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. 

Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.

G'day Petals,

It has transpired that The Ugly American's minions led by Sydney-sider radio Quislings Toilet-Boy Jones and the Gutter-Mouthed Hadley have had marginal success with their machinations bent on destroying the tenure of prime miniature Truffles.

Unfortunately The Ugly American being now geriatric and his far right supporters in the Ruling Rabble (Rabid-the-Hun, Cap'n Catlic, Andrews, Tarantella Fascisti-Wells and the Mindless Torquemada, Sukkar ) being at any stage less than able, had their preferred candidate, Potato-Head Dutton outflanked by Truffles in, for once in his political career, some deft footwork and Scummo Morrison was elevated to be the right's next sacrifice along with his altar-boy Fiction's Frydenberg. Instead, the Potato-Headed patsy and his creepy little running mate, the Dickensian Ozone-Hole Hunt were left out in the cold.

Scummo's Running mate, Asbestos Bishop must have been out jewellery shopping when the vote was held as she only garnered 11 votes other than her own and more embarrassingly, none from her Far West rabble "colleagues".

Truffles' ineptness was on show earlier in this shambolic week when he bizarrely rose to second the Willie Shortstuff no-confidence motion in his tenuous rabble as Plibersek was arriving at the despatch box... to wit, she quipped "You may second it if you wish".

Chief wrecker, Rabid-the-Hun emerged from the party room meeting saying “....we have lost a prime minister, but there is still a government to save”.... meaning that getting to the right of Genghis Khan he thinks would be a tolerably good position and that he hasn't yet finished destroying any semblance of "centre" in the now fatally fractured Ruling Rabble.

So our new prime miniature is the Happy-Clapper and dog-botherering hypocrite,  Scummo Morrison. The bloke fired from Heading Tourism Australia for bullying and abusing staff, the same bloke unable to win preselection to the seat of Cook (lost 80 - 8) and then mounted a vicious and untruthful campaign against the winner to gain it, the same bloke who has been in charge of our concentration camps for refugees and had people die under his "care" and as treasurer, tripled the country's debt, flat-lined wages, increased under-employment, presided over growing inequality and says that the current Royal Commission into banks "...will be a waste of time ...nothing to see there..." and a climate denying, coal wielding aficionado bloke who thinks that by giving $60 billion in tax cuts to those who pay no tax, particularly banks will solve all our problems.

So this Possums is "the new  generation" of Ruling Rabble "leadership":  a generation likely to accede to the far right, be in the thrall of the putrid IPA and tell that "they're there for us..."

A right-wing coup by any other name, eh....Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.?

Hoo-roo Petals, fight on

Shane.

The Greatest Show on Earth

Shane as a Clown

G'day Possums,

 I finished last weeks rant with a list of what was ailing us nationally and  this : "... all of which strongly indicates that this nation is falling apart under this ruling rabble..." only to then observe a week where  the rule of law, ethical behaviour and convention have all been sacrificed on the altar of political survival; the stench of corruption growing ever stronger and a whole lot of clowns coming out to play.

First there were the two Greens senators tripped up by accidents of birth who then do the right thing and step down only to be followed in the dual citizenship maze of Sect. #44 of the constitution by the National's Matty Hayseed Canavan who steps out of cabinet but not from government because rules aren't meant for the ruling rabble to adhere to. Blunting the petty diatribes of Nat's leader Barnyard Joyce whilst simultaneously demonstrating his hypocrisy when he said of the Greens that "...the law is black and white..." deputy PM Barnyard has then to embarrassingly announce to the house that he too has dual nationality but also wont be stepping aside to leave the ruling rabble literally with a "hung" parliament. On top of Barnyard's vindictive swipe at the Greens for being sloppy in their management, the Nationals have further to announce that their deputy leader, Princess Fiona of Nash is a dual citizen as well  but she hasn't the ethics to step down either, which, given her troubles in ruling rabble Mk#1 as assistant health minister and her employment of dodgy lobbyists inimical to her portfolio, isn't really surprising.

