Imagine in this age of instant gratification, having to wait for something, anything for 45 years. Then think what it must be like to have to wait so long for something as fundamental as the truth.
Former Victoria Police detective, Denis Ryan, turned 86 last month.
In 1972, he was forced out of the Victoria Police Force after trying to bring the pedophile priest, Monsignor John Day, to justice.
Forty years later, Denis came to my home and together we wrote the book of that appalling story, Unholy Trinity: The Hunt for the Pedophile Priest Monsignor John Day”.
At the time I cautioned Denis about setting his expectations too high. The subject material of the book was so disturbing I doubted it would be a bestseller. To publisher Allen & Unwin’s credit they published anyway.
Full; column published here.
This double agent comment of Dutton’s. In what way is he a ‘single’ agent? He’s a senator, not a spook. This really is a weird one. (Oh wait- Iranian & Chinese agent, of course). Ayatollah Dastiyari.
If he was a single agent he would have just Australia’s interests at heart and not be selling his debts to his Chinese friends.
The point is he’s not (wasn’t) a bloody ‘agent’.
Dutton must be in ASIO mode already.
Well he was running into the garden whispering about bugged phones. Agents do that in the movies.
Did someone mention Julie Bishop?
Nobody mentions Julie Bishop JB, but she should perhaps start looking over her shoulder…
Dutts just being Dutts. A good lawyer could make a quid for Dasty out of Dutts’ mad statement.
Slap me Jesus, Mr Insider, the goose Turnbull now says he “regrets” mentioning ex ousted PM Abbott 30 negative consecutive Newspolls when he rolled him. Now could this be because Turnbull is about to record his 25th!
https://tinyurl.com/yav5fhst
After watching and noting the style of the beleaguered Prime Minister on Q&A last evening Henry I can now say with confidence that he will turn setting a new record into an election wining positive.
It will go something like this.
“Well there you go, (huge crocodile smile) Tony Abbott is a skillful politician and a highly competitive magnificent physical specimen. In all humility I have to say that to beat Tony at anything, in fact I have now streaked past his record , is an achievement for which I will remain proud for the rest of my life. ”
Henry, the bloke is the most cunning arrogant schmaltzy manipulator I have seen in my life, by a long chalk. I found myself grasping my wallet in a vice like grip throughout the programme and afterwards a quick inventory of the valuables was required to reassure me that he was in fact in a studio far removed from my chattels.
Still when I awoke before sun up , in a troubled state of mind, I immediately took a torch and trotted down to the shed just to check the ride on hadn’t been purloined.
I believe he earned a distinction in the Goldman Sachs Preparatory Course “Suckers and How to Remove the Choicest Cuts.”
Whop it up ’em ‘Enery.
Watched Q@A completely for the first time in yonks. (IMO Tony Jones is the pin up boy for teh biased and bad TV presenters.)
I thought Turnbull came across extremely well and handled the questions with aplomb and courtesy.
I made the mistake of listening to ABC 702 for about 15 minutes.
First she took what was happening on social media as an opener which made Turnbull out in an extremely bad light.
Then she cherry picked what was said to support her argument.
Then all those who called in supported her argument.
At the end of it, I felt like I had watched a totally different program.
It confirmed my opinion that the ABC is so full of sh*t and bias when it comes to politics and “their soap box subjects” that it is worthless.
Good…I might go and watch it now…just asking but was he asked any of this (below)? Oh and what jacket did he wear?
Was he asked why average economic growth under the current Looter govt is less
than it was under Rudd/Gillard?
Was he asked why unemployment rate has averaged 5.8% under the current circus troupe but was only 5.1% under Rudd/Gillard reaching a low 4.9% in 2012
Was he asked why he regrets the 30 Newspoll comment but does not regret delivering record high govt debt, excessive electicity prices and record low wages growth?
Was he asked why penalty rates were cut from some of the lowest wage earners in the country and the money siphoned off to Big Business?
Was he asked where the $65billion gift to Big Business was coming from?
I doubt if he could/would have answered these with “aplomb and courtesy”. I will watch with interest Bald.
No, I don’t think he was asked those particular questions but judging by the way he waffled & wasted a good fifteen minutes blaming everyone else AND Labor for everything, he managed to run ‘them’ out of time. That hideous leather jacket was talked up by Turncoat as a winter clothing option. Old try-hard he is.
