By Jo Nova
One Australian farmer did more in two hours to celebrate the greatest country on Earth than the entire $44 billion Woolworths corporation. It’s a bit of a “Bud-light” moment downunder. The CEO of “Woolies”, our largest grocery empire, proudly celebrates any culture on Earth except ours. He bragged that they would not stock Australiana for Australia Day (January 26), even though they are happy to cheer on Halloween parties and put up banners for Chinese New Year and Diwali. Not surprisingly, staff were scathing — ““They’re bringing in year of the dragon 2024 Lunar New Year gear, loads of it, but no Aussie stuff, disgusting, go figure, go woke, go broke,” one wrote.”
Why didn’t the ABC put Harrison Schuster’s inspiring art on the news?
A 27-year-old farmer has paid tribute to his country ahead of Australia Day with an incredible art piece carved into his family’s paddock. pic.twitter.com/al6W3hG67e
— Warren 👉☕️ (@YoungWazza2) January 25, 2024
See how he created this in the video below (it’s a great protest tool, farmers!) What farmers lack in inner city presence they can make up for in protests visible from space.
This absolute legend of an Aussie farmer used his tractor 🚜 to recreate the Australian country outline with the flag in the middle!
Absolute chad.
Fair play lad 👏👏👏#Australia #AustraliaDay pic.twitter.com/KdWBQeq0Qh
— DIOGO (@DiogoCorreaMD) January 26, 2024
This post is late, but it’s still (just) Australia Day.
We didn’t ask for it, but Australia Day is now a test. Do we love the country, are we proud to be Australian? The same test is happening all over the West. Are our borders, our culture, our way of life worth defending, or will we let someone else choose what matters? Will young men give their lives to protect a country that won’t even celebrate its own existence?
Good people need to say something to defend the bounty, lest we forget.
PS: I found a butcher-warehouse in a light industrial area to buy bulk beautiful cuts that are better and cheaper than Woolworths. My personal protest continues…
Impressive!
Both the execution thereof and the outcome.
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I missed the effort of the Woolworths corporation
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Fantastic use of GPS driven tractor. This kind of capability can make plowing along slopes to reduce runoff a reality.
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Yes, GPS navigation around the broadacre paddock is great; set track and sit back and listen to Bach cantatas. The old Davy Brown can rust in pieces now.
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Indeed, I remember, as an ag science student, sitting on the up-slope mudguard of my Massey Ferguson, as I ploughed along the contours, to stop it tipping over. Idiot!
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Sorry Peter, meant green, bad steering!
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132andBush
Jan 27, 2024 8:02 AM
Australia Day Farmer’s Big Effort –
Well done that man.
Great application of GPS guidance tech.
Using an Aussie made K-Line Speed Tiller as well, the best in the business.
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And meanwhile Wokeworths resell this farmer’s produce for about 3 times what they pay him…. and get away with it.
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You can find Harrison’s farm on Google Earth, just a bit SW of the town of Freeling in Sth Australia at 34 27 21 S, 138 47 28 E.
At the moment you can see his last year’s effort of a sunflower.
He’s hoping Google will pick up this year’s effort of his map of Australia soon!
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I also have stopped shopping at Woke Woolies
Our opportunity to “Bud Light” a corporate who offends its customers.
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The staff up here at Woolies are angry at this boardroom wokeness. Anyway, between the oligarchy of retailing they have the people by the short and curlies.
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Not here in Adelaide. I walked through 4″ of running water in the local carpark during a cloudburst last Thursday (not forecast of course) about 300m past Woolies to get to Drakes Foodland. I walked through Woolies on my bedraggled return – ostentatious I suppose, but this is war.
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I wish we had Drakes too.
Bloody price colluding duopoly…
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Interesting how Coles *claims* they only make about 3% profit, yet constantly have 1/2 price sales, like Wokeworths, so that’s 50% profit +, unless they’re loss leader products. (Yeah, right…)
Or as exposed years ago chicken farmers getting 30c per chook but the RRP is $12. We know from the recent transport collapse that freight isn’t eating up the profits either.
Prices are down, down at Coles but why are they up, up in the first place?
Let’s have that ACCC inquiry asap!
On a sidenote, I buy the good gourmet meat from a local butcher who’s picked up dozens of awards. Quality produce not the fatty low grade rubbish W and C sell.
Do yourself, family and farmers a favour and buy from an independent butcher.
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Do you think the ACCC might get off their fat backsides & investigate the collusion in the fuel & energy supply industries!
Probably not as Albozo & his bunch of merry men are doing their level best to bleed every last cent from petrol, diesel, gas & electricity to subsidise their wet dreams of net zero nirvana!
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It’s not Albo, it’s the UN, and he is just this season’s flavor of traitor.
The WEF and the UN cannot be separated, this is the serpent with two heads.
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Woolies and Coles sell Australian produced beef, brought from your local farmers and quality and consistency of product is the goal. The cheap, budget cuts are the lower quality animals, Cow.
The local butcher also buys in boxed beef from the major producers as there are only two of everything per beast.
I don’t know how everyone got onto the farmers are being ripped off, it’s the price at the checkout that’s ripping off consumers, and this is the point of rip off.
The farmers are getting undervalued, but the huge gap between farmer and POS is profit to the duopoly.
I have not seen the prices in the local independent butchers going down, it’s not just the majors riding this gravy train.
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“I don’t know how everyone got onto the farmers are being ripped off”
Well, from my point of view, this is the case. Its the Cockie that rolls the dice every season year in year out, for returns on investment set by someone else.
Its the Cockie that takes out a loan for fertiliser, runs up the bill for fuel, buys the crop insurance etc all to play Russian roulette with the weather or government and then be screwed down to the lowest possible price for their produce. As I watched by brother in law, a crop farmer, wonder how he would survive the year when a week before harvest his entire years work was wiped out by a hail storm, the debt is his, the investment is his, the uncertainty is his, and the big buyers simply move on to the next supplier. No support, no guarantee of a contract for next year, tough. If you cant supply at the lowest possible price they find someone that will. That means imports of course, from third world countries, or any where else that regulations are lacks enough to allow cheap production.
And that particular Furph, “Product of Australia” and “Made in Australia” wow, product can be brought in from a third world country, packaged in Australia where labour costs are high enough to “allow” Australian inputs to be greater than the country of origin so what have we got? “ Product of Australia”. Big supermarkets proudly supporting Australian farmers is just an advertising blurb to create the illusion that they care.
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I run cattle, and have done for 30 years.
Very few beef producers fertilise and if they do it’s the finishing paddock, I don’t know of one cattle person who insurers their stock, though it is available.
The price of cattle is about where it was 10 years ago, we have had a good 10 years since, always a cycle.
The topic is meat not wheat, and they have been having bumper years every year, prices have been high due to the wars.
“About two years ago [someone could] sell four decks of cows and calves and they made $40,000 for the truckload,” she said.
