A week ago today, I attended the memorial for Bill Leak at the Sydney Town Hall.
As I scanned the crowd, an eclectic group of people who had known Bill one way or another, I had to ask where were the Labor people? Where was Shorten, Plibersek or Dreyfus?
In the wake of the 2004 election, with the Howard government enjoying a majority in both houses, there was no opposition in the parliament. For at least two years, the worst part of Coalition MPs’ days was opening up The Australian and flipping to Bill Leak’s cartoon, to see another hilarious lampooning of their leader.
I would have thought some of the Labor people might have made an appearance simply out of gratitude for those dark days. It bothers me they stayed away and it speaks of a faddish clannishness the old Labor people would regard with contempt.
Bill Leak embraced everyone he met. Ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, it didn’t matter. He genuinely enjoyed the company of people but it was more than that. If he spied someone feeling awkward or a bit uncomfortable, Bill would bound up and make a fuss of them. He not only had the ability to make people feel special but he brought a sense of fairness and equity to any table.
It is a politician’s gift but Bill was not on the ballot. He wasn’t trying to sell anything. He simply loved people.
Full column here.
It is rather depressing reading about the actions of the LGBTI crowd against people who disagree with their views.
Those who read the Australian will know what I am talking about – the self -censorship in some of the other media like Fairfax and the ABC means that this type of anti-democratic behavior does not get an airing.
The actions of some of the LGBTI crowd with its intimidation of people who disagree with them while hiding behind a cloak of anonymity themselves has its origins in the actions of every secret police force in totalitarian governments since the beginning of time.
I also see no condemnation of their actions from their allies on the Left so one can assume that they will be the new modus operandi for future left wing attacks on our democracy and traditions of free speech..
Whoooooooooooooooo. There is spectre haunting free speech, democracy and all we hold so dear.
And it’s covered in glitter.
Check under your bed for someone from the sinister LGBTI fraternity tonight JackSprat. I’m serious man, you could be at risk of fate worse than death!
I guess you have no problems with their tactics – somehow I am not surprised — comrade.
Kind of curious where the rabid left gets its direction from these days after the demise of the communists in Russia – maybe you can keep me informed.
It appears that you have no idea what the demise of free speech will do to a democracy – but there again I suspect you do and are salivating ta the prospect.
I guess only a Nihilist Lefty who believes in absolutely nothing but destroying everything could quite happily make that statement.
If you do not believe in free speech and democracy, what do you believe in JB.
You might like to tell me, given the current politics in Russia, who do you take your orders from these days?
Damnit, I was just trying to help. Didn’t mean to get you all lathered up and hyperventilating. Just check under your bed, them preverts has got some damn preverted notions. I aint saying y’all liable liable to find a pervert under yourn bed, because you sure as hell wont. But the thing is if you know for sure there aint one under your bed then you will sleep a whole better and be more relaxed as a general thing.
Lord knows, it aint easy being a conservative.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/
Checked under the beds – they were all dead reds.
Must get around to calling the bottlo one day.
I would have thought it was easier being a Leftie – just disagree with all the status quo.
Harder being in the center – one gets screwed by both sides.
Good one!
There seems to be an emerging opinion that they are doing their cause more harm than good these days. Especially by involving major corporations in the debate.
Surely those major corporations make their own decisions?
You can’t tell me that the CEO of the CBA had his arm twisted up his back & put under some sort of LGBTIQ duress before they pledged their support for SSM.
In writing that, neither can I imagine that corporation, the ANZ or Westpac suddenly becoming all embracing of anything at all unless it correlates to their bottom line.
Bankers don’t do emotion.
Regards, Bella
“…suddenly becoming all embracing of anything at all unless it correlates to their bottom line…”.
Please behave Bella or you will get me started!
And regards your earlier enquiry, yes, but I think “interests” is a better word than “hobbies”. Re QT, that is when I do my best ironing and/or prep for the family dinner. I don’t need to see the tossers; just hearing them makes me feel fairly sensible and mature!
