Hell... a mug as inkwell in the shape of a foot, with a 25 foot Quill with inbuilt revolver with depleted uranium - "elimination rounds" - slugs.... ala old style nooKleert reactors or battlefields (culture wars battledields).. always shooting the 'winner' in the Foote, and always melting down, prkviding Half Lives, and leaving Surrey Hills Bunker uninhabitable for 50,000 years.
And timing... 2x per year, one in honour of Ol Rupe's day, and a bonus Lock U Up-y day.
Or ala that spelling bee 'show, a dunce cap for 'winner'.
Must. Turn off. Auto suggest!
DeletePhone meltdown the other day, still tweaking.
Bags I the categories of “Dame Groan’s Favourite Moans” and “Henry’s Horrid Histories”.
DeleteAnonymous, excellent catagagoties!
DeleteAlso, a Tom sidekick named Miss Information who does, ala the undercover jew, a segment to guess the undercover covert operative;
- Guess country of birth...
"Of course that's just country of birth ... if you do the ethnic routine, it's getting closer to 50-50 by the year ... (see source for footnotes)...." Thursday, October 09, 2025
Sponsored by Crikey!
"Inside News Corp’s backfired ‘UNDERCOVERJEW’ operation
The Daily Telegraph planned a story featuring an ‘undercover Jewish man’ using covert recording eyewear. CCTV footage shows it didn’t go as planned
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/14/news-corps-backfired-undercoverjew-operation/
And the Crikey! KNOW TAX Segment presented by Steve Irwin. Ceicidike hats and tears as props.
Plenty of newscorose subsidiaries sponsored by...
Rio Tinto, James Hardie and… Crikey? Your picks for the Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct
The Readers’ Choice Award received *a lot* of entries.
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I'm keen to see this show now.
Meanwhile, in the ever-deepening north, in an announcement NOT meticulously co-ordinated with their boy Canavan, the Crisafulli Government has told us that ole king coal will deliver our electricity for an indeterminate period. From the Curious Snail
ReplyDelete"Queensland’s new energy plan promises “affordable” power as the state vows to keep coal-fired stations running longer than planned in a “pragmatic and realistic” reset.
Analysis: A missed oppurtunity" (sic)
No mention of anything that might make things like insurance 'affordable' into that same future. But, of course, Queensland contributes one-seventh of three-fifths of oh oh oh one eight percent of a poofteenth of world emissions. And, anyway, as Senator Roberts will readily tell you, none of them self-appointed 'experts' has ever been able to show him the EMPIRICAL evidence that them emissions have the slightest negative effect on our state.
The Brissie olympics are scheduled for July 23-August 8 2032. The extra plant food (CO2) should have vegetation emerald green, for the world to admire.
Yeah, they reckon that bit about minute level of emissions is a real killer. And it would be if the human world only consisted of Queensland. Or if the human race hadn't increased its numbers much past about 2 billion (ie the estimated world population about 100 years ago).
DeleteBut neither of those conditions hold. If I remember from an article I referenced the total of emissions from all countries with less emissions than Australia is around 22% of the world total and every one of the countries contributing to that can use the same argument.
Oops, I think that should be 28% not 22% (fallible memory :-( )
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