He was snide, supercilious , overbearing and arrogant with a forced smile. Dodged every question by altering the context and yammering on about something quite different to what was being enquired of him.
Patronising and insulting to people with genuine concerns. He should never have had the gall and put himself in a very bad light.
Rubbish JB.
Gainsay Jack Spratt.
An exciting summation dear Mr Baptiste, you had me all a tingle, however I believe he’s nothing more than a politically naïve rube. Cheers
I saw a good bit of that and the bit’s I saw were cringeworthy, Jean. The bloke is not a natural politician. His arse licking, double speak, faked sincerity is not a patch on Shorten’s pitch. he gave schmaltz a bad name. This time next year he will be out of parliament and flitting around the world.
Rudd fooled a good deal of Australian’s, Turnbull won’t (again).
Turnbull’s Prime Ministerial delivery in parliament kills Shorten’s who looks diminutive. Is he one hormone therapy? Never looks like he is in charge.
Amen to the first bit, but he is formidable and they will get him up again.
Dwight
https://scontent.fmel1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/24899991_1179227928845940_2772163671016491642_n.jpg?oh=c6d56f7d4689531e843e6ee834ba3b2d&oe=5ABFFD78
On topic, both Denis Ryan and I appear in an ABC doco on the Royal Commission on ABC One tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 9.30.
Thanks JTI – look forward to viewing it
That’s full-on Trivalve. Talk about fanatic fans.⛄
Can they even play whatever it is they’re playing in that weather?
Nothing like football in a blizzard!
And some guy scored a touch-down! Magnificent to watch…
Kinda-sorta on-topic, this is a marvellous speech on leadership:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70
………………. and once in a while, give yourself a break and sit around the campfire popping corn, roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya…………
Sounds bloody fantastic JB
Here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX5W0a6om2A
This is funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYOIbXJTVIc
TBLS, I enjoyed it, but God you’d have to be drive to last the distance!!
driven…
Single-minded, for sure.
Interesting to see Albanese starting to make his presence felt on the citizenship issue.
He would be a far more desirable leader than Shorten – not a bad move of his seeing that Turnbull has gained a bit of momentum.
Poised for a pitch at it maybe?
When he starts jogging you will know its on Bald.
I sat up and took notice for a while when Bowen shaved off the beard – but that came to naught!
…or when Fatty O’Barrel took off his beard and lost his Michelin Man personna
In the leadership ballot in 2013, Albanese was favoured over Shorten by the rank and file membership of the ALP, by 18,130 (51.91%) to 12,196 (40.08%) a substantial margin. Unfortunately for those deluded into thinking the ALP had a glimmering of what democracy actually means, the ALP caucus voted 55 (63.95%) – 31 (36.05%) for Shorten. 24 Caucus votes negated completely the 12,000 votes of the ALP’s membership. Shorten’s arselickers effectively gave those people who man the booths and scrutineer and give up time and money for something they really believe in, the finger. Told them they and their opinions don’t count. ALP membership has been falling ever since. Shorten won’t win an election. The ALP lauded his campaign skills at the last Federal poll and were ecstatic because they came second. They are back where they were before Whitlam.
Should read 18,000 votes of ALP membership.
The Whiz:-a wonderful post. Hope the Labor Party read it. Labor despises its rank and file. Just use them as fund raisers. Anybody but Shorten. I can smell a Bill Hayden sacrificial moment.
Thank you BASSMAN. I only comment on matters politic when something really pongs. That did. I was hoping Albanese because I found Shorten repulsive. He is more repulsive now since the revelations about Cleanevent and Chiquita Mushrooms. I have a close mate has been in the R&F of the ALP for 30 years and he was livid. I like the idea of a Hayden move but can’t see a Hawke in the wings anywhere. Plibersek maybe?
Just before Whitlam? Or back in the Cambrian?
Could have gone back to the Ark. During the pre Whitlam era they were regularly trounced at elections and wore it as a badge of honour. From 1949 to 1972 they only got near the Conservatives once, in 1961. They lost on a handful of votes in Jim Killen’s electorate, Moreton, in Brisbane’s east.
“Killen you are magnificent”
Commies and the yellow peril. Roll it out.
