Showing posts with label Donelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donelly. Show all posts

Monday, 20 October 2014

with Putrid Prose and Callous Thought


Once as a middling nation remember being able to hold our heads up world-wide and be heard for impartial sober advice?  Not now. The ASPIRATIONAL BOGANS are in charge.

Shane at Ballarat Showgrounds
Shane at Ballarat Showgrounds


 G'day Possums,
Mrs Wombat and I recently popped out of the burrow and up to Ballarat to the market to re-stock with some of the very good hand-made soap sold there.

I wondered what I was going to photograph and why, and vaguely entertaining the thought of looking for parallels for the Wombat Droppings’ rant.
When this presented itself ….
Ballrat Showgrounds, Child crying
Ballrat Showgrounds, Australian Child crying..



And Wombat Droppings’ Chronicle of the Demise of Egalitarian Australia became apparent.






Bronwen backs down on Burqa ban in parliament but balks at being clear about why such a decision was made in the first place… wouldn’t have anything to do with Rabid-the-Hun’s meeting with new Indonesian Prez Widodo would it? Or that Rabid didn’t need to give the Indonesian any more to belt Oz about the ears with; like illegal incursions into Indon waters by Oz Navy cruelly returning refugees to their jump off point?





Then we saw these young people making a fine noise and on approaching to say what was happening was told that as all the mother's were not there to give their approval this pic couldn't be posted....  hmmm... perhaps they should have a sign saying "no photographs" or "that this is not a public space and we are not on show" or, they could all wear Burqa's or perhaps just play a record with no-one there? 
P.C. gone mad or "Helicopter Mums" in full flight?... whatever.... no wonder Rabid-the-Hun get's votes!


Healthy religious ammunition





Rabid-the-Hun will not send medical staff to fight the Ebola epidemic. Peter “Enema” Dutton (Liarbril, alleged Health Minister) says it’s not in our region yet and we’ll wait till it is.
Just like Iraq is next to South Australia and the Ukraine is only slightly North of Perth!
Perhaps they should talk to “The Drone” Morrison’s Born-Again Friends (no, not the paedophile ones) at Hillside and Catch the Fire Ministry’s to send their Faith Healers to strut their powerful stuff?
The science of Climate Change is crap, this lot say …let’s see if that works.

Medibank Private is also on the market. No longer will the profits benefit all Australians, they will now go to a limited number of shareholders and with it’s sale, the brake on rising Insurance costs will be broken and it will further the imperil the Medi-Care systems ability to contain costs.
Which is what the “Coot’s-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” want in their Free-Market Frolic: to destroy Australia’s social contract.
And now, the final irony.. today (21-10-14) the architect of Australia's noted free health system, free University education, recognition of China, and many other reforms has died. Vale Gough Whitlam: we'll not see your like again. 
One only hopes that Rabid-the-Hun and his venal rabble do not attend his funeral as the hypocrisy of these unimaginative destroyers being there would be too obvious and in such bad taste!
It was interesting to note one of The Ugly American's minions Greg Sheridan on radio, playing the right-wing troll even before the corpse has even cooled in the grave. 
Vicious, nasty and tasteless is what these cretins do best. What a sad place this Oz has become with these amoeba in power.

Terror Australis
Arfur “Da Spiv” Sinodinas has had a five page faux apologia in “The Age, Good Weekend” (Jane Cadzow,18-10-14)
I’m not sure it will help his cause in returning to a senior position with Joe "Cereal/Toyota Killer" Hockey and Mathius “Horse-Shite” Coormann and assisting in dismantling what’s left of Australia’s economy.
Mummy’s boy, Arfur “Da Spiv” comes across as a political dilettante  in whom a sense of self preservation and entitlement seems paramount.
Jumping ship when “Little Johnnie” Howard was going “On-the-Nose” to feather his own nest in a Corporate World, Arfur, who is “…resourceful and savvy..”  get’s mixed up with Eddie Obied.
Now, I would have thought that if I, in my Wombat Burrow down here in Vic knew “interesting” stories about Eddie “O” then a New South Welshman like Arfur (who, sort of running in the same circles though on the opposite side) would, too.  Accepting 5% share in “Sydney Water Holdings” and a director’s fee of $200,000.00 for 25-45 hours work a year with a possible pay-off of $20,000,000.00 from the Sydney taxpayer might make you think all is not quite kosher!
Council assisting the Royal Commissioner seems to have Arfur neatly summed up when responding to Arfur’s defense of his onerous hours and spruiking at social functions, he said, ”What, should we add on 90 seconds over a Gin and Tonic to the other 45 hours a year?”

