….once more

Shane travelling

G’day Possums,

It’s time for a change of scene.

With the little Wombats looking after the burrow, Mrs W and I are off to France again.

After some time in Paris we perambulate to Rouen then across Normandy into Brittany following a sort of reverse ‘44 Invasion route. 

From there we waddle onto a boat to visit one of Mrs W’s “rellies” in Cornwall for a few days, wend our way to London and on the way, probably see every English garden ever planted.

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the “must’s” listed, as is Caen, Camembert and Calvados.

 It will be interesting too, to compare the solid spatial harmonies of the French Romanesque to English Norman







and some of the Parisienne Art Nouveau architecture of Jules Lavirotte


with buildings like






the Watt Chapel in Kent and to visit the village in Kent that allegedly my C17th Wombat ancestors came from.

 ....and one more from the last shoot….

Dancer: Naomi S.

Wombat Droppings..

Or

the demise of Egalitarian Oz and its morphing into Fascism.

On the listing rust-bucket SS Liarbril, Captain Rabid-the-Hun has become 3.5% more popular.

Rarely venturing from the newly fortified bunker of his parliamentary cabin, Rabid’s lack of sightings has seemingly pleased the crew no end. This and the bonus of “Cereal-Toyota-Killer” Eleventy Hockey speaking positively about the worsening economic forecasts has lulled the Aspirational Bogan crew into a comfortably dull miasma with words like "... it's better to make a profit than to make a loss because ultimately you make more money out of a profit than you do out of a loss".... just like an anaesthetic.

Content at no longer having to think, the crew of SS Liarbril drowsily ignore the sounds of the bashing of the President of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs emanating from the engine room. Captain Rabid, “The-Drone” Morrison (he with blood on his hands), “Bookshelves” Brandis and Neanderthal Senators various, are bullying her over her recommendation that a refugee from Indonesian occupied West Papua who has spent nearly eight years incarcerated after completing his seven (?) year sentence on being convicted for manslaughter, be compensated.

It was felt that because of his involvement in the “Free West Papua” movement he couldn’t be repatriated back to West Papua without fear for his life and Triggs has recommended that compensation at a rate equivalent to $50,000 per year of his incarceration be offered.

Inconveniently coming at the same time as the Moss report which showed that “Bloody” Morrison lied about his allegations that aid workers assisted concentration camp inhabitants on Manus Island in self harm methods and that the sexual abuse of refugee children in the camps is other than he said and rife and also at being so obviously at odds with the prevailing ethics of the ruling rabble, Triggs needs to be shown the error of her thinking.

Bloody Morrison then “turned some stomachs” when seen cavorting with children in the SS Liarbril’s crèche. It is understood that after fumigation and washing the children suffered no real harm but will only have bad dreams for a few weeks.

                                                                                                  Timmy ”Twat-Freedom-Man” Wilson again, is nowhere of importance to be seen but his fellow “Coot-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (aka IPA) “Bunter” Berg is, bobbing around regularly obfuscating debates on ABC”s “The Drum.”

Chris "Bunter" Berg, IPA

In his latest Libertarian-lite, poppy-cock, and playing the most current popular game of the Ruling Rabble: “Shoot-the-Messenger,” “Bunter” was opining that the Government’s Statutory Sports Drug watchdog, ASADA should be investigated by a Royal Commission because it couldn't definitively prove that the Essendon FC injected 34 of its players with banned substances and it was all Labor's fault anyway.

Unfortunately for “Bunter” his arguments generally have all the force of a ball of vapid vapour thrown at low speed; you watch it dissipate as it meanders toward you, then you exhale and “Puff”…… gone!

Perhaps a Royal Commission into the football club, its “sports-scientist-drug-supplier”, the coach, management team and the board might be the proper target but the rules on board SS Liarbril are Orwellian/Kafka-esque at present.

Which is a bit like Captain Rabid’s newest thought-bubble (probably courtesy of his bosses at the IPA?) of limiting the chances and opportunity for independent senators being elected.

All in the name of strengthening democracy mind you.

Sort of like the old aphorism so beloved of Senator “Vichy” Abetz, “Freedom through Work!” Or how 800,000 unemployed can disappear in filling 150,000 vacancies.

Hoo-roo Petals,

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.

...like a Headless Chook.

G'day, Possums ....

Some Ballet class pics which should lighten the load of today's Wombat Droppings  which discusses in this centennial anniversary year of World War One why Australia is entering another war in the Middle east.

 All these are from class at Ballet Theatre Australia.

A small professional Training Institute in Melbourne.

Many of BTA's  successful graduates are dancing in companies here in Oz and also in America and Europe.

 

 

Wombat Droppings 

or 

The Chronicle of How Australia lost its Egalitarian Soul and Processed to Very Ugly.

Senator George "Bookshelves" Brandis (Liarbril Pretend Attorney General) is now in his element: promulgating new laws to extend "security" agencies ability to whack people with impunity, limiting press and speech freedoms (except for the far right) and making as much noise as possible to camouflage the fact that this Government is a total failure. 