“Killen, you are magnificent!” Actually BASSMAN, Killen made that up for the Courier-Mail because Menzies didn’t ring him up after he won the electorate. True. Killen was extremely lucky. Moreton was a largely rural electorate in 1961. I’ve heard endless variations on the story that he won the electorate on Communist preferences but it’s true. My first workshop was in Rocklea and one of my early clients was Sir Charles Davidson, who lived in nearby Yeronga, a long serving Postmaster-General under Menzies, and a good mate of Jim Killen. He explained how it unfolded. It came down to about 120 grumpy farmers between Capalaba and Eight Mile Plains who had a particular gripe with the ALP, and voted for the Communist Party out of spite. Killen got in by 93 votes.
And so it starts, the U.S Embassy in Beirut is under attack by different groups protesting about President Trump’s decision on recognizing Jerusalem. Whether this has been the U.S policy for quite a number of years and he is the first President to come out with the announcement, I think is missing the point. This isn’t just about Israel and Palestine, it is about the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions. We all know about the system of Government in Lebanon, where the President must be Christian, the PM must be Sunni and the Speaker must be Shia. The Druze fit in there somewhere too. Despite what you read in foreign media, the system works pretty well. I don’t think it’s up to the US to make a unilateral decision about the capital of Jerusalem. It’s too easy to sprout that Israel is right and the rest of the Middle Eastern (read Muslim) countries have no right to object. It isn’t that simple and the POTUS knows that
It’s never been anything other than a religious war Penny.
Not quite true Boa, not in the beginning. It started off as a Territorial war with the Partition of Palestine, then because the British stuffed it badly it became Jew against Arab. ….according to my history books. Jerusalem is important to all the three branches of religion….it’s not called The Holy Land for nothing.
Well the way I see it, putting DNA and all that aside, the holocaust was a religious war – certainly would have felt like one if you were a Jew in Europe.
They tried to resettle stateless Jewish people and in their wisdom decided to create a state where their roots were.
It just created another religious war.
Same thing happened when the Brits decided to sort out India and Pakistan.
Religion has caused a whole heap of strife on the planet – as has the colour of one’s skin.
What a hopeless lot we are!
Again Boa, not quite right. It is estimated that 11 million people were killed by the Germans in WW11. 6million Jewish people and 5 million non-Jewish. These included gypsies, homosexuals, priests, political dissidents, disabled people both physically and mentally. The list goes on. It should be remembered that the push was for a pure Aryan race, blonde, blue-eyed etc. The Holocaust was absolute madness and evil prevailed, but I’m not sure you could call it a religious war.
Hear hear Dr Penny but nothing wrong with us blonde haired blue eyed types.
Everybody from Clinton on agreed with the policy. At least that’s what they said when campaigning. Are we criticising Trump for doing what he promised unlike those before him?
But Razor, do you honestly think anything but domestic issues really interested American voters? I’m criticizing Trump because he has done this without thinking of the consequences which will be far-reaching
I’m a hawk as far as Israel goes Penny but I think many American voters do care about the Middle East as they’ve sacrificed an awful lot of lives trying to play policeman there. I just wish the rest if the place was like Israel and didn’t have oil.
Meanwhile back in Bennelong, Mr Insider, my selection to win the seat the classy Kristina Keneally is breathing down the neck of Alexander as the field comes round the back straight. Our failed PM Turnbull is desperate to win this seat for his own survival and is throwing everything at it I am told. Go Kristina you good thing!
You could be right HB. Looks like the China affair has done a fair bit of damage to JA’s chances of re-election.
It will be an interesting day
Latest polling says its now neck and neck Boadicea with the high profile Kristina surging by the hour. My guess is she has been waiting quietly in the background for a winnable seat to appear and with the lame duck Alexander lo and behold it did. Cheers
@JtI apologies for off topic, when the topic is so grave.
May I just say in a country facing so many serious and daunting problems with its economy and life for its population, the current witch hunt for commies is just infuriating. Stop the bs politics, get on with the bloody job! Or please, when is the next federal election? It cant come soon enough.
Would it make a difference if the hunt for foreign countries interfering with due process in this country were not Communist and totalitarian, Wraith ?
open to guidance…vote for who?
Life in the People’s Republic of SA:
South Australian Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis said the contract to purchase the generators was “commercial-in-confidence at the request of the company”. “South Australians got a very good deal … and the company does not want the details of that deal to negatively impact current negotiations with other jurisdictions,” he told The Australian.
