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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 06-21-2024

Inside Albo | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 06-28-2024

Johannes Leak nails it...

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Not normally a fan of Senator Lambie but I do have to applaud her for calling out the Greens hypocrisy on the Israel v Hamas war in her Senate adjournment speech yesterday...


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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 07-05-2024

The Big Rort | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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On a more serious note and totally related, I note the following QWN from Sen Birmingham to Sen Wong, on Thursday 4 July, that subsequently led to a further Motion being brought on:

Quote:Senator BIRMINGHAM (South Australia—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (15:33): I move:

That the Senate reaffirms Israel's inherent right to self-defence, whether attacked by Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran or any other sponsor of terrorism.

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 07-12-2024

NDIS: The Movie | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


John Sharp to be ousted from Rex??

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Quote:Rex faces boardroom coup as Singaporean investors push to oust chair

Kylar LoussikianDeputy editor - Business

Jul 12, 2024 – 11.07am

The largest shareholder of Regional Express is pushing to turf the carrier’s entire board just one month after he was forced to step down as the company’s executive chairman.

Lim Kim Hai, a Singaporean businessman, had run the regional carrier known as Rex until June, when he abruptly left the board and handed day-to-day management to the airline’s chief operating officer, Neville Howell.

Mr Lim and his then-business partner, Lee Thian Soo, became shareholders in 2002, after Rex emerged from the collapse of Ansett, which had operated two regional carriers.


Lim Kim Hai stepped down as the chairman of Rex last month but has now called for other directors to go. Louie Douvis

Rex told investors on Friday that Mr Lim had called for a shareholder meeting to remove Mr Lee and the airline’s new chairman, former federal transport minister John Sharp.

The only director Mr Lim has not asked to be removed is Lincoln Pan, the nominee of PAG Asia Capital, a major private equity firm that has provided $150 million in funding to the airline. That funding agreement prevents Mr Pan being forced out.

That money was used to launch Rex’s new strategy, with the airline pivoting from an entirely regional operation to flying between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – putting it in direct competition with larger rivals Qantas and Virgin Australia. In May, the airline launched its longest route, flying from Melbourne to Perth.

Despite a boom in travel after the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been a difficult period for Australia’s aviation industry. Bonza, a budget regional carrier which only launched last year, collapsed into administration this year. Meanwhile, Virgin Australia’s owner, Bain Capital, has struggled to re-list the airline on the ASX. It has more recently entered discussions about selling a strategic stake to Qatar Airways.

Rex did not respond to a request for comment on Friday.

The instability on the Rex board first spilled into the open in late May, when the airline disclosed it had been queried by the ASX over plans to acquire National Jet Express, the regional services arm of Cobham Aviation Services for $48 million.

At the time, the market operator asked Rex to explain why it did not disclose a relationship between Mr Lim and his brother-in-law. Between them, they owned 50 per cent of National Jet Express. Rex said Mr Lim’s relative was not a related party.

It is not the first time that the ASX has queried the company. Last year, Rex said it took a week to tell investors it would miss profit forecasts because it was waiting for the information to be “reviewed and confirmed” by Mr Lim.

Rex posted an after-tax profit of $14.4 million for the 12 months to the end of June 2023, although that was largely due to a $44.5 million upward revaluation of its National Jet Express holding. The airline recorded an after-tax loss of $3.2 million for the six months to December 31, while revenues increased 6 per cent to $353 million.

Rex shares were 0.5¢ lower on Friday afternoon at 60¢.

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 07-20-2024

Division | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


Plus from Senator Jacinta Namijinpa Price...

Quote:Jacinta Nampijinpa Price: 'We don't need a truth-telling process'

It’s a cliche that if you don’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it. More importantly, it’s also true that failing to learn from history – and to value history – means failing to move forward and building on the accomplishments that have come before.

As 18th century British philosopher Edmund Burke said: “In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.”

The study of history is not only about learning from past mistakes, but also putting into practice the lessons of success. It helps us understand who we are, forms our policies and culture, and affects how we see ourselves.

So it is a great irony that many on the left who take a “progressive” view of history are also determined to suppress, obfuscate and outright deny the parts of Australia’s history that demonstrate our great prosperity, security and success, as well as those parts of Indigenous history that might be less than savoury.