Arfur’s capacity of ”…absorbing a mass of detail” seems, sadly to have disappeared with his 60,  “I don’t remember / recollect” during the Royal Commission as did his credibility for re-entering parliament (for a Senators paltry $141,000.00) “I want to work on something big and important.. larger than myself” and “Always doing the right thing.” Particularly when attending a meeting as State Treasurer of the Liarbril Party and Finance Committee Chairman and didn’t hear that developer monies as donations were not allowed under state law was being discussed.
Arfur… you stink!


jumping castle Ballarat Showgrounds
Oohh, what going on there in that dark place or Where's Arfur? 


...and this lady had a very deft hand in cutting out stencils... much practice,me'thinks...


Dylan at Espresso Mobile Cafe

I was really impressed with this set-up.. functional, neat, a compact mobile great idea and design...   www.cafemobile.com.au
Man with hats Ballarat Showgrounds
Man with hats Ballarat Showgrounds
who looked uncannily like the "interesting" Liarbril Mayor of Geelong but probably wasn't as his hair was almost normal.

And then a shock on leaving to find this ....

site....
Ronaldson's Wall, Ballarat.


which used to be this....
Ronaldson's Wall, Ballarat.

and this in detail
Ronaldson's Wall, Ballarat.

While it may have seemed an eye-sore to many its visual appeal is obvious... I'm glad I have a reasonable record of the old wall...


on way home : Silky Terrier in Mustang:

Incongourous combination....as are most things these days..
Liarbrils and Fair Play, Labor and Pokies....Arfur"Da-Spiv" Sinodinas and entitlement..it's all a muddle where we're all besmirched . Then there was another nail in the Liarbril coffin, Professor Spurr selected to review changes to the English curriculum gets himself "outed" with racist and misogynist emails to colleauges...
The other heads of the curriculum review, fellow right-wingers, Kevin Donnelly and Ken Wiltshire, did not comment on the Spurr emails…… they no doubt probably agree with their sentiments.
The faux-education minister, Christopher Pyne, (the Whyne-and-Perfect-Poodle-Prat-of-a-Prefect) has dismissed the attacks, saying Spurr was independently selected to be a “special consultant” on the English curriculum. Spurr was hired by Sydney University as chair in poetry in 2010 (Guardian Australia on Friday).
Typical, Pyne-the Whyne and Perfect-Poodle-Prat-of-a-Prefect.”
“Not me .. I didn’t do it. “ And another Liarbril thought–bubble, silly idea goes pear-shaped.

Then one  Peter Grace c/o Face-book added this little ode dedicated to the Professor of Putrid Pensiveness….


a professor of pomes was asked  what he thought 
of the English and History our children are taught
so he said what they wanted to hear him say, 
kissed the right arses and picked  up his pay

now it would seem he’s an old racist prick 
trying to pull the old “No, not me!” trick
with a pathetic excuse where he calls it whimsy 
the rest of us reckon that’s a little bit flimsy

and then in the end when the uni suspends him
not even Christopher Pyne defends him
“We didn’t hire him so don’t look at us! 
It’s the people who hacked him who caused all this fuss.
He was hired by the people we hired 
and his opinion still stands and he won’t be fired
from the role of advising us on education 
that nothing much happened before Federation”

he should pack up his stuff and they should send him home
that’s my “F**k You Pome Bloke" pome.

Peter Grace (Facebook)


Hoo-roo Petals,
Shane.

