On with the Show..

G'day Possums, there's been another Autumn Festival in Ballan 

So following will be a selection of images from an event which seems to be growing each year.

For those three who regularly follow this blog you will see the same little "Pug" in the same truck for the fourth year in a row... and the dogs were again out in force and very well behaved but there was one piece of nasty... at the beginning as I was photographing some material being set up I was roundly abused for "taking photo's on private property" and  was also told in no uncertain terms that "...we have our own face-book photographer so delete those images, NOW". I complied but then... I do have a file recovery program... but to keep things discreet will show no material that might offer the rudeness in question any publicity,advertising or recognition...

The Droppings....

The head of the Australian Securities Exchange, Elmer Funke Kupper, has quit his $3.5 million a year job over allegations that he knew of a $200,000 payment to the family of Cambodian strongman prime minister Hun Sen.The $200,000 payment was made when Mr Funke Kupper was chief executive of gaming giant Tabcorp and is now the focus of an international anti-bribery investigation led by the Australian Federal Police. ASX chairman Rick Holliday-Smith announced the resignation late on Monday as it emerged Mr Funke Kupper was personally the subject of the investigation and was explicitly warned against making the payment, but walked away with a multi-million dollar handshake.

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This happened as Truffles Turdball was venting about the 100's and 100's of crimes in the construction industry. There were no crimes, nor were there 948 workplace breaches.  All up there were only 36 proceedings brought in 2014/15, of which only 12 were successful. Despite all of this being in the public domain, it still suits the Liarbrils to repeat these lies and have the whole frame being faithfully reported as fact in "The Ugly-American's" propaganda sheet, The Australian. At the moment out of the 30 odd charges emanating  from this $80,000,000.00 Royal Commission around a dozen have been dropped as lacking evidence.

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Mafia figures donated tens of thousands of dollars to the discredited NSW Liberal Party fundraising vehicle, the Millennium Forum, as part of an ultimately successful campaign to allow a known criminal to stay in Australia.

A senior Millennium Forum figure, who is already under investigation by ICAC for allegedly funnelling illegal developer donations to the NSW Liberal Party, also helped criminal Frank Madafferi's lawyer meet then immigration minister Philip Ruddock on the visa issue.

 

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It would seem that now the Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe have two of their acolytes infecting the Federal Parliament. These missionary's of the feudal system have hit the ground running with all sorts of socially and excitably juvenile theory on how a feudal system should operate under the rule of their Lords and Ladies, Rupert and Gina.

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Jamie "Sprat" Paterson kicked of the "return-to-the-middle-ages"  scenario when he opined that the wealthy exclusive education of a private school meant more social cohesion than the public system. Countless studies have indicated that the public system actually produces better tertiary results for its students and that broadening the intake base to university is a benefit to social cohesion. But then Jamie "the Sprat" is not one who sees socialism and a co-operative society as a viable political and economical model for  the likes of his ambitious ilk to prosper in. His other IPA partner in crimes against the social fabric is Timmy, ex-Liarbil- ex -IPA- ex-Freedom-Commissioner-"The Twat," Wilson now foregoing $400,000.00 P.A. ( which many of the public saw this as a complete waste of taxpayer's money) , said he "...has been humbled" by his two (2)  vote ascendency to the safe Liarbril seat of Goldstein ( what Timmy Twat really meant is that he thought that all should  just love him just because... because, because... Timmy is just so, so, so ,so.....  lovable....)  but he  has re-iterated one of his core beliefs :  that government should not pay for social institutions.. ...except for himself and the welfare of the charity base of the IPA.......!   Timmy Twat is expected to stay in parliament for many years until he leaves with a tax-payer-funded pension.

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In an interview with The Guardian, he said the slogan had to be “funny but still believable” ... “hollow and oxymoronic.”  “We needed it to ... say absolutely nothing but seem to have depth and meaning. It couldn’t be too daft though. “It did make me laugh a lot when I saw that the Australian PM’s people had been on the same mental journey and come up with the same meaningless phrase.”

Change with Continuity really defines what headspace these mongrel's are in.

The Prime Minister did not escape ridicule from parliamentary colleagues. Labor’s defence spokesman David Feeney wrote: “Turnbull is using slogan ‘continuity with change’ because ‘dithering and do nothing’ bombed with focus groups.”

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus wrote: “Turnbull’s laughable new three-word slogan (is) ‘continuity with change’. Veep did it first and didn’t pretend it was real, Prime Minister.”

 

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Hmmm.. It's becoming a Mantach of a year for poor old Truffles….bashes unions and the Head of the Asx has to stand down for bribery allegations, … says company tax should decrease and ATO releases details of all those same companies NOT paying any tax….criticizes Billy Shortstuff for his Negative Gearing policy and Electoral Office freeze $4.4 millions, apparently given by developers allegedly illegally through Arfur "Da Spiv" Sinodinas…. sounds more like the slogan should be Business as Usual!  Interviewed on Lateline, his Gethsemane, Truffles sounded wounded and tired, like someone who had used all their  energy  and imagination and had now run out of puff and was hollow. Remarkably similar to how  Keating described him all those years ago:  "...a bit of a fizz and then nothing!"

 

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Vile, incompetent and full of hate, this ruling rabble have almost destroyed a country that has so much potential. The real national discussion really needs to be about where we would like to see ourselves in 20-50 years..... not in this small-minded, unimaginative space where we have become: the white trash of Asia!

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane