So many irritating reptiles, so little time, with the bromancer going white Xian nationalist the final straw ...

 

Wednesday is the day that the pond usually shuns the MAGA cap-donning Dame Slap, and there was nothing in this day's serve of bile that saw any need to change the ritual.

If the intermittent archive hadn't been working, maybe the pond might have reacted differently to the predictable outing, but a serve of transphobia? Forget it ...

COMMENTARY by JANET ALBRECHTSEN
‘Has-been’ leaders Gillard, Ardern revive the politics of the past
Ex-leaders remind us why they’re ‘has-beens’
It’s the same old lecture. Julia Gillard is championing pregnant women’s rights at the pre-COP31 conference – but her own laws erased the legal definition of women. 

A has been or more to the point, a never was, instead playing the role of a screeching harridan on a weekly basis,  dismissing other women as has beens? 

Forget it Jake, the pond has a limited to

lerance for bitchiness.

If you want an interesting read about a TG woman, why not try The New Yorker?

A Self-Made Woman
My cousin Laura had a diva’s charisma and a siren’s voice. She also had a mysterious past. (*intermittent archive link)
By Judith Thurman

The reptiles later downgraded Dame Slap and made her an adjunct to their "climate change" story ...compleat with a snap of Gillard caught in a "funny" leer:

CLIMATE CHANGE
PM’s optimism over evidence: nation ‘will hit 2030 target’ and Pre-COP was no flop
Anthony Albanese is confident Australia will meet its 82 per cent renewable energy target by 2030, despite modelling showing the nation could fall nearly 30 per cent short.
By Elizabeth Pike, Rosie Lewis and Noah Yim

Why should the reptiles care? 

After years of denying its existence, they dare to talk about this thing they dare to call "climate change"? 

Shouldn't they be celebrating Albo's failure, because what's the point doing anything about something that's not happening?

Thank the long absent lord that Golding is back to bolster the feeble 'toon coverage in the Nine rags...

The pond also quickly passed on the latest, inevitable offering from the Australian Daily Zionist News.

How a compromised Australia has failed its Jewish community
Compromised nation has failed Jewish community
The country that once prided itself on multicultural tolerance has watched antisemitism surge unchecked for three years since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7.
By Paul Kelly Editor-at-Large

Will "Ned" ever scribble a piece titled "How a compromised Murdochian press has failed in the duty of writing about a major bout of ethnic cleansing as it unfolded before their eyes"? Likely not.

Stewie gloated...

Three years after October 7, Hamas, not Israel, in ruins
How the October 7 massacre backfired on Hamas
Hamas wanted to destroy Israel with the massacre in 2023. Today the terrorist group lies in ruins while Israel stands as the Middle East’s dominant superpower.
By Cameron Stewart
Chief International Correspondent

But wait, there was more, an upstart Yank turned up ...

EXCLUSIVE
US envoy says Albanese neglected antisemitism report
‘Deaf ears’: Trump appointee claims Albanese ‘neutered’ Jillian Segal before Bondi attack
A prominent appointee of US President Donald Trump has questioned apparent security failures before the Bondi massacre and says Anthony Albanese had a ‘deaf ear’ to antisemitism.
By James Dowling

You want deaf ears? No, the pond's not going to bite, and reference a piece about Benji's abject failures in relation to October 7th.

Instead, here's another alternative read, this ethnic cleansing piece from Haaretz ...

'Jerusalem Is Ours' Far-Right Minister Ben-Gvir Boasts of Demolishing Palestinian Homes in Election Video
Ben-Gvir touted the demolition as an 'act of governance' ahead of Israel's election, while many Palestinians report difficulties in obtaining proper construction permits in the contested area (*intermittent archive link)

Where's the Australian Daily Zionist News when it matters?

The pond had very little tolerance this day for the reptiles. 

Every heading was a frontal assault. 

The only form of coverage of Aboriginal Australia ever seen in the hive mind is undiluted negativity and so it was again...

Indigenous solution to child safety crisis left to gather dust
A landmark plan co-designed with Aboriginal communities to protect WA’s most vulnerable children has sat ignored on a government shelf for three years.
By Catherine Liddle

If scribbling for the lizard Oz is the solution, someone forgot the problem...

And then there was the topic de jour, featuring an assortment of fatuous offerings, with Brownie leading the way ...

COALITION POLICY
Taylor on economic tightrope as business baulks at migration pitch
Business leaders have warned Angus Taylor’s plan to slash net overseas migration by two-thirds risks significant economic damage and worsening Australia’s skills shortage.
By Greg Brown

The pond offers the first couple of gobbets because the intermittent archive seemed to have trouble with the layout ...

That was the prelude to the alleged "vision" - the pond uses the word loosely to evoke the beefy boofhead in craven, cowering pose, tugging his forelock to the fake ranga ...

Here's the crunch bit in the Brownie outing ...

...Business leaders were unconvinced by Mr Taylor’s claim his plan would bolster economic growth through a higher focus on skills. Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black said the Coalition’s plan to bring the NOM to a low not seen since 2004 “could risk a significant hit to the economy and workforce”.
“The significant reduction in net overseas migration to 100,000 will very likely risk Australia’s economic growth and stop businesses across the economy accessing the workers they need,” Mr Black said. “There are many unanswered questions as to how a cut of 650,000 temporary visas will be achieved without creating economic damage.”
Mr Black said political parties should “avoid a race to the bottom based on an arbitrary migration figure that could hurt Australia’s economy while worsening the skills shortage”.
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Andrew McKellar said the “scale of these cuts will hurt our economy”, also urging a reset of the political debate on migration.
“Business rejects the false binary that Australia must choose either fewer migrants with higher skills or more migrants with lower skills,” Mr McKellar said.
Property Council of Australia chief executive Mike Zorbas said it would “tip a big bucket of cold water over businesses across Australia”. “Just when the Albanese government was busy proving they were best placed to tax the life out of investment in housing supply over the next year, along comes this flat tyre of a policy,” Mr Zorbas said. “That Australia needs a migration system we can rely on, and that faith in the system has deteriorated, agreed.
“But this limbo-dancing under One Nation’s migration bar will end in tears.”
Universities Australia chief executive Luke Sheehy said the policy would lead to a “significant reduction” in international students at a time of skills shortages.
“Restricting post-study work rights also risks making Australia less competitive for talented students and graduates at precisely the time we need more skilled people contributing to our economy,” he said.