“But now you sell a deck of steers and they make $60,000 — it’s bloody insane.”
(a double decker is two decks, about 22 head a deck)
From 2021 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-20/november-rains-push-cattle-prices-higher/100633980
Peaks and troughs, cycles. Nothing new under the sun, put away in the good times to survive the bad times.
A good operator puts away, a bad gets a lone.
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Plenty of reasons why people have debts other than bad management MP. Buying out siblings, prolonged drought, changes in export demand etc etc.
This was not the point. The point was the big supermarkets dont really go out of their way to make life easier for their producers. If we go back a couple of years the “BIG” issue for the big two was a $1.00 / litre of milk. The big two claimed to help the cost of living for families. The dairy farmers could not produce milk for this price let alone retail it, who paid, the producer. Did this send some producers to the wall, absolutely, did the big two care, NO.
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Buying out is a personal choice and across all industries, drought and export are the bad times across all industries.
The big two are helping the family, $1 a liter milk is a bargain.
They are a business, the farmer is a business, and one is to get the product at the lowest possible price, the other the highest.
My mate is a cattle man, he shops at wollies, buys the dollar milk and fills his car at the woolies servo, I go off my nut. But the local businesses know and one day he will run head on into Karma on one of those bad years.
The average of good years and bad, still is a good living, that’s why they’re there. It is cycles within cycles.
We all cry poor, as we hop in our new land cruiser, to tow our new reef boat.
It really is the consumer getting ripped off, but Albo is onto it, well twelve months from now.
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Do you sell milk to The Big Two?
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Beef cattle, so no. But I buy the local Jersey milk at $3 a litre, I know were your going and I despise the $1 milk buyers, but times they are a changing.
I really do buy everthing local, use cash, not just flapping my gums.
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One more thing, the farmer does not sell to the big two, he sells to the co-op the co-op does a deal with the evil twins, and it’s a tier system.
The dollar milk is the demand by the consumers, if they didn’t buy it the product would not be on the shelves, but they do so it is.
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“That means imports of course, from third world countries, or any where else that regulations are lax enough to allow cheap production.”
This is what consumers are staring down the barrel of, if more farmers either go broke or quit the land, where is our fresh produce going to come from, work it out for yourselves.
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Farmers are going broke every day. The damage to farmers is being done by their own government, look at the Murry Darling mess, entirely created by government. The M/D system exists to irrigate the land, the government is removing their right to water, the land can’t be farmed, there is you’re walking off the land.
Every problem in this country was created by government, all.
Name me one thing the government has fixed, ever.
We used to have tariffs on goods we imported that we make in country, these were removed with all the free trade agreements, the TPP being the final blow, the result was our better quality goods could not compete with the consumer required CHEAP, and all our industry folded.
Liberal governments I believe, TPP by Turdbull himself. And the majority want these criminals back in power?
Its Government not woolies, wollies can be fixed by boycotting, the government can’t be fixed by recycling the same sewerage, over and over.
They are shutting down the commercial fishing all around Australia, so you will be eating imports in seafood soon, not woolies, government.
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The interest rates are fixed.
Arguably there’s also some price fixing in the labour market … for example national awards and importing skilled labour for specific industries where supply pressure exists (i.e. wages going up too fast).
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Tel,
Some say the last US Election ’twere fixed by an opposition guvuhmint.
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I must have very bad steering thumbs…I meant green Sambar
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True, but as you’re in the industry, can you provide any pricing info?
The good thing about independent butchers like mine is that they buy directly, there’s no gouging, they know the farmers and how the cattle are raised.
Ask W or C what farm their beef came from or if their graze fed beef was feedlot corn finished or what hormones or antibiotics are used and see what answer you get.
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The “Eastern Young cattle indicator” (EYCI) is the sort of standard market indicator.
The MLA (Meat and Livestock Australia) site covers all markets https://www.mla.com.au/Prices-markets/
I supply a private market, but I base the price on the trend, good, quite cattle sell themselves.
Coles and Wollies are hormone free cattle, the hormone craze is almost over. I used to hormone when I was fattening, I swung to breeding and as my market had changed and the consumer sentiment rightly started to question.
For me it was based on, if people want to hormone they will buy both HGP and HGP free, people who want HGP free will only buy HGP free, a marketing choice and I saw no real difference in the two, but if they come off the paddock a month earlier, it is worth it. It’s all about kilos per day gain. Hormoned cattle are ear marked, a triangular hole is punched through the right ear, marked for life.
They do buy directly, you would struggle to find a butcher who does not have his own paddocks of beef as well and some have thousands of head. They buy at the sale yards, you will see them at the sales every week, and they fill the gap with boxed beef.
We do use antibiotics for infections, and use of on farm antibiotics is monitored, you cannot sell cattle for 30 days (depending on type) after the last injection. Sticking a needle in a 500kg antivaxxer animal every other day, yeah, has some risks. But we won’t let animals suffer and at two grand a pop.
Coles and Woolies are also antibiotic free beef.
Not sticking up for the twins, just credit where credit is due, they demand standards well above the local Butcher, they have a quality product, born and raised in Australia by Australian cattlemen.
This is paddock raised, grass fed. The commercial feed lots, I know vaxxinate them for every disease known to cattle, what else I have no idea, hormone is probably still happening at some.
Coles and Woolies have their own feed lots, so their beef is grain fed, hormone and antibiotic free, really is the only grain fed beef I would buy. (Except that vax thing)
We tag our cattle with RFID (NLIS), their movement from the birth property is tracked to the last bit of beef is boxed, we can tell you in some cases which paddock they have come out of buy what’s on the carton.
Aussie beef standards are the best in the world.
There are very strict standards in all areas of the meat industry, animal welfare is high, thats our money
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If you buy a carrot and some mayonaise at Coles you have to buy a cabbage.
This is known as the new Coles Law 😉
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With Australia Day out of the way ANZAC Day will be next under attack
It is the Phoney Aboriginals like Thomas Mayo who seek to divide Australians by race – with real Aboriginals it is a different story.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have fought for Australia in every war since Federation in 1901. •
In 1944 nearly every Torres Strait Islander man was a member of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion—in proportion to population, no community in Australia contributed more to Australia’s effort in World War II than the people of the Torres Strait Islands.
• The first Japanese Prisoner of War in Australia was captured by Aboriginal people after his plane crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin in February 1942.
Despite rules against their enrolment, over 3000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women are known to have enlisted in World War II—a further 400 are known to have served in World War I.
• There are up to 7,000Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans and war widows in the Australian community today.
• More than 800 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians now serve with distinction in the Australian Defence Forces.
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Thomas Mayo is not a phoney aboriginal. Unlike perhaps as many as 300,000 Australians who now identify as having indigenous ancestry, Thomas Mayo definitely has ancestors who are Torres Strait Islander.