Cheers, Bella.
ps had our local possum sitting on the windowsill behind where I sit if we are watching the box. It scared the shit out of me, even though I knew it had been there earlier, to the keen interest of our cat, so i’d closed the window when the cat went out from it. Then I rubbed where its nose was against the glass, it didn’t seem to mind and after a while it hopped off. Came back again then hopped off (onto our carport) before our lad could take a pic. About 10 mins later i heard a thump against the window and thought f?%k I’ve got a rabid, feral, greeny, lefty marsupial out to kill me because of my conservative, Abbott loving views. Alas, a second later something bounced back again, somewhat gentler, and it was our cat who didn’t realise i’d closed the window and who shares almost exactly the same colour as the possum, but votes coalition!!
A true story, my love.
Gawd Milton, you really must try harder to rein in all those rampant innuendos you come up with!
Re the ‘possum’ mate, please refrain from handling said greenie activist marsupial if approached. We’ve just released hundreds of our updated POSCON8 models programmed to infiltrate rabid conservative homes across the country and I’m not at all surprised it’s found you already but
watching television with you is ‘out there’ even for them, so since I know you, it’ll ask it to retreat. For now. Abbott-loving, coal junkies are their favourite target so ‘go low’ Milton, as conservatives very often do.
Regards, Bella
Thanks Bella, mighty sporting of you. I must say he or she was wonderful company to watch tv with. All eyes and ears and not a peep.
And that’s quite a cunning plan you eco warriors have come up with.
It’s not an attack on democracy or free speech JS.
Folks seem to get so anxious about the LGBTI community when in reality a great number of gay men & women have blended in with our straight world for centuries without shouting their orientation out for fear of historically real persecution.
Most truly could not give a flying fig about legalising their same sex relationship, mainly because ‘marriage’ as a lawful man/women institution is so devalued these days by increasingly common divorces or apathy toward their spouse, that most simply don’t want that association. A civil ceremony may do at the end of the day, however there will always be those who disagree with my brother on that. He has no time for SSM or Mardi Gras rubbish as he calls it, but wants an open & equal society where you are judged only on how you treat others & help others, gay or straight.
I actually support SSM & not because of him, because people do love who they love & it’s only fair that they would ask for the same recognitions.
In saying that, what I don’t support is anyone being intimidated into making a very personal decision under threats of any kind.
Beats me why Australians could not have answered Yes or No to SSM on the last Census.
My guess is that too many hearts remain closed & they’d have known from polls that the result would go against their Christian beliefs.
Regards, Bella
I think it is Bella. Their tactics are precluding any debate – there are two sides to the argument and both sides need to be heard. Without that debate there is going to be bitterness and rancour on the losing side which will probably be around about 20% of the population.
I was just commenting about their tactics – it is not just them.
The Islamic crowd try to stop people with messages they do not approve of.
University lecturers have been involved in storming meetings where a message that they do not approve of is being delivered.
18c has been used to stifle debate and to intimidate people.
“Get-up” regularly distribute half-truths if not outright lies during election times.
Some of the union campaigns in past elections have based on totally wrong and false information.
The churches have a right to marry who they wish – often not being baptized is a stumbling block
In Holland, everybody goes through a civil ceremony and if the couple wishes than they can proceed to a church ceremony.
I agree with Boadicea, they are doing themselves a disservice.
This society of ours is polarising along all sorts of fault lines and is ably and abetted by Shorten and his identity politics.
I mean no disrespect JS & you’re right, there are two sides to this but the fact that you already call it an ‘argument’ only has my thoughts going straight to just how hurtful & demeaning will the ‘against’ side of this debate become in the finish & as a consequence just how many ‘vulnerable’ young homosexual men & women will have the issue of their sexuality questioned as if it’s a choice they made themselves. They may likely come to the conclusion that they were born ‘wrong’ & decide to check-out permanently from an unaccepting society. It could even result in stirring-up gay hate crimes once so prevalent but nowadays not so much.
