Spring is Sprung and the Nation is Bung

G'day Possums,

Many are, like me, expressing surprise that the implosion of The Ruling Rabble has taken 5 years.

Policy and ethically bereft, the only thing they have excelled at  is hate and vilification and finding that a unified and cohesive Labor Party seems immune from their sheer nastiness, to survive in the only way they know, they have turned on themselves..... with a vengeance.

And this week in the Parliament Circus:

Roaming Quisling dumps on Potato-head, who dumps back on him suggesting he's a paedophile followed by Horseshite Corman dumping on Quisling who then dumps on Potato-head ...again...deuce:  and  then Scummo dumps on them all and sermonizes that, hallelujah,  it's a new generation, hallelujah,  and dumps on Truffles who, from NY dumps on Potatohead, who is maybe dumped on by Asbestos Bishop!  Meanwhile all the women in the Ruling Rabble who claimed they were bullied by their "colleagues," blame Labor and accept bribes for their silence over the antics of Senator and possible Hitler Youth fantasist, Pasty Paterson which is music to the ears of The Ugly American, Murdoch shill, C.Overington who reports that Labor is as bad, notwithstanding having nearly 50% female representation compared to the Ruling Rabbles15% all of which causes The Greens, firebrand Sarah Hansen-Young fresh from snotting LoopyLibertarian  Leyonhjelm for slut-shaming her, to flummox Scummo mid homily at the mid-winter ball by interjecting "Bring Back Truffles!"

Feeling upstaged by this, Scummo  (and telling all those asking for a reason for Truffles assassination to "get over it") has a video clip made of "Put-Your-Right-Hand- In, Put your-Right-Hand -Out"  to Fatman Scoop's "Be Faithful," forgetting parliamentary rules and that the song has naughty lyrics and is possibly copyright so pulls it.... but not before it is copied by the masses and adulterated. It was not stated whether the choice of song was a homage to back-handers or developer contributions to Ruling Rabble coffers.

Earlier in the week as this shambles was unfolding "Insiders" was fascinating.

Farr and Murphy were having a delightful time and The Sydney Geriatric Institute's Henderson  seemed hunched over in mortal pain as the panel surveyed the utter wreck with bits still falling off  the Ruling Rabble....although his attempt to blame Truffles' demand to see the 43 mutineers names being the cause of the bullying of female members was vintage straw-man comedy stuff straight out of the IPA handbook.

In comparison Petals, was this piece of info from our cousins across the way:

"Political momentum is usually driven by ministers, but in New Zealand it came from the backbench.
In 2016, a cross-party group of 35 representatives came together to form Globe-NZ.
These representatives spanned all major parties, including the Nationals, Labour, Greens and the populist New Zealand First.
Globe-NZ's mandate was to build a shared evidence base, and they commissioned us to evaluate the feasibility of transitioning to a low-emissions economy.
This research was buttressed by a country-wide series of workshops, presentations and meetings to collect evidence, test assumptions and socialise findings amongst a growing network of supporters."

It seems that the "Adults are in Charge" over there.... but here ? 

Well, another example of how this country has been "done-over" by the rabble ... Malcolm Gunning eschewing his role as Prez of the REIA  auditioned as a new comedian for the IPA by denying there was any crisis with rental affordability and that those finding it hard to make ends meet should just vacate major cities, find a second job and negotiate their rent.

He didn't say where he had left his heart or whether he really needed it.

May this rabble soon be an historical blip..... a bad dream that has taught the electorate a severe lesson.

Hooroo  Possums,

Shane

Democracy's Demise in Oz

Shane in the Slammer

G'day possums,

Remember when Australia was a "larrikin" nation, celebrated as a "Fair Dinkum" breed-apart from its colonial masters, thumbing its nose at overweening authority and mythicized as the "workers paradise of the South" where "a fair go" and a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work" were part of an egalitarian social contract, and "mate-ship" was real?

Well Petals,  the "thumbing your nose at authority" bit was finally put to rest last week when Labor supported the Ruling Rabble's Foreign Influence and Transparency Bill through the Senate.

Now, thumbing your nose at the Government of the day ( may we get one soon), by writing a researched  article critical of it, planning or participating in a demonstration against its programs or intentions, will land you with a minimum of seven up to 25 years in jail.

Fair dinks!

For now, it is a criminal act to plan or to demonstrate en masse and you will be deemed a threat to security and the army can now be called in to disperse you. 