Well yes, he's just a simpering coward ...

...but why should the reptiles care? The beefy boofhead has just promised to enact what various reptiles have been endlessly clamouring for, with Dame Groan leading the charge ...

Sure enough there was the bromancer playing little Sir Echo ...

By Greg Sheridan
Migration is booming – but creating an underclass

While the pond ensured he had a place in the intermittent archive, the bromancer is worth contemplating, if only for the way he wrapped up his offering.

First there was a bit of navel gazing of the first water ...

The pond's first flush of nausea came with that invocation of a tyke scribbler in a billy goat butt ...

But the opposition is trying to reassert, and re-establish, the traditional nature of Australian society, not its ethnic nature, but its civic, social and economic nature.

It is taking radical action to preserve a longstanding social good, reminiscent of Chesterton’s conservative insight; for a fence post to stay the same, it needs to be constantly repainted.

Several key figures underlie the opposition’s policy impulse. One in 10 of Australia’s 28 million people is on a temporary visa. Three years ago, for every eight Australian workers, there was one on a temporary visa. Now, for every six Australian workers, there is one on a temporary visa.

It's a "policy impulse"? 

Is that what they're calling a pathetic, shameless, desperately needy attempt to cut off the fake ranga at the pass?

But the real bout of nausea came with the billy goat butt which began the second paragraph in the bromancer's closing gobbet ...

...When the Australian colonies first federated in 1901, one of the first laws they passed was in support of the White Australia policy. The racial elements of that law were offensive. Australia has rightly had a racially non-discriminatory immigration policy for more than half a century, and we are now one of the most diverse societies on Earth, with one of the highest percentages of foreign-born residents and citizens.
But underneath the racially offensive elements of the old White Australia policy was a dynamic commitment to social egalitarianism. Australia’s founders were determined that there should be no permanent underclass in Australia, that everybody who could work should work, and that every family should enjoy a living wage.
That remains a very good social ideal. Immigration policy should support that ideal. So many visa categories in Australia now lack integrity. The higher education sector is built on access not to education but to visas. The Australian welfare system is so generous that it is a huge magnet, whereas the much more socially beneficial magnet is one of economic opportunity and civic inclusion through the unifying power of citizenship.
It’s also perfectly reasonable to slow immigration down for a while. I remain a very strong supporter of a big Australia built in part on immigration. Immigration has been overwhelmingly beneficial to Australia, but the program certainly got too big in recent years. Immigration is sometimes like a boa constrictor swallowing a cow. A big intake needs a bit of time to digest.
Slow down a bit, redesign the program towards skills and citizenship, radically reduce the guest-worker economy. The details may need work, but these are good policy principles.

He's finding virtue in the White Australia policy?

By golly, a devout white Xian nationalist of the basest kind couldn't have put it better, with a dash of Chesterton here and a flash of bigotry there ...

And then came the lizard Oz editorialist, acting as an echo to the bromancer's Little Sir Echo ...

Bigotry is suddenly dressed up as an "economically rational stand", even as the reptiles report the discontent provoked in business circles?

Thank the long absent lord for the immortal Rowe ...

And then as a final slap in the face, as the reptiles and the beefy boofhead bow down to the bigotry and stupidity of the fake ranga, a certain Henry had the cheek to offer this ... and not even the ritual uncredited collage of Jimbo in triptych form could appease the pond ...

ECONOMICS
‘Good while it lasted’: Deloitte calls time on Australia’s golden era
Deloitte has again downgraded its economic growth forecasts for Australia, as consumer confidence cratered to its lowest level in three decades following the latest interest rate rise.
By Thomas Henry

A 30 year golden era?

Life under the onion muncher, Malware and the liar from the Shire was a golden era?

So it seems...

Warning that the “king tide” of structural changes and “cyclically serendipitous” property and construction booms responsible for bolstering growth for more than 30 years could not carry Australia through its next economic era, Deloitte economists declared supply-side reforms were “no longer optional”.
“It was good while it lasted,” Deloitte partner Stephen Smith said.

2008 was good while it lasted? That little dust-up happening to happen within the said 30 years, followed by a series of singularly incompetent leaders...

The contempt that the pond has for the likes of Deloitte could occupy a tome the length of the bible ...

They can go preach their "golden era" tosh to suckers willing to take the bait.

Even a comedy piece couldn't temper the pond's irritation ... not even the deploying of a chook ...

But if anyone feels the need to head down the rabbit hole with the mad King ...

HEATED DEBATE
Why daylight saving rules the roost
As regular as clockwork, here comes another fight about the health of daylight saving. But this time it’s political – and Donald Trump is picking a side.
By Matthew Condon

Bah humbug to the lot of them ...

And so to a real dilemma. The reptiles had dropped AI like a hot potato, what with the rag being all in on AI in house, so the pond had no way to segue to this day's infallible Pope on the subject. 

What the heck, the pond will do it live anyway ...

Speaking of AI, with the pond wondering how The Daily Show mob (and John Oliver for that matter, dissing the US Security Service this week in fine bounding dog style), will last under the wretched mega-merger, the final straw in the move of the US to gigantic monopolies, there came this ...