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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.

253 Comments

  • Carl on the Coast says:

    I see comedic context and a sense of humour finally collide at the our ABC. About time too.

    • Trivalve says:

      What country geographically disconnected from the rest of the world would allow its refining capacity to wind down the way we are. Both sides of politics are at fault. Absolute madness. The market is not omnipotent!

      Maybe CNOOC will put their hands up to build some new capacity (shudder)

    • Mack the Knife says:

      Terrible when we used to be self-sufficient in fuel supplied by local sweet light crude from the likes of Eromanga, Jackson, Moomba & Bass Strait fields. The crude at Eromanga was so light & sweet they used to use it instead of diesel in the Cat motors on the pump jacks. A little waxy & fuel filters needed to be changed at a higher frequency but so what. Then PJK found out about it and started taxing the oil companies for using their own crude for fuel. He had a bad habit of doing things like that, meddling where no man had meddled before.

      • Milton says:

        “Eromanga, Jackson, Moomba & Bass Strait fields”, you say Mack. I’ll have to check if my local Uncle Dan ‘s sell them. Do they come in casks as I like to do my bit and cut down on petrol? If it’s around $10-$12 for 5 litres then it’s got Milton’s drinking lips all over it!

      • Trivalve says:

        The Eromanga refinery is still kicking as far as I know Mack. I was there a couple of years back.

        • Mack the Knife says:

          Yep, probably is Trivalve. Rising population, declining production has made us dependent on overseas petrol supplies. Wells out at Eromanga used to produce 70 to 80% water in some areas, made a whole new ecosystem with the evaporation lakes, diving ducks in particular loved it!
          Australia has always had to import M.E. crude for heavy oils, grease etc. our oil is too light, but sweet with it.

  • Henry Donald J Blofeld says:

    Not wishing to turn your august Bloggers into gamblers, Mr. Insider but the Australian Powerball is $100 Million this Thursday. The chap from The Lott said the odds of winning are 1 in 11.3 Million but don’t let that deter you folks as it will go off this time of soon. The US has Powerballs that almost reach $1 Billion dollars!
    https://thelott.com/

    • Dwight says:

      1 in 134,490,400

      And yes, I have a ticket.

    • Wissendorf says:

      I’m a US lottery enthusiast Henry, though they have more numbers to choose from; 5 from 1 – 69 with 1 from 26 powerballs in US Powerball, and 1 – 70 with 1 from 25 powerballs in the Mega Millions. Has exceeded US $1.5 Bn once, but many in the hundreds of millions. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/25/who-won-the-5-biggest-us-lottery-prizes-ever.html The Euromillions is also huge now – E99m

      Their lotteries are supposed to be for US citizens only but there’s a way around it. Also that big prize is only that big if you take it over 30 years. The cash option is much lower and all prizes over $600 are taxed at 30% federal tax and State tax of up to 12%, depending where you claim the prize. Still, it’s nice to dream and someone wins it, and a few tickets is a cheap bet, less than $20. I don’t ever expect to win it ( biggest prize I’ve won was $1600 after taxes ) but I’m an eternal optimist. And you’ve got to be in it to win it.

  • Milton says:

    Not so sure this will be the last we hear of Lee Rhiannon.

    • Dwight says:

      Nope. You’d figure that after impoverishing billions and killing a hundred million that Marxism would die out. But she’ll still be out there saying that “this time it will work.” And a lot of delusionals will agree.

      • Milton says:

        Marx with his Marxism, on his own, as with his multifarious interpreters, was and is a failed thesis, Dwight. And saying this does not make me an anti-Semite. I think the Marx Bros are as funny as all let go.

  • Boadicea says:

    According to The Australian Husar is reconsidering her decision to quit. Labor must be trembling. It will most likely be a one-person operation. Who in their right mind would work for her,
    Interesting that not one of the complainants has had an enquiry as to their well-being. Pretty poor.

    • Dismayed says:

      Oh yeah, how many people have moved through the screeching M.Cash’s office in the last 12 months? try around 15 and counting. Open your eye

  • Carl on the Coast says:

    So now there appears to be two HOR members attempting to rekindle their careers. The member for New England kicked off with “Bring back Barnaby” and hot on his heels with an apparent change of mind is the member for Lindsay with “Bring back Hussar”. Good luck to both of them.

  • Carl on the Coast says:

    well, the coal-ition caucus will be cactus tomorrow if they don’t combine and coalesce in their considerations on climate change.

  • Dismayed says:

    the coalition’s lies being highlighted on twitter. this coalition government is the worst in the nations history. disgraceful, dishonest and ideologically against New technology whatever happened to “agile and innovative”. No agility to consider the National interest no innovation or support for New efficient cheaper cleaner technology just more lies. No surprises.

    • Bella says:

      Canavan not even bothering to hide his love of new coal.
      There’ll be zero renewables investment on his watch.
      Hope the lies coming from this rancid government of ignorant dinosaurs bites them on the arse bigtime & much sooner than May.

      • Dismayed says:

        the disgraceful canavan has stated on several occasions he is the minister For the resources industry. Not the minister for the Nations resources. he like dutton needs to be removed for the sake of the nation. No surprises.

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