The Business of Killing Australia.

G'day fellow victims, How the hell did we get here?....Easy. Federally, a total lack of leadership: corruption from the highest to the lowest levels: sheer incompetence and: a supportive, biased and compliantly Murdochratized and corrupted media. Sounds Trumpian?... you bet!

So the Goya etchings from his Los Caprichos are more than suitable illustrations for our time and more of Shane's colourful transport later. 

Scummo the Liar from Marketing Announcements is still regaling us with his curry photos and now has joined TikTok to distract and groom gullible youth' attempting to influence their vote....he's forgotten calling said platform a Chinese propaganda unit but then he lies so often, even he can't keep up.  Grace Tame nailed him so early in her progress that Scummo-the-Liar decided that the Australian of the Year award had to be more politically controlled' which I think spurred her on to make the best use of her time in the role. A part of which was supporting ex-Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in her quest for justice in pursuing rape charges against another Liberal staffer... no , not the one who masturbated on a female ministers desk... no, not the one inviting prostitutes into parliament... no, not the ones having sex in the parliamentary prayer room (boys will be boys wont they darls...), but the one allegedly with, shall we say, a "reputation" for drink spiking prior to carnal activities? Yes, that one. Scummo the Liar's backgrounding against Higgins probably brought a wry smile to Michael Towke's face; and the Liberal women who attended the Higgen's &Tame's rather large rally for women at parliament house looked quite uncomfortable, understanding for once that they were, generally, not amongst their normal milieu of Pru's & Tru's.

 Aided and abetted by the Mudochracy, a "turned" ABC and promoting Scummo the Liar's politicking over covid that "Labor premiers bad, Liberal premiers good" the tin-foil hatted, anti-vax , fascists literally hit the streets, particularly in Melbourne where Dan-the Man had stopped Covid but was being hounded as Dictator Dan for his success. Sydney's, St Gladys of Binchicken (Saviour of the Nation according to Clueless Coorey of the fin revue) soon reversed that as she did in every other state successfully tackling the virus, by sending forth tainted emissaries to join her crusade of "living-with-the-virus-your-lives-are-not-as-important-as-the-economy-peasant." Those who died and will die in the future from Covid can depart this life satisfied that they are part of Scummo's "gold standard."
 Unfortunately St Gladys did a bunk when NSW ICAC told her they were investigating her and her dealings with a certain feckless chap, McGuire who was selling visa's to would-be citizens when Scummo was immigration Minister... so it's no wonder he thought ICAC a Kangaroo court of monumental proportions and railed and railed and railed about the unfairness of it all. 

Michael Towke, no doubt, smiling still! 

Anyhow, St Gladys of Binchicken will keep all her parliamentary goodies even if she's found against... as she has left the room. 

 Omicron Dom, a religiously unfunny terrorist has taken her place and taking the reins very loosely in NSW has proceeded to make sure we all live-with-the-virus, at least until we're dead. 

 Business isn't really booming like they said it would ....to many have the virus, too many aren't going to unsafe work places for peanut-pay, too many are really pissed off that business' who received huge handouts when not entitled and are now being told to fork out inflated prices for an Australian designed Rapid-Antigen-Test that Scummo the Liar pissed off to be manufactured overseas. 

Too many are now aware that the IPA / Hellsong model of running an economy precludes fairness and equity...the natives are restless.

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Moo got her car.... aluminium body, chassis frame steel, lights, brakes, leather seat.... genuine BMC colour from the 70's (I had one just this colour)... happy to say it went down a treat. 

Next projects... a Thames Steam Boat, a Fokker DXX1 and a new group of pics for a children's book.... and a secret (for the time being) project for someone else....all to help staying sane inside whilst the Ruling Rabble-Hellsong-IPA cabal trash the country even further....that the place is falling apart around us is all too visible.

 Hoo-roo Possums, stay strong and keep left! 

Shane

..to market a "Humanitarian" War

Shane Wombat with  fruit

G'day Possums,

we've been off to market... the Vic market, that is  which is an interesting place for a wander and in Wombat Droppings, we'll have a gander at "Rabbutt-the-Huns" boyo enthusiasm for his "Humanitarian" war in Iraq.

As the market was closing for the day it was interesting to note just how much it had the feel of a circus being dismantled... somewhat forlorn and shorn of its dreams....

....with some of the goods looking for all the world like large Fruit Bats hanging from their roosts.

There were a lot of people eating.... all sorts of things and...

... taking photos...

and sometimes both at the same time.....

and  hair decorating
















and mobiles isolating people in constant communication.

The Lygon St Bear.... I've no idea why he's there...or if it is male...

Shop Front Lygon St, East Brunswick.

