How Good is That?

G'day Petals,

Well, it's all over, bar the shouting... How Good is that?

The electoral commission had received hundreds of complaints about dodgy political advertising, accepted that 87 were in fact dodgy... and did nothing.... How Good is that?

Labor thinks The New Member for Chisholm Gladys The Caiman, Liu  needs her political advertising dissected... which if Boris the Buffoon in Britain gets lumbered with jail time for his alleged  political  untruths, then Gladys The Caiman might be a little concerned as to her future, too.... How Good is That!

 Uncle Warren Entsch in typical Deep North fashion and as "Reef Envoy" has declared that the Great Barrier Reef doesn't need saving but plastic needs collecting and that children would probably be better off doing that and not suffering "the child abuse" of being "coached" about climate change in their schools... How Good is That?

Killing two birds with one stone,  it seems The Liar From The Shire, Prime Miniature, Scummo, has decided to banish what passes as excuses for moderates in the Ruling Rabble and expel Arfur The Forgetful and Fifi, Slasher Fifield to overseas postings and fill their senate positions with fore-lock tugging right-wingers in the shapes of The Killer of Fallujah, Molan and failed Corangamite candidate Sarah The Mouth, Henderson. Arfah and Fifi will respectively, impersonate roles as Ambassador to Washington and Diplomat to the U.N.

Arfah no doubt will re-exercise his financial expertise to coach President Comb-Over in the Dark Arts of forgetting how your tax affairs and donations are  handled and Fifi will apply his considerable experience in eviscerating public body funding and shifting it to The Ugly American's coffers.... How Good is That?

Sri Lankan "refugees" arrive at Christmas Island..... but their timing was out by a week.... .  Bugger , no wonder they were shifted off , back to whence they came so quickly.... I wonder how much they were paid for this stunt by the Ruling Rabble who do have "form" in that area? 
Potato-Head, true to form, blames Labor...How Good is That?

An Ugly American beat-up, a fake news story about Willie Shortstuff's apparently simmering ambitions for leadership is far more interesting than the reality of a Zimmerman-Molan stoush as the Killer of Fallujah fires back that he's not "dishonourable."

Ex Ruling Rabble party president Zimmerman said Molan led a below-the-line campaign which “showed no respect for the democratic process” and as Ruling Rabble hierarchy look to introduce rules to disqualify candidates who "go rogue"...."Killer" denies that he's a rogue and spits another dummy.

Forgiveness in The Liar from the Shire's plastic religion has meant that Stuart, Wanna-Cheap-Rolex? Robert is to return from his Truffle's imposed purgatory to further mal-administer the NDIS, have the taxpayer fund his extraordinary internet fees, and provide remuneration to "independent " candidates at local elections,as you do if as straight as adog's hind leg... he will be joined by rehabilitated estate agent Sussan Whimsy, Ley no doubt looking to further her property portfolio as she sashays about the country perusing waste.

Ignoring the constitution and proselytising about enacting "Religious-Freedom-So-We-Can-Be-Rude-To-Whoever-We Want-Whenever-We-Want", various limited imagination bigots like Ferrari Mussolini Ferravanti  and Hitler-Youth, Look-a-Like Paterson are getting their Rosaries and tithing sheets in a knot as in true IPA logic, they salivate over expanding freedom by diminishing it........How Good is That?

Oh, and not forgetting another IPA "sleeper," Timmy Twat, Ex Freedom Man, newly minted and fatuously self-described as a "Modern Liberal" who sat as quietly as church mouse lest he attract attention when Marcia Langton (QandA, 27-5) excoriated Ruling Rabble ministers who congratulated The Egged-Anning on his racist speech. It is a repeating habit that on real social issues these plastic "freedom warriors" have very little to say. Perhaps, in reality, they just don't care for social justice? How Good is That?

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane

...and there was weeping and gnashing of teeth...

House of Cards

G'day Possums,

The air was being rent with wailing, gnashing of teeth, garments being shredded, ashes thrown and sackcloth worn following the failure of the Lying Lyle's Oz Xtian Lobby "No" campaign against marriage equality when up popped the young grim faced IPA senator, Unterscharfuhrer Paterson with a solution to their woes. Well, as it was apparently written by Lying Lyle, the un-elected senator was really only the delivery boy attempting to foist a set of apartheid-like discrimination acts on the country in an attempt to "improve" and stymie the passage of the marriage equality bill  through parliament. Using the furphy of "religious freedom" Lying Lyle's epistle suggested that flower and cake purveyors, church ministers and civil celebrants be allowed to refuse their services to anyone they thought might be LGBTQI and that parents can take their children out of school and not be taught to use a strap-on. 

