Being Muchly Serially Folau-lated

Shane and Archive

G'day Possums,

It's been a while between drinks.

I can plead busyness which is true but not the whole story... fact is, I'm still feeling quite depressed over the poor showing of Labor at the election and what that result will eventually mean for this seemingly blind and stupid, stupid Folau-lated, "aspirationalized",  and "Murdochritized" nation. It is something I find very difficult to understand, least of all accept.  

But more of being serially Folau-lated, later.

The following blog entries, particularly the first two, will be sufficient to fill-in anyone who hasn't yet heard my yelling from the rooftops about this archival project .

https://danceatthearchive.blogspot.com/

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2014/12/with-weeping-and-gnashing-of-teeth.html

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2019/02/vale-maggie.html

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2019/03/notes-on-tribute.html

Suffice to say  I'm very pleased to be able to report that all the "selected" negatives from two of the three archives have been individually scanned and are now being Post-Processed.

This PP-ing is a somewhat arduous undertaking as there are some 2200 images to "finish", 515 from the first archive, "Fitzroy" and from "Flemington", only a measly 1700!

Being pleased on finishing the scanning (and that the scanner "held-up" to the task) and calculating that at 3 minutes per scan or the equivalent to 110 hours was relatively quick is one thing but the post process is quite another matter.

Here's a sample: not the full shot, perhaps a third of it in a "before and after" demonstration.

The elimination of the dust and scratches in this sample image would have taken about 35-40 minutes. And  it is a fairly straightforward image with no complicated  textures like knitted leg-warmers or coverings, a good disguising film grain and few variations in tone, so with anywhere between 15 and 60  minutes per image it's going to be a long haul.

Mardi green and Maggie Sietsma,,- ABS 1970(?)

 This image didn't also have what quite a few of these old negatives suffer from which is a mould bloom on the surface which while not impossible to "paint-over" is particularly time consuming  and for efficiency' and longevity's sake necessitates a careful washing and re-scanning  of the neg before finishing.

 

detail

The originals being handled in the moist atmosphere of a darkroom, and probably being re-filed by moist hands, followed by less than optimum archival treatment has, over the years, caused this deterioration.

If anyone has any do's and don't questions about film handling, storage, exposure and development, processing and printing.. just call.... I think I've made every mistake there is to make. 

 

Nina Tompson, ABS 1970(?)

Now at least, being digitally rectified and stored appropriately the archive's future is safer than it has been.... till the technology changes again and dvd's and memory sticks are no longer readable.

Originally intended for books, it has become obvious that so many images will not fit comfortably into the two intended volumes and as there is a narrative playing out when viewed sequentially I've decided to make a film, a'la Ken Burns from the stills to be included with the book's edited images.... but more on that later.

Being Folau-lated #1 The Liar from The Shire, Happy-Clapper Pentacostalist and Anti-Christ, Prime Miniature Scummo again played out his school-boy enthusiasms at the recent G-20, happily greeting the murderous Saudi Prince, Mohommed bin Salman and probably seeking more pointers for dealing with inquisitive journalists for his peculiar crusade on press "freedom" and promotion of his warped IPA version of Democracy. The Bogan of Cook also indicated he would not only be willing to send others to be killed at the behest of the historically hysterical Orange Trump of the Un-United Sates in seeking an Armageddon of biblical proportions in Iran but also wouldn't mind that as a distraction from his Ruling Rabble's now more than obvious economic failures of the past six years.

Being Folau-lated #2  Sneaking from behind Section 18C but pretending to seek resolution to the pig-skin kicker and selective bible quoter, Israel Folau's own goal for being sacked for expressing "his love" at wanting to see LGBTQI's burn in the fires of his mythical hell, The Anti-Christ has ordained that his faux attorney general The Un-Christian Porter create an epistle guaranteeing "Freedom of Religion" much to the hallelujahs and praise-be's from the likes of fascists Senator Ferrari-Mussolina and the pallid boy-fascist Senator Paterson of the IPA and other retarded right wingers, all salivating at making the "right to be a bigot", law.