That is not the issue. The real question, particularly for Australia Day, is why do these activists with declared indigenous ancestry ignore all the rest of their ancestors? Basing an argument around the falsehood of an “Invasion Day” is only relevant to full-blood indigenous Australians. Every other activist is therefore a product of European settlement, and simply would not exist if the First Fleet had not arrived.
So the real question to put to these activists is why they only choose to honour some of their ancestors, and not all of them!
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812,728 people self-identified as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in the 2021 Census – up 25.2% (163,557 people) from 2016.
However only 80,000 Aborigials live in communities where an Aboriginal language is spoken. This is a good indicator of how many full-blood Aboriginals there are – only 10% of those who self-identify.
Around 300,000 are compllete phoneys with no Aboriginal ancestry (or provable ancestry) and the rest are of mixed racial heritage who would not be alive today but for European Settlement.
Activist Senator Thorpe is one thirty second Aboriginal – similarly most other activists would not be alive but for European Settllement but they are too dumb and greedy to figure this out
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CO2 Lover, I have often tried to make this same point on the News comments sites but the moderators/censors always reject it – that and their cultural appropriation of the Canadian term, First Nations people.
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William, I have lost count of the number of times The Oz has rejected my comment about “First Nations” being used to describe our aboriginal population. All I try to do is point out that, to claim nationhood, a country must have a cohesive population, some form of government or social control and a person who is a recognised leader, chief, president or king (or queen). Australia had hundreds of nomadic tribes that had no cohesion between tribes and no leader of a significant part of the population. But no matter how I couch these comments, being careful not to be “racist”, my comments are never published.
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Peter, I am having success with my comments saying that First Nations is a Canadian Marxist term not applicable in Australia.
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So our cricket captain implies that Europeans should never have come to this country.
I have been a cricket tragic all my life and listened to short wave broadcasts of tests from England with my grandfather in the middle of the night preteen.
If you are not a hypocrite you will find your family tree and locate your original country by lineage.
You can be first to start the great migration back there.
Only full blood first nation people should remain.
Remember that not one of the 365.25 days will be suitable.
It’s the celebration of Australia that a tiny minority want to abolish
I have denied myself the pleasure of watching any cricket match in which you participate.
The 3 admitted Marxists who started BLM bought multiple millions on real estate portfolios including a 6 million dollar mansion in Canada.
Of all those millions donated by mega businesses not a dollar went to a poverty stricken black child.
It was sickening to see sports people around the world kneeling and grovelling to what was obviously a greedy narcissistic self serving gang.
Willfull blindness is destined to destroy the Western Democracies.
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Mayo is largely a Filipino Marxist.
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But Filipino marxists don’t go as well with chicken.
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TI’s and abo’s are different.
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Unesco removes ‘hurtful’ document claiming Tasmanian Aboriginal people ‘extinct’
Inaccurate statement by the International Union for Conservation of Nature made as part of the 1982 process for world heritage status for Tasmanian wilderness area
Historically, the Tasmanian Aboriginal people spoke languages that were unintelligible to mainland Aboriginal peoples.
The death in 1876 of Truganini,the last full-booded Tasmanian Aboriginal woman who had aided the resettlement on Flinders Island, meant that full-blooded Aboriginal people of Tasmania had become extinct.
By the 1970s a movement for Aboriginal rights in Tasmania had begun to gain steam, led by activists who pointedly identified themselves as Aboriginal people rather than as the “descendants” of Aboriginal people this then led to a land grab by people who only had to claim that they were Aboriginal without producing any evidence of Aboriginal ancestry
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There are so many blue eyed blond Australian aboriginals these days. The aboriginals the first settlers encountered would refuse to accept them as relatives or descendents.
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The way that the Aboriginal population is increasing, someone calculated we will all identify as Aboriginal by about 2075.
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Pride in our country, something our politicians certainly don’t have.
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There are a few conservative politicians who are proud of being Australian and who celebrate Australia Day.
They are from the conservative oriented parties:
-United Australia Party
-Libertarian Party (formerly Liberal Democrats)
-One Nation
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David,
Please pencil in Great Australian Party.
The ONLY party NOT under Maritime Law.
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Pride in China is more common
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I’m proud to be Australian and I’m not even an Australian. Happy Australia Day to all you BLOKES.
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Sorry, and all you Shelias too!
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What’s a Shelia? ToM
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If I understand it, you are correct. A sheila is a tom, …undercover. 😁
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What’s a tom? ToM
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A “tom” is a male cat. There are fine points to the definition, but I wasn’t trying to be too clever (guess I succeeded, eh!) 😁
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After a bit of further study (that I should have done to start with), I see that what “Sheila” USED to mean was a slang term for sn effeminate male, but NOW is used as praise of a strng female character, or some such.
I blame “Crocodile Dundee” for my misconception.
It’s quite shocking that words are changing meanings so fast, that in my lifetime they run through 1 or more variations that I never knew about when younger. At this rate, I’ll be speaking a foreign language before you can say Bob’s yours mother’s brother.
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My question was “what’s a S H E L I A?” as was written by Jim 2. ToM
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Had to be the spell checker BS thing … 😉
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Took me a while… I saw the “ll” as an “il”.
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Do not forget the SHEILAS
Sheila is a common Irish female name, probably derived from the Greek Cecilia. Because many early Australian immigrants were Irish, the personal name became a nickname for the entire gender.
There are twice as many Australians of Irish descent (who also had their land stolen by the British!) as those who self identify as Aboriginal.
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Who are “the British?” And who stole the land from the Druids, the Picts, the Icenae, the rest of the Celts, the Saxons, the Jutes, the Angles etc ad nauseam? What did the Romans/Vikings/Normans and (almost later on) the French and Germans ever do for us?
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What did the Normans do for us?
The Anglo-Saxon pig became the French porc, which was Anglicized to pork; the Anglo-Saxon cow became the French boeuf, which became beef; and sheep became mouton, (later mutton).
The victors used the french terms for the meat they ate from the animials raised by the conquered Anglo-Saxon serfs.
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Pig is Norse. Swine is Saxon. Cochon is French.
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Further, Kuh is cow and bull, stier , heifer, kalb( calf) and Schaff is sheep. The name Schaefer means shepherd.
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More on “Pig”
In 1874, a slang dictionary published in London listed the definition of pig as “a policeman, an informer. The word is now almost exclusively applied by London thieves to a plain-clothes man, or a ‘nose.’” Still, it’s a bit ambiguous why the term pig was coined in connection to police, but perhaps it was an allusion to early officers and detectives who were sniffing out crime, like a pig sniffs with its snout. This would make sense in correlation with the term “nose” as used above.
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If their land was “stolen” why are the Irish, for the time being at least, the majority in their own country?
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I originally posted this in the Saturday thread but having just seen this Australia day piece, it seems very relevant to post it here.
Interesting new book by Matthew Goodwin ‘Values Voice and Virtue’ telling us things we probably already knew but setting it out succinctly and clearly.
