What kind of warped notion of compassion allowed the Caterist into the country?

 

"I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap" - the mango Mussolini to his cult devotees.

"We can write the silliest things and you'd write approving letters to the editor" - the reptiles of Oz to their hive mind followers.

Come on down Major Mitchell, and prove it's so ...

What’s really behind the French riots?
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The left is trying to harness this Muslim youth wave to compete with Le Pen in what will likely be a polarised election when Macron goes.
By Chris Mitchell
Columnist 

Eek, it's an Islamic youth wave. Be afraid, be desperately afraid...

Should the pond continue to pander to this kind of alarmist drivel?

Here the Muslim population is small by comparison, but it is important in outer suburban seats held by the Labor federal government. The Muslim vote is influential enough that neither the PM nor the premiers of NSW and Victoria were prepared to call for the banning of pro-Palestinian marches on October 7 last week – analogous to marching for Satan on Easter Sunday.

As always, the Major himself spends his time amplifying bad sources, in this case a certain Shellenberger, which means the pond must provide a reminder ...

...Shellenberger has faced accusations of "bad science" for his comments on climate change in Apocalpyse Never; he has also been criticized for arguing with prominent climate scientists on social media and "apologising" to the world on the behalf of environmentalists. A panel of scientists organized by Climate Feedback analyzed the claims he made in his "apology" article, concluding that they were "inaccurate or mislead readers by contradicting available evidence or using scientific data out of context." A Snopes article, which consulted multiple scientists that Shellenberger had cited, was similarly critical; Michael Mann called one of Shellenberger's central arguments "completely wrong," and found it was also contradicted by the very IEA source Shellenberger used to support it. (wiki)

So it was then, so it still is now.

Whatever, the Major is in the intermittent archive, and his blather about the usual suspects is even more tiresome than usual, so the pond will only offer a sample ...

Ah, nuking the country to save the planet, though in the same breath, the Major will hasten to assure you that the planet doesn't need saving from climate change, what with it being a Satanic conspiracy of the first water.

Meanwhile, it was poll day, a reliable way for the reptiles to sway the ABC news cycle, with bad news for Pauline only in the sub-header ...

EXCLUSIVE
Newspoll: Labor warned that spendathon ‘must come to an end’
Terrible 20s: Albanese, Taylor and Hanson all stuck below 30 per cent primary vote in Newspoll
More than one in two Australians want the PM and Jim Chalmers to cut spending as an inflation-fighting priority, according to the latest Newspoll, which also reveals a slip in voter support for One Nation and Pauline Hanson.
By Geoff Chambers

As happens with this sort of manufactured "news", Geoff chambered his own round ...

COMMENTARY by GEOFF CHAMBERS
PM’s keeping it cool despite One Nation and economic woes
After securing a second-term, winning 94-seats and watching the demise of the Coalition, Anthony Albanese is reminding colleagues that they’re not halfway through the current term and time is on Labor’s side ahead of a May 2028 election.

One note surely appealed to devotees of Barners:

...How right-wing is the Coalition prepared to go without alienating the centre that helped deliver Albanese a landslide victory last year? The challenge for Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan, who are struggling to cut through and differentiate their messaging from One Nation, is to devise policies that appeal to conservative values but are clearly distinct from Labor and One Nation offerings.
While Labor figures are confident of winning the NSW election and picking off traditionally safe Liberal seats, One Nation is expected to perform strongly across the state.
If the Nationals are obliterated, Canavan will need to explain how he intends to save the furniture, outside of rah-rah speeches.
The 45-year-old Gold Coast-born Nationals leader – who studied economics at the University of Queensland, worked at the Productivity Commission for six years, and was a senior executive at KPMG – does not have the same authentic appeal as his ex-boss and One Nation defector Barnaby Joyce. As one senior government source quipped: “Barnaby is a phenomenon. The voters seem to forgive him despite his colourful past.”
You can’t fake authenticity.

