This week the question has been firmly put. Should there be more Nazis on television or less, or for the grammar pedants out there, fuhrer?
All right. That’s a really bad joke. The point is that so many people including journalists have got this horribly wrong.
Cotterill needs to be confronted, subjected to scrutiny and forensically cross-examined.
What to call him then? The media has cobbled together several terms, all of them fairly unhelpful, including activist, patriot and ultra-right wing extremist. On Channel 7 he was described as one member of a group who were planning to put “a neighbourhood watch group together”.
Let’s start with what he is. Mr Cottrell is a violent criminal, having been convicted of arson, stalking, aggravated burglary, trafficking in steroids and breaching interventions orders. He added racial vilification to his rap sheet earlier this year.
Full column here.
Meanwhile the coalition government and its supporters continue to blatantly mislead the Nation.
“The analysis effectively shows that having no NEG, but continued use of the existing institutions AEMO and its ISP – which addresses system issues rather than problems with individual generators – will deliver a better result on all measures!” No surprises.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-little-lies-the-rotten-core-that-could-kill-the-neg-78826/
I wonder .whether the fixations with Hitler and the Nasties will go away. It seems to be a guy thing. It could be the uniforms, the leather boots (maybe some lederhosen thrown in for good measure), the [inverted?] swastika, the marching and parades – a psycho-sexual fantasy world? Well that’s my derivative 5 cents worth of pop psychology; or an unconscious revelation of my own issues.
I’ll have to get around to listening to “The Teachers Pet” podcast. I must be one of the few who hasn’t.
Melbourne/Swans game should be a cracker.
It’s excellent Milt, maybe the key to this is an investigation into the former teachers behavior at Forest High etc.
Husband went to Forest High for years 10 and 11 before Dawson started to teach there, he said never heard anything along those lines, absolutely nothing but he would believe it of another High school in the area that he was at until year 10 he said just the culture there, not Beacon Hill I might add.
It’s really astonishing that the man was not charged, Milton. Something smells.
Hedley Thomas is such z good investigative journalist. Let’s hope something comes of this
Fantastic bipartisanship!
A credit to all four of them.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/ben-robertssmith-pms-warns-of-rushing-to-judgment/news-story/014eca304b82515526c5e6671c2c5890
On the eaves dropping on East Timor – it was Government to Government and that has been going on for centuries.
I have a mate who was part of the Australian “team” that helped the East Timorese in their action against a former ruling that oil reserves follow the continental shelf and not half way.
I pointed out to him that he ( and a group of other Australians) aided and abetted the action by a foreign government that resulted in giving way $80 billion in oil and put at risk North-West shelf reserves if Indonesia wants to follow the ruling.
There are two types of people in this action – the starry eyed idealists and the pragmatists.
I now call him the $80 billion man and have suggested he might like to pay more taxes.
By the way, he is a lovely guy who is into every trendy cause possible.
Dirty business. I was checking out a job there, but between Papua and the topic at hand I gave it a wide berth. Somehow I had some very strong sympathies for that big island to the north of us after spending two years there in the mid-eighties. I repeat, dirty business, dirty enough to stay away from.
Hot prediction from your intrepid and humble corespondent, Mr Insider and its “Boris Johnson to be the next British PM”. Time will tell.
Looks like the tide has turned about Brexit. Amazing that a place not
much bigger than Victoria has 632 parliamentary seats. Imagine the circus with that many pollies in the same room.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/11/more-than-100-pro-leave-constituencies-switch-to-remain
Yep, the dog caught the car!
Trouble is that, once exit is started, there is nothing in the EU rules that allows for reentering.
I am no expert but I suspect that the UK would have to start all over again.
What a mess. Perhaps they should have had a second referendum when the nation realised it had stuffed up.
And then renegotiate entry into the EU Boa?
They have to go through with it methinks – there appears to be no alternative.
They’re not going to undo a popular vote. May tried to have it both ways. Because of this, she will not be PM in 2019.
Boris has shot himself in the foot again. Can’t help himself can he.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/aug/11/boris-johnson-is-the-new-winston-churchill-cartoon
I predict he is on course to be the next British PM, Mack. Time will see if I am correct or not. Cheers
Give that man a cigar!
But then again ………………. Oh dear
I see, Mr. Baptiste you used to be indecisive now you are not so sure. Cheers
I was being sardonic Henry. Speculating that some elements in a news organisation of recent notoriety might be sympathetic to the views expressed by some unsavoury persons.
Watched the interview with the Vic Transport Minister. I think she should have a surprise workplace drug test.
This is an interesting read, especially the comments section.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/who-knows-how-the-victorian-governments-orwellian-social-experiment-will-end/news-story/181089a435524b28d40c27f2150c77fa
Mack, it should come as no surprise, and may one be so bold as to suggest that Jacinta was obviously an EMILY-lister.
Listing to starboard perhaps