Le Havre

Before  Princess Fiona's admission there was senator Mal-Addled Roberts of the Deep North, Noe Notion Mob who was finally provided with the empirical evidence he so loves which proved he was actually British even though he "felt" Australian and didn't see the need to step aside either and carried on to such an extent that  W.S.Gilbert could have penned this for Mal-Addled.... "I hold that there is no such antick fellow as your bombastical hero who doth so earnestly spout forth his folly as to make his hearers believe that he is unconscious of all incongruity."

Neither did Nick "Hades" Xenephon feel any twinge of convention to go out of parliament when he fessed-up to being a Cypriot and oddly, British but then he sides with the ruling rabble so often that cretin might be a more appropriate label.

Thrown into the fray to provide "look-over-there" distractions, Jules Asbestos Bishop kept the opposition benches in stitches and New Zealand feeling superior with her ludicrous ranting "gun-boat" diplomatic skills... only proving 1/  that when you're in a hole it's probably best to stop digging and, 2/  that the ruling rabble are just that...a rabble.

Sect. #44 may well get a different High Court workout with the business dealings of Deep North ex-copper Senator  Big Bazza O'Sullivan whose family company has had about $2.5 Mill worth of Govt contracts go its way requiring scrutiny but with this on top of his 49 negatively geared properties there's probably nuthin-to-see-'ere! Is there?   Nahh, sweet...nahh !

We end this epistle Petals, on a religious note. Catlic Bishop Hart of Melbourne (all hart and no empathy) has told the RC into child abuse that priests will not divulge to police, child abuse evidence told to them in the confessional. Hmm... Shades of Henry 2nd of England...how medieval.

Watts Chapel, Compton.

And we can't not record the Noe Notion Leader, the Red Terror of the Deep North, Appalling Hanson fronting the senate in a Burqa as the final circus act of the week. Always her incoherent best, it is really a pity that the Red Terror wouldn't wear the same garment down the streets of her rancid supporters in Ipswich and experience the hate she promulgates!

Bookshelves Brandis for once sounded genuinely statesman-like in his criticism of her racist stupidity but unfortunately many of his ruling rabble colleagues failed to join with the spontaneous applause from the opposition and cross benches thereby indicating their equivocation and lack of moral fibre.

The slope looks decidedly a lot more slippery.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

Watts Chapel

Becoming Dumber and Dumber.

Fading into Dumb

G'day Possums,

Paul Keating once said that when in power your policy framework changes the culture of the nation.

Assuming then that the aforesaid is true let's reflect on some of the more significant utterances of the past fortnight and determine by the language sentiment and intent what sort of country Australia is presenting, not only to the wider world but more importantly, to itself.

Anti-Immigration minister Dodo Dutton has said the 7,500 refugees who have not applied for visas are "fake refugees" and that for them the "the game is up" for costing the taxpayer $250,000,000.00 PA.....  oddly enough, the same amount Dodo wants the taxpayer to spend on his new Border Farce and Anti-Immigration fiefdom.

After denuding legal and language services to refugees Dodo has set an October deadline for these people to fill out the 180 question, comprising 45-60 page questionnaire and statement some of which information is impossible for these people to access.

At the same time Asbestos Bishop was misleading the United Nations as to what a nice place we are in our treatment of refugees.

Are we dumb enough to silently accept this hypocrisy?

 

The Highway to Hell

Closer to home in what was the Tardis State (Where-All-Went-Backward) Victoria, Matty What's-a-Green-wedge Guy, chief opposition clown had one of his troupe (Brad Battin) pratfall in his union-bashing workout by erroneously telling parliament that it took 51/2 hours for professional firey's to attend the Black Saturday bushfires. This attempt to further politicize the volunteer fire services and to "scotch" the latest reforms in modernizing state fire services only serves to remind that "NO" is the most frequent word you'll hear uttered by any of the ruling rabble tribe in relation to reform as opposed to destruction, which is their forte'.

Are we dumb to accept this crass politicking?

 

reflections

World climate scientists are now saying that ocean levels are going to rise faster than previously predicted because of the alarming increase in the arctic melting.  Australia's ruling rabble in its 2017 budget has axed funding to a measly $600,000.00 for the National Climate Change Research Facility a body that offers information on how best to mitigate climate change and the consequences of sea level rises; and from 2018 it will receive no funding at all.

Ruling Rabble apologist, N.Saava in a look-over-there moment decried Labor's Willy Shortsuff's budget-in-reply speech as only once mentioning climate change whilst pointedly ignoring that fact that the funding cuts were not mentioned by the ruling rabble at all.

Australia is subsidising fossil fuel production to the tune of a massive $A5.6 billion a year and also funds the industry with a further $A292 million a year in public finance, as it expands fossil fuel production on multiple fronts.

 I firmly believe we need legislation that will make criminal and enable the jailing of those who stalled, denied or halted practices trying to ameliorate climate change and its consequences

N. Saava must think we're dumb! 

The Battler's saviour from the Deep North  Poorleen, Pleez Oixploin Hanson is in more electoral strife after her chief of staff, printing guru and sometime pilot, Oily Ashby (he of Slippery Pete's demise) decided that potentially defrauding the electoral office and their own candidates was a good way of making money. Caught on tape making the suggestion and also that he would deny he had ever said it,  Oily later excused himself for a poor choice of words and said, by way of obfuscation, that it was an illegal tape anyway only made by a disgruntled member to embarrass Noe Notion. Pooleen Pleez Oixlpoin had a hard time interrupting her employee Oily at a presser, where she blamed the ABC for creating false news and upsetting candidates and that Oily really had no need of more honesty, ethics and general morality. Around this time  an "advisor" to climate denier, coal enthusiast, conspiracy theorist, the gift that keeps on giving and all round fruit cake,  Noe Notion Senator, Mr 77, Mal-addled Roberts, was arrested on multiple counts of assault! 

Please note that these people see unionists as corrupt and needing strict laws to control them.

I'm dumbstruck!

In what Prime Miniature Truffles Turdball opined was an act of love, not rape, Tax evader, self promoter and serial anti-labor activist, Twiggy Forest has "gifted" a tax deductable  $400,000,000.00 to causes of his own choice.  This crass attempt to mitigate the fact that in 2014-15 his Fortescue Metals made $9.1 Billion in sales and only paid $13.2 Millions in tax on profits of $208 Millions or 6.3%  only re-inforces Twiggy's hypocrisy and Truffles out-of-touch, Cayman Island elitism.

As a piece of right-wing anti welfare greed masked as philanthropy this sordid episode surely marks a new low point in the dismantling of a welfare system for all to be replaced by the feel-good crumbs brushed down to the peasants when seen fit by the ruling rabble.

Next time you see you are paying somewhere between 28-36 % tax on your earnings, ask yourself how dumb do you think they think you are?

And then there was that bastion of right-wing intellectualism (I know, it's an oxymoron), Quadrant!  Having never moved beyond purveying the time warp of the Melbourne Olympics, employer of Daisy the Preening-Princess-of-Putrid Prose, Cousens, and Board Member whose face was obviously the model for the "Angry" emoticon, Nick, Snarler Cater, this magazine and self espoused standard bearer of free speech and the repeal of 18C, allowed essayist (?) Roger Franklin to publish an online piece  suggesting that said it would have been preferable for the Manchester bomb to be exploded in the ABC’s Q&A studios on Monday night, blowing up host Tony Jones and the panellists. The ruling rabble's personal para-military, the AFP has been called in to investigate but as the deed was not done by a Labor person, a Green or a Muslim there'll be a nothing-to-see-there enquiry.

Taste and intelligence never seem to intersect with the ruling rabble, how dumb is that?

Then there was the writer of "The Thick of It",  Armando Iannucci who deploring the questioning style of contemporary TV journalists brought to my mind Leigh Hissy-Fit Sales whose technique fitted his description of a 30's journalist interviewing Churchill by asking the question, "Mr Churchill , you know Germany's problems are caused by the Jews as Mr Hitler says they are, don't you?"

Dumb and Dumber Petals... what choices are we to make before this country is destroyed by the right wing?

Hoo-roo,

Shane

Rotten to the Core

being a basket case

G'day Petals,
what times we live in.

With the booting of Sussan Ley from her position as Health Minister because she was an embarrassment to the Ruling Rabble, Prime Miniature Truffles  has appointed an even bigger shonk to the position.