The black armband version of history that the likes of Bruce Pascoe promote in his resoundingly debunked Dark Emu shows this well. We are painted a “rainbows and lollipops” and “noble savage” fiction of an Indigenous civilisation that was destroyed by the evil white men.



This is nonsense: things are much more complex and nuanced, and it is an injustice to the humanity of Indigenous Australians and the reality of the modern success story that Australia has become after British and European settlement.

It is also an insulting reinvention of true knowledge and understanding of traditional culture with no relevance to the creation stories known as Jukurrpa.

Not only is this story incorrect, it has real consequences for today’s Australia. It’s a story that holds Indigenous people back, as they are encouraged by the left to wallow in victimhood and are rewarded for rejecting the enormous benefits of becoming fully part of modern Australia – the benefits being enjoyed by the very same inner-city activists who are encouraging the victimhood.

Our Australian story is not perfect. There are shameful chapters. But the arc of our history has been overwhelmingly positive. It’s a story that has few historical parallels.

In telling the story properly, we must be honest about what pre-British settlement life was like. It was not a subsistent paradise. There was conflict within, and between, clans and tribal groups.

Even by standards of the time, there was retrograde behaviour, such as infanticide and violent cultural payback practices that often involved the slaughtering of men, women and children. The hard fact is that once modernity emerged across the globe, the hunter-gatherer life was not going to last long.

There is no alternative possible version of Australian history where Indigenous Australians would have been left alone to continue their way of life.

The only question was about colonisation by whom – and when, rather than if – and we are fortunate it was the British who arrived and not many of the other alternatives.

Few younger Australians are taught these days about the letter from King George to Governor Phillip instructing him to maintain friendly relations with the native people.

“You are to endeavour by every possible means to open an Intercourse with the Natives and to conciliate their affections, enjoining all Our Subjects to live in amity and kindness with them,” he wrote. “And if any of Our Subjects shall wantonly destroy them, or give them any unnecessary Interruption in the exercise of their several occupations, it is our Will and Pleasure that you do cause such offenders to be brought to punishment according to the degree of the Offence.”

Of course, the British settlers did not always live up to King George’s instructions, but that doesn’t change the fact the instructions were given.

Even in the moments in our history when barbaric crimes were committed against Aboriginal Australians, the civilising rule of law often played out. The infamous Myall Creek massacre in 1838 marks a dark and bloody moment in our history, when 28 Indigenous Australians were murdered by British settlers. But the activists have done a good job of playing down what happened after the massacre.

Contemporary sources indicate that while there were pockets of excuse-making for the perpetrators, there was also clearly an abiding desire of the colony as a whole to do the right thing. The attorney-general, John Plunkett, prosecuted the perpetrators and then – when they were acquitted on a technicality – he prosecuted them again. Seven white men were thus found guilty and hanged.

During the trial, Justice Dowling took care to remind the jury that the law made no distinction between the murder of an Aboriginal person and the murder of a European person. In the sentencing Justice Burton said: “The crime was, however, committed in the sight of God, and the blood of the victims cries for vengeance.”

A crime was committed and justice – to a large extent – was served. Notably, this was a civilised common law process that would not have happened pre-settlement. Violence between tribes and clans was previously simply met with more violence. It is also worth mentioning the violence during this early settlement period was not one-sided.

Crimes were committed, violence and injustice perpetrated by bad actors, but I don’t think it should be controversial to say that both black and white Australia were making the best of things by the standards of the times.

This is demonstrated by the fact that, out of these decades of disruption, something resembling a nation emerged.

So much so that when duty called our first Anzacs to serve in the Great War, more than a thousand Indigenous Australians signed up to fight. Many of these heroes went above and beyond. For example, Albert Knight and his two brothers. Albert was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry in an attack on the village of Bony.

Then there’s Bill Rawlings, who was awarded the Military Medal for leading a bayonet charge at Morlancourt, France. Rawlings was killed in action on August 9, 1918, and buried at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnières.

They are Australian heroes who fought for their country, but their stories of courage and gallantry are not often told by those who take the black armband view.

In the century since, we’ve seen well-intentioned efforts to integrate these two different parts of Australian society.