I’m trying to say that nobody on either end of this should be persecuted over this but I’m fairly sure nobody will be out bashing the ‘no’ voters once the ugly name-calling makes headlines.
Finally it’s quite safe to predict that 99% of gay couples wishing to be legally recognised, will not be seeking any kind of church blessing or ceremony carried out in a stained-glass building if they are able to proceed with legalising their love in some meaningful way.
The disservice goes both ways mate.
Bella
The disservice goes both ways mate.
Not saying that it was not Bella.
There just happens to be a fair slab of the populations ( 15% – 20%) and, I might hasten to add, I am not part of them, that feel strongly about it.
Argument maybe is the wrong word – debate might be better.
I would have thought that being a homosexual or lesbian these days does not bring much of a stigma with it. Penny Wong and that idiot (not because of his sexual preferences) who runs Qantas spring to mind immediately. There are quite a number of openly Gay parliamentarians.
I would have that most are secure within there sexuality and a debate would not bother them one way or another other than confirm their opinion of a certain section of society – I could be wrong though.
Given the debacle, it was probably just as well it wasn’t a question in the census, Bella. Not sure how many citizens actually ended up doing theirs! Did they ever release the final statistic?
YOU SAY:-Beats me why Australians could not have answered Yes or No to SSM on the last Census.
But why not let the parliament do its job. Howard changed the marriage act without getting the people to vote on kit. More serious was his taking us to war on a pack of lies and deception with no involvement of the people or the parliament as a whole.
Because, Bassy, they don’t make up the Census questions the week before it happens. They have already started on 2021 – want to wait that long?
One of the best comments I have read on this blog. Beautiful mate and represents the feelings of all my friends both gay and lesbian bar one male.
IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL! Let’s get it over and done with for christs sake.
Yay Razor…
My 10.45pm was for Bella.
Well we could work that out Razor….
Thank-you Razor it means a lot.
So wanting this issue to be sorted; yesterday.
Ta again mate.
Bella
JS, with all due respect do you not think that your obsession with the Left is a tad over the top. Most LGBTI people I know ( I don’t know many TI or Q people) really aren’t into intimidation nor are they really left wing. I know several gay journalists who work for News Corp, Fairfax and the ABC, so can honestly say you can’t blame one news outlet more than the other for sticking up for LGBTI rights. This free speech thing seems to be resulting in some people on the right saying we need to stick up for free speech, but don’t let those on the left have any rights to free speech.
Australians have pretty well have a gutful of 18c, know bugger all about 18d and do not care. Football season has started and that’s what most of us care about….MT pretends he follows Manly but doesn’t really know where the ground is and Bill Shorten barracks for Collingwood…..say no more, sorry TV
Nope.
The anti-free speech campaign is coming from those who do not brook any opposition to their beliefs.
I do not see people who are advocating free speech starting social media campaigns against those who have the temerity to want a debate. It is intimidation. It is setting a precedent and it is dangerous.
I have subscribed to Fairfax and the OZ for years and use the ABC web page for news. Fairfax and the ABC are past masters at not reporting any adverse news on their pet subjects.
It has been a hobby of mine comparing what they report and do not report.
As an academic I would have thought that you and your colleagues would be at the forefront of defending what is a fundamental bulwark of our society. This support is sadly lacking in many institutions around the world. One only has to look at what goes on in the US universities. The University of Chicago is a stand out though – they have said that part and parcel of attending a university is to have your ideas challenged and in the process you might feel offended. Many others do not apply this principal and censor.
The reason why people do not understand the abuse of process that has occurred with 18c is because, other than the Australian, none of the media is reporting it in depth.
The people who have had a gutful of 18c in Australia are probably those who approve of it and its use to stifle debate.