 Arfah Da Spiv Sinodinas.  Arfah, you might recall was severely memory challenged at the corruption investigation in Sydney a couple of years ago when asked about who gave what to whom when  he was fundraising treasurer for the Liarbril party.

That he was also working at the time for outstanding remuneration, vis-s-vis hours worked, for the now jailed Labor Party shonk, Eddie Obeid should ring alarm bells but this is the new Australia where political corruption is just about the only growth area of the economy.
Bronnie, Kero/Chopper Bishop came to Ley's defence arguing that Socialism was to blame and to a certain extent she's correct. The failed and most biased Speaker of the Parliament was certainly assiduous in distributing taxpayer funds for her own entitled benefit before she too was dumped as an embarrassment  and presently shows no sign of being coy in taking $200,000.00 of taxpayer money each year as her parliamentary pension.

Australia : Before and After or Rotten to the Core 

Slit-Her-Throat Ciobo, a very nasty piece of Liarbril work, chimed in too, opining that we taxpayers "expect" that we should pay for these entitled people to attend sporting fixtures and other social events, drink the free booze and to schmooze with the "A" list whilst sorting out future employment opportunity's.

But not so our Foreign minister Jules, Asbestos Bishop.  Mindful of her propensity to make very expensive RAAF travel arrangements with her current B/F Asbestos this year bailed out of attending the Portsea Polo extravaganza, probably assessing it too unseemly that she should pay with her own money to talk matters equine as she did last year. No wonder the Chinese said she was a fool.

Capn Catlic, Andrews hit us for $2,000.00 to attend a prayer session with other right-wingers in the US forgetting that his christ allegedly threw the money lenders out of the temple not invited them in.

Horse-Shite Cormann has spent $23,000.00  taking his family on holidays to Broome at our expense whilst as finance minister he strips back welfare, medicare, education, pensions because we're too expensive to run.

Apparently, 650 big companies pay no tax at all and Truffles is trying to give them all a $50,000,000,000.00 hand-out!

Time for the tumbrils to roll eh, Possums?

Shane

Off to Hell in a Hand-Basket

Shane in a Hellish Hand-Basket

G'day Possums,

It seems appropriate that the illustrations for this weeks rant are of a cemetery given that parliament is soon to sit again and where the ruling rabble will be attempting to push the country further into the hell of its "Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe" (IPA) masters right-wing ideological fantasies.

Unfortunately for the ruling rabble, Willie Shortstuff has stolen a march on their rabid designs by calling for a Royal Commission into the corruption, perfidy and malfeasance that has been brought to a peak of perfection by our banks. Denying that it was at all necessary, the front-runners of this mongrel lot, Cash "the Harpy," "Truffles" Turdball-Fop, "Sco-mo" Morrison, The Innumerate" and many others of similar untalented mien have all been opining that notwithstanding the $120,000,000.00 slashed from ASIC and the 4000 jobs eliminated from ACCC and the tax office, these bodies are perfectly capable of investigating any "situation" that may or may not have occurred and anyway the public are just not interested in this sort of political enquiry..... although a recent poll suggests that 83% of the population thinks it's a terrific idea.

Timing his latest Union-Bashing bashing for this last sitting before he calls a double dissolution election, "Truffles" was again discomforted by the leaking of all a Panama Banks documents about who had what, where and how much was hidden from the tax man. It made the supposed corruption of the construction unions fade into insignificance and "Truffles" had to dodge some probing questions into his Cayman Island accounts.

Melbourne General Cemetery

Move along now, nothing to see here.  Remember sheeples, Coal is good for humanity.... and Peabody has gone belly up and climate change is crap....  and if marriage equality is legislated we'll next want bestiality realised!

Princess Fiona of Nash has deemed that a sugar tax on soft drinks is a bad idea....and that an increase in tobacco tax a better health strategy.  Remember when this rabble was first elected, one of her "advisers" as assistant health minister was a bloke with strong representations to the Junk Foods business and the Princess was trying to scuttle Labor's new food labelling legislation?

Well it seems that the Princess is having another junk food moment. It transpires that Princess Fiona of Nash has been called un-scientific by a Brit Medico in that more harm is done to our health from over-use of sugar in our diets and than by the uses of tobacco and alcohol combined!