We have a new University educated intellectual elite whose values are entirely different to the old elite, not believing in their country’s culture, beliefs, history or traditions. A huge proportion want more immigration, more climate and social justice and financial reparations for those we have supposedly wronged in the distant past. They are contemptuous of the values and attitudes of those they consider intellectually and socially inferior (i.e not as well educated or connected) and are determined to sweep away the old ways.
Bodes badly for those wanting a return to pre covid normality, as more lockdowns, direction and surveillance are also on their agenda and they are not that keen on democracy.
This is what Brexit and the wave of right wind populism in Europe were out to give a bloody nose to. However, time is on their side and as they are at the top of the tree, and control the commanding heights, what they want they will likely get, short of a french style revolution. This overwhelmingly left wing elite have completed the 20 year long march through the institutions and no one stopped them
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Jo comments
“We didn’t ask for it, but Australia Day is now a test. Do we love the country, are we proud to be Australian? The same test is happening all over the West. Are our borders, our culture, our way of life worth defending, or will we let someone else choose what matters? Will young men give their lives to protect a country that won’t even celebrate its own existence?”
As an add on to my comment above about the intellectual elite-and their hangers on who are young but not actually in power-as they are so dismissive of their country and its value and its history, thinking it all ought to be swept away, only a tiny percentage would fight for their country according to research and polls mentioned in the book I cite. So jo, the answer is likely to be no and that will become ever more emphatic as the young elite distance themselves further from old traditional values and the population is changed by numerous incomers who never had those values and feelings about Oz in the first place.
Putin and others just need to wait a few years and they could just walk into many western countries.
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What is this ‘way of life’ that the young are being asked to sacrifice their lives for ?
Corrupt government, corrupt judiciary, financial inequality, forever foreign wars ?
A whole generation sacrificed themselves during WW1, what for ? European empires fighting for hegemony. Gallipoli anyone ? During WW2 sacrifices were made to defeat nazis, now they are celebrated. People make sacrifices in the hope and belief that the future will be better. It’s not.
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The wrong side “won” WW2 – just look at what has happened to London and Paris.
Convince me I am wrong.
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Yes, this is the effect of the internet, where friends are all over the world as you grow up,and old farts on TV banging on in Parliament are quite irrelevant.
We are past the time of all pulling together to build the country, it is built, and this is the ‘settle down and relax to enjoy ourselves’ time. Don’t interrupt my gaming time with your patriotic wars against the people I’m playing with!
Ordinary people with a life that doesn’t change with a change in rulers are convinced to go to war by people who profit from it. If this were not true the answer to war would be to arm every Australian with an assault rifle, yet our rulers never seem to favour that. So we’re not under threat, they are!
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As it is here in Aus.
The Aus middle class will never “rise up” with sufficient fervour to change the course of lefty politics. A few minor tax cuts plus armed police militia will see to that.
And we’ve already seen the weasel reactions to the 60:40 Voice referendum. State Govts are proceeding with Treaties and Woolworths (as an example) are lecturing the general populace on their “racism”.
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My local council replaced Australia Day celibrations with an Orwellian “Truth Telling” ceremony where lies are fabricated to drive racial hatred and division and to justify “Paying the Rent” to phoney Aboriginals who are more white than brown.
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Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
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Oi oi oi
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I am old enough to remember the insult “UnAustralian”.
Seems like woolies is now UnAustralian too.
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Great to see. I take my hat off to the farmer/farming family.
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I’m Melbournistan a statue of Captain Cook was cut down and also a statue of Queen Victoria was vandalised.
The police were called with plenty of time to stop the insurrectionists but they didn’t come for a very long time according to various reports. By that time the criminals had gone.
I wouldn’t be the least surprised if the Government had previously told police command not to attend or delay attendance at any such anti-Australian crimes.
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I’ll bet the supposed police investigation into the matter gets quietly shelved in the unsolved files.
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Policing social media offensive posts takes up their time, along with catching people doing 61 in a 60 zone.
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Yes.
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Thanks again Jo for highlighting the treasonous WWs and I’ll stick to Coles, Ritchies and even Aldi and smaller Grocers, fruit shops etc.
And that Farmer is amazing and you definitely would not see that art on their ABC or our other WOKE TV.
We must get ready for Anzac day and shout down the left wing WOKE liars and haters and always support our Aussie Diggers.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have fought for Australia in every war since Federation in 1901.
• In 1944 nearly every Torres Strait Islander man was a member of the Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion—in proportion to population, no community in Australia contributed more to Australia’s effort in World War II than the people of the Torres Strait Islands.
• The first Japanese Prisoner of War in Australia was captured by Aboriginal people after his plane crashed on Melville Island, north of Darwin in February 1942.
Despite rules against their enrolment, over 3000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women are known to have enlisted in World War II—a further 400 are known to have served in World War I.
• There are up to 7,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander veterans and war widows in the Australian community today.
• More than 800 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians now serve with distinction in the Australian Defence Forces.
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Agreed co2 lover and in my town the longest serving RSL President was a returned world war 2 soldier and part Aboriginal.
But he told me years ago that “the Aboriginal industry was BS and filled with lazy bast..ds”.
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What a LEGEND.
Deserves the Order of Australia, at least.
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People need to understand that the protest against Australia Day isn’t a protest against Australia Day. It is Australia Day being used by those who seek to tear down everything. Win or lose on their Australia Day campaign, they will just move on to the next thing to tear down. We will never get rid of these mongrels by pandering to them.
Having said that, there are of course some people who genuinely dislike Australia Day, but they are being used by the tear-down-everything bully boys and girls – it’s rather like the best lies using a grain of truth. We need to have a sober and civil discussion about issues, but that seems to be impossible nowadays.
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The Cultural Marxists called it the “Critical Theory
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Shouldn’t native Australians be celebrating the fact that Australia was peacefully settled and the settlers brought to them prosperity due to advanced technology and legal systems, writing and record keeping systems, an organised government and liberated them from the stone age lives they were formerly living?
We keep hearing about “invasion” but no one can ever tell me what the alternative is or was? Would Australia have stayed a stone age society with a population of a few hundred thousand until the present? Certainly not! The next wave of migration was inevitable, as were the several waves and races of pre-European settlement, now written out of history.
E.g. previous migrations were related to Kow Swamp man, Mungo man, Tasmanian Aborigines, pygmy Aborigines, the artists responsible for the Bradshaw paintings etc.. None of these are allowed to be discussed or scientifically investigated because they go against the Official Narrative that there was only ever one pre-European human migration to Australia and life here was a utopia before Europeans came. There was constant war, disease, starvation, infanticide, abuse of women, and worse etc. all documented by early settlers
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/
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If the 17th century Australia was so much better why don’t they go live in the outback?!!!
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If Australia had remained a stone-age “paradise” how quickly would it have been invaded by the Japanese in WW2?