By the way, I am not talking about Gay rights here – I am talking about the the methods being used to suppress debate on the issue of Gay marriage, what the final form should be and what compromises need to be made to achieve it.
JS Oh my oh my why are we NOT surprised you are espousing he the Uni. of Chicago, Friedman’s school. His ideas certainly have been challenged and proven to be false and Wrong. Dear Oh dear. JS. Get out of the echo chamber.
Penny, the ABC does not practice diversity of opinion.
Q&A is the flagship is the in that respect.
Trust you to mix up free thought with economic theory.
And what came to do you belong to – the Bernanke and his idiot mates.
Gee JS, I don’t think I’ve ever had this many conversations with you on the one blog. Let me state first and foremost that as an academic, I firmly believe in free speech. I am appalled at the latest developments in Australian Universities requiring trigger warnings to be in place for poor sensitive students who may be upset by material that could be perceived as “confronting”. My first thought when I read that was how come a class of mine in Kuwait can freely discuss the prevalence of homosexuality in Saudi Arabia because of the segregation of young people and yet students in Australia may feel ‘upset’ by F.Scott Fitzgerald?
But what I have noticed creeping into society is the utter contempt some people have for people having differing opinions. I am heartily sick of the left versus right argument. I am neither left wing nor right wing, but if I was going to be categorized I probably lean further to the left than the right. But everybody wants it to be black or white, no in-between, there is to be no acknowledgement of other points of view. And while we’re at it let’s bash the ABC, which despite it being seen time and time again as the most trusted media source in Australia, is going to be subjected to more funding cuts because it is one outlet where people are allowed to be given a fair amount of free speech…just not the free speech the government wants to hear.
The ABC, by its legislation, has to give a balanced point of view and that means giving the pros and cons of both sides of the argument. They rarely do that on their flagship shows..
Left and right is an easy term – especially when describing the leanings of the majority of the “soft” faculties in Australian Universities and some ABC presenters who make Dismayed look balanced.
However most people fall into both camps with a few notable exceptions on this blog. I do not like being called a “con” and I retaliate with the term “Leftie” which is not necessarily aimed at you.
I once read an article that compared Argentina and Australia – both had one of the highest standards of living in the world in 1900.
They fell by the wayside and we progressed.
One of the reasons given by the author was the inability to compromise between the many groups in Argentina. A few rat bag dictators helped them on the way also.
You can see that effect everywhere now – in the US, at the Federal level in Australia, Malaysia, Middle East, Brexit – it is everywhere. The general theme is my way or the by way and to hell with the country.
I guess we have had it too easy for too long and have forgotten that to progress as a society we need to pull together.
JS, after all our “dialogue” ( an in word amongst the social progressives) I think we have come to an agreement. Australia for all it’s problems still does have the ability to compromise. I’m not talking about the politicians, I’m talking about the Australian people. Argentina is a good example of people not having the ability to do this. But having lived in Lebanon for two years I have to say I came away with a greater admiration for this great country of ours than I had before I left. My God those people could never have a normal discussion without an argument erupting about anything at all. Fascinating place, great people but mentally exhausting
“they know how to play the game, side by side they stick together”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjHiASl50Yg
Turnbull follows Manly?… what’s wrong with the feather dusters in his neck of the woods.
I will die before I call Brooky anything else……..bloody awful new name.
More unfortunate Tracy is the fact Brooky is itself just bloody awful. A new name doesn’t put enough lipstick on the pig. Why can they flog it off for a pretty price and build a new stadium in a piece carved out of the national park along Wakehurst Parkway?
At least it would be closer to the new hospital for those having a heart failure when the Sea Eagles actually get up for a win.
I often drive past Brooky after a game, only to see despondent souls contemplating jumping in front of the traffic, with some actually doing it. As for the demographics, silver tails my arse.
I think that was another of Tony’s promises that didn’t eventuate, some money for a decent stadium..,,,.ha.