But given the binary nature of the Ruling Rabble's mode of devious clockwork mind machinations, "You wrong, Me right." ( THUMP), this latest exercise is more likely to Folau-late them in its hecatohedron complexity. I mean if it's fine to be telling people they will go to hell for being AC/DC, what's wrong with female genital mutilation, Sharia Law, Sati, Witch Burning, adulterating water into wine and eating HIS flesh, etc?

I mean how do you legislate for Fox News and the Ugly American's Murdoch's media where the truth goes to die? This isn't what they pretend is Liberalism... it's anarchy.

Being Folau-lated #3   Pyhrrically crowing that Labor hadn't the "balls" to oppose the full disaster of tax cuts passing the senate, and thus not being given the opportunity to beat them up for opposing it, the Rabble are now on their own... after six years of mismanagement.... now all alone in that silent, silent land of fiscal responsibility, climate denial and concentration camp wastefulness without a shred of credibility or a skerrick of policy to cover themselves and none to blame but themselves for the storms coming down on all our heads.

Being Folau-lated #4 Asbestos Bishop and Pyne the Whyne rorting the system...and not forgetting the greed of Taylor, the stupidity of Price  and the abject irrelevance of Ley....  need I say more?  

 How Folau-lated...? Muchly! 

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane. 

Nous sommes des hypocrites…

Shane in solidarity...

World-wise, probably a worse week than usual...

…but more of that later in Wombat Droppings…

Here we have some more images from the last performance from BTA.

 “Espirit de la Danse”

They’re all rehearsal shots and it made an interesting variation of approach to a performance shoot to think about the movement sequence and not just the “key” moment or jump.

I think they are very expressive of the choreography 

other than being just visually interesting.

A book of the images from this performance will be available in early February.

Wombat Droppings 

or the chronicle of Australia’s inexorable slide into Fascism.

Millions march in Paris and in other countries around the world in a demonstration of solidarity with those from the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo.

World leaders turned up too and had a PR photoshoot ….and if you care to look at this link  

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/11/the-free-speech-hypocrisy-of-some-world-leaders-marching-in-paris/?tid=sm_fb   you will understand this weeks’  title.

The amount of “press” the Boko Haram  massacre of 2000 in Nigeria received in comparison to the Charlie Hebdo killings was a perfect example our hypocrisy.

It is likely that the Charlie Hebdo “Free-Speech” banner will be taken up with renewed gusto by the likes of Andrew ”Blot-On-The-Landscape” Bolt and Timmy “Twat-Freedom-Man” Wilson, (ex-Liarbril and “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” apparatchik) in their eagerness to have 18C repealed.
And not two hours after this was posted, right on cue, up popped Timmy"Twat" saying that 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act. He must be back from hols and someone was silly enough to wind him up. There's an intellect that is definitely not worth $390,000.00 P.A.of taxpayers money. 

Hypocrites.

Prime Miniature, Rabid–The-Hun then prattled his hypocritical rhetoric about freedom of the press and being free to criticize… except of course if you’re the ABC and you don’t tow the “IPA Party-Line” and join “Toim Ozstraya,” you’ll have your funding cut, get closed down…silenced.

Hypocrite

Mercifully for all, he’s been quiet of late; his own side are relieved he’s not making more of a fool of himself and the majority of the country are relieved too, not to be constantly throwing up at his appearances and mindless speech.

But his minions have been flying around prattling about increasing the GST and for food, education and health to be included in its inequitable mix.

Cory Bernardi

Hypocrites

 That this country is fast becoming the shambles that it was repeatedly told it was by Rabid-the-Hun and his rabble when in opposition is because of the “Free-Market” ideology that they are implementing for their immediate bosses, the IPA.

Some like Joseph Stieglitz disagree:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/nobel-prizewinning-economist-joseph-stiglitz-says-abbott-government-budget-changes-are-a-crime-20140702-3b8vb.html

but it is hard to see how the country as we know it can survive their ideological madness.

