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In the following video Senator Babet gives his election round-up and comments on the Liberal Party.
This is well worth watching.
The problem with the Libs is that they don’t believe in anything. They try to be all things to all people which results in them meaning nothing to anyone.
The Liberals need to become a conservative party with a belief in free enterprise and small government and be pro-energy and pro-freedom. The Libs are none of those things.
I’m not sure that the Liberal Party is fixable. I think the existing small conservative parties have to unite into one to form a new conservative force to save Australia.
Under 7 mins.
https://youtu.be/JkkNdz-YxFE
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The solution is quite simple. Provided of course that the party will need a leader with a really large “ pair “.
Split the coalition up into the Liberal party down the middle with the National party keeping the conservative Policies of Menzies & probably going a little more to the right & injecting lots of common sense.
Government for Australia & its people, not some foreign body like the UN / WEF Communist & totally unelected preaching World Government.
The Liberal party is no longer fit for purpose & will be totally irrelevant within 18 months.
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29 out of 54 Lib Members of Parliament do not believe in any of these things. They showed that by voting for Ley.
They should be forced to defect to Labor, and let the Libs start again.
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Video: The best of British comedy.
A Dick Emery skit, probably from the early 1970’s.
https://youtube.com/shorts/dpHRFy1jxqo
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Got ’em all. 😁
Only have a few episodes of the super rare Joker’s Wild with Barry Cryer from 1969-1974.
Like the missing Dr Who episodes…
One thing the poms were good at was comedy.
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Versace doesn’t get it.
So they have just hired the transgender, biological male, Dylan Mulvaney to model and promote their exclusive and expensive women’s clothing.
They haven’t learned from the destruction of Bud Light brand when they used this same character.
Get woke, go broke.
https://youtu.be/oQit9bssHSM
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I wouldn’t be so sure about that.
Target consumer demographics matter. Bud Light’s target demographic is blue collar working class adult males who want cheap beer they can swill down in large quantities without getting too hammered. Versace’s target demographic is Affluent White Females Liberals (AWFLs) who covet and can afford their overpriced handbags. Mulvaney was a terrible fit with Bud Light’s target market (to the point that he repulsed and alienated them) but is a great fit with the white lady brunch crowd.
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Where Jaguar goes Versace follows.
/Down the toilet.
“I’m a lady you know!” 😁
/dangly bits intact.
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Tweet: Julius Malema in South Africa reaffirms his commitment to kill farmers.
This is why President TRUMP is saving them.
In 2018 Dutton refused to.
These are hard working farmers, they will get to work quickly and will not require life-long welfare and will quickly integrate and become patriotic, tax-paying citizens.
America’s gain, Australia’s loss.
Video at: https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1922213073957327219
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Yep
One of the primary liberal talking points about cracking down on illegal immigration is ‘who will pick our crops?’. Well, I can think of worse options than bringing in a bunch of highly successful large scale farmers with specialized skills in the industry.
One thing that immediately struck me about the South African farmers who just arrived on America’s shores is that they were all waving AMERICAN flags. When was the last time you saw any of these lefty immigration activists doing that? They all wave the flags of the country the fled rather than the stars and stripes. They wave Mexican and Venezuelan and Palestinian and Somali flags, but never Old Glory. It was refreshing to see new immigrants who left their former country’s flag behind and waved the Red, White, and Blue.
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It’s a huge shame that Australia and Dutton wouldn’t allow the SA farmers to come. The Australian farming climate is quite similar to SA’s. And if we had a forward thinking government we could be opening up much more farmland with irrigation programs rather than throwing money away on wind and solar subsidy farming operations. And the standard Third World uneducated immigrants that the government prefers won’t be doing such activities.
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Unfortunately, for the residents of Oriana (who have rejected an asylum offer) their chosen existence may now be under threat because of the refugee moves to the US:
https://www.parliament.gov.za/news/orania-and-kleinfontein-pose-grave-danger-our-democracy-says-eff
Mr Ashley Sauls (PA) declared that enclaves are a threat to nation-building, nonracialism and social cohesion efforts. However, he registered the PA’s concern with the striking similarities between these racist enclaves and the ideology promoted by the EFF. “They both have leaders with racist and separatist ideological views,” he alleged. He went further to underscore his observation. “The EFF ideology is based on an atheist, white-man-thinking Karl Max, who is known to have racist views.”
