On Tuesday night, Pasquale Barbaro was shot dead in his car in the backstreets of Earlwood in Sydney’s south.
On hearing the news, I first thought of the difficulties facing journalists working at news desks that night. The first question to answer was which Pasquale Barbaro had been murdered? There’s a small army of them and many are known to police. Two other relatives bearing the name had already been murdered. Another was serving a 30-year jail term over his role in the biggest ecstasy importation Australia has seen.
On this occasion it was 35-year-old Pasquale Timothy Barbaro who became the victim.
In 2003, Jason Moran a key combatant in Melbourne’s bloody underworld feud, knew he was in danger and with a contract out on his life. He came out of hiding briefly to watch his children kick a footy around at an Auskick clinic at Essendon in Melbourne’s north with his bodyguard, Pasquale ‘Pat’ Barbaro, Pasquale Timothy Barbaro’s cousin.
Full column here.
Yvonne:
I agree. But its also apparent that a big chunk of the “have nots” (especially in Oz) have developed a flabby underbelly from an over-generous welfare system. Until this is properly addressed, the “gap” you refer to will continue to expand and the “flop eared dolts with the arse out of their strides” (see me old mate JB’s ref @ 11.09am 22/11) will continue to demand even greater hand-outs, aided and abetted by the socialist left.
As usual you are parroting the lies of the government and new groupthink who continue to shame and blame those doing it tough. Living off a maximum of $37 per day is not “over-generous”. the Baby boomer generation is the most 0ver subsidised generation the Nation has ever seen and many of the economic problems in this country today are due to the over subsidisation of that generation with tax and super concessions of all manner. Your comments are so wrong and out of touch it must be deliberate. You still do not understand sarcasm either or you once again deliberately misrepresent. Disgraceful effort. No Surprise.
One Nation, Mr Insider, what a sad bunch of misfits but they were elected so it shows us what the thinking is out in the Community. Sadly from the top down Australia lacking badly lacking in Leadership of any type. Turnbull you fit the bill perfectly you dill.
Jack,
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So, Donald Trump is a typical politician after all. No sooner is the campaign over and , surprise, surprise, he is not going to pursue Hillary Clinton. And climate change? Well, he has an open mind after all. What a fraud.
Not a fraud, he’s just learning how to be a politician. All that rhetoric during the campaign was just that, rhetoric.
No there were deliberately divisive lies and supporting of and promotion of sexual abuse, racism and bigotry. If you support trump you support all of those.
Yes, and a lot of commentators, some who seek to excuse him and others who are just relieved, are now claiming we shouldn’t take what political candidates say “literally”. What BS. I appreciate a good metaphor as much as the next person, but when it comes to representative democracy you’re not choosing a f***ing poet, you’re trying to make an important decision about the future and you need candidates to have clearly stated and boringly predictable views and intentions, and to stick to them unless they have a good clearly stated reason. To do otherwise is not poetic licence, it’s lying.
Still, Trump was already a known fraud and liar, so those who voted for him only have themselves to blame. Those who didn’t will blame them too.
Dismayed :
Like it or not, Trump is POTUS – and the world has to deal with it.
Putting aside hisl boorish character traits, I’d say the biggest problem is his denial of climate change in his quest to bump up America again. Massive swing back to coal power.
I see Gina Rhinehart has come out in support of him – which doesn’t surprise.
JTI – Any chance of newest comments on top? It’s a long way to the bottom!!
Use a web browser and just use the slider bar to go straight to the bottom.
One misses the added replies though.
I think his climate change views are his strongest point. Hopefully we will get on board and start employing some young Australians. We have a natural resource that allows us to have cheap electricity yet we have decided to cut or noses off to spite our faces. There are bugger all jobs in renewables. Cheap electricity means manufacturing jobsas well. Are you happy to keep going down the road of high youth unemployment in Australia? Remember Coal Miners actually pay tax! Revenue is what is needed.
All the models have proved terribly wrong and over hyped. Even if AGW is true we won’t have the wealth to put in measures to adapt. This about environmentalists wanting us to go back to the Stone Age.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/pwcs-australian-staff-worried-by-us-poll-offered-trump-therapy/news-story/f7d3db88edbd33a37206be749787dae6
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/cartoons/bleak-gallery/image-gallery/ee8a4ef1032a9da5a37c87ecb7f34c5c
Nick Cater
“Some sections of the business community have given up the fight. They have turned into self-loathing capitalists, indulging in ever more fanciful programs of corporate responsibility in an attempt to prove they are not so evil after all. Please don’t think of us as a $50bn worldwideprofit-making machine but as an investor in social change, creating an inclusive culture, connected, listening and talking to a diverse network about the issues of today and the challenges of tomorrow.
PwC has whole departments dedicated to writing that stuff, by the way. It’s not made up.”
I am not sure who PwC is trying to market to. No business people I know search out advisors that promote a culture of being helpless and pathetic.
Am I here?
If it’s you, your here
Probably there 🙂
No
But are you, you?
Faf’s guilty of ball tampering Jack, no wonder the the bloody Saffies are two up in the series.
If it were the Aussies, it would have been use of sunscreen, yep,on the tongue. You need it when elevating the head to watch the ball sailing over. Ok I know it’s an old one.
The best way to tamper with the ball is belt it to the boundary, or beyond. Let’s hope the youngsters grab their chance with both hands.
I’m negotiating an Ashes test trip to Adelaide next year, which might include a game of golf with Botham, Bumble, and Willis. Any chance I might need to call it off?
Ooops that “! Says” is Yvonne. Not sure how I managed that.
Carl:
IMO Trumps election was a symptom of the increasing polarisation of society into the “haves” and the “have nots”. The gap gets wider and wider. Brexit was the first overt protest vote, then Trump. Clinton certainly didn’t think the deplorables were worth bothering with.
Same thing happening here. Votes at the next election will be interesting.