Hypocrites

They are destroying everything that has made Australia a civil society.

They are not a Government for the people. They are the lackey-lickspittles for Multi-nationals and other big business interests.

We have a crisis? I have a feeling that this is a large part of the problem…

Lifters or Leaners?

Hypocrites

 … when you are paying off a $100,000.00 University Degree, cant find a job because it’s been given to a foreign 457 visa workers, can’t get unemployment benefits for six months, can’t afford medical care, and when you finally find Part-Time work and find that the wage (without penalties) is not enough to live on…then we’ve become un-Australian.

This Petals, because of hypocrites, is becoming an un-civil society.

There will be trouble ahead.

Hoo-roo,

Shane.

Finding A Complete Balls-Up and Another Year Wasted.

Shane with Balls-Up

G'day Petals,

Here are a few shots from a rehearsal for a performance .

I decided that I would shoot the whole thing with slow shutter and think that the results are rather indicative of the performance title: "Esprit de la Dance"

Ballet Theatre Australia

Wombat Droppings: the chronicle of the Demise of Australian Egalitarianism and the Rise of Fascism

In a failure-fuelled funk our Prime Miniature, Rabid-the-Hun has taken to throwing his cards in the air as a hubristic method of shuffling his cabinet.

Scott ”The Drone” Morrison is out of The Department of Inflicting Pain, Suffering, Torture and Death on asylum seekers (formerly, Dept. of Immigration) and has been asked to wreak his mis-apprehended Xtianiaty on the poor souls who have to deal with the Dept. of Social Security. 

Being in the S.S. will allow Scott to don his fetching Black uniform when whipping the unemployed into shape.

Rabid-the-Hun has doubled the number of women in cabinet. There are now, two!

Peter “Dodo” Dutton, of let’s destroy Medi-Bank notoriety has been allocated Cruelty to Refugees, which given his utter lack of talent should overwhelm him and thankfully cause his early demise.

His Un-Health portfolio will be taken by Sussan “Snarler” Ley.  Although lacking the humorous touch of “Dodo” she will finally mend the insanity of a public health system and completely privatise it for individual profit.

A non-entity climate change denier has been made science minister.  Yep, we now have a science minister… or a Wizard…. or something.

I think his role will be to keep the Wikkipedia learned Environment Minister “Ozone-Hole” Hunt from straying into the heresy of thinking the earth is not flat and holding his hand so he doesn’t fall off the edge.

Senator “I’ve-Got-that-Sinking-Feeling” Johnston has had his toys soldiers and canoes taken away from him ‘cause he wouldn’t play nicely and kept poking his tongue out at the toy-makers. His toys have been given to Kevin “Medieval” Andrews to play with and it is expected that new crossbows will be issued to all army personal within weeks, and that four man Coracles have been ordered for the navy from a Welsh supplier. 

Kelly “Motor-Mouth-Shaddupa–ya-Face” O’Dwyer has been sent down to the front bench to drown out  “Commissar” Peta Credlin and Julie “Asbestos” Bishop and their interminable arguing.

Arfur “Da Spiv” Sinodinas has stood down as assistant finance minister after forgetting who paid who when moonlighting for ex-Labor pollie Eddie “Brown-Paper-Bag” Obeid.

It is widely thought that Arfur is looking forward to telling his life story in detail to the judiciary quite soon.

In his excitement of re-arranging the Deck Chairs, Rabid-the-Hun noted that the repeal of The Price on Carbon which although bad for the environment, slightly disastrous for the budget and the opposite of what the real world is doing was really, really good for women.

This has been one of his best jokes for months and everyone had a hearty laugh at his non-misogynistic sensitivity and deference to the little ladies.  

We look forward, too, to the Chinese and Korean workers coming here on 457 visas to assist in employment.