Imagine, if you will, Potato-Head Dutton taking umbrage at being criticized for lacking compassion, empathy and understanding the rights of humanity and that his concentration camps full of refugees, are illegal and an abomination? Can you imagine his pleasure in sooling the dogs of war onto his own people out of sheer venal spite because he was being held accountable for his malicious cruelty?

No?  Why are we so different to the humanity he has incarcerated illegally for so long?

Fair dinks, we are now the authoritarian state we used smugly to point at overseas.

But wait there's more... the legislation will also support the so-called "free trade deals" where multi-national business can sue a country who use legislation to protect its own or where legislation interferes with their profit. In other words your government becomes an agent for the multi-national and will use its draconian powers to suppress any dissent from the local populace being affected by the multi-national.

But wait.. it goes further...concurrent with this gross diminution of free speech and congruent to it, alleged Attorney General, the Un-Christian Porter has sent for trial (in secret) Witness K and his lawyer who blew-the-whistle on Australia's illegal bugging of the Timor-Leste government offices under the aegis of Little Johnny Howard and his cross-dressing Foreign minister Fishnets-that-Batter, Downer eleven years ago.  Then, Australia diddled the Timorese out of their fair share of the oil riches beneath the sea near their coast.

Interestingly, included in the arraigned are four ABC journalists who reported on the nefarious actions of Howard, Downer and ASIO at the time including one, Emma Alberici, who currently is no pin-up gel for the Ruling Rabble.

More interesting is the fact that the Newscorp journo who broke the story in The Ugly American's "Australian" in the first place, has not been called.  Vindictive and petty? 

Bloody oath!

Annabel Crabb was hosting “Insiders,” attempting to replicate Barrie Cassidy who is on leave. Having obviously been fed not only food on her lunch date with Truffles earlier in the week but Ruling Rabble talking points as well, Crabb was outplayed by Wayne Swann who was direct and clear in his answers, something the Ruling Rabble never are and although attempting to find division, she never followed up on a reply to tease out more content, often cutting off the end of Swann’s answer to limit him cementing a case different to the one she was pursuing.

Did we mention that Hissy-Fits Sales was at the lunch with Truffles as well?

It was like reading out a recipe of one star difficulty as the program degenerated with hosting the politically lopsided panel of Saava, Coory and Crowe all sitting and smugly agreeing with each other’s “talking-points” on just what a disaster (in their Murdoched minds) Willie Shortstuff’s tax policy adjustment was and trying to beat up a leadership challenge in the best of the Ugly American’s tradition while ignoring the fact that it was July 1^st and worker's penalty rates were being cut again but with the Prime Miniature and all other pollies simultaneously getting a 2% pay rise: Truffles raking in a $7,000.00 yearly increase …. 

A fair Go?

What started as a pie ended up bland right-wing blancmange.

I have to admit it did bring back memories of the last election night and the right-wing bias of the ABC panellists which included Crabb…

https://shanewombat.blogspot.com/2016/07/not-with-bang-but-whimper.html

The demise of "the Larrikin" was hastened, too when Senate clown and IPA fellow- traveller, Loopy Leyonhjelm in debate about  "respecting the safety of women" (but really wanting them all to be able to buy 7-15 shot Adler 's for their handbags) confused his own more important thoughts to the words spoken by Senator Hanson-Young and in high dudgeon retaliation, told her to "...stop shagging men"....and when she confronted him over this, then told her to "F**K Off!"  Confusing his "libertarian" cover with being an honest larrikin, and being roundly castigated in the press and at interview on this matter Loopy showed all the recalcitrance and indignant outrage of a 14 yo schoolboy pretending not to know what had gone wrong... Nahh, youse dunno anyfing.... ya pussys!  ...and it seems he is obviously garnering favour with the alt-right (he likes his Milo), Patriot Fascists and Tru-blu's for the next senate election.... if they can locate a polling booth, that is ....and read the voting form.

For those wanting to jump on the Ruling Rabble's Fascist, IPA bandwagon I have spare copies of the Horst Wessel in sheet music form ....

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

Is the Tide Turning?

Shane with Bouquet

G'day Possums,

some pics of  flowers from the garden to leaven the more depressing aspects of this weeks demonstrations of people behaving badly...and the usual suspects defecating in their own nests.

We have never had political and corporate corruption on such a scale, media as fecklessly useless and a future so dim as we have at present…. Welcome to the new Dark Ages; the new feudal system, where business has bought government and its representatives only spruik what business desires.