Continuing with his comparison of the two, he further claimed that Orania and Kleinfontein prefer to sing the Afrikaans part of the national anthem, while the EFF prefers the Sotho and Nguni parts of the national anthem. While these enclaves promote separatist Afrikaner identity, the EFF chants “kill the boer” to promote black separatist identity, Mr Sauls observed. Therefore, South Africans should view both these enclaves and the EFF as threats to nation-building, nonracialism and social cohesion, he reasoned.
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Ballsy Show with Warren Tredrea (I have to admit, I wouldn’t know Warren Tredrea without finding this podcast, but I am sure some here might recognise the name). Some good guests – this has the question ‘but why not use Coal?’ which is not asked elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7-PZ5daG8
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TdeF’s comments do not show up.
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Not showing up here also.
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Wokesters in Canada tried to get people to eat insects, as the Left want for non-Elites, but that operation has gone bust.
Let the Leftists eat their beloved insects and soy. I’ll stick to delicious meat.
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It’s literally the old saying “I wouldn’t feed that slop to my dog” come to life. I raised multiple generations of dogs on cheap dry dog food + food prep scraps (trimmed fat, bones, egg yolks, etc.) and they all lived long healthy lives. But even a cheapskate like me wouldn’t feed my dog bug protein even if it did save me a few shekels.
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There’s a problem with forcing the poor to eat food made from insects, while the rich continue to eat their rib eye steaks and other choice cuts of meat. To get the choice cuts requires raising a complete animal, with all the emissions that come with it, so what happens to the rest of the animal? Is it left to rot with the emissions that that causes? And to get the animal to raise for the meat, requires a breeding pair, with the emissions that they cause.
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Wind farm neighbour payments offered to ease community tension
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/wind-farm-neighbour-payments-offered-to-ease-community-tension/105243272
Excerpt from article:
About 450 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, the small town of Wandoan is watching closely as the proposed 1.4-gigawatt Bungaban Wind Farm on its outskirts awaits federal government approval.
Windlab, which is majority-owned by Nicola and Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s Squadron Energy, estimates the $3.9 billion project could power the equivalent of 860,000 homes.
The company is offering neighbours an initial $10,000-$40,000 upon signing, $30,000-$150,000 at construction start, and annual payments of $10,000-$75,000 for up to 35 years, based on proximity to the planned 204 turbines.
By comparison, the Clean Energy Council (CEC), which advocates for renewable energy, estimates the average landholder hosting turbines can earn about $40,000 per turbine annually.
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The promised payment of moneys to “affected” land owners is of concern to me. In my area a new wind factory is proposed by a 100% Australian owned company. This 100% Ozzie company appears to be just a front and is really backed by a French company. Now, lots of compensation promised to land owners affected by construction and power lines etc and of course ongoing payments for the suggested 40 year life of the wind factory.
Now I have no knowledge of contract law, however I do have a question.
What happens to all of these contractual payments if the wind farm is sold as soon as construction is completed? I don’t believe any “new” owner is obligated to honour any contracts entered into by a previous owner. Can anyone throw some light on this area of contract law?
If contracts don’t flow from one owner to another then any ongoing compensation payments simply stop leaving any signed up farmers with nothing.
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Sambar,
I don’t think that would apply to a simple sale, but it’s a different story if the windmills were sold because the “front” company came under administration/receivership/liquidation. Bankruptcy “protection” can lead to lots of unhappy people.
Landowners should refuse to sign unless the contracts are underwritten by some organisation that *isn’t* going to disappear. Would also be wise to make sure compensation is attached to the land, not to their title, so it doesn’t amount to “golden handcuffs”.
Then there’s the question of inflation and what will be fair compensation in 20 years’ time. Etc. Etc.
Probably best just to tell the wind companies to go blow.
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Do the contracts include removal of all infrastucture at the end of life.
If not I would deffintately tell the to stick it where the sun does not shine.
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“Do the contracts include removal of all infrastucture at the end of life.”
The short answer is NO. At the proposed factory near me the end of life removal only referred to the above ground structures. All foundation works would be simply left in the ground.
Sadly, as in all these good ideas there only ever seems to be more questions and no definite answers.
Question, Why does a wind factory have a relatively short productive life. Once a turbine has reached the end why isn’t it dismantled and another simply put up int the same place?