Again, it has not been perfect. But time and again, an honest examination of things finds Australians – both black and white – striving to find a way forward together under the standards and norms of the times in which they lived.

Even when misguided policies are pursued, like those that befell the Stolen Generation, we find that, over time, the efforts to integrate proved more fruitful than policies of separation. Indeed, the records show many descendants of the Stolen Generations now enjoy greater prosperity and success than those generations who were simply neglected and left to live in poverty and squalor.

The ends don’t always justify the means, but honesty is required if we are to move forward and reconcile as a nation.

Similarly, we can see the mixed results in the more progressive project of Native Title. It should be seen as the beginning of a way forward, but too often it’s been used as a mechanism to lock up land and keep communities stuck in time.



That’s why when I see the famous photo of Gough Whitlam pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari’s hands, I see two things at once. It’s a historic moment of the two cultures coming together, but also the moment that consigned many in my community to poverty and anti-progress. The reality is that the bureaucratic regime of Indigenous policies pursued by activists and elites in the inner cities has not moved the dial. At the same time, the sensible policies they reject, such as mutual obligation and cashless debit cards, have made inroads into alleviating Indigenous disadvantage.

Not so long ago, I was informed by a former social worker in the Northern Territory that upon arrival to her first remote Aboriginal community she was expressly told that, regarding any views she had of the potential of Aboriginal people in the context of wider Australia, she needed now to lower her standards. This is the “racism of low expectations”.

Last year, in my address to the National Press Club – at the height of the voice referendum debate – I made more than a few headlines when I highlighted positive impacts of colonisation on Indigenous Australians, instead of merely regurgitating the standard deficit narrative peddled by those seeking to maintain the victim mentality.



I stand by that view, because when you take an honest, even-handed position on our nation’s history, it’s obviously true. It doesn’t mean there was no crime or violence or injustice. It doesn’t mean people aren’t doing it tough in Indigenous communities.

What it means is that the fact of Australia is irreversible.

Colonisation happened and was always going to happen. It brought things like democracy, freedom and prosperity that were not known to Indigenous people.

To the extent that progressives continue to blame “colonisation”, what they really mean is they want to keep up their resistance to real reconciliation and integration. They would rather keep their policies of separatism and paternalism and dress them up in academic language than solve the real problems. If we really do want to heed the lessons of our history there are only two ways forward.

First, we can continue along the separatist road that sees Indigenous Australians as irrevocably damaged by settlement and wants to keep Aboriginal culture stuck in time like a museum piece. Traditional culture is romanticised by those who do not live it, while reinvention of culture has become an industry in the name of reconciliation for the purpose of political influence. This movement aims to keep Indigenous Australians on country, where they are land rich, but dirt poor.

This way forward leaves negative parts of Indigenous culture alone to grow and fester. Things like violent cultural payback, arranged marriage and apportioning tragedies and mishaps to sorcery, all of which are anathema to modern culture.

This is a view that lowers standards for Indigenous Australians. It attributes language and practices to some groups that do not belong to them, as a way of building up the victimising feeling that “things were taken away”.

This has been the strategy of decades of government agencies and academic activists, and yet they fail to draw the obvious connection between this approach and the failure to make much ground on Closing the Gap.

We need a second way: the advancement movement. Under this movement, we are all Australians. We can learn and cherish our Indigenous culture while still meeting the same standards that every other Australian is expected to meet.

Our culture will be respected like never before when Indigenous Australians are making it thrive under their own steam and not as part of a welfare industry. That culture will become part of our national tapestry, rather than a separate story to be fought over.

Before Whitlam came with the sit-down money, Indigenous Australians worked as jackeroos for the cattleman in their backyard. There should be no fly-in, fly-out workers in communities with Indigenous Australians on welfare.

We know where the gap is – it is 20 per cent of the 3 per cent. It’s remote Indigenous Australians, many of whom do not have English as a first language. We already know that we can either fix or exacerbate that by school attendance.



The true lesson of our history is that while we are not perfect, a bunch of imperfect people from different cultures have formed a truly great and prosperous nation. And to the extent that some in our nation are not enjoying that prosperity, it’s because of policies of separatism and a black-armband obsession with injustice at the expense of moving forward together.

The simple fact is that no one is disadvantaged just because they are Indigenous. But those who are disadvantaged will remain so if we don’t learn the lessons of our past and move forward together.

No meaningful change comes from selling ourselves short through guilt politics. It comes from understanding our history in its entirety.

This means we will not repeat our mistakes, but take pride in our remarkable shared achievements as a nation, so we can pursue a better future for all our children.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is opposition spokesperson for Indigenous Australians

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 08-03-2024

A Migrant A Minute ? | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


And from Johannes...

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Today's editorial cartoon for The Australian #Olympics #andrewgiles #ClareONeil #labor #politicalcartoon #cartoon

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Editorial cartoon for The Australian 27/7/2024 #albo #Titanic #CabinetReshuffle#labor #politicalcartoon #cartoon

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 08-07-2024

ALL HAIL THE UNIPARTY!!

Has Dutton revealed his true colours??

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Quote:Australians vs. The Agenda
@ausvstheagenda

Moments ago: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton responds to the question: Covid was unprecedented – but what does it say to you about government overreach, and government, essentially, controlling people’s lives and the effects that that can have?

His response: "The talk of massive increases in relation to mental health needs, etc., and many families tie that back to the very significant heavy hand of Daniel Andrews with the lockdowns in Victoria.

None of that, though, should give rise to the sort of conduct that you’re referring to. I would say to anybody in our community, whether it’s within your friendship group, your family group, the work group, whatever it might be, where you see somebody’s behaviour changing, regardless of their motivation, or if they’ve changed radically their thoughts about society and government, etc., you need to report that information to ASIO, or to the Australian Federal Police as a matter of urgency."

In reply:
 

Quote:Gerrie Hoogland
@WatchtowerRome2

When I joined the Liberal Party of Australia almost 20 years ago, I did so because I genuinely believed I could try to make a contribution to ensuring our society could be all it was meant to be, morally and materially.

I sat in meeting after meeting listening to people saying they were committed to the same thing. And much of that was because they were unhappy with the then current government policy and attitude toward Australians in general.

You could say they were “anti-government” in the sense that they disagreed with what the government was forcing people to live with via legislation that did not make sense to the well being of this nation.

Fast forward almost 20 years, and I sit here aghast to now hear a Liberal Party leader address the nation and tell them to snitch on their family, friends, neighbours and work colleagues in the name of the greater good.

When a political leader, who will likely be the next Prime Minister of Australia, issues a directive to the general population to snitch on those family members, friends, neighbours and work colleagues, they are potentially lighting a fire under an existing powder keg of mistrust and suspicion.

Sadly, most people will merely read and hear the cliff notes of what Mr Dutton had to say.

They won’t see the bigger picture - that caution must always be adhered to before knee jerk reactions, and that it is always necessary and prudent to look back at history before casting aspersions.

Society in general has become so addicted to being kept safe by the government, that anything they are told which hints at them being harmed, will lead to a default position of feeling they must do the “right thing.”

Rather than reading the whole story, they will read or hear the trigger words and phrases.

"Whether it’s within your friendship group, your family group, the work group, whatever it might be, where you see somebody’s behaviour changing, regardless of their motivation, or if they’ve changed radically their thoughts about society and government, etc., you need to report that information to ASIO, or to the Australian Federal Police as a matter of urgency."

The Ancient Greek historian, Plutarch, asked the following question in relation to the actions of the newly formed triumvirate of Octavian (soon to be Rome’s first emperor, Augustus), Antony, and Lepidus as they turned on their Roman countrymen in their quest for power in the final stages of the fall of the Roman Republic in 43 BC:

"Is there no wild beast more savage than man when his passions are armed with power?"

It is a reasonable question to be asked of anyone aiming to assume leadership over their fellow citizens, no matter the period in history. That we have enough warnings of the traps which men fall into, should be uppermost in our minds when it comes to seeing our democracies as fair and reasonable.

Today, I watched an ordinary man, granted the extraordinary opportunity to represent his fellow citizens, tell them to turn on those same citizens.

And it is devastating!

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 08-09-2024

Oppression Olympics | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 08-17-2024

Broken Promises | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


Plus from Johannes Leak...



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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 09-08-2024

Forgetting Adam Bandt | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 09-13-2024

Albo's War on Everything | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


Plus from Johannes Leak today...



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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 09-20-2024

Misinformation and Censorship | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


Plus, love this from Johannes Leak...



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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 09-28-2024

Gender Confusion | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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Plus from Johannes Leak...



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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 10-04-2024

"I Promise I'm Not Scomo" | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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Plus from Johannes Leak...



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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 10-11-2024

Day In The Life of a Green | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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On a more serious note, today I received the following (from what I believe should be a future PM of this country) Jacinta Nampijinpa Price...

Quote:Dear P2,

One year ago on October 7, the world saw the face of evil.

Hamas terrorists unleashed the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust.

A year on, we remember those innocent Jewish civilians who lost their lives in this horrifying attack driven by pure hatred.

When I stood in their homes and the places they were murdered earlier this year, I was moved and angered beyond words.

That was compounded by seeing the footage of the evil murders taken by the murderers themselves.

I saw the terrorists celebrate while they defiled the lifeless bodies in front of hate-filled crowds baying for more blood.

So we pray for the victims and their families and for peace.

But we also must use this anniversary to be clear eyed about what else has transpired since the October 7 terror attack.

Because you and I might know that there is absolutely no justification for the rape of girls and women, cold blooded murder of innocent men, women and children.

But it has been shocking to witness there are people in the Australian community who apparently don’t feel the same.

How else do you explain the marches in the streets less than 48 hours after October 7 in support of Hamas and the terrorists.

When bodies were still being counted and victims were being identified – before any military response from Israel at all – we had people in our streets celebrating.

In the last year it has become clear that many in our country have ignorantly and dangerously fallen for the propaganda of the terrorists who are engaged in the continuation of the work of the Nazis.

Anti-Semitism, which lay dormant, has come to life.

And it’s been enabled by a Prime Minister and government who have failed miserably to condemn the words and actions of those driven by hatred.

There is no place for the evil of terrorism in Australia.

There is no place for anti-Semitism in Australia.

That should be a basic principle.

And I can tell you that as long as I have breath in my lungs I will fight to ensure terrorism does not take hold in our nation.

But I wish I could say the same for this current government whose weasel words and lack of leadership have let this social division grow.

It’s now time to say enough.

Enough of the gullibility and ignorance because it is this that terrorists rely on to carry out their agenda.

Enough of the allowances made for people who celebrate hatred and violence.

And enough bowing to activist pressure on support for Israel.

The government should be clear: demand a return of the hostages and defend Israel’s right to exist.

One year on, that is the moral imperative.

It’s up to the government to take a stand.

Yours for REAL solutions,

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Senator for the Northern Territory
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 10-18-2024

The State of Melbourne | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain

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Next I note the following win for Elon Musk, X and free speech...

Ben Fordham Live on X:

Quote:Ben Fordham Live

@BenFordhamLive

We’ve had another win for free speech.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has admitted she got it wrong.

Julie Inman Grant says she shouldn’t have gone after X.

Listen to her admission HERE.

?https://t.co/YZUzLvDYij?

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 10-25-2024

Queensland Election | Pauline Hanson's Please Explain


Next from Senator Price who simply talks commonsense...

Quote:Dear P2,

As long as we believe we’re victims, we’re never going to move forward.

I said that during the Voice debate and many more times since.

And it’s relevant once again with the latest stunt from Senator Lidia Thorpe.

I’m grateful for Lidia’s stance on the Voice. Even though she came to her No differently to the way I did, she stood firm.

But the ridiculousness and impotence of her broader brand of activism was on display for all to see with the visit of King Charles.

You don’t have to be a monarchist to understand how disrespectful and undignifying her display was.

And she indulged in the very same divisive language about land back that was one of the main reasons I wanted to defeat the Voice.

Worse, as a Senator, she swore an oath of allegiance to Australia and the Crown.

Again, you might not agree with the role of the monarchy, but that’s the law of the land here, and that oath is a requirement of being a Senator.

Lidia is not obliged to be a Senator if she cannot uphold her oath.

I take my oath seriously, and no childish weasel words about how she didn’t mean it can make up for the fact that it’s a serious thing to break an oath.

What struck me, though, is that if you asked Lidia, I’m sure she’d say her activism is all about power. You often see her raising her fist and talking about the power of her race and people.

But the truth is, she is forever the victim.

Her perspective is not of power, but someone eternally oppressed, and condemned to continually make ineffectual noise at the institutions and people who gave her her success.

Continuing to obsess over colonisation – a fact of life that happened generations ago – is to be always a victim and never powerful.

It’s to be always making noise and never achieving anything.

It’s about activist posturing and never REAL solutions.

That’s why I reject Lidia’s approach. It’s why I rejected the Voice.

I’ve said over and over again the way forward for Indigenous Australians is to move past narratives of victimisation and colonisation.

And stunts like Lidia’s just take us backwards.

Yours for REAL solutions,

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Kharon - 10-31-2024

Apropos of Whimsy..

End of shift, two of us joined a trio at the bar; lovely sunny evening perfect for a quiet Ale or two. As it often does these days, the conversation rolled round to the antics of politicians and their minions; the usual stuff – but the under laying, almost unspoken thread touched on the whiff of a gentile 'corruption' underpinning the rhetoric and bluster. Nothing new there – spin off 'bonus' and side bar gains are not uncommon and rarely raise much dust – however; one topic had a brief airing and ended up with a change of subject – 'nuff said – there's quite an extensive menu to choose from.  During a quiet period, P7 strolled to the bar and got a round in, drinks were poured and he stood still there for a beat; (thinking mode). “You know” he says, “nothing very much has changed since the Rum Corps ruled the roost; except its much more sophisticated and cleverly disguised, but in essentials the formula has stood the test of time”. End of dialogue; but it got me thinking. Spent a happy hour researching the 'Rum Corps' – lots of guff 'on-the-net' but for  a clear picture from which a parallel may be gleaned, spend 10 minutes with this – HERE – then watch the news. Remarkable really – how little things change - . End of twiddle. FWIW........

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 11-01-2024

Flashback Friday Qantas | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain


And on the same theme, Johannes Leak...

Via FB:

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Johannes Leak Cartoonist

Today’s editorial cartoon for The Australian #albo #labor #qantasairways #Liberals #nationals #nacc #independents #politicalcartoon #cartoon

Finally from this week's Betoota Advocate EAL...

Quote:Happy Friday, treasured readers,

Again, thank you for the polite and hinged emails regarding the Fosters take-over. Your support continues to humble me.

Bit going on at the moment. Just had a change in government here in Queensland, about to have a change of government in America. Elections also in Georgia. The other Georgia. Lots to cover, or not.

The Prime Minister being harangued by the press for taking and requesting upgrades on Qantas flights. For allegedly blocking Qatar from operating more flights out of Australia. I might be a fucking idiot but is that a bad thing? I’m more of a free market capitalist than ‘Waleed Overell’ or “Mao Hussey” and even I’d rather let the flag carrier pig out on international travel to Europe. If you have no money but also have unquenchable wanderlust, you can fly Scoot. You don’t know rawdogging until you’ve flown Scoot to Berlin via Singapore. All you get for your base fare is a shitty plastic chair. Last time I did that, the bloke next to me took 3 bars of Xanax and slept with his eyes open almost all the way to Europe. Ruined my vibe completely. I kept having to listen for his breathing.

And if I even get on a plane to go home to my native Hong Kong and Mr Albo is sitting in economy with me, I’d be worried. Or I’d just think he was cheap. Or him buying that ugly house on the Central Coast. Honestly, how wasn’t the narrative that he was binning his Dulwich Hill (shithole) investment property, Jodie was binning her flat and they were buying a house designed by a blind person up at Copa to be closer to family? That like millions of other people his age, he had the rare and disgusting privilege of buying property in Sydney in the mid-90s and 2000s and he shouldn’t have to apologise for being a millionaire. Not because he’s clever or good at his job, but because he was born in 1963. It’s all dumb as shit.

Anyway, back Land Legend in the Melbourne Cup.

Regards,

Errol Parker.

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RE: Snippets from around the traps - Peetwo - 11-03-2024

‘Blatant hypocrisy’ on the Middle East exposed


Well done Erin, your old man would be proud...

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Just beat me to it - Good one.

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