From the Ruling rabble Mk#1 with Rabid-the-Hun and their lying incompetent implementation of the IPA wish-list followed by the five minute dawn of false hope that Truffles’ promised with his ruling Rabble Mk#2 which has only resulted in further fiscal maladroitness and the degradation, sullying and polluting of every single facet of Australian society that once made this country a nation to be proud of.
 

They have killed democracy. They have lied, cheated and stolen . They have replaced a vision of tolerance, equity and fairness with racism, greed and inequality. They have gutted education and manufacturing and are gradually destroying the health system and in doing all this have spiritually weakened the country to such a degree that any small crisis will see a population turn in on itself as all confidence has been sapped from them.

A disturbed man, running from police after a stabbing and kidnapping has mown down and murdered people on Melbourne city street in his car...at present, 5 dead and some 20 injured, many very seriously.

The Dominatrix of One Notion, The Red Terror, Hanson announces at a "presser" after her sleazy advisor Ashby (remember the tawdry Slippery Pete Affaire?)  blows in her ear, that it was a Muslim Terrorist attack  .... incorrect as always and not withdrawn...  which is by followed Libertarian Senator, Loopy Leyonhjelm  tweeting almost immediately, " Probably one of those semi-automatic assault cars. " .... thus  proving his  tasteless, moronic and self serving insensitivity but then, being supported by another One Notion senator, Mal-Addled Roberts who tweets in reply, "Brilliant. One of those things I wished I had thought of first."

You really have to wonder to what level these pond scum have sunk the parliament?

What has this nation become with the electing such boorish, insensitive and egotistical stupidity of the likes of Leyonhjelm, Roberts and Hanson to our parliament?

Loopy, having not really grown up describes himself as a Libertarian; a state which can also be confused with narcissism.

Mal-Addled Roberts, on the other hand is just plain ..well, addled.

The Red Terror, Hanson is more akin to the Manichaein principle that you have to experience evil to eventually know goodness and you only operate at a level of a very basic duality.

And then you just have to look at the "candidates" the red terror is inflicting on WA: amongst them a nutter xtian pastor and self-proclaimed miracle worker who wants staff at his drive-through coffee shop to be bikini dressed barista's and  an ex- felon who filched stamps and on-sold them to Australia post.

You really don't have to ask: is democracy failing?

It might be grim days and they may stay grim for a while but with the unpopular election of the fascist Trump in the Un-united States and the subsequent huge demonstrations against him we may be witnessing the turning of the tide. He just might be the agent to finally collapse capitalism. 

Certainly, the levels of anger here in Oz are rising as the Ruling Rabble staggers from one crisis of their own making to the next and where even the normally supine mainstream media are beginning to ask questions, not only about their competence but also what their policy direction is and where the country is heading. 

Many are saying: "The storm is coming"; demonstrations are being planned and I get the feeling Possums that things are going to get messy in way we've not experienced here before. The right wingers, the IPA and their capitalist ilk are not likely to accede to having their destructive agenda stymied and will fight tooth and nail to ravage any semblance of the civil social society that currently remains rather than admit they are ideologically wrong and that all their free-market and trickle-down theory has failed the country miserably.

A sniff of revolution, Petals?  Perhaps.

Hoo-Roo,

Shane  

The madness continues...

Shane Chillin' in the sun

G'day Petals,

We took a little jaunt to Daylesford t'other day and did a sampling of the Mineral Springs there. It was very interesting that each of the five springs we sampled had different flavours and strengths .... some pics of the scenery follow.... the madness that continues...

 "According to The Age, there will be a new show (on tele?) for pollies, it will be an un-moderated “journalist-free zone”, with the two politicians independently setting the program’s entire agenda and deciding what topics to discuss. Pyne told Fairfax he wanted to ‘showcase his sense of humour’, and “go into the important issues in depth and communicate to the public our policy positions and the reasons for them” — you know, like a press conference, minus all the journalists -and any hard-hitting questions."  Which is really problematic as Chwissie-the-Whyne-and-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect, Pyne has a sense of humour only an addled right wing conservative could understand and hasn't had a coherent policy stance since entering parliament 23 years ago.

Who needs the X -Files for a fantasy trip?

 

Daylesford

Speaking of fantasy trips...Rabid-the-Hun has gone to Murdoch-land to deliver a speech to a  group of xtian fascists who actually like that he stands for values that are not fair, inclusive or sympathetic.