This caused such consternation that Chwissie the Whyning-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect, Pyne whom many think is still in his closet, had to deny sending a "like" to a gay porn movie on his Twitter account and Matty, Thug Canavan uncrossed his eyes long enough to chime in with a coal-smoke induced offering that Xtian Rock Groups be included in this discrimination, too.

Poor Thug, he certainly is a blockheaded, Deep Northern hetero with little understanding..... to assume that any Gay would want be seen doing the wedding waltz to Xtian Rock, wholly underestimates their verve and taste.

The postal survey in 5/8 time and at a cost of nearly $100,000,000.00 only proved that the polls of the past years were correct and that the ruling rabble's Little Johnny Howard's malicious mangling of the marriage bill nine years ago was just another example of his nastiness and further; the Catlic right wing rump of the rabble have cost the people more than money, they have cost parliament its integrity.

Not that they care.. their only role is to push their own personal agenda's and those of either the Catlic run IPA or their donors/bribers.

Agendas, which as the survey has amply demonstrated, are so out of kilter with common thought that we may come to see this postal survey folly as the real breach in the dyke of neo-liberalism and its further crumbling to eventual destruction.

Prime Miniature Truffles took the survey result as a personal victory but the hollowness of his reality was betrayed by both his body language and bombast.

The disloyal Bestiality Bernardi was his usual graceless self, intoning that the "Yes" side shouldn't gloat and that a 38% loss wasn't that but a victory and he would win in the end.

Poorlene, Please-Explain, Hanson of the Noe Notion Party whose paucity of affection to all ethnic groups not white, Xtian and stupid is legendary was thoroughly confused with the result.  All those she rails against, Chinese, Muslims, Xtian Arabs, Asians, and Afghanis etc  tended to vote that way she did.

Oh, the irony!

Ex Premier, Christine "Eddies Gel" Keneally has rattled the net in the Bennelong by-election taking ruling rabble dual citizen, Backhander Alexander to deuce in the first week of the campaign. Ruling rabble first serves have started down in the clay but might become ineptly unproductive as their constant chipping on the Obied factor could just draw his over remunerated worker with the shocking memory, Uncle Arfah Sinodinas into the unwanted glare of public view again.

You couldn't make this stuff up, could you?

Pics are from the Nutcracker.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

...Spring is Boing

G'day Petals,

Wombat Kinder 2 and I took a trip to the State Library in the city t'other day to see an exhibition of colonial artist William Strutt. 

"Black Thursday" and "Bushrangers on St.Kilda Rd" being amongst the visual descriptions of colonial Melbourne's life, manners and costumes he meticulously recorded.

State Library, Bunyip and St Joan.

Strutt's drawings are delightful and although their anecdotal detail is engaging, one of the Bushrangers being I believe, local lad Capt. Moonlight, the paintings are less memorable because of their histrionic Victorian sentiment.  We followed these with a wander through the building and its display of the history of printing with some very beautiful examples of Audubon and Gould illustrations as well as the more salacious covers of pulp fiction from the early 60's.

State Library Reading Room

Wombat Kinder2 is a keen dressmaker who wanted to peruse some vintage material so we trotted off to the Mitchell Building in Lonsdale St which has a startling Art Deco foyer only to find the material shop closed but after meeting up with Mrs Wombat we tried the Phillips Shirt Factory with more success. One of the last Australian firms to manufacture shirts, Phillips' has a huge amount of material and clothing for sale in a visually interesting but derelict workshop.

Phillips Shirts

I was surprised to see an industrial material cutter that was manufactured in Oz.... and found that they still are... how rare!

Time for a drink ... so we climbed through a very visually busy and quite disorienting series of floors to a rooftop bar in Hardware Lane. It was interesting to note that the "busyness" became more muted and spaced the higher we went so I think it would be correct to assume the artist started on the lower levels.

Things then took a bridal turn.

 

Triple Grooms with Fries

Leaving Hardware Lane I discovered three groomsmen who had temporarily escaped the focus of the photographers and were snacking before the reception at a fast food place.... then the vintage cars with sundry drivers and others of the wedding party all lined up having a smoke and.... Voila... the full frou-frou shebang at the old Post office!

The Princess Carriage, by-the-way is not from this bridal party, it's tourist transport. 

More important frou-frou happened this week with the return of Federal Parliament after a four month break and Truffles-in-a-Muddle's near death election result.

Ex Freedom Boy and IPA clone, Timmy Twat Wilson teared-up during his Maiden speech. Which will probably be the last time he will do anything in that place which seems genuine. Irrelevant but genuine, he avoided calling himself a hypocrite in supporting the wasteful $160,000,000.00 plebiscite and repeal of 18C so that the minority group he's a member of will be vilified and treated unequally for years more to come.

It's no wonder then when "intelligence" like this abounds at The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe that one of the IPA's past directors, Roger Neave has tipped a bucket on them and put on record his disgust at how far-right the organisation has become. In an interview for The Saturday Paper, Neave charts the demise of this once liberal group and says at article's end that, "...because of the surge of the right in the demonising of refugees/asylum seekers, of "children overboard" and (that) we imprison them...I want my pride back in being an Australian." 

Hmmm... too late methinks!

 

The Mitchell Building

Bestiality Bernardi has been gathering signatures of other feeble-minded fascists (when not asleep on the job) to repeal 18C and who, excited by their newfound solidarity are ignoring Truffles-in-a-Muddle's exhortations not to fragment what's looking like a terminal adventure for Ruling Rabble Mk2.

Ex IPA mediocrity, Wunderkind Paterson having been in parliament for fully five minutes and who probably wouldn't know truth if he fell over it, is one of the worst offenders in seeming not to realise that destabilising an already rickety rust-bucket like the S.S. Liarbril may have consequences beyond his instant gratification in seeking notoriety.

Phillips Shirts

Bestiality has also been having a fine time railing against the poor judgment of Sammy Halal Dastyari who had a Chinese business type (with links to Chinese Gov) pay for some trips and a couple of bills. In his muddled incoherent tirade, Bestiality really only exposed what a simple minded buffoon he appears to others and even to his some of his own side, to be. An intellectual pygmy would probably have made a better fist of it but at least Bestiality looked happy in his role of chief assailant; his Easter Island faux impassiveness occasionally breaking into smirking as he found pleasure in firing blanks at an embarrassed Dastyari.

Then on Day two Senator Jacquie Lambie rounded on Bestiality with this: "I think it is important to make this point around the debate about Australian political donations to the Chinese communist government. Liberal senator Cory Bernardi lecturing this parliament and displaying mock outrage regarding Labor senator Sam Dastyari and Chinese political donations is like an angry prostitute lecturing us about the benefits of celibacy.

And before I receive unfair criticism from the sex workers, I apologise to them profusely in comparing them to senator Bernardi. I know that is a really terrible low down thing to do because I can tell you prostitutes are far more honest, sincere, humane, compassionate and better bang for buck than senator Bernardi will ever be able to deliver."  

So there!

Silly Sammy Halal's proto-Liarbril  financial blunderings managed to divert attention from the ICAC findings in NSW where two Liarbril shonks will probably be referred to police for charging and Arfuh Da Spiv Sinodinas got a Scottish verdict from "not sufficient evidence," proving that early onset dementia, temporarily, is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

Funky Art in bar  Hardware Lane

Horse-Shite Cormann vibble-vobbled with shonky figures as he and his innumerate treasurer Scummo Morrison attempted to bully Labor into supporting their 2014 budget. It's hard to know whether like Scummo's predecessor they too, think that cruel, anti-social, neo-liberal penny pinching is a sure way of getting to Washington and double dip at entitlements or either that "thinking" was never really part of this fiscal equation.

According to Rabid-the-Hun and Chwissie The Whyning-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect, Pyne their  well regarded whistle-blower and "Lion-of-the-Union-Movement," Kathy Jackson, has finally been referred to court by police on 70 charges of being a very naughty and selfish gel with $1,400,000.00 of her Union's money.

Craig Thompson was not heard to respond and is probably certain not to ask for visiting rights in the future!

 

The Bride to Be, Hardware Lane.

I watched Parliament question-time on the first day back and it was interesting to note the body language and facial expressions on the Ruling Rabble minions behind the front bench. I think they of the Ruling Rabble Mk 2 know they're well and truly f****d!

An address for those interested....

Phillips Shirts 274 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000.

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane

The Winter of our Discontent

Winter is coming

The Winter of our Discontent is upon us...

we have the worst Prime Miniature, The worst Treasurer, the worst minister for the environment, the worst defence minister, the worst health minister, the worst immigration minister and the worst attorney general ever in this country's history. What a 21/2 year achievement by these "adults"!

Sophie "Pit-Bull" Mirabella has elbowed her way into the spotlight again, not just in a physically assertive manner only but in stating publicly that $10 millions had been with-held from a hospital upgrade because she didn't win her seat! Here's a woman who equates pork-barrelling with good governance! "Pit-Bull" I think, has just blown, at least another 5%off her chances of winning that seat back.

This is the sort of political corruption we see too often!