Wombat Droppings 

or how to lose a country

Last night I watched some Scientists  discuss what the future held for them. Their discussion exposed the paucity of imagination and complete lack of vision this present neo-fascist government exhibits. Their sense of despair in the political amateurs from Canberra was palpable and their constrained comments were couched in cautious terms knowing that bold criticism would only make things worse and probably bring vicious retribution via further funding cuts.

We now have some of our best research scientists sorting mail, servicing photocopiers and doing everything a maintenance worker should because of the cuts of over $100,000,000.00 to CSIRO.
And "Rabbutt-the-Hun's" brilliant decision not to have a Science Minister makes pleading their case all the more problematical.

But then, he's busy... he's got himself a "Humanitarian"War to play with.

.Y'know one of those wars where you have to kill people to save them 

Not content that his mentor, "Little Johnnie" Howard as Prime Miniature was complicit in the lies over "Weapon's of Mass Destruction" and as responsible as Bush and Blair in the destruction of Iraq in "saving" it from Saddam Hussein,  thereby assisting in the proliferation of Al Qaeda and its murderous spawn The Islamic State; now "Rabbutt-the Hun" wants his shot at reflected glory.

Of course, it has nought to do with the most unpopular budget since Federation, or the complete prats his Ministers make of themselves every time they open their mouths

It has nothing to do with the economy slowly going belly-up, unemployment rising or the stench of real corruption seeping ever closer to Canberra. It has nothing to do with the despair our scientists feel or that of many young people now faced with a huge debt for wanting to be educated or the fear of super-annuants watching their government erode their savings whilst bolstering the caches of the wealthy. 

Nah, none of that... we're gunna save the world... with 600 SAS, 8 Super-hornets, one AWAC and probably a Partdrige in a Pear tree. 

"Rabbutt-the-Hun" is probably Madder than the Hatter! 

This is like the fights he had at Oxford, or the kicking down of  doors and punching holes through walls as a student at Sydney Uni. Aggression, agression, agression.

Does he sound like a psychopath?

Now, on a world stage he can strut and play hero. And cause more death and destruction and misery as he pretends to chase down the approximately 60 loopy Jihadists that have left Oz and who in all likelihood would be arrested on return to these shores after being "heroes" themselves in another world

Is Abbott really mad?
His government is almost totally dysfunctional, vision-less for our long term future, let alone Iraq's.

So much for all the lies about a budget emergency. He, like his mentor, "Little Johnnie" is squandering the country's future because he's incapable of being a real leader.
And let's not mention Senator Arty "Da Spiv" Sinodinas who happily walked from the ICAC enquiry thinking he was off the hook. Poor Arty, paid Zillions for 5 minutes of meetings by a shonky business and chair of the Liarbril's NSW finance committee channeling  illegal donations of which he says "I know Nuffin" ... oohhh dear... he's either stupid, corrupt or incompetent or all... but George "Bookshelves" Brandis thinks that "... as a man of integrity" it's time he re-joined the rest of the conservative incompetents regardless of these qualifying impediments. Stupid? Corrupt? Incompetent?... but has integrity? 

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

The only Terrorists I know in Australia

.Night Lights, the Way Ahead

to a birthday.. Oohhh, look over there!

Shane with Damocles sword

Like our pastiche of a federal Government whose birthday it is, the Sword of Damocles hangs over our nation.

G’day Petals,

And like what we will further document in Wombat Droppings, this blog too, is all over the place. 

Neighbour, artist and friend Paul Anthony presently has work on exhibition at Backspace Gallery, Ballarat.

Paul, (right) at the Opening
“Beneath the Surface” The Floating World of Paul Anthony, paintings derived from images taken whilst diving at the Ewans and Piccaninnie Ponds in South Australia.As Paul says in his introduction “I respond to the organic forms, shimmering light…in essence… it’s the interaction of water and light .. elements essential for life…… these evoke the transience and fragility of life.”

His title: Floating World also had me thinking of the Japanese for this Ukiyo-e but not the ennui of the pleasure seeking Tokugawa period but more of the Japanese Buddhist word for  “sorrowful world” the perpetual cycle of rebirth, life, suffering, death and rebirth that Buddhists seek to transcend.

The earlier paintings are very evocative in their literalness of his stated aims but I have to admit that the later evocations from the Carnarvon Gorge in Queensland and the Ben Shahn- like astringency of the underwater ladders present other dimensions which are heading toward a more pure painting rather than simple representation.

Exhibition is on till September 14, Backspace Gallery, 14.00 -16.00 Alfred Deakin Place (down Police Lane or Camp St.) Ballarat.