Well done, Princess Fiona. You have maintained the appalling scientific standards of your ruling rabble at a truly medieval level.

 

Melbourne General Cemetery

When the election is called and "Truffles" and the rest of the clowns in his circus Mk2 will all be claiming what good economic managers they are.... in its short life the Liarbril ruling rabble has levied more tax as a proportion of GDP than Labor did. Government spending as a proportion of GDP has also increased, the budget deficit has more than doubled from its “crisis” levels in 2013, and gross government debt has ballooned by over $100bn.....and let's not forget their assiduous rorting of their parliamentary benefits. The bluff and bluster was resurrected when "Sco-Mo, The Innumerate" recently tweeted: “Labor’s plan is to tax, spend and borrow. Our plan is to back Australians who are working, saving and investing.” He could tell that to the 300 scientists sacked from the CSIRO in an "Innovative" method for  doing research

How are we to rationalise the abolition of the office of the disability discrimination commissioner and the appointment of the first national wind farm commissioner? The elimination of a key role to assist the large number of people with disabilities and their families, many of whom live below the poverty line and struggle with endemic disadvantage, followed by the creation of a new role to address a syndrome that doesn’t exist.  One of the first notable and ominous acts of the ruling rabble MK 1 was, in fact, an omission – the first government in over 70 years not to appoint a science minister. Since then, the country’s peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has responded to funding cuts by shedding scientists like dead skin. A world renowned research program into climate change has been ditched.

.Against this background of attacks on scientific research and the debacle that is the country’s major innovation and infrastructure project, the NBN, "Truffles" announced a new innovation policy.... an advertising campaign costing $20,000,000.00.

And let's not speak any further of this mongrel pack's plans for health and education... it's all similar: user pays. What was once a fair and egalitarian nation has become and if the mongrels are returned to power, will continue to slide further into an abyss of greed, selfishness and ultimately civil strife that we have never seen before.... dark days ahead.

Melbourne General Cemetery

But let's finish on one bright note: Old "Kero Bath-Chopper" Bishop has lost preselection for her safe seat of Mackellar.  And so it's good riddance to an incompetent minister, unconscionably partisan speaker, rorter extraordinaire, and vicious senate enquirer.

May the karma of evil she created return and stay with her for the rest of her sour and sorry days in the hate-filled silence she deserves.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

Advance Australia, Where?

G'day Petals,

 It's all Wombat Droppings

 or the chronicle of Oz's inexorable descent into fascism. 

The most exquisite demonstration of this Liarbril ruling rabble’s corruption of values was not the extended queue of ministers standing down after appearing at the NSW ICAC hearings: nor was it Rabid the Hun’s move to bunk in with at the AFP HQ or his Mercedes Benz deal or his daughter’s spurious scholarship or his rorting of his parliamentary entitlements to launch his book or even his cycling deals with Big Pharma. All of these acts only indicated his utter unsuitability to be a national leader when demonstrating that he was just a witless, selfish, grasping supplicant.

Neither was it Kero-Bath Bishop’s $5,000.00 chopper ride to a party function at the taxpayers expense nor Asbestos Bishop’s $30,000.00 bill to the public to travel from a party with her current beau from Perth to Canberra.

Perhaps the $600,000.00 fit-out of Hayseed Joyce’s electoral office as part of his $1,300,000.00 entitlement binge rates a place?

But no, the prize has to go to Eleventy Cereal/Toyota-Killer Hockey. The ex real estate agent and most innumerate excuse for a treasurer the country has ever been victim to.  Whilst accepting $1000.00 per week rental assistance for staying in his wife’s Canberra property, this mongrel was telling us we were “leaners” and needed to work harder.

Instead of chasing up the nearly 40% of big businesses who pay no tax, Eleventy cuts the taxation office by 4,400 personnel making it all the more difficult to rectify this rort.

Dumped as treasurer, he gets the sulks, spits the dummy and resigns his seat; quipping (and for once being alarmingly frank) that it was better to resign, than sit on the back-bench plotting revenge.

This pathetic creature has been thrown a bone: Ambassador to Washington. So on top of his very generous superannuation package he will top this up to around $400,000.00 p.a. and probably be as embarrassing over there as he was here. 

St Saveur, Dinan, France

A Close contender was Chicken-Thighs Brough; who has been forced to stand down over his possible criminality in Ashby-gate or the Slippery Pete Affaire.

Admitting in a TV interview that he asked Ashby (Slipper’s staffer) to copy The Speaker, Slipper’s notebook Chicken Thighs, when asked the same question in parliament, gave the opposite answer.

Well, he’s pretty comprehensively established himself publicly as a liar and the Federal Police are now investigating the notebook matter.

It’s worth noting that the word is, even his own side don’t like him much and this shining example of the morality of the ruling rabble will not be able to fulfil his function as arbiter of parliamentary ethics.

I’ll bet you three who read this are thinking I’m making all this up….. Wrong, I’m not that imaginative.

The head cadaver of the Trade Union Royal Commission, the Lickspittle Dyson Heydon sent two union heavies to the police to be charged with something. Police investigate and very, very, very quietly the charges are dropped.

So Big Red Gillard did nothing wrong and Willy Shortstuff also did nothing wrong.

Hmmmm…and some other MAY have done something wrong and they're very naughty 'cause I say so...

Now that was worth $60,000,000.00 wasn’t it?

Pew Carvings St Levan Church, Cornwall.

Medicare is dying the death of 1000 cuts….. one only hopes that the service mechanic of Un-Health minister Flappy-Mouth Ley’s aircraft hasn’t got chronically ill members in his family.

And let’s rub some salt into the wounds of Jamie Bogan Briggs who was also forced to step down as Minister for Cities when it transpired that last November the married father of three was too, too familiar with a junior female staffer at a club in Hong Kong. He said he was “unprofessional”, hmmm…that’s an interesting term to use for bogan, misogynistic, paternalistic, sexist and boorish behaviour isn’t it? But Horse-Shite Cormann and couple of others like the propagandist Chris Kenny have come to his defence saying what a good decent top bloke he is....yeah, right....

But then that doesn’t seem to matter much to the pre-selection panels of this Liarbril Party in putting forward types that are destroying everything that has made Australia a civil society.

Well, there ya go Possums…. What a state the nation’s in but what else can you expect from the rubbish ruling it?

Advance Australia Where?

Bogans all let us lament

That we are full of fear

We’ve privatised all in making wealth

For investors not from here

Our abundant natures gifts are raped

For compensation poor

Oft wrapped in flags of Chinese make

And ranting mindless slogans of hate

In words fully three and sometimes more

Advance Australia Where?

Below our smoggy Southern Cross

All things made wrecked by Rabid whim

And 457’s on the rise

Our future does look grim

We say to those fleeing shock and awe

“We’re bloody full, so fuck right off

Illegal Queue jumpers welcomed here

Only if your Burqa’s doffed”

Still Oz Flagged wrapped in sentiment fake

Advance Australia Where?

Hoo-roo,

Shane

Going from bad to worse...

G’day Possums,,, here’s a shot of where I live… taken early this morning…

Greendale Landscape

Random Wombat Droppings …or how we are going from bad to worse and to hell in a handbasket

It has always struck me how angry the "right" are. I think it's born of the frustration that aspirationals must feel in that that which they aspire to is unattainable because of the political and social structure. Greed, selfishness and short-sightedness combine with their aspiration to engender fear of any "social" contract which might limit their individual advancement and at the same time they are constantly reminded  that the system of their aspiration is stacked against them.

But then, by the same token the hate I feel toward the likes of the clowns from the IPA, Blot-on-the-Landscape, Rabid-the-Hun, Loopy Leyonhjelm et al, is born a similar frustration that these mongrels get their way at the expense of society as a whole, most of the time.

The “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe”…the IPA is running the show. Malcon Turdball-Fop will be kept as the Ruler of this Ruling Rabble because electorally he’s safe… but otherwise he’ll have to tow the Murdoch, Rinehart, Miners and Bankers line. What sovereignty Australia had will be finally eliminated and every single public service will be privatised.

 Le Jongleur Roskam will the Chair of the Board and Malcon will become permanent faux PM.

“Far from deserving praise, the half-reversal of CSIRO and NICTA funding cuts simply highlights the need for the Turnbull Liberals to review all of their cuts to science, research and innovation which include:
$107m from the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program
$75m from the ARC
$27.5m from ANSTO
$7.8m from AIMS
$16.1m from Geoscience Australia
$20m from the Bureau of Meteorology
$120m from DSTO
$174m from the Research Training Scheme"

Triggs is “Woman of the Year” A beacon of sanity in a nation fast losing its way in an IPA thought bubble.

Ahhh... Liarbril sagacity, management and innovation... myths that make the Dreamtime look like scientific fact!

Buggered the NBN, blown the budget and rorted the parliamentary entitlements  like there was no tomorrow. With the biggest leaner, Joe “Eleventy, Cereal/Toyota Killer “ Hockey getting a job in Washington…. I didn’t realise we hated the Yanks that much…but at least it will limit his potential for ongoing damage to Australia.

The Paris Climate talks have shown that Oz is now third last in the world in our emission targets…. From leading the world to third last of 128 Nations in just 2 ½ short years is quite a Liarbril achievement….everything they touch they destroy…

We need Rabid-the-Hun to continually remind us just how dysfunctional the thinking in the Liarbril party is in selecting these anti-social mongrels.

He is still talking delusional nonsense about being leader again… and making stupefyingly silly remarks about the need for a Muslim “reformation” and that we good xtians are the culture to emulate…. Hmmm… right!

Cardinal “The Graceless” Pell-Pot is allegedly too ill to front the Royal Commission into child abuse….fearful perhaps, of his own crucifixion?

Mal “Chicken Thighs” Brough and fellow mongrel conspirators, Pyne

”the Whyne” and now Wyatt “The Boy” Roy are smelling like the shits they are over “Slippery” Pete’s political assassination….criminal charges, anyone?

Bronnie “Kero-Bath-Chopper” Bishop has decided that she is going at 73, to stick around in parliament to help fight terrorism … which terrorists, she didn’t say but it could be her own party…. Or it may be to match her colleague of same name, Jules “Asbestos” Bishop’s rather extravagant $30,0000.00 flight from a party with her B/F for a meeting in Canberra….Jules hasn’t heard of video-conferencing.

There ya go… how Oz is going to hell in a hand-basket care of the IPA.

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane.

...as the Ship of State Founders

Shane with Falling Pieces

G'day Possums,
Well, what a few weeks we've been having here in Straya!
What probably was the most biased, partisan and incompetent Speaker of Parliament (Bronwyn "Kero-Pompadour" Bishop) to ever to besmirch the Office has resigned, (been pushed, dragged) from the Chair, over her rorting of parliamentary entitlements. 
The already fragile Ship of State, the rustbucket SS Liarbril is again adrift, with no leadership coming from Cap'n Rabid-the-Hun.

rustbucket SS Liarbril

 Three years ago I was warning that this policy bereft ruling rabble would cause mayhem  by tearing down all that has made us such an enviable country in which to live . We are now seeing the grim results of their slavish adherence to the ideological flat-earthers of the IPA (the Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe) unemployment is up, wages for the lower paid are under attack, medical services are being privatised, pensions are being eroded  the environment is being fracked, concentration camps are seen as good and racism is being promoted.
There has been a concerted racist campaign, one that has developed since the time "Little Johnny" Howard failed to deal with the rantings of Pauline Hanson and her xenophobic stutterings 20 years ago.  Now we have the tri-partite ravings of Miranda "Septic Tank"Devine and Andrew "Blot-on-the-Landscape"Bolt and Alan "Toilet-Boy" Jones virtually joining forces with their intellectual equivalents, the moronic nasty Nazi-Boys of "Reclaim Australia " in blaming an Aboriginal footballer who has suffered constant booing for 18 month that it is his own fault because he "outed" one of the rancid people who had called him an ape!

Andrew "Blot-on-the-Landscape"Bolt

 The appallingly low levels that these people, mostly employed by the "Ugly American," Murdoch stoop to, is a tactic to constantly target a subject in order to seemingly get the repeal of section 18C of the racial vilification act. It's almost as if their rabid intensity is to make 18C unworkable and therefore, useless. 