After Dutch navigators charted the northern, western and southern coasts of Australia during the 17th Century this newly found continent became known as ‘New Holland’.
The Dutch East Indies was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which came under the administration of the Dutch government in 1800
So why didn’t the Dutch beat the British in establishing a settlement in Australia?
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Why not the Dutch?
My understanding is that their experience of our west coast was not supportive of any idea of settlement – too hot, too dry, too barren, and no visible source of survival. No sign of civilisation. And the odd shipwreck didn’t help.
Cheers,
Dave B
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William Dampier had exactly the same experience in 1688 – he declared that he had never seen such a barren, lifeless land, populated by naked stone age people whom he thought to be the most primitive on Earth. He had stumbled upon the north west coast and couldn’t leave quick enough.
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David, You missed Cannibalism in your list of activities of some “First Nations”. In Australia it’s well documented, even by Daisy Bates whom lived amongst them.
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Her book – ‘The Passing of the Aborigines’ is a great read.
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I wonder whether there is a backlash against the move to abolish Australia Day? Driving yesterday I was intrigued by the number of Australia flags on houses and cars. I didn’t remember such common displays before.
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The Left in all Western countries hate their own countries.
Right now, in the US, the Biden regime is taking legal action against Texas to stop Texas from preventing illegal entry of non-citizens across the border and are even going to remove fencing that Texas has erected at the border to prevent illegal entry.
Discussed by Matt Walsh: https://youtu.be/NFQtOUpq4Pc
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We can do without the wokie globalist megalomaniacs. Good on the farmer!
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On a slightly tangential issue – wrt Britain contemplating bringing in the draft: If a country’s culture is destroyed then there is nothing to defend – no army that can be mustered.
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Honestly, why would British youth sacrifice their lives for a bunch of Indian billionaires who are gutting the country ?
Civil war seems the only sensible and patriotic cause !
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Revenge on the Colonialists!
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I’ve seen social media posts from some UK veterans ( ex Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts) who have said they would not sign up in the present circumstances. Mainly because their government appears to not value the sovereignty of their own country. Basically , if you want to fight the Russians , then all you MP’s and defense command can be first in line to enlist or go jump in a Ukrainian foxhole.
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In Melbournistan there is normally an Air Force flyover.
I didn’t notice one this year except I just found out there was a flyover by a single Mustang from the Heritage Fleet from the RAAF Museum.
I would have thought a flyover by F-35’s would have been more appropriate as a sign of defence preparedness, rather we got a single historic aircraft.
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The state might have had to pay the fuel bill. Toss up between an F-35 a historic Mustang or a Surf Lifesaving helicopter.
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Harrison Schuster take a bow. What a true blue, ridgy didge, fair dinkum, bloody fantastic and f***in’ clever Aussie. ToM
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I think people have ignored what happened in the aftermath of The Voice referendum, and its applicability to the behaviour of the left in regards to protests against Australia Day.
Before the referendum, Australians were almost continually bombarded with derogatory comments from the activist class that opposition to The Voice was racist, showed a lack of compassion for indigenous Australians, and pointed to a clear lack of moral responsibility in regard to “Closing the Gap”. Yet, in the months since the resounding rejection of The Voice proposal, what has been this government’s response?
Nothing has changed in regard to the circumstances being faced by indigenous communities in remote outback locations. Yet where is the Minister for Indigenous Affairs? She still has an entire agency to run, but what new initiatives has she proposed? What about our Prime Minister, who spent the first 18 months of his term telling us there was nothing more important? Where are the changes to legislation that he said would be ready to go, as soon as the referendum was over? Yes, the outcome was not what the government wanted, but the problems they kept highlighting have not gone away.
The complete inaction of the government since the referendum tells the rest of us that we were right to reject The Voice. The referendum was never about fixing the problems faced by indigenous communities. That was just a smoke screen for the activists, who were after a fundamental change to our democratic structures.
The same lesson needs to be applied to those protesting Australia Day. It has nothing to do with the date. That is self-evident by the complete absence of any debate about alternative dates. The problem the left have is our national pride, and just like the referendum, they use the pretext of “Invasion Day” and the cover of indigenous indignation to achieve their political objective.
And just like The Voice referendum, it seems like those protests are having exactly the opposite effect on mainstream Australians. So let the left have their annual dummy-spit. Let those indigenous activists scream unintelligible rants at their rent-a-crowd supporters.
The falseness of their intent was cemented by the protest organisers allowing Palestinian protestors to join their march, wearing Palestinian headwear and proudly waving Palestinian flags. They are anti-Australia and everything this country has built over the last 200 years.
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We’ve gone all out on Woolworths but remember Coles ( the other major supermarket chain in Australia) is really not that much better. I think it was probably dumb luck that they actually did stock some Australia Day merchandise. But it was pretty pathetic and in my Coles stores, was displayed way down the back. Contrast that with Halloween ( an American import) where merch was displayed at the front of the store and large. Just like Woollies, Coles will probably have their aboriginal advisory committee ( because it’s woke) with all their un Australian recommendations.
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Just read the woke bullshit on the Coles receipts.
It was dumb luck they did stock some Australia Day merch – but it was at the back of the store with no mention of “Ausralia Day”
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Their receipts are very annoying and the same thing was the case at Healesville Coles; pathetic bits of merch down at the back of the shop. No flags anywhere to be seen in the town. I did go into Coles (and Aldi, for my sins) deliberately wearing some Australia Day items, hat, badge and tag on my handbag and drawstring bag on my back. Two people said ‘Well done!’, another obviously approved and the majority either completely (carefully!) ignored me or, especially those I think of as ‘hippy dippy’ types, glowered at me!
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Let us see what happens next Australia Day
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Let’s start planning for that now. How about some giant car convoys with huge extravagant flags, starting the week (or two) before Australia Day? How Australian would that be?
I once went to a Medieval Festival where they had drummers marching — the effect of being there was unexpectedly moving. You could feel it in your bones. Our ancestors knew how to create an experience.
I have wondered about making temporary hand made drums for use in protests, and I’m sure there are lots of ways with PVC…
Any drummers in the audience here who can advise on the reality of teaching newbies a few basic rhythms?
PS: Annie, good for you, and there’s nothing to stop the rest of us doing that all year.
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Aldous Huxley
If none of us show support of Australia Day then we will lose it to a vocal minority.
Jo please do some posts on this in the lead up to 26 Jan 2025.
I am sure we could round up some of the many real Aboriginals who are proud to be Australian to add didgeridoos to the mix and given that many Ausralians like me have Irish ancestors (and Scottish), the uilleann pipes sometimes called Irish Bagpipes and Scottish bagpipes as well.
Music is supposed to hellp bring people together.
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Jo
Learn the triple drum roll, and the rythm “The black cat piddled on the white cat’s eye (repeat), that is what it did to make the white cat cry”.
Recalled from my days in a school cadet band many years ago. I was a bugler, but the drum rythms were a constant background.
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By the way, GPS is amazing tech for ag. We’re talking sowing accuracy down to 5cm and less, particular with your own tower. Which means even if you sow at 15cm row spacing, next year you can sow accurately between those same rows, which better utilizes residual fertilizer etc. Ag has had auto-steer for decades. Now John Deere are installing Starlink capabilities into their equipment which provides even more accuracy.
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…but at a price AND the feedback Info being sold on ? Double edged sword with all that, IMHO, Certainly I like the idea of the GPS – but not the rest of the package ( at least from what I see here in UK / N America.)
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Saighdear — unlike the UK/US every milligram of fertilizer matters in Au.
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Farmers organise Reckless Renewables Rally, Canberra Feb 6: no more windmills, solar panels or power lines
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Windmills are eco-crucifixes and only deniers would object to them.
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I’ll remain a heathen as far as wind turbines are concerned.
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John Cardogan refers to Mercedes as “Old Three Prong”.
So are they actually subliminal advertising for MB?
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He also calls them ‘a 3 pronged Sw&stica’.
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Well, back here in the UK, I wish Farmers would have done something like that all too. For ourselves, and after the PostOffice affair, I’ll be boycotting it: Just found a book of stamps in the Glove compartment – Should have been returned to get new barcoded stamps -Hope I haven’t missed a deadline. However I’d now be looking for a Cash-in of these stamps ( 1st class, too). Our Local Couriers / Parcel Carriers are in disarray too at the moment ..maybe they don’t want to deliver to the North of Scotland either, anymore. Choices & options are limited . Pity we can’t boycott our Electricity Suppliers with their woke attitudes towards us … and then we have the EV Guys .. could write a book, eh? Good Fortune to you, Australia!
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My day started out with a quick scan of the news. I saw references to the usual:
– grant and subsidy harvesting;
– a criminal matter that involved ‘official racism’, ‘toxic masculinity’ and a version of a limited hangout — sorry, I don’t dare be more specific;
– fraud on the various welfare and support programs — often involving a ‘common element’;
– activists using ‘people’ as hand puppets in the cause of pushing their extremist agenda — I was tempted to comment on this on a blog but then I reminded myself of the various laws that are designed to suppress political speech;
– incessant unchallenged propaganda about weather and climate;
– the social and economic problems caused by the immigration ponzi scheme practised by all governments, no matter what their claimed political persuasion;
– rogue juveniles, being the product of failed welfare, education and justice policies, terrorising neighbourhoods, with impunity;
– politicians being interviewed, which left me wondering who of them saw government’s role as being that of maintaining a safe, civil, cohesive, prosperous society, who of them were concerned only with imposing their personal and often extreme agenda on everyone, and who of them were just in it for themselves and their mates.
And then it was time to drive into town. As I walked out to the car I noted the half dozen kangaroos that have taken up residence in my back paddock. One was a very young joey that was bounding around in circles, full of the joie de vivre. There had been a second joey but it was now lying dead on the side of the nearby road, on which 80% of road users are speeding.
I hit the road, literally, as my car bottomed out in one of the many potholes that haven’t been repaired since the rain event several years ago, despite my rates having increased by around 50% over the past 8 years. But even if the potholes were repaired, the road itself has degraded so much as to be no better than a goat track. I wondered why people would keep voting for more of the same, and then I reminded myself that in our flawed democracy people have simply become demoralised, realising that they have no power to influence public policy, so they just shrug and tick the same ballot boxes over and over again. Weight of public opinion means nothing at the local level, because someone 100 klms away isn’t going to care in the least what is happening in my neighbourhood. It’s why activists target local government. I wondered if I should campaign on this at the next election, but then I reminded myself how stupid it would be to potentially attract ‘unwanted attention’.
Then I got onto the highway and noted once again that 80% of drivers were exceeding the speed limit, some driving at 100 kph through 60 kph roadwork zones. I wondered why people were so casual about risking a fine, not to mention the physical risk, and then I remembered a woman I know who seemed to have the view that speed limits applied to ‘ordinary’ people but not to someone special like her — need I mention what her political persuasion was! I find that I have to ‘drive the car behind me’, as well as my own, because around two-thirds of drivers do not drive at a safe distance behind the car in front of them. I manage their speed so that I don’t end up like a girl I know who was rear-ended when she stopped at a stop sign. The offending driver got out of her car and abused the girl for stopping at a stop sign ‘when there was no traffic coming’. Then there was the pickup with bull bars that rear-ended a woman’s small car at a set of traffic lights, completely demolishing it, but causing absolutely no damage to the pickup. You can see what happened: rear driver speeding, tailgating, probably on his mobile phone booking a job and probably intent on beating the changing traffic light. Looking at the demolished car and the driver, I’m guessing that she wasn’t insured, but even if she were, she would still have to pay the excess. I’ll bet that she had no option but to wear the entire financial loss, despite being the innocent party. If we ever get a genuine conservative government in this country I would expect them to make rear-ending an absolute liability offence (as it is in New York) and ALL of the costs would go against the rear vehicle’s owner AND recovery of the costs would be enforced by government. But it’s the same in all our dealings as consumers, isn’t it. All of the power in the relationship lies with the businesses we deal with and we more or less have to rely on their goodwill to get a just outcome. But that’s a fantasy that probably only a hard-core libertarian would believe in. Government should intervene to balance the power in the relationship.
I find that around three-quarters of those who tailgate are too stupid or too distracted to appreciate the risk they are taking, while the remainder are just bullies who get their kicks from sh-tt-ing on other people (toxic masculinity — it’s the nature of the species). Bullies will always be bullies unless they fear being bullied themselves, and this is the role of the police — or at least it would be if governments weren’t intent on using ‘light touch’ policing in order not to lose votes.
I arrive at the supermarket, expecting to have to endure the usual, and I’m not disappointed. There’s the person who parks their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle and then wanders off to look on the shelves, totally oblivious to the fact that they are blocking the aisle; the people who wander two-abreast down the aisle, totally oblivious to everyone around them; and the person who stops dead in the middle of the aisle, to read a text, because their brain cannot both read and operate their legs at the same time. What’s wrong with people? Is it that governments have destroyed our sense of community, so people have simply withdrawn into themselves, or is it that people have become so accustomed to government doing things for them that they no longer bother to think about what is happening around them? Is there another explanation?
The shopping’s done and I’m exhausted. I just have to get home and get away from it all. What’s this? An electricity bill in my mailbox. Well, thank heavens government is giving us reliable power at the lowest possible cost. But then I opened the envelope …
Did someone say ‘Happy Australia Day’?
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Try Canada – a while back Small Dead Animals mentioned a province that was “running a de-bitumening program”
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DD,
Commiserations on what sounds to have been a less-than-uplifting Australia Day.
I think some of the disrespect for speed limits is deserved. What we call “speed limits” are more like recommended speeds.
I took a holiday in the Republic of Ireland (25 years ago) and found the speed limits “interesting”. I remember doing under 50km/h along a quite narrow road where the limit was 60, thinking to myself that, with the blind turns and crests, even 50 would be a bit too spirited for me in my little rental car. Then the limit jumped to 80. Bonkers. It seems the Irish authorities set the limits to speeds beyond which you’d be foolish to go even in a brilliant car and in the very best of conditions. Isn’t that what a speed limit really should be?
Here (I’m west of Sydney), you’ll generally be seen as an obstruction if you aren’t doing something very close to the speed limit (around the major population areas at least). Yet you’ll be heavily penalised if you’re caught going a few km/h over that recommended speed. Is the motorcycle speeding at 65 km/h more of a hazard than the B-double doing a compliant 59 km/h? I don’t think so. Our approach to speed limits is far more consistent with convenient imposition of penalties than with any direct concerns about safety.
Another interesting data point: the US state of Colorado did traffic speed monitoring on I25, an interstate freeway with, at the time, a 65 mph speed limit. They found the median speed on that stretch was just over 70 mph (IIRC). Rather than have a crackdown on all the casual speeders, the limit was raised to 75 mph. The interesting point is that the median speed only nudged up a little after the change (73 mph, IIRC). It seems people exercised personal judgement at what they thought to be a safe speed and largely ignored the limits.
Personally, I’d feel safer with roads entirely occupied with people exercising good personal judgement than a bunch of blind followers-of-rules. The problem is there are also people exercising poor personal judgement. I don’t think our current law enforcement approach is doing much of a job at getting them off the road.
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It seems people exercised personal judgement at what they thought to be a safe speed and largely ignored the limits.
It’s good in theory, but you have to remember that the stupid probably believe that they too are good drivers.
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DD,
I don’t disagree, but I’m not sure what point you’re making. Your original comment complained about people ignoring the rules. What remedy do you propose?
My point was that people ignoring rules might just be indicating rules that don’t have much sense behind them. The Colorado story showed that it is *possible* for a bureaucracy to accept this message. I’m afraid the bureaucracy we have here only has one response to widespread speeding: crack down.
Same underpinnings as the crazy actions we had over COVID. I suppose we’ll know they’re really serious about speeding when they start having police snipers taking potshots.
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This is moving away from the thrust of my original argument, which was that, given the set of dot points at the beginning of my original post, Australia Day is nothing to celebrate. I dwelled a little to long on road usage, as I was trying to make a general point about the apparent mental decline of the population. I had a lot more examples on road usage, shopping, casual interactions and so on, but it was just too long a post to spend time on. So, I’ll wrap it up here. Thanks for your responses.
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These laws are deliberately designed and made to be broken, and for the exact reason you specified.
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DD
Have to agree with most of what you say but you are too pessimistic.
Most drivers aren’t that crook and roads are a lot better than they used to be. Robert, above, has done my thoughts on speed limits.
I supose I live in a selected group but I know a few great families so there is hope.
And it is raining again after some great Aussie sun.
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@DD:
Excellent rant!
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The best (and most ethical) way to source your meat is direct from your local farmers. In most areas farmers can find a “travelling slaughter man/butcher” who will rock up to the property, shoot a small number of steers/lambs/pigs in the paddock (no fright, no ghastly trucking, no days of waiting outside the slaughterhouse for their turn)…hang them in a mobile cool room and return a week or two later to butcher and pack.
You can normally buy anywhere from 1/4 steer, 1/2 pig, whole lamb packed for the freezer. Where I live, the going price is around $15kg on the hook – so way cheaper than even the supermarket. And just cook with cortisol-free and properly hung beef and see and taste the difference.
The farmer gets a bigger cut of the total cost, the animals have a better life and a far far better death, you get better and cheaper meat.
Now that’s what I call environmentally sensitive, ethical, economic and high quality living.
Support your local farmer!
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I believe you will find that the government does not allow SALE of butchered meat ex-farm. At least in WA.
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@ozfred & @Plain Jane:
It’s huge fine for selling meat without a licence.
But you don’t sell the meat, you sell the live animals.
A group of us get together and arrange with the farmer to buy the livestock, and with the travelling butcher to bring his gear and do the job.
He comes back after the carcasses have hung in the mobile coolrooms to set the meat, and cuts it all up for bagging and distribution among the group.
Yes, the meat is better, cheaper and more ethical, but don’t forget to add the cost of the chest freezer and the electricity to keep it frozen.
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I agree totally. But the situation you describe above is also illegal. Unless it is your own animal you eat. It is also illegal for you to serve it up to your visitors for dinner. In Australia anyway. Used to be called the “Mutton Economy”. Another reason to get rid of cash and have CBDCs, in case farmers keep feeding people.
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Count your blessings – If you had been driving an EV you would be up for the cost of a battery pack replacement.
“Happy Australia Day”
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Human rights group Amnesty International advises on its website against calling someone an Aborigine, even if they are Aboriginal.
I find the term “First Nations person’ to be offensive on historical grounds.
At the time of European settllement there were around 500 warring Aboriginal tribes – there was no common language and no King or Parliament as requied by a “Nation”.
Furthermore, the Aboriginals were not the “First” people to settle in Australia – that was the Negritos who were followed by the Murrayians, then the Aboriginals, then the Europeans and now the Chinese and Indians.
Cloaking their goals under the pretense of social justice, cultural Marxists want to distort Autralia’s history and dismantle its very foundations.
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I suppose that if we changed the Date for
Australia Daywe would get the various WOKEWaffles to nominate which date would be OK, i.e. no massacres, no invasion of native land nor any other thing that annoys one of them.Anyone objecting to the choices then put them in a minor space and let themselves fight it out.
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You left a few out.
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Parts of France at a standstill as farmers protest agricultural regulations
Sky News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjUF0cIm5o
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Viva la revolución
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The politicians deserve that and more.
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I love it when they hitch up their fertiliser spreaders and fill them up with pig shit and give the enemy a good spray.
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I talked to the girl at the Coles checkout this morning and she told me that some customers are already telling her that they’ll shop at Coles from now on.
I made the point that their Coles bosses were sometimes stupid and woke too, but I’ve definitely wiped WWs forever this time.
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If we do not send a strong message to the woke corporates we will get more of their bullshit.
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You know, that farm photo would make a nice blog header logo.
Maybe if Jo asked nicely…
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COPIED FROM ELSEWHERE
PLEASE Read, here is the TRUE history & THE REAL Facts
IF ONLY we taught REAL TRUE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY in our Schools Today
THE TRUTH – WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT 26th JANUARY?
CAPTAIN COOK AND THE FIRST FLEET – Part 1
Captain Cook landed in Sydney on the 28th of April 1770 and claimed the east coast of the Australian continent for Britain, naming it New South Wales.
The First Fleet landed at Botany Bay between 18-20 January, 1788, but decided it was unsuitable so Captain Phillip, with a few officers, sailed north to look for a better settlement. On 21 January 1788, Phillip found it and named this new site Sydney Cove and made contact with the Aboriginal people there. On 23 January 1788 they returned to Botany Bay to move the fleet up to Sydney Cove the next day but a gale prevented them leaving until 26 January 1788 and the fleet finally all anchored that day in Sydney Cove at 3pm. Later that evening they raised the British flag and toasted the king.
However, the actual establishment of New South Wales didn’t take place on that day as is commonly assumed. That did not occur until the formal proclamation of the colony was read out on 7 February 1788. So the official vesting of all land to the reigning British monarch (King George III) actually occurred on 7 February 1788, not 26 January 1788.
THE NAMING OF AUSTRALIA – Part 2
1st January 1900 was not the day that Australia was named. It was the day that the Commonwealth of Australia was formed by the federation of six British colonies: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania.
The name Australia was derived from the Latin word australis meaning “southern”, and was used to refer to the hypothetical landmass near the south pole, known as Terra Australis. The name Australia was first suggested by the English explorer Matthew Flinders in 1804 who circumnavigated the continent and drew a map of it. He preferred the name Australia over New Holland, which was the name given by the Dutch in the 17th century.
The name Australia was officially adopted by the British Admiralty in 1824, and was used in British legislation in 1828. The name Commonwealth of Australia was formalised in the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, which was passed by the British Parliament.
1st January 1901 was the day that the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 came into effect.
Aboriginals never had a name for their country. There were several hundred separate tribes, most of which had their own language. The only names they used were their tribal names for their various regions, roughly defined as their “hunting grounds” which were vigorously defended from invasion by neighboring tribes.
26th JANUARY – Conclusion of Why
The relevance of 26th January is when the National and Citizenship Act 1948 was proclaimed on 26th January 1948 which came into effect on 26th January 1949 creating Australian citizenship for the very first time. So this was the first day we all became Australians.
Before that, all citizens, including Aboriginals born after 1921, were called “British Subjects.” Prior to this time, the various British colonies in Australia all had their own “Australia Day”, which was celebrated on a range of dates. The excuses for calling Australia Day (26th January) “Invasion Day”, based on the supposition that the date was either Captain Cook’s first landing, or the arrival of the First Fleet, are simply WRONG!
The 26th of January is a great day for all of us. It is the day that Australians received their citizenship. The day celebrates the implementation of the Nationality and Citizenship Act of 1948, when we all became Australians in our own right. This Act gives freedom and protection to all Australians, old and new and the right to live under the protection.
God bless Australia.
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So many councils are ignorant of our history and why citizenship cerimonies took place on 26 Jan – Until Traitor Allbanese allowed woke councils to pick their own date.
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To be technically correct, it was Lieutenant Cook.
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“Aboriginals never had a name for their country. There were several hundred separate tribes, most of which had their own language. The only names they used were their tribal names for their various regions, roughly defined as their “hunting grounds” which were vigorously defended from invasion by neighboring tribes.”
They also had no idea they were living on an island, how could they.
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Australia Day became “Australia Day” in 1938. It was really New South Wales Day. It recognised the settlement of New South Wales. It started out as a Sydney thing. 1988 was the first time for use of Sydney Harbour as an impressive venue for fireworks. I had the best view in the city from the 42nd/top floor of Northpoint Tower
Australia Day should be the 1st Jan to recognise the birth of the nation or 9th of October for gaining sponsibility for foreign affars. That would align Australia Day closer to the US 4th of July an Canada Day on July 1 or 2.
An alternative is to wait until Charles or son of Charles is ditched for Australia’s own head of State.
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Why would you want to align Australia Day with American Independence Day? Do you want Australia to become a state of the USA?
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I am aligning the reason – separation from the British Empire – not the date.
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RickWill,
True, but that statement calls for some nuance. The colony of New South Wales took in the whole east of the continent (and even Tassie). Perthlings might have reason to feel left out, but the boundaries took in most of today’s population centres.
This page includes an animated image showing how the boundaries evolved from 1788 to 1911.
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Of course the ABC can’t put it on, they have small minds and can’t see the big picture.
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The indigenous issue is the “victim” industry . We have thrown money at them (sit down money) for a long time and have had little progress . They cannot go back to what they were and we cannot make this happen . The sooner we unite all the people in this country as Australians and treat everyone equally the sooner we can build a society that we can all be proud of . I don’t care when Australia day is , the date isn’t important but the day is . We cannot change the past , but we can shape the future….
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Curious that the globally organized assault on nation state identity parallels the assault on sexual identity.
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Good on that young farmer, we need more of them, farmers that is, the fact that he’s under 30, uses modern ag tech to post a message that can be seen from space is just a fantastic bonus, I hope every QF flight goes over it.
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Absolutely stunning concept and application! Couldn’t have done this when I was jackarooing out of Esperance back in the late 1950s – technology has moved on. Unfortunately though: there are increasing numbers of inner-city-suburban types who have neither any idea of ‘life on the land’ or of the natural variability of the weather, and thus have become victims of propaganda – ‘climate change’ (‘anthropogenic’, of course) now become a quasi-religious cult.
I think that it is time for the introduction of a concept that those of the ‘woke’ brigade won’t approve: All children, as part of their schooling, should have a few days ‘down on the farm from time-to-time’. I’m sure that it would be most mind-opening. (Mind you, with increasing numbers of young, propagandised ‘woke’ teachers, I suspect that such a move would be opposed by many in inner-city suburbia! To quote Sancta Greta: “How dare you!”)
As one of the optional ‘side-bits’ to my introduction to the climate cult, and to the ‘solution’ – nuclear energy, is this little bit about ‘propagandising children’ ….
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How unAustralian of this WW CEO maggot Banducci, he should just shovel off back to SA, we don’t need his type, the fact that staff were NOT ALLOWED to wear Australia Day stuff is very telling, it’s not just that they didn’t order stock because it wasn’t selling, this is a concerted push to shut down Jan 26TH.
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The slow subtle undermining way to take over a country.
Win over the hearts and minds of a critical mass of the population, so to create a zeitgeist of treason and self-hatred.
Sow division, foster social discord, create the social psychological conditions that prevent the young from defending their country.
Weaken their manufacturing capacity by destroying their power grid so as to render them unable to be self-sufficient, unable to make weapons or ammunition, and unable to raise the enthusiasm to struggle.
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A GPS could tell him where he is but not where to go (and stop) to draw a map of Australia with flag. Yet it looks detailed and perfect.
That is damn clever engineering. A permanent one should be made elsewhere, probably with that farmer directing the project.
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Excellent work by the farmer. Maybe he could have added a couple of small crop circles, just for fun. After all, Australia Day is alien to many people these days.
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Woolworths,
Forest Lakes, WA.
Today. Sunday 28 Jan
Across the barrier at the front of the store was a row of Australia flags.
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