 He was followed by Captain Catlic, "Medieval" Andrews who was attending a "prayer-Meeting" in Washington rather than doing his duty as an elected representative here in Oz.

As both are attending right wing fundamentalist religious hate groups, one wonders whether they should be gaoled on return to Oz as they would like to do  to those who go away and fight for ISIS.

Any hope that Malcon "Truffles" Turdball-Fop can be trusted finally went out the window when it was announced that CSIRO is to lose another 230 scientists from the climate modelling division; a unit regarded as one of the world's best, which leaves Truffles clarion call to innovation as tattered as is his bowdlerized tin can and copper wire broadband scheme. Then on "Insiders" he trots out the same B/S of stopping-the -boats, (all 23 of them), never mentions that we are paying the people smugglers to turn around and take them back and supports the incarceration of children in concentration camps. What a monumental bore... loquacious pap dribbles from his mouth every time he opens it! 

It never ceases to amaze me that the only thing these mongrel Liarbrils are good at, (besides lining their own pockets) is destroying things!

 

from Mt Franklin

In 21/2 years there has not been a single positive policy outcome that has benefited the nation and now they are promoting the "reform" of the tax system by which they mean hiking the GST up by 50%!

There is not one single thing they have done which was part of a policy agenda put before the people at the last election. In their typically shambolic fashion the ruling rabble just keep putting  forward IPA thought bubbles in place of real policy that would benefit the nation and its future.

As Shorten has said of Truffles and the ruling rabble: ".... they talk a lot but they don't make decisions..." The relief of not having Rabid-the-Hun stirring up hate, fear and loathing is being superseded by a similar Kafka-esque quality of fantasy in that Truffles keeps talking but says nothing.

And aping Trump the Frump... Senator David Leyonhjelm opined on Truffles popularity that .." He could probably threaten to kill you first-born and still get elected."  Loopy Leyonhjelm certainly has a way with words....

 

tree roots

We're off to a rally tomorrow about the concentration camps we are running for refugees and their children.... it will be interesting to see if it's mentioned in the MSM or whether the  Border Farce SS storm troopers will attend, too.

What a country we've become.

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane

...kicking own goals.

Shane with Footy Gear

G'day Possums,
we've been to a couple of footy matches...one at one of the Melbourne stadiums, where blotting my family copybook, I cheered on the "Doggies" to a six point win over the "Dees."

The other was on the local oval with the Ballan boys playing  Beaufort in real, old fashioned conditions.
Ballan won but it was a hard fought contest and the day brought back a lot of school memories of playing in similar muck and having a lot of fun.
You actually can't kick an "own-goal" in Aussie Rules but the propensity of our rabble of a Federal Government to do this and shoot itself in the foot at the same time will be mentioned in the later "Wombat Droppings"

Ballan Going for Goal

Tackling Beaufort

A Gentle shower ..again.....Ballan Marks.

Goal in sight...

Three Quarter time and the sun appears...

Slippery ball...

I've not done much photography of football but what was interesting was the similarity to dance ... the better the dancers the easier it is to nail good shots.... An interesting and fun day. Good too,  seeing the kids all get onto the oval for a Kick-to-Kick at each quarters break, weather permitting and ignoring the mud.

Weekly Wombat Droppings   at Channel Liarbril, Chunder 000

“Tardis State” (Where-All-Goes-Backward) Specials

(with appropriately medieval illustrations as befits where Australia is heading at a great rate of knots.)

Capital, Confolons, France

18.00 “The Office of Living High, Victoria.” Produced at a cost of Millions (allegedly) with a select cast of ex-Liarbril advisors, apparatchiks, hanger’s-on and other Carpet-baggers. Producer Pete “The Drip” Walsh has for electoral reasons, canned this jolly romp. Further script details are not forthcoming as Pete “The Drip” reckons that this would cause “stress or anxiety” to senior script writers who don’t wish anyone to see their work; also it may make further electoral productions and his tenure as a producer very problematical. (M, a,d,h,l)

Pew Carving, Mortemart, France

19.00 “The Tunnel.” Fantasy doco starring Matty “What’s-a-Ventnor-Backhander?” Guy. Episode #69 “Let’s Change the Plans.” In this humorous episode Matty ties himself up in knots trying to explain why a change of plans is not a change of plans and why deciding not to concrete over all of the Parkland is better than the original proposal. Guest appearances by new residents disgruntled because of their uncertainty in receiving their houses’ (dis)-appearance fee; and bonus viewing of the ongoing search for the missing business case. *Not recommended viewing for prospective Inner City home-buyers*  ( M, h,v,l )

Corbel, Civray, France

19.30 “How Much do I Care?” Poignant Doco-Drama tri-angulating “At-Risk” children, Anglicare workers and Part-Time Manager, Mary “Snarler” Wooldridge.  Tonight’s episode highlights the “At-Risk” factor with “The Snarler” magnanimously eschewing, again, any responsibility for production problems.

(See:  http://shanewombat.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/to-rally-round.html    )

In a tense scene, “Snarler” blames the Anglicare provider who quite coolly rebuffs the criticism whilst the children in question are left to their own and their predator’s devices. Some critics have seen in this episode a metaphor of the values expressed in the new hymn of the “Right Xtian,” …. “The Meek Shall be Trodden Down, Trodden Down.”  (Verse: J. Roskam, Music: G.Brandis  ( PG, l, v, )

Federal Follies

20.00 “Bonking in the Rose Garden” Historical National Affaires Doco on the infidelities of the most upstanding and open-le….  err, minded in Canberra. Tonight’s episode celebrates the subtle ploys our present Prime Miniature  “Rabbott-the-Hun” devised to gain a fair lady’s attention. Newly discovered (it is said) footage of his gracious acceptance of his defeat by a woman in SRC elections at SU and what could be (very shaky camera and very backlit) his wrist smacking by what looks to be, prelate G. Pell apparently over a misdemeanour too far, from his early days in the Capital. Interviews with those who weren’t his love children included but not the two girls he claims as Senator Jacqui ”Corporal” Lambie sees them as a security risk, particularly for flat owners and scholarship givers.(AV15+, l, n, s )

Capital, Le Dorat, France

20.30 “Our Sovereign Border Victory,” A selection of brief but pithy Sea Shanty’s eulogising the derring-do of another pretend Xtian, our esteemed Lord High Border Protector, Scotty “The Drone” Morrison.

Worth noting are the Shanty’s; “You Wont Be Back You Jihadist, You! “ and the old favourite, “Tamils Are A-Going Home” with its verse similarity to the one of the German vessel of 1939, the MS. St. Louis which circumnavigated the world with 937 Jewish asylum seekers. Finding little solace it eventually returned to Germany where it is estimated that 365 of the 620 who returned, survived the war.  For further information on this trip of a lifetime contact Senator Eric “Vichy” Abetz, as he has this sort of stuff in his genes. (AV15+, h, l, b/w)

http://shanewombat.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/viewing-nice-things-and-huns-at-gates.html

Musee,Archeologique, Dijon

21.00 “Charm Offensive” Senator “Vichy” Abetz with clenched  jaw and a leer masquerading as a smile leads this Cabaret program as he attempts to cajole recalcitrant Senators with the comedic phrase ,”Vee haf vays ov makkin you Right.” Musical assistance in this Weimar Music-Hall Burlesque provided by David “Gunner”Leyonhjelm and  Bob “Dire-Strait” Day with choreography by Bobbie “Roo-Poo” Muir; Costumes: Chwissie the “Whyne and Perfect–Prat-of-a-Prefect” Pyne. (PG, h, v, a,l)

21.30 “One, Two, Three, Count” Economics for Aspirational Bogans, Panel quiz hosted by Joe “Cereal/Toyota-Killer” Hockey. Tonight’s episode features one Bill Mavropoulos whose contrarian position has Joe sweating profusely and wishing Barrell-Boys like Andrew Laming didn’t exist. http://theaimn.com/open-letter-andrew-laming/#comment-105992 

Corbel Cellefrouin, France

22.00 “ The Hill-song Selection.”  Hymns for the Aspirational Bogan and Socially Unaware to enjoy as they stick pins into their favourite unemployed or disabled dolls in time to the music of The “Rabbott-the-Hun-Dog-Whistle” Band, which this week, is jointly conducted by Billie “Poofie-Smacker” Heffernan  and Kevvie “Smiler” Andrews. (M, v, b/w, R.)

Corbels, Vezeley, France

23.00 “Saving our Future” Panel discussion by representatives of the 4 major banks and hosted by Ian Narev on how best to fleece re-direct the public’s superannuation into more sensible pockets places, and at the same time, assistance from Matthius “Horse-Shite” Coormann, beaming like your friendly Uncle Rolf. (PG, l a, s)


Hoo-roo, Petals,
Shane