Just a cool $400million, Dwight
I know Boa, so cheap right!!
Yvonne is ignorant to the fact Tasmania installed a massive bank of Diesel generators a couple of years ago. The cons here refuse to acknowledge these Turbine type generators will run on Gas. They also seem to not be able to understand most SA’s demand is covered by wind and domestic solar most of the time. Only the Federal government and the AEMO are keeping prices artificially high by insisting multiple gas fired units must be online at all times. SA provides gas to NSW and Victoria. But here is the head of the AEMO stating those resisting renewables are like those who tried to resist the internet. We know how that goes. The scared and ignorant should get out of the way.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/zibelman-resisting-energy-transition-like-trying-to-resist-internet-79095/
The may times do I have to tell you the story of Tasmania’s generators, Dismayed? Do you not understand it?
I’m not going to explain it to you for the third time. Look it up.
Should start “how many”.
“Do you not understand it? I’m not going to explain it to you for the third time.”
Crikey Boady, if only I could put an appropriate accent to some of your comments.
I don’t have what you may regard as an SA accent. So would disappoint
Enjoyed your clip on the SA hosties.
Reminded me of a really crap flight I had on Qantas earlier this year!
Maybe. You certainly have the syntax when you’ve got your bossy boots on.
Just curious, you weren’t a hostie in a former life were you? Factual or fictional.
You do realise we are still Australians dont you? You should be happy for us, after so many years of being screwed by the market, the little people have a win. South Australia had to go it alone at the end, because we knew we had been hung out to dry by the eastern states, and the Federal gov. We got a good deal, and its in by Christmas, and it works, mate, Ive bought washing machines that didnt do as well.
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Why does that make us Chinese? Your point of view is unsustained by logic.
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Meanwhile, I will watch the glory of giant wind turbines slowly spinning their way into the future, you can chuck another lump of stinky coal on the fire if you like.
cheers good man!
I don’t see where Dwight mentioned SA were Chinese Wraith?
What he inferred was that SA was going it alone, republic style, having broken away from the mother country!
No, my dear, first line….
“life in the People’s Republic of SA”. What other People’s Republics do we have Boa? Ummm…. The People’s Republic of China. That’s how I arrived at Chinese.
Hush now.
Well wraith I’m one who is very happy for South Australians and you must be thankful that Jay Weatherill stood up for renewables in your state under such intense pressure from the federal fossils to go backwards.
If only the other states would follow SA’s lead.
Our newly re-elected Premier P here in Qld has just formally vetoed the NAIF loan for Adani’s filfthy coal mine, as promised, however, the dodgy Indian billionaires involved continue their search for funding in China.
I live to hear Adani is dead in the water, for the farmers who will lose their water, for the future of the GBR & for the environment it will obliterate.
My best to you wraith, I just love your style.
Short step from here Dwight for glorious leader Weatherall to secretly build a reactor capable of producing weapons grade material.
He can’t afford one Razor!
SA JAY has the budget in Surplus. Record levels of investment coming into SA. Leading the Nation this year on private CAPEX investment. When you are not supporting the coalition Yvonne you really should try finding out what is actually going on in this country. I know you wont but a paper down at your coffee shop but I am sure they provide you free wifi so you can actually do some research on matters.
Okay, I’ll play, then an even shorter step, installing me as General Chaos in charge of the nasty nuclear dart!!! Oh, you guys crack me up. What to point it at, the big banana, the big sheep? The big Kahoonah? Bunnings?
Viva la Republic!
Whop it up ’em Wraith! Make ’em take it.
How long have they been trying to mediate peace between Israel and Palestine?
Okay, so Trump was fulfilling an election promise and cementing a significant section of his support base – but apart from that wasn’t he stating the bleeding obvious?
It’s doubtful whether that conflict will ever be resolved anyway.
He could have said to Bibi, OK we will recognise it but you reign in the settlers and the ultra orthodox…
He may well have UQ.
bibi cant deljver…but sez K DONNY
David Ben-Gurion moved the capital there in December 1949. The world has played “let’s pretend” ever since. Giving a foreign policy veto to the terrorists of Hamas was always a dumb idea.
Come on man, the place was Palestine before that. There was no Israel. And they werent there flying any flags at any light horse charges during the war either! But we arent supposed to remember that, we are all still ‘pretending’.
Looks like the USA is on its todd moving the embassy. Enjoy the view I say!
And before that…
What a mess. If God’s running the show he’s a piss-poor planner.
Sorry Wraith but you need to polish up on your WW2 history. Read about the Arab League and the Nazi’s, Jewish aid to the British and subsequent betrayal. There’s much much more.
Razor, there were actually Jewish groups too. And that is well documented in the history books as well. These groups made it quite clear that they would not share “their” land and more than one village in Palestine was annihilated, women and children were the first to be mown down. It is an ugly business, but being hawkish about Israel’s rights is ignoring the very troubling history of the partition of Palestine. I am not anti-Israel by any means, in fact there is a lot to admire about their efficiency etc. But until it is recognized that the Palestinians have really been the losers in this whole sorry business, it can only get worse.
The Palestinians were deserted by the Arabs very early on because the Arabs didn’t want to assist them and wanted to use them as a wedge against Israel. They were very happy to have them in refugee camps with nowhere to go. The fact they got handed a beating in 1948, 1967 and 1972 only increased their desire to use Palestinians as bargaining chips!
Actually a typo it was 1973 not 1972.
Also the Jews never worked with the Nazis. The Haganah and groups like that may have fought the British after the war but that was with regard to the blockade. I don’t picture Moshe Dayan as a Nazi sympathiser somehow.
Razor, you must have trouble reading my posts….point out where I said Jews worked with Nazis. Perhaps I should have used the term Zionists, not Jews. But these groups called themselves Jews and stated they would never share “their” land with Arabs. It was the firm belief that it was Jews against Arabs, and in that they meant Palestinians. But you know all this don’t you…..you’re just trying to be pedantic and perhaps a little bit myopic when it comes to Israel being the only ones entitled to the Holy Land
The World is a shocking mess Boadicea and imho no one has the answer to Peace. We can only hope that cool heads prevail and Nuclear War is further away than ever. Cheers
Stating the bleeding obvious what? I suggest a “significant” section of his support base are starting to wonder who else has got the “independent” Trump in their pocket and what other obligations are outstanding.
Now I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if we see a false flag event in the US. It might even involve The Donald himself which would be poetic. The bloke is going to be a huge and inconvenient liability at some point.
Just as long as it can be pinned on the Palestinians.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/jerusalem-move-fury-spreads-jakarta-rabat-171210211023133.html
You’ve got it right JB, the fury is there for all to see. Not just the Palestinians, who have no right to their land anyway according to the Israelis, but to a lot of countries who have supported the U.S in recent times. Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE etc. Some may find this hard to believe but there are still quite a lot of Israelis who don’t feel comfortable about this either. Opening a US embassy in Jerusalem is definitely making a statement. The point is, do most Americans care or even know about this issue?
They both have their holiest site in East Jerusalem JB.
So splitting Jerusalem East-West. Berlin-style can’t realistically work.
A religious war that will rage indefinitely.
Exactly Boa….except put the Christians in there too.
Huh? And the better option is?
Leave the embassy in Tel Aviv JB, you know it makes sense.
If they move the embassy there, it’s more than a statement
The capital of Israel is Jerusalem.. The carry on reeks of anti-Semitism and anti Trump. It is a nonsense and an excuse for violent/aggressive thoughts and actions. If I think of Palestine I think of Arafat and his outright refusal to get for his people the best deal that they will never be offered again.
Milton, I don’t want to be pedantic but Semite refers to the ancient people who spoke the Semitic languages. DNA studies have shown that the Palestinian Arabs are more closely related to ancient Israeli tribes than to other Arabs from neighboring countries. Then all of a sudden we find that Anti-Semitic really means only being anti Jewish. As for Arafat you need to move on from him Milton, there are Palestinians desperately working for a fair deal for their people as they should be. I’m not trying to be a smartarse here, but I have worked and lived in that area of the world, spoken to many people and listened to all sides and all I can say there should be a solution put into place that ensures everyone is given an opportunity to live their lives without prejudice. While the US arrogantly stating that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, I think they are saying we don’t give a stuff about the Palestinians or their human rights. Now who’s being anti-Semitic?
Finally. Someone with some insight. People might do well to research as to where the overwhelming majority of modern Jewish people actually come from. It’s nowhere near the Middle East.
No Milton, its not that simple. You might like to see it that way, but its not.
Drivel.
I remember that. It was bizarre.
BTW! “