 And then there was Graeme Morris’ joke: blathering on about how "Magical" the changing of the deck-chairs on the rabble's sinking ship was... role-playing an utterly deluded, off into another paradigm libertarian, his sheer manic thoughts made more people laugh….. but it did rather  seem to have been similar in mood to the bunker in Berlin in May '45.

And with its ending 2014 provided the sad realisation that trust given is mostly abused and that ego is prime.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

...seeing a House of Cards

Shane with House of cards

G'day Possums,

A few more from France and some recent ballet stuff....

BTA, Tamra

BTA, Tamra

BTA, Rebecca

Tuilleries, Paris, Night

Vezelay Panorama

St Martin Canal, Paris.

The Weekly Wombat Droppings

This week on “The Chunder Channel 000, Liarbril”

6.00   Play-Skool for Pretend Pollies. This week Jimmy “Little-but-Loud” Paterson and Chrissie “Bunter” Berg vie for the “Scatology Prize” hosted by the well known charitable organization, “The Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-from-a-Parallel-Universe” (aka IPA). Similar in format and content to “Celebrity Blank-Minds” these neophytes brandish words at each other across various ABC forums in the vain hope of finding a cogent concept that will finally deliver them relevance in the real world of real adults and intellectuals. 

More Da-Da than Dali, this  was the vehicle  that elevated Timmy “Twat-Freedom-Man” Wilson  to notice and a $300,000.00 position of unqualified ignorance by having similarly language challenged friends in high places.

(PG, L, H)

6.30   The Carbon Free High-Jinks Hour. Hosted by our Second Biggest Miner, Clive “Titanic” Palmer with special guests. This week our favourite Big-Pup plays a double entendre back-flip by accepting climate change and having his guest, Al “Inconvenient Truth” Gore deny the existence of a Carbon Pricing scheme. Sashaying one step forward and two steps back Clive demonstrates his knack for being as good for political life as Popcorn is for nutrition.

(MA, V, L.)

7.30   From the Heart.  A feel-good program of mawkish mutual admiration.

This week Jason A Wilson pens a thank you note to Head Plonker from “The Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-from-a-Parallel-Universe” (aka, IPA), John Roskam.

In this reviewers mind, public recognition for amateur organizations similar to that which JR heads should occur more often to bring these shy cabals out to wider scrutiny and notice.  http://jasonawilson.tumblr.com/post/89901662170/thankyou-note-to-john-roskam

(PG, A, H, V.)

8.00 Rank Rats. Highly financed (Public Subscription) Saga of a Much Maligned Union Hero, Cathy Jackson explaining how her alleged $1.3 Million spending on three union credit cards with no expenditure details bears no comparison to Thommo’s  $10 grand whatsoever.

Produced by the Liarbril Party, The BCA, IPA and featuring a truly Dickensian cast

of dodgy lawyers, Ex-Union bag-men and other shady “colourful” characters. Funded by the mug taxpayer in place of investigating either Paedophile behaviour or shonky financial advice from a "what" Bank.

(M, R, A.)

10.00 Fiscal Follies.  How to make a simple analysis of the economically under-educated d. Disect ex-priest, “Rabbutt-the-Hun” and Joe “Cereal/Toyota-Killer” Hockey’s interpretation of “The Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-from-a-Parallel-Universe” (aka, IPA’s) Right-Wing-Free-Market-Thought Bubble of a Budget. A somewhat treasonous piece by one, John Kelly who will probably have fiscal retribution meted out to him.

 http://theaimn.com/ridiculous-debt-deficit-scam/

Also; something else to put the meat on the bones before the animal is devoured.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/these-two-budget-charts-show-how-much-money-joe-hockey-is-cutting-from-hospitals-and-schools-2014-5

PG, A, V.

10.15   Mayhem for Murdoch’s Minions.  Enthralling and long running UK Court-Room drama exposing and detailing the lives, tribulations and trials of amateur journalists’ Andy and Beccy who “Apprentice-like,” try to anticipate their Master’s (The Ugly American) every wish.