Brandis as Napoleon (with apologies to JL David)

But their chief supporter George "Bookshelves" Brandis is having his own problems, coming under attack not only from the Arts bodies he seems intent on destroying but also for his sloppy incompetence as Attorney General and inability to read and understand mail.

You could say that the recent Australian Cricket Team's efforts in the 3rd Ashes Test in England is symbolic of what a state this nation is in....and if you think I'm exaggerating here's one Graeme Henchel's ode on it...


 Graeme Henchel August 2, 2015 at 12:09 pm

Why is Abbott a Dead man Walking?

Was it justice, was it Karma?

Was it Murdoch, was it Palmer? Was it lying and conceit? Was it backbenchers fear of defeat? Was it Mathias and Joe’s cigars? Was it because we’ve stopped making cars? Was it climate change denial? Was it putting Julia on trial? Was it the daughter’s scholarship prize? Was it debt and deficit lies? Was it removing the Carbon Tax? Was it trying to give the RET the axe? Was it cutting Foreign aid? Was it being so retrograde? Was it the Minister for Women joke? Was it all the promises broke? Was it Brandis’s bigots rights? Was it prancing around in lycra tights? Was it cutting the SBS and the ABC? Was it costing more for university? Was it imposing a GP tax? Was it the disregard of facts? Was it the ridiculous Dames and Knights? Was it the threats and talk of fights? Was it Joe’s “lifters and leaners”? Was it cutting the pay of parliament’s cleaners? Was it punishing pensioners and the unemployed? Was it the total moral void? Was it the embarrassing G20 address? Was it the ongoing budget mess? Was it the book-launch travel rort? Was it knighting the Queen’s consort? Was it use of the sham inquiry stunt? Was it the weasel words of Hunt? Was it the 800 Million given to News? Was it longer unemployment queues? Was it a budget most unfair? Was it too much body hair? Was it nobbling the NBN? Was it lying again and again? Was it exploiting terrorist threats? Was it job applications of Eric Abetz? Was it the sex worker wink? Was it being too slow to think? Was it Joe’s “poor people don’t drive” Was it the polls taking a dive? Was it the surprises and constant excuses? Was it asylum seeker abuses? Was it the work of Peta and the IPA? Was it repeating slogans day after day? Was it the dog whistle of “Team Australia”? Was it the pungent smell of failure? Was it wimping Putin’s shirt front? Was it because Christopher Pyne is a pain? Was it Arthur’s memory at ICAC? Was it giving Mr Burns the sack? Was it ever declining polls? Was it funding Internet trolls? Was it Newman’s election loss? Was it the submarine double cross? Was it saying the “Adults are in charge”? Was it making the deficit more large? Was it the whole damn useless crew? Was it the ties of bogus blue? Was it the hubris and the swagger? Was it Malcolm and Julie’s dagger? Was it saying he would change? Was it becoming even more deranged? Was it eating an onion raw? Was it the data-retention law? Was it exploiting Dr Karl? Was it frequent smirking snarls? Was it the daughter’s low rent at Kirribilli? Was it “Fixer” Pyne being silly? Was it acting like a bar room yob? Was it offering Bjorn Lomborg a job? Was it saying “I suppose we must grieve” Was it the constant attempts to deceive? Was it ditching his gold plated PPL mess? Was it then making Labor’s PPL less? Was it saying the deficit is no longer trouble? Was it increasing your own deficit double? Was it a second budget based on deception? Was it threatening to call an early election? Was it trying to get Gillian Triggs out? Was it Dutton acting like a Brussel sprout? Was it “get a good job that pays good money” Was it laughing at things that just weren’t funny? Was it all the talk of double dipping? Was it cabinet leaks a constant dripping? Was it denying marriage equality? Was it Brandis reading poetry ? Was it paying people smugglers to turn around? Was it the dead cat bounce the polls have found? Was it saying how much he hated wind farms? Was it lying each day without any qualms? Was it Brandis controlling the Arts? Was it the emission of smelly brain farts? Was it the false outrage at QandA? Was it telling ministers to stay away? Was it Bishop’s ride in a chopper? Was it cos Abbott did nothing to stop her? Was it Shorten’s conference revival? Was it party room fears for their own survival? Why will Abbott get the shove? The answer is, all of the above.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane