Another year, another polly on the ropes over expense claims. Sussan Ley has been on the receiving end of a media pommeling and the collective wisdom is she’s been a naughty minister. She has been dispatched to Coventry and the view is she should settle down and grow accustomed to her new home.
As an observer of various entitlements farragoes over the years, I think Ms Leys’ spending puts her in exalted company, somewhere between Peter Slipper and the guv’nor, Labor’s Mal Colston. Spending $21,000 in a week or so on transport is extraordinary. I didn’t even think it was possible. With those frequent flyer miles, you can forget about the carrot sticks and chardy in the Qantas club. It’s foot-long lobster subs and Moët by the schooner. Hell, they’ll get you your own plane. Maybe even let you fly it.
The Minchin Protocol always sounded like a bad novel and now as it comes to its denouement, it is about as satisfying as an EH Holden Mechanics’ manual or anything knocked out by Clementine Ford.
Full column here.
Dismayed 10:24pm.
I watched that game wondering where have they been hiding young Ben McDermott scattering the crowd on many occasions with 6s all over the ground . Must remember the bowling was short in poor health deserving to be dismantled into the crowd. Saying this, his timing was magic and I see a future champion going on his maturity of delivering a quick result as the team needed .I think BOOF will be watching this rising star shaking the game into greater heights delighting the crowd as we seen last night .
I love the young ones coming along like this .What also impressed me was his maturity in that interview at the end with Mel Jones .How great to see a calm champion of the night deliver such a calm speech .
Playing for Tasmania in shield cricket. Don’t know what has happened to his brother he was a promising quickie but has dropped of the scene in the last 2 years.
Yvonne 07:20am.
Politicians on both side as history shows , have been dragging their back sides particularly when questioned about contingency plans knowing then from their reaction, bleakness will continue. The last mob under Rudd period done a sharp 180 degrees and Imsee little change from Malcolm in his usual irregularities and deviation lacking initiative to act and listen.
I ask the question on the Nick the Zenathon front, all the noises he made on this ,..where is his presence?.
Another point I see is that there will be ” no such unified front by both parties seen sitting around the table in discussions on NDIS in this term” .Both have egg on their face lacking committment endeavering to proceed on this policy as history shows.
Mr Leak’s again demonstrates he is a satirical genius with his portrayal of E.T. in today’s Oz.
However, his reference to defecation is questionable. Word has it that space aliens have evolved beyond the stage of having to poop.
Dismayed
I am still waiting for your answer from the last blog on the source that Clinton left Bush a $5trillion surplus. This is not the only case where I have asked you to back up some of your wilder statements and never got an answer.
Your ability to use facts without analysis is without peer. Yep, the official US unemployment rate is down. I suggest you look at the type of jobs that have been created. Then when you have done that and come to the conclusion that the unemployment stats are rubbish, have a look at the plight of the “middle class” who have had no real increase in wages in yonks and are really struggling. They, and those who hold down multiple part time jobs to attempt to make ends meet, are the cannon fodder in Free Trade, Globalisation and “imperial” Washington.
Once again you fall back on the rubbish logic of comparing worldwide trends with local trends and using the former to justify the latter. An analogy for this logic is the person who fell off a 20 story building. As he passed the 5th story he was heard to say – “So far so good”.
https://www.thebalance.com/us-debt-by-president-by-dollar-and-percent-3306296
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Bald!
Thanks Bassy those figures make a mockery of dismals bullshit
Easy to look up for anybody rather than this continual argy bargy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/13/hillary-clintons-claim-that-a-democratic-president-would-have-paid-down-the-national-debt/?utm_term=.c718b2fe241c
The figure of $5 trillion is further down the article.
JS regardless what evidence I put up you will have some reason to exclude it. You don’t accept official figures because they don’t fit your sovcit views. I can only present documents and evidence available. You will always exclude it because you did not present it first. You run the eternal strawman guise. You are the person representing JS but will not admit to being JS. You are just another of these opposite and opposing view for the sake of it types. You rail against everything and then support a mad dictatorial trump. Time for you to start considering that the world is NOT going back to subsistence farming and bartering. I alerted you to fact the in Australia 85% of all jobs created in the last 3 years were part time or casual. you asked for details I provided you then railed against it. Now you use this information to have ago at me. Go and look at yourself in the mirror and ask just why do I need to be combative on every issue, why am I unable to accept information when it is presented and why do I then use that same information to attack others? . Oh and your person who fell off the building would be right because it is not the fall that kills you is it, it is the sudden stop at the end.
Well where is the evidence? Prove JS wrong. He made a reasonable request.
I guess you cannot find any supporting documentation for your wild claims so you resort to personal attacks.
Have a read of the post below and read the AFR link. One in six males of working age men are unemployed in the US and they are not looking for a job – hence they are not counted in the unemployment statistics.
After reading the link from the AFR, go find the many more links that substantiate or refute the claims made. Then look at yourself in the mirror and say to yourself “I must widen my source of information.” as you choose all the time to use very selective information from very selective sources that suit your philosophy and thinking..
The reason why Trump is there because the majority of people, in the majority of states are hurting and hurting really badly.
I neither support him nor criticize him – he has been elected for 4 years and will be far harder to remove than Abbott. The leftist campaign against him is very similar to the one being used against Trump – you can find it well documented in Leftist “manuals”
You choose to ignore the existence of the well documented “deep state” which effectively was running the country for a narrow bunch of elites.
In fact Dismayed, you choose to ignore anything that is outside your belief system and when cornered you waffle..
Majority of people you say??? Clinton received over 3 million more votes. I see you are now admitting your paranoia. That is start. Who is it again the illuminati ? the deep state? the Masons. the Jews? The blacks, FFS. Are you Malcom Roberts? I will need empirical evidence that you are not.
JB: Interesting that Rollo (who was indeed not the brother of Ragnor) became the Duke of Normandy and founder of the Norman dynasty who eventually conquered England. Great great great grandfather of William the Conqueror. The Viking series is reasonably accurate in that he did defend the Seine valley from further Viking raids after a pact with the French king.. Seems our Rollo was more significant than Ragnor as history unfolded.
More interesting that those rampant pagans converted to Christianity.
His tomb is at Rouen. Just love it when it all comes together! Thank you.
No surprises in the Vikings converting to Christianity. Huge advantage to the powerful in joining forces with the Christians and assuming the role in cahoots with the priests of the middleman and conduit to the deity. Which of course means great influence over the underlings, who were already by environment and probably instinct extremely vulnerable to superstition. The Christian churches would have a great appeal as seeming magnets for gold and other goodies, without actually having to go out and rough it and fight for it.
The alliance would have provided Rollo with a great advantage over other Viking kings with dubious intentions vis-à-vis his well being. Whether Rollo “believed” is another thing altogether.
How many Bishops believe nowadays is open to conjecture. It’s a good lurk I believe.
Give ’em heaps.
That makes sense JB! I’m sure living in the French palace with a willing French chick would have been a tad more comfortable than the Viking existence too 🙂
Depends on the chick……
Dismayed – whilst I’m not suggesting you may have a soft spot for Christopher (although that can’t be ruled out entirely), and notwithstanding your regular close-quarters pairing with him when you both travel, I was wondering if you were more attracted to his red handbag or was it the peppermint tea that caught you fancy?
Hey. Don’t defame me Carl. Leave the Peppermint tea out of it. As usual you are unable to read what is written for want of misrepresenting for your own purposes. I am sure Razor will verbal you now about your homophobia. I said weak herbal tea. Peppermint tea is not in that league. Peppermint tea has been a saviour on many days in far flung places.
Watch him Dismayed! I don’t know if it’s Christopher, the handbag or the herbal tea that’s got him up and about and sniffing the air. Don’t answer the questions, you might really him in a lather.
Hmmmm…………..
.$3.7bn hole in NDIS funding. Why am I not surprised. Another back of the envelope scheme rushed through without any forethought – and being rorted.
Is anything not being rorted.? This country is in a mess – big time
A lot of legislation is based on people doing the right thing.
That is the “old” Australia.
The “new” Australia is one where a very large percentage will do anything to feather their own nests. This includes travel rorting politicians, property developers, senior executives who manipulate the books legally to maximize their bonuses, tax dodging tradies, and finally the poor sods on welfare. The list is pretty well endless.
It is like a rolling snowball.
Every time the rorting of one section is reported, it generates the feeling “I am a fool for doing the right thing” and another person joins the rip off crowd. That is why people need to be publicly punished when found out. It gives a “feel good” feeling to those who do not indulge is such activities.
She knew she as going and it was her legacy policy and bugger the country!
I hear that there are a lot of consultants at the coalface rorting the NDIS
It was to be expected mate.
Young Ben McDermott son of Craig just knocked up a ton in the Big Bash. Good effort that. Good to see Georgie Bailey facing the bowler again after his changes in technique earlier in the season.
Too bad his father is a grub. Lots of dogs tied up in the Sunshine state.
Henry Blofeld 05:22pm
Not me sticking my head up out of the trenches yelling out a massive Turnbull victory Sir Henry!
I am from the old school of loyalty leaving the voters to decide if TA needs to be turfed out into green pastures .
I do predict some media outlets will be revving up a rematch by Abbott to regain control some time in the future .
Judging by performance by our leaders , I believe I could make a better PM in Canberra .First jobs would be wheel those current donkeys out the door now in the Turnbull camp that defected under the Turnbull umbrella .
As for Tony ,…I don’t like back-tracking like Rudd tracking down Mable in a rematch selection in the dying stages of 2013 fued in the Labor camp leaving some instability and carcasses laying around or woundered after the election permanently gone in the
Canberra circus.
Agree 100% Rodent the Libs need to look to someone new for the future, not even Jules Bishop who has been around in everything including the 5th at Dapto! We both agree Turnbull a disaster and the Libs now find themselves in a major predicament as the turfing of Abbott was very messy and doubt they have the guts to go thru that again. Abbott certainly not the answer to their problems either imho. Malcolm needs a miracle and I don’t see one on the horizon.
Whats going on here? Is this a joke?
http://imgur.com/topic/Current_Events/qDvK8
If it is it’s a good one!