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.
loved that Jack.
i rather enjoyed the document as well, i thought perhaps he had engaged a West Aussie lawyer to draft it for him.
penny, i do recall the funeral directors of whom you speak, went past ever day for years, and pondered the same thing.
TBLS, i thought Keating, who had been an excellent Treasurer in the best Cabinet in my lifetime, sort of got distracted and took his eye off the key matters.
John, wasn’t aware of the history of the bouncer rules, as i said i had pretty much given up attending venues where
they worked.
i had drink with an old mate last year whose father had got him a job on the door of the Croxton Park in 1973 to toughen the young hairdresser up a bit.
madness.
I worked in the confines of the drive in bottle shop at the Croc but what I saw tells me there were no rules. The boxing nights often with some sort of martial arts theme were a real eye-opener. More punches thrown out of the ring than in it.
I’m led to believe that the current Pope used to be a bouncer in BA. I’m sure that his left hook was infallible.
Maybe One Nation will implode one senator at a time.
Yet another ON guru, this one of the Dig, Drill & Die brigade is Malcolm Roberts who will no doubt be thrilled to learn that Trump is poised to immediately scrap Nasa’s Earth Science division funding thus eliminating all their climate change research. Yay!
Instead it’s Trumps goal to put that funding into deep space exploration & he’s so excited about exploring our entire solar system by the end of the century.
Well best of luck with that Donald.
As climate change renders many parts of the world uninhabitable, perhaps you could be the first POTUS to take another “giant leap for mankind” if Nasa ever gets their heads around another manned moon landing.
On a serious note, is Culleton any less decipherable than Rudd?
or the turnip?
Interesting times we live in Mr Insider when Trump wins the US Presidency, One Nation tries to rise from the ashes but is failing miserably but still catering to fools and idiots who continue to out themselves shamelessly. Of course the silliest event happened just the other day at Orange NSW when the Shooters Party knocked off the Nationals. Sacrilege! We are seeing the rise of the “wacko” but when its all boiled down none will go the distance. I put it all down in Australia to having the weakest PM we have ever had. Gone it appears are the day of Howard, Hawke and Keating but we “purists” live in hope!
Err (and you did), you forgot Abbott, Blowie.
Apologies Milton yes lets include Abbott in out list of greats as his day may well come again given the shocker Turnbull is putting in!
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA. Delusional. Um err ahhbut is Worst PM ever
Swing and a miss. At this rate you could be wearing the baggy green Dissy.
On every measure um err ahbut was the worst PM this Nation has seen. Divisive, disingenuous and attacked those doing the hardest. We now see your man dutton running his divisive agenda and trying to blame others for his deliberately divisive statements. No Surprises. Your myopia is showing again.
Time you forgot him Milton
I only read the odd paragraph of Rodney Norman Culleton (aka the one “proudly representing Western Australia in the Commonwealth Senate – shouldn’t that be the Commonwealth of Australia’s senate – lest we get a little confused) .
Paragraph 18 seems to suggest together with its multitude other sins the judiciary (aka “the nasty, vindictive Judiciary”) can time travel having rejected an application on the Oxymoron of an Act in 2004 and thereby caused revolving governments since 1952. It seems our High Court justices really do have super human powers. Now if only they would use them for good!
If the Government does appoint our first female Chief Justice in January I suspect Culleton will be predicting multitude cataclysms in 2017.
Pasquale Culleton..hmmm…noice
I appeared before Justice French a few times when he was a judge of the Federal Court. He is a genial man who is given to pleasant exchanges with the bar table. The fact that he apparently didnt engage in this with “Senator” Culleton probably doesnt bode well for the possible-Senator.
What goes on in the minds of people like Culleton is just unfathomable. How does the man function? That the ALP appears to have abandoned the working class to seek solace in being represented by people like this, and like Hanson, is just outrageous.
Because a working man or women has no chance whatsoever of gaining preselection for the ALP or any of the majors anymore.
Thats the problem. Although I should point out that I consider myself a “working man” – I dont own a fancy house, or a fancy car, I dont make it on the socialite pages (or patronise restraurants that serve what I call “wanker food”, I dont move and shake with those in power (although I did meet Bob Hawke once – my lasting impression of Hawkie is that his head was out of proportion to the rest of him), I look after my pensioner parents (both crocked physically after a lifetime of hard physical work – especially my dad. Why then this fetish for old style manufacturing jobs?) and I have a lovely big dog dying of cancer.
As far as I am concerned I am a working class man – who worked to get, and obtained, an elite education. Other than that my interests are what used to be called “geeky” but which now seems to be “cool”. For some reason the education that I worked so hard to get – in accordance with the wishes of my working class parents – has now been turned against me and I am “an elitist”. Sorry, but Im not. I have an elite – and hard earned – education. Whether there is anything else about me that is “elite” I couldnt say. But I would say that professional footballers are elite. Why then no apparent public chip on the shoulder about that? I know the answer of course but I doubt many people think about that.
Id say the real problem is not that working men and women cant get preselected but that some working men and women forget their roots. I received an email a few weeks ago – just after Trump’s election – inviting me to an ALP function with Athony Albanese in attendance. It said that Albanese had “spent a life time fighting tories”. But he hasnt. Hes spent a lifetime ACCOMODATING tories. Not fighting them. I think thats why the ALP is now being outflanked on its left by weird rightwingers like One Nation. I think guys like Albanese – much as I like him personally – live in an echo chamber, along with quite a few other party apparatchik types. I have said this before but there is literally NO left wing media in Australia – not counting the Big Issue. Not the REAL left wing anyway. The type where economics and the economic well being of ordinary people comes first second and third on the agenda. Instead we have this wishy washy liberal-lite version that has accommodated too much and not pursued its own vision of what the world should look like. Hawke and Keating started that and Keating, instead of consolidating the economics went off on this “identity politics” stuff.I think that was the wrong turn.
Thats what I have learned from a couple of weeks of reflecting on Trump’s win. I dont have a problem with the identity stuff – but the economics comes first. And it has to be the right economics for everyone.
I didnt go to that function by the way but I am planning on going to the next one I see like that so I can try to raise these points. I just havent quite worked out how to get across what Im thinking and how to get it across to the right people.
Darren, no more long replies. Please.
I believe Bill Hayden in 1974 was the first Treasurer to go the Neo-liberal way.
What were you charged with those times you ol’ incorrigible rapscallion?
Ok, I know the drill, ask no questions…!
You are a one, Daz.
Writing long posts ?
Jacksprat, I pleaded self defence to that charge and the beak let me off…
Those of the churches of the false gods can bail out the Nation tomorrow by paying tax on the holdings? What is it again give and it ill be given unto you? Perhaps the churches of the false gods could start to walk their talk in line with psalm 79:12 or Isaiah 65:6 and so on and on and on. Deuteronomy 19:16 could also be relevant here.
I’ve not time to find the bible in my house (one does exist), let alone page through to find what you are muttering about dismal.
However if you a making a satirical attempt to pen something as indecipherable as the Dishonourable Senator’s ramblings you have succeeded in the indecipherable part, but the satire went past Wade.
Get yourself back to Kaliningrad tovarich.
Just Google the entry and voila.
Bit abstruse though.
Deuteronomy, Dismayed? Keep up please, that is so last century.
It all the same comic book. The same stories rewritten over and over and over since the beginning of time. Oh and I don’t mean the 4600 years or however many you lot of whispering to yourselves believe in. You should probably consider seeking help about talking to yourself.
A few stiff drinks and that letter will be as clear as, whatever or whoever……maybe.
I’m thinking you’ve got a head start?!
I wish Milt, found the little ferret we were looking after passed away about an hour ago, she was diagnosed with lymphoma a couple of weeks ago but she seemed to detoriate after we lost Miss Potter, two elderly furrys together.
I had made an appointment with the vet for tomorrow as I felt it was time but she slipped away, worst thing about having fur kids.
Sorry to hear that, Tracy. Bloody skin get in underer’s. I thought we were going to lose our baby lamb, Lucy the other day. Thankfully not. However an almost coincidental knock on the door by a person in uniform (and as luck would have it I knew the girl) advised that by law we cannot have these types of animals, so Mike and Lucy have to go. No doubt the missus knew this but went ahead anyway!! (I wonder if you contravenes some law??)
Anywho, my old ferret impression offer still stands!
That should have been I wonder if ‘she’ contravenes some law (the missus that is).
Sad for your loss Tracy.
Perhaps she died of a broken heart.
Regards, Bella
Very hard to take when it happens Tracey.
Even harder to have two close together.
Condolences.
Condolences, Tracy. Always hard.
Sorry to hear that Tracy. Hopefully the bad luck doesn’t come in threes.
One of my old girls is off to hospital on Monday. Hopefully just a scan and a bit of leg surgery but it’s stressful on everyone.
I shudder to think what you’ve been up to with those women, Bow. Take it easy, hey?
🙁
To be polite, whatever Harry Morgan called it in M.A.S.H.
Horse hockey!
JtI
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it appears that senator Cullerton’s frustration with ‘the system’ and the position he now finds himself in (as evidenced by his HC submission) originates from the whereabouts, or the availability of, the ignition keys of a fairly low-budget rent-a-car.
If so, the ensuing hoo-haa surrounding and following the good senator’s mild outbursts (verbal and written) is an indication that our political world has gone bonkus (?).
Notwithstanding his prior alleged (or proven) misdemeanours, the bloke is a dinky di, salt-of-the-earth Aussie, the likes of which are sadly already deficient in representing the ordinary folk in our national parliament.
His alleged blemishes could surely have no lessor or greator import in retaining his position in the senate as does another newly elected senator with similar alleged blemishes and who was the beneficiary of a so called captain’s pick.
Dinky-di? I wonder if his creditors take the same view. Here’s a decent primer: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/one-nations-rodney-culleton-could-lose-his-seat-over-debts/news-story/a9a19bc278b42892131dcd58bb537c71
Carl I know intimately the movement this bloke is tied up with. He is as much a Dinki Di Aussie as Donald Trump is an unemployed manufacturing worker from Pennsylvania……