But then, it's a helluva lot cheaper than $50 Billions on submarines to save Chwissie the Whyning Pyne and Perfect Prat of a Prefect's seat.
 But having loudly celebrated the deal with the French DCNS company, (and ...can they do deals ... just ask Malaysia, China and Pakistan) later, it was quietly announced that a $1/2 Billion contract for an Ice-breaker had gone to a Dutch shipbuilder leaving another 2000 Australian's unemployed. 
Bye-Bye Chwissie, that just sank you!

Federal police have ratcheted-up their investigation into whether "Chicken-Thighs" Brough carried out a criminal act in having "Fiddles" Ashby purloin "Slippery" Petes diary entry's from his boss. 
As Chwissie the Whyning Pyne is also involved in this little piece of probable illegality, in the words of the "Two Ronnies'" "It's Goodbye from me and it's good-bye to him!"

Arfah "Da Spiv" Sinodinas  is also in the news again for all the reasons of the right . He's declined an invitation to tell a Senate inquiry just what he knows about political donations to the Liarbril Party. This is very reasonable of him, as he "..couldn't remember.." on 50 occasions (at the corruption hearings in NSW) when as honorary treasurer for Liarbril fundraising, who laundered what with whom. So what could he possibly tell the Senate?

Hot on the heels of the "innovative" sacking of 200 or so Climate scientists from CSIRO because, as their rather rabid boss says, "The science of Climate Change is settled and rather than investigating what is happening, it's time to make solutions."  Senator Bookshelves Brandis  and Senator Princess Fiona of Nash have decided it's not at all settled  or proven, so as well as being bigots they have a perfect right to limit any solution to what they see is not a problem. Which ties in rather well with "Truffles" Turdball and "Shaddupaya Face" O' Dwyer's united stance against "Little-Willie-Shortstuff" Shorten's idea of winding back negative gearing. In a comprehensive fear campaign, one says it will raise house prices the other that they will fall!  All bases covered on that one!

Another shock for "Truffles" and his Anti-Immigration Minister "Do-Do" Dutton was the PNG Supreme Court ruling that our Concentration Camps on Manus Island are not legal and the PNG PM has ordered that they be closed. Coming as it does after the deaths in two weeks of an Iranian inmate by self immolation and the protracted death of another from Sepsis (from inadequate care and follow up of a cut on the leg), the ruling rabble are looking decidedly wobbly as their IPA inspired malevolence unravels.

Although, this time, when they say "...it's all Labors fault.." there's some truth in that and as a country we need quickly to find our collective conscience again and stop trashing the brand we once had.

"For ideologues, reality runs a long last to dogma, even when reality is biting you on the back side." (New Matilda)

"Scummo-The Innumerate" Morrison is stridently spruiking what many think will be his once and only budget.  I can not think of a time when having so effectively blown away the economy they have to produce something that will actually work for the country not just their business backers and because of their own foolishness there is little to work with and everyone is looking this time. All the Liarbril hubris over what fine economic managers they are is going to seen in the correct light for a change... everyone will see that the Emperor has no clothes. I'm just wondering Petals, whether Scummo will deliver his once and only in "Tongues" with his addled acolytes behind him Happy-Clapping "I've got plenty of Nothing"?

Don't take my word for it: http://thekouk.com/blog/election-facts-government-debt.html

The ruling rabble, becoming nervous that there's widespread support for a RC into the banking sector has decided to put back the money they took out of ASIC and has said the banks would pay for it. In best hypocritical mode, Scummo "The Innumerate" proclaimed that he would be not chuffed if the banks handed the bill for this back to the customers because "....we'se here at the ruling rabble rooly, rooly care about all youse Hillsong peasants out there and we want to get elected again." Making it seems, no visible smirk when it was suggested that the banks paying for the body investigating their corruption was more akin to placing the Fox in charge of the Hen house, he attempted to divert further questions  saying, "Well, it's all Labor's fault anyway!"

Rabid-the-Hun has had a televised Tête-à-Tête with his main cheer-squad "Blot-on-the Landscape" Bolt. Bolt talked of the Abbott Era: those who listened thought he said, "Error"  Anyway an era is a long time and it's hard to justify Rabid's 18 months of incompetence as an Era.... although it certainly felt like it. Rabid said his works would be remembered. Yes, his bogan attitude, small minded, right wing Catlic conservatism, lack of compassion and mindless slogans, and destruction of an egalitarian society will be difficult to forget.

It's hard to know whether the end of the Roman Empire was like this or is it more reminiscent of Hitler's Bunker in May '45 but the sense of Ship of State being not only rudderless and heading in the wrong direction but foundering, is hard to shake.

The country is ethically moribund ... the cancerous IPA agenda has done its stuff..... perhaps radical excision will be of benefit.

Autumn

Hoo-roo Possums,

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.

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

 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, 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!

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
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....

and this in detail


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.