This week: “The Verdict.” The prosecution lawyer in “Mayhem” shows admirable restraint at the Beccy’s verdict. His quietly acerbic, "She was paid an awful lot to be very incompetent..." is a moment to watch.

If the Poms as punishment, transport her Down-Under, it can only be as payback for “Rabbutt-the-Hun” having Downer seek asylum in Britain, not because the “Australian” needs more receptionists.

(MA15+, N, S, V)

12.30   The Slippery Pete Affair.  Another long running political/bedroom-farce again sponsored by the “Liarbril Party” and again funded by the taxpayer.

Episode #69: “The Withdrawal.” James decides that it’s all, ”…. too, too much..” and elects not to perform in the High Court as he still “feels for Pete.”

This may not be the consummation of these proceedings as the roles and machinations of Chwissie “The Whyne-and-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect” Pyne and Mal “Mongrel” Brough in this bedroom farce have not yet been fully explored.

(MA15+, N, S, V)

1.00  Late Prayers for Believable Hypocrites:  Homilies of a piquant IPA nature for those who think they believe. Hosted by The-New-Cashed-Up-Faith-Pushers and with the School Chaplain Chorus. Salvation Donations (Cash, Brown Paper Bag only) may be sent to, “A. Sinodinas, c/o Liarbril Party Room, Parliament House, Canberra, 2600.” 

1.05   Close.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

..watching the wheels fall off.

G’day Petals,Further pleasant serendipity from France but in Wombat Droppings the spectacle of having to watch the wheels fall off.

Shane with Wheels

Co-incidence again perhaps but when having a look through some of the French images which still need post processing I discover that I’m looking at stuff whose shooting dates are within a couple of days of the anniversary of when they was taken.

Jailly, Burgundy

It was a day of just meandering about the Nievre district of Burgundy and making little discoveries like the ruins of the Chateau de Passy les-Tours which figures in Jeanne d’Arc’s siege of la Charitie in 1429.....

La Charitie-sur-Loire

 ...and the former Benedictine Priory of St. Sylvestre’s at Jailly, a small C11th-12th church, unfinished, which according to local romantic folk lore was built by fairies leaving a “empreinte melancholie” and to the cow that saved a church from fire at St. Saulge....

St. Sylvestre’s at Jailly

 

Lurcy-le- Bourg

.... and finding the list of Cure’s dating from 1580 at Lurcy-le- Bourg and on to the op shop in Premery

Premery

Loire

Forest, Jailly

All of which sort of makes the Melbournian appellation, “Jeff’s Shed” for the convention centre a trifle prosaic.

And some from a recent performance shoot for BTA.

Wombat Droppings or Low Down Politics in Oz

Prime Miniature “Rabbutt-the-Hun’s” muck-raking Royal Commissions are not quite working out as he and his malevolent rabble had planned.

It is difficult not to come to the conclusion they are just monumentally vindictive political exercises and a gross waste of money.

The case of the “investigation” into the Unions particularly, is more likely to bite back at the accusers. The fact that police had been informed of certain activities and have not acted; then comes the statement to the Royal Commission that inducements were offered to “Get Gillard”… and the Royal Commissioner who is investigating events of 20 years ago says that this evidence from 5 years ago is not relevant! Or that the ruling made by the commissioner relating to cross-examination of witnesses bears more resemblance to “ordeal by fire” or “Ducking.” 

All would seem not relevant to what appears an a-priori judgement and a serious diminution of the standing Royal commissions can have.

The Sharks are circling main witness Kathy Jackson.... and "Phone-Card" Reith may be in the water, too... anyone smell blood yet?

The wheels are falling off.

Another bad look was “Slippery” Pete’s accuser James “He Spoke to me, He Spoke to Me” Ashby deciding not to press his case in the High Court as it appeared it was going to open a real can of worms for both Chwissie “The-Whyne-and-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect” Pyne and the other player in this malicious saga, Mal “The Mongrel” Brough. How does an ex DJ get a law firm to waive/absorb its $1,000,000.00 fees? How is he going to pay for Slipper’s costs that are likely to awarded against him?

The wheels are falling off.

Remember the fabled Labor Budget Crisis?  Well Joe “Cereal-Toyota” Killer has made a real Liarbril one in his first and only budget… a real doozie!

The Banking boys are now saying confidence within the community is so bad that it is impacting on the economy. That, if “real” people are fleeing retail and are saving more as they become more aware of the huge shift in costs in health care as Medibank is dismantled and pensions eviscerated with unemployment going up when education is being slashed then the merde is really hitting the fan.

Mrs Wombat opined t’other day that the increase in Uni fees just might be to the detriment of private schools. Parents having to make a choice between an expensive secondary education for their social standing and a very expensive tertiary one for their children’s future, may well choose the latter as giving their children best opportunity.

When this comes to pass it will be wonderful to see how these Liarbril, wrongly self proclaimed, “superb-economic-mangers” will argue away the private school school bleatings about having to fold up and go bankrupt for lack of clients and the remaining State schools are screaming in need of more funds for their sudden intake of “privilege”.

Then, hearing a right-wing financial commentator on radio express similar thoughts, you really do know…

The wheels are falling off.

On Q & A, last week (16^th) the final question of the night to Dee Madigan, Author and Advertising person…”Dee Madigan, if you could offer one solution to turn around the un-sellable budget what would it be?" Dee Madigan, "You can't. It's shit!"

The “right’ seem like socially undeveloped children; terrified that someone is taking away their toys by welfare distribution.

Defence Minister, “What’s-‘is-Name” has decided that another way of eliminating Unions is that tenders for new Naval craft will only be offered to Spain and Korea, as our shipbuilding facilities are A/ not big enough and B/ we are not competitive enough. That this will cripple the shipbuilding workforce is of no concern to “Rabbutt-the-Hun” our “Infrastructure” Prime Miniature.

The wheels are falling off.

“Rabbutt-the-Hun’s” daughter Frances Abbott makes a mess of things…..

Channel Liarbril, 19:00: Episode #1243: " Lives of the Entitled." Watch a lovely 24 yo have her daddy rescue her from a foolish decision to "...be independent." And see the tribunal complaint system subverted and the innocent party unjustly foot the bill!

19:30: "The Doleful Comedy Hour." Two teams of 20 per side battle physical challenges and each other for the prize of a single job.

Watch the losers digging the “Naptime” East–West Folly, in the new series “Green Army Blues.” 10.30.

The wheels are falling off.

Then there was the news that security had been beefed up around the main suspects.... Abbott, Hockey, Pyne and Bishop and a demonstrator threw himself at Bishop's car hitting it with his banner... causing "Rabbutt" to bleat "How Un-Australian.." it all was... conveniently forgetting his own putting his fists through the wall, either side of the head of a woman who had defeated him in a student election....bloody hypocrite!

The wheels are falling off.

Let’s not mention the Middle Eastern mass Diplomatic response to West Bank name changes or paying a sliding scale to have refugees go back to their strife-ridden countries or “Tardis” State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) Pretend Premier Dennis “Dodo” (Genus: Inutilus Rusticus) Naptime giving the Chinese $25,000,000.00 for processing Brown Coal and limiting Solar and Wind energy!  This, at a time when Germany is 70% renewables in its country’s electricity production!

Hoo-roo Possums,

The wheels are falling off.... and there is trouble ahead. 

...Facing the Music

Much of life is happenstance but there are the odd synchronicity of moments which this Wombat finds quite delightful.

Shane with Image Archive

Recently working on a dance video and shooting some stills for it, my attention went to the faces of the dancers rather than the general class or movement shot. 

There seemed to be in the dancer's concentration the essence of the theatrical or performing experience. 

Facing the Music. 



Although the "Music" we face in “Wombat Droppings” is of an entirely different and more nation altering order.

Ballet Theatre Australia

The synchronicity was an acquaintance contacting to alert me that there was to be a “get-together” of those who were either taught by or worked with the legendary Betty Pounder in theatre productions she choreographed for JC Williamson's theatres over many years.

Betty Pounder

On going to the FB site where the details were, I saw there were many images from a variety of productions and thought, well, I could probably add a few, too.

Pounder Class

"Funny Girl"

"Fiddler-on-the-Roof"

My Fair Lady

Robin Bailey

My Fair Lady

Fiddler on the Roof

Hayes Gordon-"Tevye"

Jill Perryman- "Funny girl"

MFL

Pounder Class

Some 260 images later I was a little surprised by the extent of my early productivity and very gratified by the responses of those seeing the images and who commented and seemed to appreciate the effort of scanning all these now quite vintage negs, prints and transparency’s.

As I replied to one comment, It‘s only when there is a filter of time in the works that you finally see them in the context of their own experience and see value.

It was interesting looking back to my beginnings of "facing the music" photographically and appreciating its visual development, too.

Wombat Droppings or Foetid News from Oz Politics.

Joe “Cereal–Toyota-Holden-SPC-Killer” Hockey is clamping down on debate by suing Fairfax Media over a story about his fundraising efforts on behalf of the NSW Liberal party. Having nothing to hide except free speech, Hockey doesn't want any public distraction whilst  going about perpetrating possibly the biggest defrauding of Oz politics when he hands down in conjunction with the Business Council of Australia’s and “The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (IPA), his single budget.

Unprecedented in the selective leaking, spin, lying, dissimulation, obfuscations and kite-flying over the past month this “Ugly American” mandated rabble (Liarbril Party) is about to fundamentally alter and cement into the national ethos for once and for all their conceptually dessicated idea of this country. The shambles they dishonestly but successfully projected in persuading the electorate to believe that all was Labor's fault, is now to be tipped over all of us in its full and total vileness.

No longer just a projection their foetid values will be fully manifest as they are about to swamp this land with legislation so that every vile notion of free market capitalism can be given free rein without restraint.

The Reign of the Reactionary Aspirational Bogan is here.

Gone, will be any pretence of the notion of fair play and egalitarianism.

Gone, will be universal healthcare.

Gone, will be access to education for all.
Gone, will be the effectiveness of our only public broadcaster.

These unimaginative Liarbrils have for years have been chipping away at these pillars which have made Australia a noted leader and by drawing closer to the right–wing of American “Tea-Party” politics they now see their opportunity to smash any of the remaining social contracts in preference for the “Free-Market"  insanity that in the main caused the Global Financial Crisis.

They will relentlessly bullshit the public through the right-wing, main-stream media and swamp the ABC with mendacious IPA clones (similar to the unbalanced coverage of Mandy “Il Patrone” Vanstone’s 10 minute free kick t’other night on “7.30” with Sarah “Rapportfurerin” Ferguson) and those other paragons of truth and civility, “Blot-on-the-Landscape”, Alan ”Bondi” and “London Toilet Fame” Jones and other similar shock-jock low-lives.

“We all have to do the Heavy Lifting,” says the man who has doubled the deficit by himself in six months, whilst single-handedly obliterating much of the country’s manufacturing.

“The Age of Entitlement is Over,” says the man whose party it seems is the biggest, most dishonest, slush-fund, paper-bag-wielding bunch of spivs we have ever seen whilst preparing at the same time to rip payments away from young people with disabilities…a man who thinks wind-farms are unattractive and coal mines, cool.

We are entering the abyss of a new Dark Age.

John Donne wrote,

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

 If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were:

any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind,

and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls;

it tolls for thee."

The Liarbrils and their moronic IPA lickspittles have yet to get up to speed with this C17th social lesson.

It strikes me that when a Government rules for a plutocracy and not the people then its promulgations have validity only for the plutocracy and can be ignored by the people.

Cheers Possums,

Shane