Say that again?  You can’t fake authenticity.

That's what the pond thought you said.

Back in his day, as every one in Tamworth knows, Barners was just a bloody accountant from deep north toad land...

From 1991 to 2005, Joyce worked in the accounting profession, and founded his own accountancy firm, Barnaby Joyce & Co., in St George, Queensland in 1999. (wiki)

He's about as authentic as an Excel spreadsheet or a plastic spoon.

You can't fake reptile stupidity. If an ability to get as pissed as a parrot and flop about like a Maguires pub stumblebum is a sign of authenticity, then the long absent lord is surely needed to save the country.

Meanwhile, top of the page came this EXCLUSIVE ... with its very own branded gif footage ...

EXCLUSIVE
‘Great loss for Australia’: Optimist Oliver takes aim over Firmus flop
Firmus co-founder Oliver Curtis has taken a parting shot from Singapore at Australian investors who refused to buy a ticket to Firmus’s $44bn float | VIDEO
By Liam Mendes in Singapore, John Stensholt and Perry Williams

Only an early version of the yarn had made it into the archive, and the epic whine only seemed useful as a way of drawing attention to this simmering feud:

Exceptionalism is no defence for AI companies’ ‘theft’
A senior Microsoft executive called AI scraping “the largest theft of labour in human history” – yet AI giants are now lobbying Australia to make it legal.
By Rod Sims
Contributor

That was worth an infallible Pope catch up ...

What else? 

Well freedumb boy was out and about ...

Trust law another Chalmers bungle
After five major backdowns and a credit card surcharge debacle, the Albanese government is now pushing trust law reforms that could damage small businesses.
By Tim Wilson
Contributor

The pond will get back to freedum boy (sorry, there's no 'b' in dum)  as soon as it's rich enough to have a trust to worry about.

That seemed to be some sort of reptile way of balancing the "news" that the beefy boofhead was in a feud with Josh ...

Taylor dismisses Frydenberg’s call for reform of GST
Angus Taylor rebuffs Josh Frydenberg on GST as MPs query Liberal leader’s economic metal
The debate within the Coalition has prompted Labor claim there is a growing black hole in Angus Taylor’s agenda, with government analysis projecting his migration clampdown would leave the budget $62 billion worse-off over four years.
By Greg Brown

Oh dear, the reptiles love to position themselves at the centre of the black hole...

...Angus Taylor has ruled out backing an increase to the GST, in a move that sharpens the divide between himself and potential future Liberal leadership candidate Josh Frydenberg, as economists and some MPs raise concerns it signifies a lack of political will to embrace bold reform.
The economic debate within the Coalition has prompted Labor to claim there is a growing black hole in Mr Taylor’s agenda, with government analysis projecting his migration clampdown would leave the budget $62bn worse off over four years.
Anthony Albanese’s economic approach will also come under fire in parliament this week as the Coalition ramps up its attack over the cost-of-living crisis, while proposing legislation to permanently stop the ATO from banning businesses paying tax bills via credit card.
Labor argues the Coalition’s ATO plan would cost the budget $200m a year but Mr Taylor on Sunday said the agency should be able to absorb the costs within its budget.
After The Australian revealed over the weekend that Mr Frydenberg was pushing for GST reform in a new book as he considers whether to make a political comeback, Mr Taylor said he did not support lifting the consumption tax.
Coalition MPs were privately split over whether Mr Taylor should keep GST reform on the table as part of a suite of measures to differentiate their policy platform at the next election from One Nation’s and Labor’s.
Economists warned it would hamper the ability of the opposition to formulate an agenda that could bolster productivity.
Several Liberal MPs told The Australian they were disappointed Mr Taylor ruled out the proposal so soon after it was floated by Mr Frydenberg, arguing it could be an electoral winner if it was accompanied by big cuts to income tax and the company tax rate.
Rebel Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan went public with his concerns, arguing Mr Frydenberg’s economic proposals should be taken seriously.
“Josh is our most experienced Liberal in Treasury matters. We should listen very carefully to his prescriptions to re-energise our economy,” he said.
“Policy development in opposition has to be more than just saying what you are not going to do in government. Our citizens need to also know how our ideas will improve their lives.”
But while several Coalition MPs want Mr Taylor to consider GST reform, others were scathing of the proposal and argued it was politically immature to believe the argument could be prosecuted from opposition.
“Talk about tax and spend, maybe Josh should talk to the Labor Party about being their leader,” one conservative MP said.

Speaking of black holes there was also this from simplistic Simon ...

$500bn of household wealth disappears in Labor budget abyss
Australian households have lost an estimated $70,000 each on average since the May budget, as falling property value and inflation combine to destroy national wealth.
By Simon Benson
Political analyst

Just as well the pond has saved its shekels by not subscribing to a Murdochian service ...

In this survey of the lizard Oz headlines, notable omissions or downgradings concerned the mango Mussolini's ongoing betrayal of Ukraine, and the Unites States turning into Afghan central with a proposed live stream of a public execution.

Luckily Golding and the immortal Rowe took up some of the lizard Oz slack:

And now back to the beefy boofhead and on with cratering Caterism ...

Even a casual observer would have noted that his recent immigration policy announcements found themselves on a sticky wicket while dealing with a sandpapered six stitcher (South African joke).

There was this in the Nine rags ...

‘We are talking billions’: Burke demands costings on Coalition deportation plan

Lurking behind it all was a matter which required the beefy boofhead from down Goulburn way to protest too much ...

Taylor rejected the One Nation proposal to bar migrants from “risky” nations or regions, saying: “I’ve always said that we would discriminate not based on the country someone comes from, or their race, or their religion, but based on the person, and whether that person is a suitable person to be a resident or citizen of this country. That’s what we should focus on, and we should judge people on their character and conduct, not the colour of their skin.”

Garn, don't come the raw bigoted prawn.

And there was this in the Graudian ...

Coalition MPs concede immigration pledge not fully costed by independent watchdog

All that was by way of preliminary reading for a serve by a Pom import, the flood waters in quarries whisperer himself ...

The header: By Nick Cater
ALP migrant policy the opposite of compassion

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The snap suggesting furriners might not be so bad: Workers on the Snowy Mountain Scheme in 1956; the post-WWII government paid more attention to the challenge of resettling refugees

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The pond isn't quite sure why the Caterist decided to diss compassion when it comes to migrants.

The pond can't think of any other reason why a drop kick sociology student loser was allowed into the country ... unless we needed someone to sound completely clueless about the movement of flood waters in quarries.

As always, this sort of black sheep is always alert to any attempt to stray from little England:

While Labor’s broken promises may be testing voters’ loyalty, the Albanese government remains steadfast in its commitment to asylum-seekers.
In August 2023, then immigration minister Andrew Giles increased the annual quota of humanitarian visas from the long-term average of 13,500 to 20,000 a year. Six months earlier, Labor laid a path for boat arrivals under the Rudd and Gillard governments to migrate from short-term protection visas to permanent residency. By the end of July, 26,334 euphemistically named Resolution of Status visas had been approved.
Labor’s measures have led to an influx of refugees on a scale unmatched since the wave of post-war refugees from Europe in the late 1940s. The Albanese government granted residency to more than 100,000 asylum-seekers in its first four years.
It is a policy “anchored in compassion”, Giles told the Refugee Communities Association in a sentimental 2023 speech. As so often, however, good intentions alone have proved a treacherous foundation for public policy. The romantic image of the tempest-tossed huddled masses yearning to breathe free, crystallised in Emma Lazarus’s poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, lives on among today’s progressives, modified only slightly by the newly minted virtues of diversity and cultural relativism.

Remind the pond of why the Caterist was allowed in? Can't have much to do with the virtues of diversity, and as for cultural relativism, how relative is the bigotry and prejudices of little England?

The reptiles reminded the hive mind of the latest Caterist victim ...Then minister for immigration Andrew Giles at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

The pond got the next bit garbled, because one minute the Caterist was blathering about Josh Frydenberg's parents escaping the Holocaust, and the next minute he was dismissing progressive thinkers ...reluctant to test their cosmic vision against the cold, hard data of the world as it actually is.

Say what? Is Josh some kind of progressive thinker? Who knows ...

In Australia, the idealised image of the refugee is shaped by the many inspiring stories of post-war arrivals. Josh Frydenberg’s account of his parents’ escape from the Holocaust in his newly published book is a timely reminder of the great contribution made to Australia by Jewish migrants in particular.
As is their habit, however, progressive thinkers are reluctant to test their cosmic vision against the cold, hard data of the world as it actually is.
The cherished conception of the noble refugee is easier to maintain if you’re a ratepayer in Woollahra (home to 73 recent humanitarian arrivals) than in Fairfield in western Sydney (18,502 recent humanitarian arrivals). The heavy concentration of migrants in low-socio-economic neighbourhoods, mainly in Sydney and Melbourne, makes them all but invisible elsewhere.
Yet Giles’s electorate of Scullin straddles Hume and Whittlesea, two of a dozen local government areas where more than half of the humanitarian arrivals over the past 10 years now live.
It cannot have escaped his notice that humanitarian-category migrants have become the backbone of a new Australian underclass, trapped in grim suburbs, living in overcrowded, rented housing, on incomes well below average, heavily dependent on welfare, and isolated from their neighbours by their poor or non-existent grasp of English.
When Labor decided to raise the refugee quota by 6500 a year, did anyone in the room canvass the long-term consequences, which could be reasonably accurately predicted from the published data?
Did anyone put up a slide showing that 14,000 more people would claim unemployment benefits in five years if the government persisted with the change?
Or that in 10 years, more than 23,000 more Australians would be living in overcrowded conditions, and 900 would be living in acutely overcrowded accommodation?
That will be the result of Labor’s virtuously conceived policy if future humanitarian arrivals follow the pattern of those who arrived in the past 10 years, a grim future set out in the Australian Bureau of Statistics Migrant Settlement Outcomes report, published last month.
It reports that almost half of refugee migrants still rely on welfare benefits five years after arriving. Six out of 10 will be living in the poorest suburbs, and 44 per cent will not be proficient in English. Humanitarian migrants are twice as likely to be diagnosed with a mental health condition, including depression and anxiety, a proportion that grows the longer they live here.

Is that any better than an indigent Pom relying on Murdochian and think tank largesse, and some kind benefactor who might help out when a large defamation liability looms on the horizon.

Life improves on most measures over time. Yet refugees who have lived here for a decade or longer are half as likely to be in the workforce as other migrants. They have lower median incomes ($51,000, compared to $78,000 for all migrants) and are substantially less likely to own or be buying their own home.
Behind these statistics lie thousands of human stories of suffering, poverty and endurance that illustrate the tension between selecting migrants who deserve our sympathy and those we can actually help.
From any perspective, our humanitarian migration program is failing. From the standpoint of a progressive, moved by the Prime Minister’s commitment that no one should be left behind, the plight of tens of thousands of refugees caught in a spiral of poverty from which they cannot easily escape is an indictment, made worse by the seeming reluctance to talk about it.
For a Menzian liberal, committed to the God-given principle that every human deserves equal respect and that everyone who comes to this country should be given the chance to thrive, the current state of affairs is intolerable.
From a dry economics standpoint, the billions of dollars spent to administer the humanitarian program, and the fiscal impact of a cohort that draws more in government benefits than it pays in taxes over a lifetime, offer a poor return on investment.
If we intend to reduce human misery worldwide, a $17,000 grant to a school in a Jordanian refugee camp will offer better value for money than a year’s worth of Jobseeker payments.
Clearly, we need to pay more attention to the resettlement challenge.
The wave of so-called displaced persons after WWII spent weeks attending classes in migrant camps, learning English and other essential skills. Many were earmarked for jobs on the Snowy Mountains Scheme and were obliged to stay in employment for at least two years.
Today they receive advice on Centrelink payments, are offered non-compulsory English classes at local TAFEs, then essentially left to fend for themselves.
Yet, for the country’s benefit, the government must substantially reduce the humanitarian quota.

Then came the beefy boofhead ... Coalition leader Angus Taylor plans to halve the humanitarian refugee intake to 10,000 a year Picture: Nathan Smith

And at this point, the pond should note the cruel calculations already at work, and shown up by the treatment of Afghani refugees ...

There's this on YouTube from SBS ... A former Afghan prosecutor has declared the federal government has a moral obligation to bring to safety local Afghans who assisted Australia and who are now living in hiding under Taliban rule.

And this in the Graudian ... ‘You called us brothers’: Afghans who fought with Australian troops still live in fear of Taliban

Almost a year after their country was left by foreign forces to the Taliban, Afghan soldiers who fought alongside Australian troops say they live in constant terror, and have been abandoned by the countries they served.
“We fought on the same battlefield together, against the same enemy. You called us brothers,” one former soldier told the Guardian from hiding. “But now you leave us in this hell. Our lives are hell and we are left alone. We trusted each other; we never thought this would happen.”
The Guardian has spoken to a number of former soldiers who are being hunted by the Taliban, and to Australian volunteers who are trying to get them to safety.
One former commando, Abbas – a pseudonym to protect him and his family – spent 11 years fighting alongside international forces, including Australian troops in Uruzgan province.
‘We fought on the same battlefield together, against the same enemy’: Afghans and Australians during a security operation in Kandahar province. Photograph: Department of Defence/AAP
He said the joint forces depended upon one another for their lives.
“We ate together with them, slept under the same roof and trained together ... If one of us would be killed, we would sympathise with each other like brothers, and Nato forces would always call us brothers.
“And these forces now leave us like this, alone ... They leave us with our hands tied, in front of the same enemies that we fought against for years.”
Abbas stresses he does not blame the soldiers with whom he fought, but the governments that ordered their troops out so rapidly, without proper consideration for those who fought alongside them.
“I think those countries that said they were strengthening democracy in Afghanistan and talking about peace were lying. They told us ‘we will never leave you alone’. They were here for 20 years, and now they have forgotten us. Every day we despair. We have no food to eat, and we know they, the Taliban, are coming for us.”

It was a great betrayal, with many Afghani women also hung out to dry, and yet somehow we found room for the likes of the Caterist blathering on about the need for a lack of compassion.

Fair dinkum...

The Coalition’s plan to halve the humanitarian intake to 10,000 would ease pressure on scarce resources such as housing, while raising the per-capita economic contribution of Australia’s migration program as a whole.
In the short term, that may mean committing more resources to the selection process, ending the heavy reliance on the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, whose priorities diverge from the national interest. Far from being hard-hearted, as Angus Taylor’s critics on the left will no doubt claim, the Coalition’s policy will begin to restore the high ideals on which Australian migration was founded.
While other countries are content to provide sanctuary, Australia offers the chance of a new life, not just the right to live in this country, but the chance to share in the Australian dream of building a better life for oneself and family.
Today’s huddled masses deserve nothing less than those we welcomed 80 years ago.

Speaking of huddled masses ...

And so to a broken clock getting it right twice a day ...

Cue another immortal Rowe portrait of the mad king:

Blood and oil is a nice variation on Sturm und Drang as the price of treachery ...

And now, speaking of cultists in the grip of a truly weird cult, this ...