I read there has been a lot of complaints about weather reporters being out in the elements at a time when everyone else has been told to stay indoors. Fair enough. It will probably take one reporter to be sliced in half by a piece of flying corrugated iron before they stop.
That’s why they send them out there Milton. Exclusive footage and all that.
And what could be a more effective PS warning to the plebs every time we have a cyclone.
“Here you dills. Watch Simon’s head go flying off. Now you see it, now you don’t. Now bloody get inside and stay there!”
JB, I saw some wonderful footage of some fool media guy interviewing a local from Bowen. To the question from media guyto local about what did he think of Debbie, his reply was ” well I’ve heard about Debbie doing things to other places, but tonight Debbie’s giving Bowen a blow-job”…..local (1) media guy (0)
Oooohwhaaaa!
Like it! Just like a text I sent to a mate living near Airlie – saying he was about to get a big wet BJ….
Dopey bat on Nein this morning claimed to be ’embedded with the SES’. Cretin.
A posthumous Logie!
TV Anchormans Head Found.
A shocked housewife discovered the head of television personality Marty Shitebrain on her front lawn seventy four kilometres from where he was decapitated by debris during an interview on Tuesday night.
Mrs Jodie Brown said “He was still talking and posed for selfies with all of the children but by the time the ambulance arrived he was beginning to slur his words, and we are very worried for him.”
I think it’s usually done safely in the studio with a green-screen and a big fan.
hehe, you cynic. You’ll be on about the Hollywood moon landings next!
Think of the poor camera man.
Back in the days of “Mad” magazine, there was a skit about the unrecognized photographer.
It proceeded to show a person in a balloon reaching the highest point ever – taken from above.
There was a similar one about a person reaching the deepest point ever in an ocean – taken from below.
So when you look at those lovely young ladies, chosen for one reason and one reason only and it is not their IQ, give a quick thought to the poor guy humping around a camera and probably another person applying water-proof make up.
All because the TV stations think we are all beguiled by “atmosphere”
Not to mention Bear Grylls camera man!
Never mind cyclones. A proper cull of irritating television people would best be started by throwing full throttle chain saws across the desks in breakfast television studios. Ratings bonanza. It would get people out of bed and get the country moving.
But I’m sick and grumpy today. I’ll see the doctor tomorrow and get some tablets to knock it on the head. Hopefully he prescribes thylacine. That usually does the trick. I don’t know how it works but then I’m not a pharmacist. If I was I’d be a West Coast premiership coach and in charge at Essendon now.
Well done!
Thylacine Perentie? Yikes you may get eaten!
crickets over and it was not a complete debacle. thank Dawg
majority of oz bats
still can’t play spin though
No idea where that came from. I was going to say that they were having a few difficulties against pace as well – admittedly on a pitch where the ball was flying everywhere. Then it mysteriously settled down.
Questions for Jumping Jay or a conspiracy from the denialists at the Murdoch press?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/sa-blackouts-wind-farm-turbines-key-to-power-outages-report-finds/news-story/97967948bbd3f7644451ee02d61b14bf
You should perhaps look at the AEMO report. From the report “A number of factors investigated by AEMO were found to have little or NO material effect on the event – Trips of wind turbines due to high wind speed.” Also directly from AEMO report ” ” Wind turbines successfully rode through grid disturbances” The report clearly state that wind generation was NOT at fault and the report also calls for more new technologies.
Mr Dismayed Jumping Jay seems to be in a bit of trouble over this. 25 million isn’t much in the scheme of things. I hope he can weather the storm from these denialists in the Murdoch press. I find your non partisan views on this issue refreshing.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/details-emerge-of-alinta-offer-to-keep-sas-last-coalfired-power-station-open/news-story/b4ab464faa28ba689562ef5d140e3fe0
Hmmmm KO – Weatherill is looking like a prize turkey at the moment. Good luck to him.
Only at the moment?
Just another in along running campaign by then only NEWS provider in the state. why should he subsidise a Private company for 12 months at $25 million? That mush per year from the Federal Government would have kept the automotive industry operating in this country returning $20 billion per year to the economy. We see a report out today showing direct and indirect job losses will be over 60,000 over when the cars stop be produced. SA JAY is the best political Leader in the country at the moment.
Mr Dismayed could you show me the link to where the car industry could have been saved for $25million.
As another point Mr Dismayed could you advise if renewables are subsidised? I have been told they are but who knows what’s true these days.
Elon Musk arriving soon to “turn on the lights” as it were for SA Ken. Poor little buggers they must be sick of throwing the light switch up and down and still find themselves in the dark!
For about 5 minutes
On a fair reading of the report, the shutdown of wind-farms was only one link in a chain of events that caused the blackout, and was the result of fault-protection software settings (which have now been rectified), and not the intermittent nature of wind energy, as so many confidently but wrongly reported at the time. So I would say that headline is pretty misleading. It’s always better to look at primary sources, especially with such a politicised issue:
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Electricity/NEM/Market_Notices_and_Events/Power_System_Incident_Reports/2017/Integrated-Final-Report-SA-Black-System-28-September-2016.pdf
That headline was wrong, based on all the facts, but why let that get in the way of an obvious agenda.
Stand your ground SA!
Wade misses another catch off SOK Maybe Wade wants his Vic mate Holland in the team. I see Sayers took 7 more wickets in the first innings of the shield final to take his tally to 61 for the season. Vics. well on top of the SACA’s. Young keeper Alex Carey fighting to keep the SACA’s in it. Just about all over in India.
The judges decision to imprison Cousins may just save his life for him. So terribly sad to watch a bright-eyed young man with the world at his feet come to this. God, methamphetamine is a curse. One can only hope he comes good. Up to him now.
That was my take. If someone had been tough on him years ago, it wouldn’t have gotten to this.
Exactly Dwight. Had the football club concerned, who allegedly turned a blind eye to it all, acted on it, things may be totally different now. Cousins is an extremely tragic example. Another one of his mates is dead.
12 yrs too late
still every chance this ends with the funeral…..what a world of pain.
Yep agree, smoke. Cousins seems hell bent on self-destruction. Bloody tragic. The best place for him right now is prison – as long as drugs are not available in there.
Yvonne and the rest of you who have never struggled. Jail is Never the best option for those with drug issues. Your out sight out of mind answer to everything proves just how ignorant you are.
Everyone has tried to help Cousins Dismayed. Over and over again. He will not cooperate. You really need to read things through here. His best hope at the moment is to he somewhere where he cannot access drugs. That’s what I am saying.care you stupid or do you deliberately misunderstand? Nobody wants him to die – least of all his parents and children.
Sooner than later smoke I’d say and then watch the bullshit flow from the press!
PFFFFT. It is no longer 1950 Dwight. Perhaps if someone had asked him years ago are you Ok? do you need some help it would not have gotten to this.
His father is the one I feel sorry for Dwight, he admits that he should have acted years ago, bit tough in hindsight though….
I’m sure the young Nathan van Berlo, probably the fittest man in football at the time, would agree. He couldn’t keep up with Cousins when trying to tag him in the second half of a preliminary final. There’s speed and then there’s speed.
NVB very fit but did not have the same gut busting running ability Cousins showed over his career. Cousins for all his struggles with the gear and what to do after leaving game was one of the best runners the game has ever seen. His return for Richmond after a long lay off was one the most awesome displays for out and out gut busting run eve seen. Plus unlike NVB he could actually hit a target by foot and hand.
Drug use should be treated as a health issue not a criminal issue. No one gets better by going to jail.
Getting him away from sourcing drugs could save his life at the moment Dismayed. Maybe that’s what the magistrate had in mind. Everything else has been tried – to no avail. I would say this is his last spin of the dice.