I wonder if calling the Bogans down to Cronulla: saying that Gillard should have her throat slit, or thrown into the sea in a chaff bag would be termed "Incitement to violence" under these new laws?

It is not much of a surprise really that this policy bereft but ideologically replete rabble are in the mess they are but what is perverse is that the confusion they are sowing on religious and racial grounds exactly suits their agenda of divide and conquer. Australian's as we are seeing, are too selfish, self centred and too stupid to see that the "Vision" the Liarbrils and their directors the "Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe" (IPA)  want, is not a nation of social cohesion and equality but the jungle of the so-called "Free Market."

 In fact we are blindly stumbling further every day into being a Neo-Fascist State. 

And where's ex Liarbril and IPA fellow traveller Timmy "Twat the Freedom-Man" when you really need him? Off counting his $390,000.00 P.A.no doubt?

We are now at war again in the same Middle East that Prime Miniature, "Little Johnny" Howard expressed "embarrassment" at not finding the Saddam Hussien's WMD's  which were allegedly its cause; and thought  "...there was no need to apologise..." particularly for the subsequent 600,000 Iraqi deaths. This time, "Rabid-the-Hun" is sending young Australians off to battle the Baddies; the Isis "Death Cult" who we know were spawned from the very shambles Little Johnnie assisted in making of Iraq. 

There is a nastiness seeping around our country ... one chap was "..hauled off a Tiger Airline flight when another passenger noticed some notes and sketches he made satirising the current terrorist mood and reported him to a flight attendent who contacted Federal Police.. he has been banned as a disruptive passenger by the airline" (SMH).

 I hope someone gives "fellow passenger" a lesson in A/ manners and B/ a sense of humour.

Islamic women have been assaulted in the streets, cars sprayed with graffitee and  Senator Jackie Lambie (Bogan PUP, Tasmania) posted a Lana Slezic pic of an Afghani police woman in a Burqa to illustrate her push to have the garment banned. (Pity that the policewoman in question was shot and killed by the Taliban for her support of women's rights).

 Bogan PUP Lambie was also asked about Sharia law  about which she is also stirring the pot  but didn't know how to answer because she know nought of what she's talking about. 

And this is the competence of the people who have the balance of power in the current Government!

There was a big theatrical raid on Muslim's suspected of being "about to be very naughty"... it was highly organised, in 23 locations, netted one arrest and two days worth of footage and Pics (shot by the Police and given to selected reporters) and was in no way intended to stir up Islama-phobia! 

It was to "Protect-the-Citizens", "To-keep-us-safe-in-our-Suburbs."

Which worked a treat.... when a 18 YO  Muslim suspected of "wanting-to-be-naughty" was invited down to the police station ...he arrived with a knife and stabbed two police before being shot and killed.

You have to wonder ... if there was violence being fomented, surely , even at the intensity of this raid , keeping a lid on it would in fact have more impact where it is needed? But then Rabid-the-Hun and his rabble have never been known for their subtlety.
Sledgehammers' to crack Walnuts and Fists through walls are much better for the psyche.. .. 

Rabid-the-Hun's rabble are the ones destroying this country!

There is not one positive thing they have done.
Nothing done has been of benefit to the country; in fact it's been only to the benefit of "The Ugly American" Murdoch and the coal miners. 

Many many posts ago I said, Petals, that if this IPA led Liarbril rabble were elected then civil society was going to be destroyed... they are the real terrorists, the Headless Chooks running amok, cutting away every social benefit for a safe, tolerant and collective society. They want in the confusion and mayhem they are constructing to distract from cutting wages and social services, medi-bank and destroying state education .. and the new "Terrorist" laws will be used to stop dissent when the the greater public finally wake up and the shit really hits the fan. 

They are not to be trusted!

In Naptime's Tardis State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) Police Commissioner "I-Know-Nuffin" Lay has decided that it would be "too political" to release the crime stats three days before the State election. Hmmm that's not political? That's also not very democratic!
I wonder if the Liarbrils scraped home and after the result, the figures then revealed  their usual incompetence, would Lay resign? Or on the other hand, if Labor scraped in with say, only a one seat majority would he expect to be sacked?
Lay has, I think a statuary responsibility to release the figures not a mandate to play overt political games for one side. And more worringly, a whisper has it that Vic Police might have been "assuming" something was going to happen on the Muslim front some weeks ago.
As more information dribbles out about the double knifing and  subsequent shooting, the more simplistically black and white the early reports were...(the ones that stick in the memory) and the more complex the longer story becomes... allegedly, earlier searches without warrants, more than one person at the scene, police asking to wear their guns in the station.
  

Labor have sided with Naptimes Liarbrils and are taking Packers' Casino Penny! 

Do you really think we live in a functioning Democracy?

The Terrier-ist:

 with apologies to American comedian, Rich Hall who quipped this idea on QI one night.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.