I’m going to miss Rodney Culleton. He has painted a vision of a libertarian Australia where our laws and indeed our entire legal system can be casually brushed off with a badly spelt submission.
Got a bill you’d rather not pay? That mortgage you’ve taken out bearing down on you? Parking fines piling up? Don’t fret. Fire off a diner’s menu of grievances to the High Court. Easy-peasy.
Welcome to Rodney Culleton’s Australia, a state of societal perfection where paying one’s creditors is voluntary, actions have no consequences and people can, nay must do, whatever they feel like.
Full column here.
Can one purchase this WA ‘vibe’, that Rodney is sourcing, over here in QLD? Personally, I like the man, he believes in God and Queen (not sure which order) and obviously makes a lot of sense. Who wants to be forced to worship a false God (of which there are several)? And i’m not sure if “inalienable rights” is the right word to use in relation to Rod. More power to his pen!
ps. ive just found a ripper benefit of this new site. If you put in an incorrect email address you can go back without losing the message. Yeehah, first world boner!
One Nation fell apart before due to the loonies they attract. No different this time around it seems. This guy +Roberts+Pauline herself. Is the other one an Earthican?
Off topic, but. by jingo, if the reports are accurate, how lucky is that kid in Bali that the powder turned out to be Paracetamol!
Something planted on him?
Now why is he carrying it in powder form!
By jingo? Damn you’re an Aussie through and through. 😉
More than lucky Yvonne, what if the bag he bought had fair dinkum drugs in it. Another dumbo from Australia (with West Aussies disproportionate) who thinks he/she can cut up rough in Bali without consequences.
Now the stories of Bali police setting up innocent tourists for a sting. Look at the clip of the American guy who was shaken down for not wearing a helmet on his bike. They took him to the ATM for a “withdrawal” which he refused so they hosed out his wallet.
Bali is no longer a playground for the yobbos, dickheads or normal tourists. Last place you’d see me any time soon. It makes me weep to think of what Bali once was.
What universe is this guy on, or what substances is he using? I was going to say “parallel universe” but his universe is definitely not parallel to the one we exist on.
I tried to read through his submission to the High Court, however made it to about Clause 4 and then attempted to skim read the rest. This still didn’t work, and it was like trying to read a mud puddle. I don’t know how you struggled through it and made some sense out of it. A lot of my job involves writing and making technical subjects clear for non-technical readers, as well as distilling a “story” into clear easily understood points (my blog posts, especially after a few beers, don’t fit into this category in case any of you are inclined to comment!). I have read, and had to summarise a lot of poorly written things in my life, however this one takes the cake.
Maybe a workable grasp of English and an ability to clearly communicate both in speech and writing should be a pre-condition to entering Parliament?
JB, CARL and RAZOR
Posted response to you at bottom of previous blog before realised JTI had closed it!
We always rant about having real people in Parliament so let’s not start whinging about Culleton. Like it or not, he is a visible example of a fair proportion of this country.
After all many believe that the earth is still flat, the moon landings did not happen and 38 (or so) % will vote for Shorten at the next election and probably put the idiot in as PM..
We all know only the Lefties ( sorry progressives or is it Regressives) are the only ones who are always correct and will bludgeon anybody who disagrees with them. The funny part is that there are more Culletons than Lefties so I guess we will have to get used to people like himself.
On the bright side, with a bit of crowd funding, it will keep the legal profession in work and we cannot have them on the dole – can we?
Some of us are wondering why a man would seek to be elected to a parliament he regards as illegitimate as well as our judicial institutions. You need to have a longer look at Senator Culleton and his business interests in particular.
Clarification.
That entry seemed to indicate that I was supporting him. Not really. Never heard of him until this blog.
Just trying to point out that there are an awful lot like him hanging around. He gets voted in because they relate to him.
JTI
If only it was just a matter of ‘humour’!!
As our Nation confronts some very deep, complex and expensive choices and changes, this individual embarks on these Quixote adventures.
But when the inevitable ‘day of reckoning’ arrives and our National Accounts go ‘Banana Republic’ to quote a celebrity of current note; we will only have ourselves to blame, in a collective sense.
Unfortunately PLMO, it is not the fringe dwellers who got us into this unholy economic mess but those of the “respected” major parties. Until they get some spine, we will keep spiraling down into the economic abyss.
I am waiting, or given up waiting, for a PM or Opposition leader to sit down in front of a TV camera and lay it on the line. The budget is a mess – expenditure is rising faster than revenue and these are the tough decisions that have to be made. Instead we get “we are one of the richest countries in the world” – which raises all sorts of expectations. And all this is based on some of THE most expensive housing in the world and wages and salaries out of kilter with our trading partners.
I find it sad that the economy is hardly ever mentioned in the press – it is 18c, gay rights, Trump, Trump – blah blah – everything that will not produce one iota of economic activity.
It has been like this for the last 10 years – ever since the last of the despised boomers were in charge.
PLMO it is closer than you think
Cue scary music…….
Mr Culleton seems to have aligned himself with the Sovereign Citizen movement. I have had a bit to do with this mob and it is easy to write them off as far right crackpots if they weren’t so dangerous. September 11th aside, more Law enforcement officials have been killed in the US at the hands of these types than have died at the hands of Islamists.
When you dig into the people involved themselves you nearly always seem to find at least one if not all three of the following; A perceived shellacking by the family law court. Bankruptcy proceedings generally bought on by banks. Local government cashing them up for unpaid rates.
Like yourself JTI I have also read and tried to make sense of their legal submissions and have left bewildered. There is a saying in Australian law enforcement; As soon as anyone starts mentioning the Magna Carta or Australia as an illegally incorporated identity you know you have a nut job on your hands.
I also assumed they were all far right loonies until I encountered one a couple of years ago who was a former member of the Australian Democrats but by then a member of the Greens. He may be in the minority, but at least some cannot be pigeon holed as far right. This particular character insisted that our currency is fake and has no actual value, as well as the usual illegitimacy of our legal, police and judicial systems. I was tempted to suggest to him that he should try robbing a bank as he could then tell the (illegitimate) judge that the laws were invalid and as what he ‘stole’ was a fictional construct, it had no value anyway. But I thought better of it because I was concerned that he was just about crazy enough to try it.
I met one a couple of years ago. Small businessman who kept commercial premises but privately all he had was a PO Box number. Gave me a lot of stuff to read but after the first couple of pages I zoned out. Seems like they were into a sort of philosophy close to anarchy, but a controlled, half-civilised kind of polite version of anarchy. Didn’t know they were into killing law enforcement personnel in the U.S. I just laughed it off at the time as it seemed they were just trying to beat the system, a system that didn’t suit them. Your second paragraph seems to be on the money.
That’s one alternative universe, Jack. Here’s another couple. Zapruder or Zumwalt, your choice. As the cartoon said, be careful to state your food preferences before you enter the alien craft. Let the probing begin!
BTW, Jack, I see your site does not plant those blasted cookies that open up unwanted tabs on my browser to flog a variety of gambling sites (as your previous host did). Is that your intention, or an oversight? $$$
Nah, who needs that crap.
One Nation, Mr Insider, what a sad bunch of misfits but they were elected so it shows us what the thinking is out in the Community. Sadly from the top down Australia lacking badly lacking in Leadership of any type. Turnbull you fit the bill perfectly you dill. As for Rodney Culleton what were his elector’s thinking? One Nation fragmenting before our eyes but we are not surprises one iota. Pauline has nothing substantial to offer Australia and never has. The “Soap Opera” that is One Nation continues Mr Insider , what next?
Ah Mr Blowfly.
What you fail to comprehend is that many in Australia are sick to the teeth of the fools that infect our Parliaments. Many like myself will continue to vote one nation secure in the knowledge that they will never have any say in the running of this country. We are not able to tick the box next to one of the mainstream parties mainly because the thought of vomiting our sausage sizzle all over the ballot box is felt to be repugnant. The greens are exactly the same, a loony party that attracts the extreme disaffected left
Unfortunately we only have 31 days for our parliament to recognise that the turnip has no business running our country and wield the cutlery. Oh for a turnip free Christmas
How sad dear Robby now you have outed yourself. Fancy voting One Nation, which is your right, but shows how out of touch with reality you are sweetheart. Did you see the goings on with your preferred party today honey? Good grief anyone with a pennies worth of brains would run screaming from One Nation, but goodness I may have hit upon your problem. Big kiss and hugs for your Uncle Henry who has been around in everything except the 5th at Dapto ad knows a dud when he sees one and One Nation is a BIG dud honey xx00
FFS Robin if you feel that way just don’t vote! I wonder how many people accidentally elected Trump using the same, er, logic.
None.
If I don’t vote the idiot shotening may get a guernsey and that would be disastrous
Ahh it all becomes clear now, clear as mud that is. If it wasn’t such a serious failing of the nation it would be hilarious.
I wouldn’t normally put my hand in the political arena, Robin but as a favour to you i’m going to start The Onan Nation Party. You ain’t seen nothing til you’ve seen our sausage sizzle!
TE HE
You’re supposed to put your hand UP Milton.
So HB, who out there in politics land has anything positive to offer us? Instead of casting aspersions on all who you do not agree with (and who voted for representatives you do not like), please propose an alternative, and provide a succinct argument why. Are you and Mr. Dismal twins, or one and the same?