By putting him in jail surrounded by career criminals some of who will want to make a name for themselves by taking out a person like Cousins? He will be forced to develop even worse ways to get by inside. Something like over 80% of drug crimes are first time and low levels users which costs the Nation $millions and only further worsens the health and well being of those affected by the drugs. Jails do NOT help people become better at anything other than improving their nefarious abilities to survive inside which then makes then it even harder for them to once released. This highlights your out of sight of mind, keep it away from me so I don’t have to look at mentality. The guy is struggling, has been for a long time. Why do we not have health facilities to help people like this who struggle to beat these demons. Just like mental health the Nation fails those that that need a hand the most.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”― Edmund Burke
Small users yes. Then smash the living bejesus out of the dealers.
Agree go after supplier’s. But users should be treated as having health issues.
I have said and believed for a long time the AFL is a bubble these “man” children grow up in the privileged environment and when it is all over most are not prepared for life in the so called “real’ world. I again have said and believe the Clubs should have better system’s in place to ensure their “cattle” have the skills required to operate outside of the bubble. There are only a certain number of coaching, administration and broadcasting roles. the rest of the “cattle” have to find heir own way and many really struggle.
most of these young sportsman who get into drugs have more of a time and money problem in the beginning.
that is they have too much of both and can’t fill their week without a little help.
quite a few indulge and then those with really addictive personalities and/or a physical reaction find themselves in a bit of bother.
not much to do with being asked if you are OK, these blokes have people scurrying around them till they have support services dangling from them like dags.
I think if someone had asked him ”are you okay” back in those heady days – he would have replied ”I’m fine”. He was on top of the world – the world was at his feet. Very sad.
more drama
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/former-west-coast-eagle-ben-cousins-jailed-for-a-year-ng-b88428727z
the abc has 4 different channels, surely one of them could show question time; no need for the same coverage of the cyclone to be shown on abc1 and abcnews.
You still watch QT Milton? I can’t cope with stupid men screaming abuses so for me it’s like a descent into hell Mr. Speaker.
Don’t you have any hobbies mate?
Regards, Bella
Smith the speaker started out ok but has gone down the time honoured coalition path of being ridiculously partisan. The incredible shrinking Malcom’s hysterics and personal attacks continue daily. Labor has finally mentioned HIH. Turnbull is desperate and lashing out. He is in siege mentality. He will never satisfy you right whinge conservative eternally outraged troglodytes and cannot move back to the sensible middle for fear of looking even weaker than he does now. He is done.
The AEMO report into the blackout in SA after transmission lines were knocked over by storm winds released today states ” AEMO also didn’t know about the software settings on fault ride through mechanisms on wind farms. While the nature of wind farms (their variability) was not an issue and the wind turbines “successfully rode through grid disturbances”, and ” But the report also highlights that the big gas generators were not able to react quickly enough to the dramatic events that followed the collapse of three main transmission lines, because they needed up to six seconds to respond to changes in system frequency” . Yet The Australian is stating “Wind farms” were the key to the blackout. The writer has continually been factually incorrect and it appears continues deliberately mislead on this subject for his own Political agenda. Disgraceful. Oh and they will NOT publish my comments trying to highlight the factual errors.
Mate you have more chance of seeing Don Felder being asked to rejoin the Eagles than getting a letter in the Oz if it is to do with govt debt/the carbon tax lie/global warming/18C/SSM…unless it reflects The Oz’s ideology. Other papers publish me but not The Oz.
Or Glenn Frey…
Looks like JTI started something.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/28/tasmanian-tiger-sighting-search-thylacine-queensland-australia
Pretty well what you would expect from the Guardian – rubbish!
JS Is that you from your echo chamber again?
Just taking my cues from you Dismayed
JS No. If you were taking your cues form me you would be showing a more intelligence. and the ability to consider information rather than maintaining opinions you were fed in 1952.
Only the behavioral cues – not the content cues