Here in the burrow we have been busy building a greenhouse. One of our small tanks was giving up the ghost so we re-cycled it, with quite a few other materials, as part of the greenhouse structure. Although not in an ideal position it should still provide a better environment for Tomato, Capsicum and other plants that prefer warmer climes and a lack of Currawong and Chough attention.

Greenhouse
And some pretty stuff before the horror story starts….Ballet Theatre Australia...

Wombat Droppings

or the chronicle of the demise of egalitarian Australia.

“Rabbutt-the-Hun” and his rabble of a Ministry this week, blundered to one year in office.

Their sagging poll popularity figures have firmed a bit on the distractions of the murders of the MH17 passengers and the bloody rampage of the Islamic State through Syria and Iraq.

Touted in the past week by “The Ugly American”, Murdoch’s relentless media assault on the non-thinking as STRONG LEADERSHIP, DECISIVE ACTION blah, blah, blah… “Rabbutt” and his Foreign Minister Julie “Death-Stare” Bishop continually and repetitively spout the obvious about Russia, (the sun was shining the day it was shot down), Terrorists (they’re baddies) and Security (put-em-up-Putin). They are hoping this will allay the electorate’s growing fears over the incompetent and unfair mixed signal budget. which is still in Limbo.

It’s this mean and unfair budget that the slogan wielding Aspirational Bogans of the “methodical, purposeful, adult” cult cannot deliver and if anything, looks more like a vision for this nation that our social parody of egalitarianism, the “Coot’s–With-Queer-Ideas-from a-Parallel-Universe,” IPA “ Right-Wing-Free-Market” want. Their agenda of destroying the Medicare system, crippling education, emasculating manufacturing and public broadcasting, Xtian-izing State education, fouling the environment, extending welfare to the wealthy via the poor and lower echelon’s superannuation benefits, as well as providing coal burning electricity companies with a windfall of profits from the repeal of Carbon Pricing whilst crippling investment into renewable energy with the withdrawal of the Renewable Energy Targets and cutting wages and penalty rates with their “Undead” WorkChoices, are real  fears that ARE being realised.

Murdoch Reporter

Vision is a word not found in the Liarbril lexicon.

The “Oohhh, look over there…” distraction of The Islamic State cannot obscure the fact that the real terrorists are here, now. The Liarbril Party, The IPA, The Coal miners, Gina Rinehart, Palmer, Forrest, and the Murdoch media are doing more damage to this nation than a few loopy Islamic zealots 10,000 km away will ever do.

The “Slippery Pete Affair” has reared it’s ugly head again with Rabbutt-the-Hun” proclaiming it a sordid affair of the past Government that is over … neatly but wrongly hinting at a Labor problem but “Tones” … all the players were LIARBRIL! 

Pyne lied, Brough is a political thug, Ashby is a … well that’s pretty obvious…. and “Slippery Pete,” a turncoat.

They’re all Liarbril’s Tone…all your boys.
Yes, it was sordid…. a very vindictive and nasty payback… but as we have documented before, this is what your people seem to do best, Tones!  No vision …but payback? Geez, you’re really good at that Tones!

And in a delightful vignette of the intellectual prowess of those who would take us to war in the Middle East again came this gem from the ICAC investigation into corruption in NSW (from The Saturday Paper, Mike Secombe 13-9-14)

"... Did you know that that was money coming from a property developer?”

“No, I didn’t.”

“What did the name of it, Elmslea Land Developments, tell you about it?”

“Ah, yeah...”

“What did you think it was doing?”

“Well, there are many different names for, for companies, ah…”

“It’s true, but this one was Elmslea Land Developments. What did you think that name meant? That it might have something to do with land development?”

“Yes, it could have possibly, yes.”

“And would it strike you that land development was another aspect or one aspect of property development?” ..

Tardis State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) Pretend Premier Dennis “Dodo” (Genus: Inutilus Rusticus) Naptime, has decided in election mode that it would be a good idea to let Crown Casino direct the legislative program of the State in return for a either a few Shekels or 30 pieces of Silver (it’s all about choice y’know) ... and re-fund Cranbourne Secondary School the money his party ripped away from the school four years before.  

 Pity that Ambo’s are still waiting for a settlement on their two year old pay dispute, that hospital waiting lists are worse than when Big Bird (Genus: Sivertail Incompetens) Baillieu scraped into power….but there is still no sighting of a business plan for the $8,000,000,000.00 tunnel to nowhere.

On a funnier note, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw survived…another ex Liarbril, self admitted crook gets away with it…Good one, “Dodo!”

Dear reader, does this sound like a nightmare?

It is.  Welcome to Australia.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

Quote of the week from Jonathon Biggins (Actor, Satirist, performer) on Q and A  ABC,

 8-9-14. “The Daily Telegraph: it’s like Pravda …without the balance.”