( from the ground up, I understand the towers age as well as the turbines) The very large foundations could be designed to last 100 years I would have thought.
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” Once a turbine has reached the end why isn’t it dismantled and another simply put up in the same place?”
The usual problem with that is the speed of development in a new industry, so new turbines require something quite different to the old ones. Electric cars are a classic example, over the last 30years they have had multiple generations built that make previous cars completely redundant and hence no spare parts are carried forward. The local car wrecker has a row of hybrid Camrys that all suffered the same collapse of their transformers, spares no longer available and nothing wrong with the rest of the car.
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Solar panels catch fire and destroy house in UK
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/solar-panel-blaze-rips-through-1-5m-mansion/#more-86848
I know firemen don’t like to tackle them but what would cause a solar panel to catch fire.?
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High voltages, lots of current flowing? I’m seeing 280 and 260 Volts at 10 amps each from my small solar array, and it’s not midday yet. Expect well over 300 volts soon.
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Probably leaf litter and other combustible matter between the panels and the roof. The rubbish can get caught on the supporting frames and builds up waiting for ignition. And always remember that ignition sources are free. A poor connection in a solar pane circuit can heat up. Isolators that are not properly weatherproof can get hot spots due to corrosion.
Lots of overhanging trees I bet.
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Heard some galah called ‘Norman’ being sworn in as your Chief Guv’nor and Oppressor yesterday: is he the best selection your foreign overseers could come up with?
Don’t worry, we have Mr Potato-Head representing our colonial plantation, a millionaire who can spew corporate gobbledygook until the cows come home and yet still nobody knows exactly what he said.
Thankfully there’s one thing we can rely on that will never change: climate.
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Teal Monique Ryan has called for faster electrification of the energy grid.
Has she not noticed that it is electrified which it is why it is called an energy grid.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/teal-monique-ryan-holds-seat-calls-for-faster-electrification-of-energy-grid-5856804 The complete electrical and engineering ignorance of the pro ruinables people passes all comprehension.
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I do not think her electorate is affected, it is not new housing area.
But on the other hand – it is interesting how glorious old wiring in that same area coping with massive EV increase, assuming many people there still work regular hours, leave & come back home at the same and plug/unplug their landau in at the same time.
Honest question – there must be some stats by now.
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Funny stuff Ted, thanks for pointing it out.
I wonder what the point was she thought she was making?
Supporters and staff must be proud
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FWIW – more o Trump’s drug announcement here – starts at
“After all the hand-wringing about pharma stock prices this weekend, the corporate media was eerily quiet about the actual order. Yesterday, Reuters ran a short blurb headlined, “Trump signs executive order to demand pharma industry cuts prices.” ”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/wokescolds-tuesday-may-13-2025-c?
And, if we in Oz aren’t already getting “most favoured nation prices” – WHY NOT!
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And
“Hmmmm….. Pharma
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Well well perhaps this is the reason the biotechs and other pharma stocks got hammered the last week or so….”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253274
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“That is, any attempt to restrain trade — which all price disparities that are enforced are by definition, no matter who is doing it and where, including internationally, is a criminal felony.”
Not true- price disparities are not restraint of trade at all, Australia suffers from them all the time, its just how a free market works. A weld-though paint I was searching for last night is $40/can here, under $30/can in South Africa. Manufacturers charge what the market will stand, that’s business, and restrains no-one’s trade. Its called “not being able to afford it” or “being poor”!
Americans put the most money into drugs in the world because they are the sickest, mainly in the head where they can be convinced that Western medicine can ‘solve’ every last problem someone may think they have, and also from the worst food in the world.
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FWIW
From an email –
“The Albanese government intends to complete reform of Australia’s federal environment laws, known collectively as the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act”
I guess we can expect the worst.
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Murray Watt is going to be busy !
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FWIW
More on the US Episcopal Church and refugees
“Someone Please Explain the National Episcopal Braintrust to Me Like I Was Five”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/05/13/someone-please-explain-the-national-episcopal-braintrust-to-me-like-i-was-five-n3802731
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And the wider scene –
https://instapundit.com/719479/#disqus_thread
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I generally try not to judge other people’s religious choices … but there is a reason mainstream Protestantism is dying out, and Episcopalians are the worst of the lot. They’re too well-adapted to a secular life, and have largely abandoned ‘inconvenient’ scripture to allow them to embrace secular western shibboleths like abortion, homosexuality and gender theory. They are far more interested in ‘fitting in’ to the secular world than they are to being ‘people of the book’.