Friday, 17 January 2014

Quislings and Pie in the Sky


G’day fellow marsupials…
It’s a bit warm here atm… has been over 40C for four days and there’s a big fire 150Km to the burrows west that is creating its own weather pattern and which is estimated grow as big as 500,000 hectares so it’s not a piddly little burn-off we’re waffling about.

Shane Wombat under Cover
Shane under cover



Even though our Great "Rabbott" Leader has proven with his "Murdoch-mandate" that climate change is "crap" it might be a good time to finally elucidate how his "direct action" plan will mitigate global warming.
So we’ve been undercover for a day or three and it’s good to report that the lower levels of the burrow are quite comfortable.




 
 But that has its “stir-crazy” elements and I started photographing leaves....

Leaves
Leaves














......It might be about here that you place your index finger against your lips wobble it up and down quickly whilst blowing hard.





 
Leaves
Leaves









 And then there was this one from a recent ballet performance shoot which I found quite weird. Check out the lower part of the Spanish dress. And ignore my timing.





Wombat Droppings or Low-Down Oz Politics
In a move redolent of the cupidity for the times, VECCI, which counts some of the country’s wealthiest businesses among its 5800 dues-paying members, posted an operating profit of $3.55 million in 2012-13. It holds $73.3 million in assets and paid more than $20.4 million in wages to 248 employees wants to register itself as a charity. 
Yes, really!!                                                                                                
According to the Victorian State Revenue Office, a charity is an organisation whose purposes is “exclusively … the advancement of education, religion, relief of poverty or other purposes beneficial to the community.”    
Pies in the sky
Pretend Education Minister


The education “guru” tasked with reforming Australia’s national curriculum by the federal government’s Minister, Pyne “The Whyne” The Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect is a Dr Kevin Donelly who was previously employed by tobacco firm Phillip Morris to design a school program teaching children about peer pressure and decision making that did not discuss the health dangers of smoking. 
He has also written such gems as “Don’t let class envy wreck school choice” and “Tertiary institutions discriminating against the middle class” from his home business “The All-Australian Institute of Ethically and Homophobically Sound a-You-Beaut Education Doddle” (or something like that) which will replace the 5 years of research that the team of educationalists that Gonski led  and provided the latest report on.
But he said his work would be independent and provided that “many parents” would consider homosexuality “abnormal behaviour”, and  the reality that gays, lesbians and same-sex couples with children are a very small minority and that  such groups do not represent the mainstream,” also called for the Bible to be taught in state schools.

Pies in the sky

The assistant treasurer Arthur “Ebebnezer Scooge” Sinodinos announced that “consistent with the Coalition’s election commitment to reduce compliance costs for small business, financial advisors and consumers”, the legislation would be “improved”.
Gone will be the requirement to send all clients an annual statement  pertaining to an opt out clause to fees paid annually to the original advisor. It will apply only to new clients, signed up from July 2013. Older clients (most),won’t be told how much they are continuing to pay to someone who was once their adviser. They will be able to keep the income stream and sell it when they sell their businesses.  One statement once a year would have been “overly onerous” in other words, “screw you !”

Pies in the sky


“Rabbott’s at war! Having had the Navy shoot at Asylum Seeker boats, towed them back into Indonesians waters, he and Scott “The Drone” Morrison Australia’s first Minister for Non-Immigration have decided to supply the “Boat People” with  life-boats and enough petrol to make it back to Indonesia….. Indonesians seem less than impressed having their border zone being breached by Australia... so Abbott’s and Morrison’s manic behaviour may just get us the crusade they are wishing, looking for. 
Morisson, true to Liarbril form after the Indons told us to "F..K O.F", said, "It's not my fault, the Navy did it!"
"That's not govt. policy, I'll have them all keel-hauled."






Abbott & Morrison

 Could you call him a Quisling for taking Australia down this evil path?

Pies in the sky

For Americans reading this …if you think I’m making this up ….I’m not.
Our new regime (I can’t call it a Government) is making your Tea-Party look like rank amateurs.

Cheers possums,
Shane
PS a lovely bon mot  to finish on
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde