Legacy’s..... and How the Cat got Belled.

G’day Possums,

It’s been a week of legacy’s, from those acknowledging Dame Margaret Scott’s enormous contribution to Australian dance at her funeral service, the ballet school’s memorial and yesterday’s state government’s memorial. All celebrating a woman who had such a positive impact on so many lives and ultimately for the nation and which has given me much pause for thought.

The pictures on this weeks blog are some of my photographs recently done for Heather Anthony’s delightful children’s book, “Mouse Sprouts” (link at bottom of blog)

A less positive legacy and one that the Ruling Rabble and their fellow travellers, propagandists, trolls, spruikers and other ne'er-do-wells are now running miles from are the consequences of their racist hate: the murderous shootings at the Christchurch mosques.

Promulgated over the last 20 years, initially by war criminal, Little Johnny Howard and in large part by the IPA and The Ugly American, Murdoch’s low-rent journals: is their so-called libertarian efforts to repeal section 18C so that racial vilification was to be seen as “free speech” but  was in reality for partisan political gain and the politics of divisiveness.

Suddenly race-baiting, “dog-whistling”, Rabid-the-Hun’s catch-cry, “Islamophobia never killed anyone...” The Deep North’s Red Terror’s, ”Islam is an infection, a contagion that needs elimination..” the porcine faux Attorney General, Bookshelves Brandis’ “Everyone has the right to be a bigot” and Arsehole Anning’s “….final solution...” speech (widely applauded by ruling rabble parliamentarians btw) was suddenly seen for what it really is, not “free-speech” but hate speech, fear mongering, cruelty and outright overt racism.

The NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Adern has shown us what leadership looks like and although we already knew that our emperor had no clothes, Scummo, now totally naked, is nationally, extremely unedifying.

Trying to salvage something from the hole his Ruling Rabble had dug, Scummo ventured onto “The Project” and an interview with Waleed Aly who a couple of nights before had, with controlled emotion in discussing the mosque shootings, “belled the cat” and implicated Scummo directly as a racist.

What transpired was what was expected, spin, bluster, smug arrogance, disdain, obfuscation, dissembling and, naturally, little content.

After 35 minutes, the hole was a lot bigger.

Counterattacking from the foetid swamps of The Oz, Janus Albrechtson irrationally opined that the “Left” are as bad as race-haters like Arsehole Anning who literally blamed the shootings on the Muslims for being at the mosque and like Potato-Head Dutton, calling the left out for seeking political advantage….only indicating that this Murdoch shill has nowhere to hide either and by trying on an argument of false equivalency and ignoring reality, further damns herself.

Also doing “her bit” for the Ruling Rabble cause was the hapless Linda Reynolds who on National TV said when the bill was passed to allow very sick refugees in our concentration camps to be transferred to Australia for medical treatment she was, “….almost physically ill.” Such humanitarian sentiment had her mind then wander off on a frolic of its own to do a bit of Mussie-bashing about the Bali bombings… but she "...wasn’t going to politicise the issues….".

I’m not making this up, Petals.

Some are saying that these events are now a turning point but I’m more Cassandra-like: in that the effort to turn this nation around is almost impossible as long as our media is in the hands of so few and those who control so much of it and are so right wing........ or just plain fascist.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mouse-Sprouts-Heather-Anthony/dp/1916027601/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Mouse+Sprouts&qid=1553299547&s=book

.. back to Medievalism

G’day Possums,

Shane with Australian Auto Manufacturing

Some shots from BTA’s recent Summer Intensive

 and some local scenes looking at the bushfire smoke haze we have

Smoke haze Greenhills Rd, Greendale

Smoke haze, Ballan Rd, Greendale

Wombat Droppings or Low-Down politics in Oz

Taking a leaf out of the late Adolph Hitler’s modus-operandi from May 2, 1933: “We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike”.

 “Rabbott-the-Hun” has instituted another Royal Commission into the unions rather than waste money assisting Oz’s debilitated manufacturing and agricultural sectors. This double pronged attack on workers wages and conditions and the viability of the Unions involved allegedly has been applauded by our biggest miner Gina “What Munificience” Rinehart who thinks that “Work-for-the-Dole” is too generous and should be adjusted back to C18th levels and Janet “Hisssss I never buy canned fruit anyway” Albrechtson agreed.

 “Rabbott-The-Hun” also congratulated the 50,000 Toyota and ancillary manufacturing workers who have just been told that in two years they can apply for “Work-for-the-Dole” having been relieved of the stress of working 40 hours a week. “For um, every um, job that’s um, lost”, haltingly intoned “Rabbott”, “a new um better one will um replace it…um, a better one will replace it”   Failing to specify just what these jobs will be, fewer and fewer seem to be taking him seriously.

Nikki Savva, once a minor apparatchik on the parochial Melbourne “Hun” and since elevated to the national sphere with “The Australian” (although this has made no difference to the quality of the tripe she has on sale), recently opined that Julie “Death Stare” Bishop is doing a wonderful job in foreign affairs because she has a dazzling smile and such nice manners to most of those who agree with her and has single-handedly made the Indonesians so confused as to Australia’s real intentions; that the invasion, via life-boats full of missionary’s is a complete success.

That no-one really cares what Savva thinks is probably a good thing and that the audience for the Australian seems to disappearing faster than that of “illegal” refugees, is even better.

"Rabbott-the-Hun" and friends

Casually employed Defence Minister, Senator David “Gunna” Johnston has finally surfaced from his tub after a lengthy round of submarines and upped periscope to pop-gun a broadside of invective at the ABC for reporting the news.

In the usual Liarbril, Orwellian version of truth, “Gunner” fulminated that the Navy had been “…. maliciously maligned…” for their actions in belonging to a White Supremacist Cabal and the brutal “Hazing” of other ratings. Their actions were carried out, he said, “…in a fully professional manner,” as were all other issues with hot pipes or inadvertently lost situations without the lights on. On stamping his foot for dramatic effect, “Gunna” slammed it onto the soap which causing him to slip whilst losing his towel and he fell backward, back into the bath.

This timely salvo diverted some attention from further investigation of Prime Miniature, “Rabbott-the-Hun’s” and Eric “Vichy” Abetz’s loose grasp on the facts of workers’ entitlements at SPC and allowed “Rabbott” time to meet his IPA bosses and other business constituents and to find out what to do next in his crusade on the dismemberment of civil society.

Non card carrying Liarbril and IPA (The-Coots-With–Queer-Ideas-From-A-Parallel-Universe) member, Timmy “Twat” Wilson, new commissioner designate of Speech Free of Leftist Bias, announced on his final interview on ABC with Jon Faine (and before the “Coot’s” have their way and the ABC is sold to “The Ugly American,” Murdoch) that he will be hosting regular IPA propaganda,  re-education,  damnit  education, information sessions on Community radio stations around OZ. When asked on talkback if the other commissioners would have the same opportunity he evasively replied that “…there was nothing to stop them…” and was rather shy of detailing if they would have as much opportunity as he has been “offered” to proselytise with his always abundant words spouting forth (which are essentially just ideas of the moment running around in his head replicating those of his faceless backers) in the quest to impose fundamentalist aspirational economic “values” on all of society for the benefit of the few.

Never quiet, never uncertain of his “right” and never reflective of the social damage that his “rightness” imposes by the subjugation of 90% of us to serfdom, Timmy “Twat” will be one to watch in his $330,000.00 p.a. sinecure. 

"Fiddles" Frolicking

The Till Eulengspiegel of Tardis State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) politics and de- facto Premier, ex-Liarbril, now Independent, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw has been up to his merry pranks again, re-arranging the legislative program that Pretend-Premier, Dennis (Inutilis Rusticus) Naptime hoped to have in place before the public’s planned March Revolution. In an effort to save Tardis State citizens’ time and effort, “Inutilis Rusticus” is planning to ban pickets, rallies and demonstrations so that there is no reason to leave home. He apparently has not yet decided on the (allegedly)  IPA suggestion to limit potentially subversive conversations on FaceBook by allowing only one contact per week with only one other, which has to be conducted in Yoruba and without benefit of Google translate.

Pretend-Premier Naptime has also instituted a Courts Martial of all Liarbril Munchkins to de-frock “Fiddles” and ban him from manifesting his idiosyncratic personality in Parliament. Asked if he thought the ban on public meetings and the de-frocking of “Fiddles” un-democratic, “Inutilis Rusticus” replied that it was a natural development of a process to keep things simple and that it had been quite effective in parts of Europe in 1933.

The Labor Party was not available for comment as they were all out, looking for their Federal leader.

Dark days Petals,

Shane.