While religiosity of all types slowly withers and dies in the secular west, it’s still doing quite well in the rest of the non-communist parts of the world. Christianity as a whole is still growing thanks to the global south, with both Catholicism and Evangelical Christian denominations doing quite well. But mainline churches are struggling to find any purchase with those who seek a more muscular Christianity that is based on scripture.
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Someone might find a worrying commonality between protestant and communist faiths.
( I do not )
The main one – labour in itself is its own reward.
The socialist states of any colour, were built on meritocracy, however twisted other “creams on the cake top” were.
The achievnicks were rewarded, the idlers left alone.
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Fantastic by Mr Uhlmann on yesterday’s silly renewables puff piece in the Fin.
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No thanks – I like it the way it is with the old spinning power meter giving me a fixed kWh price whenever I need it. Let the “smart” ones worry about peak charges – they deserve it.
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Mmmm I feel the same way about EVs. I want a car to support what I want to do in my life. I dont want a car that needs me to adjust my life to suit its whims and limitations.
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Good article and I feel for Chris, like me he was born and will die a verist (great word, suggested by my new friend!).
He still believes that looking at his own power bill a normal person would need no further arguments about who to vote for.
But not, there is Reality and reality…
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A friend asked for some sort of evidence when I claimed that Mr Albanese’s speech impediments became a good deal worse after his cosmetic dental work.
Looked up a random video today and it’s a fair contrast. Yeah, he wasn’t great, but (e.g.) he got through “anticipates” without his colleagues needing to get out their umbrellas.
Moral of the story for all pollies: lose the image-minders; let your true personalities shine through (in all their hollowness).
P.S. Totally agree with his assessment of Turnbull.
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Watch the earth move….Myanmar earthquake March 28 2025…..
Fast forward to 8 minutes in if not interested in a technical geological background to the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKFK4-HNmk
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FWIW – in the wake of AI
“Death Of ‘Search’
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Really, its dying if not already dead — and I don’t consider it “progress” either.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253267
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Ted O’Brien says the new look Libs are in no hurry to dump the nuclear policies.
Keep it up Ted & the Libs are well on the road to irrelevance.
Ted reminds of Tampon Tim Walz who was also a deputy!
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Australia should transition away from burning a lucrative income stream. Nuclear power generation is the long term answer.
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FWIW
“Mark Latham – spot on.”
https://x.com/GeoffWilsonWAM/status/1921739159733154024
Via https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/05/mark-latham-spot-on.html
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Florida Just Made Chemtrails ILLEGAL: Spraying the Skies Is Now a FELONY
The war in the skies is no longer hidden. As of May 12, 2025, the State of Florida has officially become the first U.S. territory to declare chemical and weather warfare illegal. Senate Bill 56, now on Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk, is not just legislation—it’s the opening salvo in a long-overdue counterattack against the criminal spraying operations that have been waged above our heads for decades.
https://gazetteller.com/florida-just-made-chemtrails-illegal-spraying-the-skies-is-now-a-felony-the-weather-war-is-real-and-trumps-team-is-taking-down-the-globalists/
/ALLEGEDLY going on for decades..
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There’s a problem with forcing the poor to eat food made from insects, while the rich continue to eat their rib eye steaks and other choice cuts of meat. To get the choice cuts requires raising a complete animal, with all the emissions that come with it, so what happens to the rest of the animal? Is it left to rot with the emissions that that causes? And to get the animal to raise for the meat, requires a breeding pair, with the emissions that they cause.
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And even if you remove all the livestock, the grass still grows and then decomposes. If I’m not wrong, it still gives off methane while decomposing.
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Dear Maptram,
I suggest deletion of “breeding pair” notion – sounds like very discriminatory extreme right wing idea.
Please come up with a non-binary breeding term maybe it emits less CO2 in the process.
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I need help with my math.
1, The oxymoron called artificial intelligence claims:
1 pound of Jet A1 fuel will produce 0.4536Kg of CO2 ergo 1000 pounds of Jet A1 fuel will produce 453.6 Kg of CO2
2, The most commonly cited blend between Jet A1 fuel and the chosen SAF production pathway is 50%. Therefore when mixed at the ratio of 50-50 1000 pounds should produce approx. 227 Kg of CO2 if the SAF fuel was CO2 neutral
3, The artificial intelligence programmed by a human also claims:
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) offers a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon emissions, typically achieving a 60-80% reduction compared to conventional jet fuel.
3, As the claim above is 60 – 80% CO2 reduction then that would imply the SAF fuel sequesters more CO2 from the atmosphere when it is grown/manufactured than it emits when burnt and by a considerable margin.
Obviously these numbers are calculated base on the Labor/Green magic bean theory but I cant help to think this has a touch of Send Cash And Money about it due to the cost of the fuel being 2-3 times more than the equivalent “fossil” version.
Is it possible for beans magic or otherwise to absorb more CO2 when growing and converted into Jet A1 fuel than it releases when burnt?
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That’s because Kero needs a lot of CO2 producing energy to get oil out of the ground, heat it up in a refinery, separate out the kero and purify it again before you can use it… While for SAF you just stick a tap in a tree trunk and back up a tanker, like maple syrup!
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So it’s poor quality fuel hence why they blend it?
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RE is cheap in the way that “I’m from the government and you are hereby required to buy a $500,000 Rolls Royce to replace your clapped-out Holden but congratulations, your petrol will be free!” is cheap.
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It is Called Progress – Manly Ferry steering failure rumours confirmed by operator
The F1 Manly Ferry operators have confirmed Manly Observer’s report last week alleging potentially catastrophic steering failures with the new smaller ferries known as Emerald Gen 2.
The operators, Transdev, confirmed our report, but issued a statement which took the long way around to communicate as much:
“Three Generation II Emerald class vessels are currently undergoing maintenance,” a statement began. “The vessels require a component change-out after a relay component issue was identified in the steering system on the Clontarf last Thursday.”
In human speak, if you’ll indulge the editorialising, this means the steering is a bit stuffed, and needs to be fixed.
Confidential sources had informed Manly Observer last week that a serious steering failure had occurred while in public operation about 6pm the Thursday prior. This saw the ferry pulled off for inspection to its steering, and the remaining fleet followed suit.
With little communication to prepare commuters for a reduced service, there were extensive queues at the wharf on 6 May, creating long lines for the privatised Manly Fast Ferry. The larger 1100-capacity Freshwater ferries, which the Emeralds were brought in to replace under the previous Liberal government, had remained docked at Circular Quay during this period.
The three Emerald Gen 2 ferries were brought into Australia, via Port Macquarie in 2021 and were touted by then Transport Minister Rob Stokes as “purpose built” for the Manly to Circular Quay route, “with a reinforced hull able to handle Sydney Heads swells.”
Concern over the reliability of the ferries emerged sooner after they hit the harbour, with all three overseas-built ferries exhibiting steering issues and later requiring refitting with more “heavy duty” engines.
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There is nothing that politicians and bureaucrats can stuff up (unless vertical progress is needed in which case their projects will sink speedily).
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https://unmaskingmedia.substack.com/p/covid-tyranny-compliance-changed-relationships
For many of us, however, there’s an awkward taboo around the topic, with most pretending none of it happened in order to avoid facing the truth. Because there’s little acknowledgement, it’s hard to maintain authentic relationships based on trust, honesty and respect. It’s difficult to see loved ones in the same way as ‘before’, if they were brainwashed and you were not. It’s even harder to deal with the fact that we needed their help to push back against the unprecedented authoritarianism, while offering all the info they needed to combat the propaganda curse. Still, many urged us to comply.
Marriages collapsed. Parents refused to let ‘awake’ grandparents see the children. Friends ditched lifelong companions over pharmaceuticals. Bosses fired loyal employees who stood up for bodily autonomy. Siblings still don’t talk to each other due to the fallout. It’s the most divisive era I’ve ever witnessed and the first time I experienced government tyranny directly. Even this is now widely acknowledged, though so many still seem blind to the revelations so obvious when the tyranny began.
What a terrifying, sad, surreal and stupefying time it was.
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And how the media just switched tack and changed their truth without ever admitting they had it wrong:
https://unmaskingmedia.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-about-covid-loudly
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Tesla’s Optimus get up and dance time
https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1922507578136793576
Outperforming humans every day.
I saw something else today that sent a shiver through my body. AZR move over.😎
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A year in jail for David McBride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlopFhv9RhM
While so far, only one war crimes charge: https://www.osi.gov.au/news-and-resources/media-releases-and-statements
He would have been a young fellah (low rank) at the time, if he is only 41 now.
I guess he is the only one that hasn’t run away.
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Canada’s COVID Cover-up: Health Officials Swore Secrecy to Protect Trudeau From Vaccine Scandal
In a stunning betrayal of public trust, Canada’s top health officials—led by Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam—signed secret oaths vowing to conceal any information that might “embarrass” Justin Trudeau’s government during the COVID crisis. This Orwellian pact, buried in bureaucratic fine print, reveals the depths of corruption within a regime that prioritized political image over medical transparency.
Nearly 30 senior health officials, including Dr. Tam, signed confidentiality agreements to suppress COVID vaccine information that could harm Trudeau’s reputation.
https://expose-news.com/2025/05/12/national-scandal-canada/
Now for Oz..
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There will be no consequences, not even a proper inquiry.
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Australian man brutalised by police during the plandemic has died
Daniel Peterson-English’s arrest made headlines after disturbing footage showed him being tackled to the ground at Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station by acting sergeant Beau Barrett in September 2021.
In the disturbing footage of Mr Peterson-English’s arrest, the 32-year-old’s head could be heard hitting the hard floor and a pair of headphones were knocked off.
According to a caption written by the woman who initially posted the video, the man was knocked unconscious and there was “blood and urine everywhere”.
“This poor guy was calm, he was just talking to the police,” the caption said.
https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/aussie-in-infamous-covid-incident-dies/news-story/2ecdf73d1997dbbe910ae83a7c3ef1e2
It’s called excessive force.. by the force..
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An ex-cop mate, on hearing about the initial Vic COVID regulations said ‘well that’s decades of community policing efforts down the drain’
“When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come, with your hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun” – RIP for a gentle, young punk who only tried to stand up to the tyranny with his words and his camera.
I think the cops need to start hearing everyone muttering about pigs and dogs whenever they are nearby. They are overly sensitive, a constant murmuring should help desensitize them.
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Hmm …
let’s compare that one to George Floyd.
Much more direct homicide.
Completely unprovoked.
Is the ‘officer’ still employed?
Wonder if there will be outraged protestors in the streets of Minneapolis about the death by cop of the Melbourne man.
What is his ethnicity?
Defund The Melbourne Police.
Hmm …
looks like there’s much more policing of Police in evil Trump’s evil America.
Don’t worry …
many wealthy progressive Americans will still flee to Australia because you guys are such an enlightened One Would Government utopia … like in the EU.
Sorry to be so snarky, but that’s a vid of unjustified manslaughter … sorry personslaughter.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/charges-dropped-against-victoria-police-officer-filmed-tackling-man-in-melbourne-cbd/50b8d90f-e64c-4adf-b237-eef4d6cdb033
Unreal.
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George Floyd was a violent criminal running from a crime when caught. He resisted arrest so had to be constrained by force. At that time he had an overdose of fentanyl and a range of other illegal and dangerous substances in his body – see inquest report.
Prosecutors were fortunate in the police officer concerned was unpopular so easy to blame. Floyd should have been hanged years earlier.
No similarity with the police attacks in Victoria under Mad Dan.
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Yimby for thee but not for me: https://uk.yahoo.com/news/nimby-row-engulfing-two-faced-060000258.html
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Eh? Now this is a new one, and I don’t get it
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-14/hannah-ferugson-concerned-by-influencers-paid-political-content/105293346
‘Influencer’ has ‘deeply misogynistic’ impact
Ms Ferguson also hit out at the use of the word “influencer” during the election, as a term largely used to describe young women.
“Influencer has been the dirtiest word of this campaign,” she said.
“The agenda is clear — to undermine our intelligence, to paint us as untrustworthy, and to conflate us with green juice and a discount code.
“There is nothing wrong with being an influencer, but the label is intended to cause significant reputational damage.
“The impact is deeply misogynistic.”
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Nothing wrong with being masculine either. How does it make one “toxic”?
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I don’t get it. Certainly, an attractive young lady in revealing clothes has a certain ‘influence’ but when I hear the term ‘influencer’, I don’t immediately think that a young woman is being described. But anyway, what is misogynistic about saying that a young women is an ‘influence’ – surely greater influence has been what the whole feminism she-bang (sorry, bad pun, but just had to go there) has been about?
This reads as a very odd word salad to me.
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