You'd think.
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You'd think.
of course they did
You'd think that if Prime Minister Albanese was pursued by tractors it wouldn't just be the AFR (paywall) reporting the event.
I thought the spokesman was driving the car and hospitalised, so security guard stepped up.
Nothing to do with the US, whose cultural imperialism we still feel strongly. Australia decided to convert. Bipartisan. Metric Converion Board established. A new metric measure introduced each quarter. Measuring devices banned unless they included metric. Road signs --> kms.
In the Stalinist Australia of the 1970s, Imperial measurements were all but wiped out.
A PR guy, a security guy, a business partner, and a medico. For a pauper, Rudy has quite the entourage.
But such a wide range of crimes!
This is true of Paul. A major part of Ephesians is about getting along to get along with the Empire, and ditching equality. This may have been good advice after the fall of Jerusalem.
I like your summary.
Horst Wessel only got a song. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
My point is compliance with the law. Most people voluntarily comply. Some need assistance where the law is complex - say tax laws. Others refuse to comply.
Excellent thought! No.
Weird. I didn't like the words but I like the tune. www.youtube.com/watch?v=btEp...
There are some who favour cricket and speculative fiction. Go figure! Human variety, eh?
Laws against murder don't work, either. Happily the non-compliant are fewer than those who voluntarily comply with anti-murder laws.
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Maybe Katter is sucking harder on the taxpayers' teat with his use of parliamentary travel?
Patrol hovercraft? I know some of the Russian kit is dated but these sound late '60s early '70s.
So Giuliani is now a Quixotic knight errant, roaming the country in search of people he can rescue from harm?
The hospital already has plenty of medical providers, but patients need to find their own flack.
It's the middle of a two week Parliamentary sitting.
Lowy Institue and The Scanlon Foundation have conducted polling on changing Australian attitudes to immigration. Here's the SBS report on Scanlon findings: www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
Some folk say that the USA's gun death problem is due to people being able to purchase weapons too quickly. These folk have not encountered military procurement.
In 1975 I wasn't listening to Elvis. He was old hat.
This is your occasional reminder that Billy Hughes was in parliament until his death aged 90. No particular reason.
Paxton's alledged fraud is as nothing compared to his liegelord Donald Trump.
Sorta, kinda. There is six-year rule, where you can get a principle residence exception after you leave your primary home and rent it out before selling it. I can remember when tax was simple and income tax law was a single volume! www.listonnewton.com.au/information-...
The Paxtons are breaking up. From now on they'll need several primary homes. (The article makes clear the alleged frauds happened some tine ago, before the recent break-up.)
Crisafulli has done a Scomo!
However, one is allowed to pray for strength and wisdom to effect the change.
Hooray, an @xkcd.com about tides! Although only little ones, round here we can get a tidal range of 10 *metres* . xkcd.com/3135/
![[Single frame, with Megan and Cueball standing at a coastline with grass, with water and waves visible. They are looking at the ocean and are standing together.] Cueball: Hey, where's that big island we were looking at this morning? Megan: Oh, it's underwater. The ocean's depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. Cueball: What? Megan: It's because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. Cueball: What??? [Caption below the frame:] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth. Transcript thanks to explainxkcd](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:d67aicqw6nicsf7cjauvzuo3/bafkreibnctesneis67q7qz6tgdszao5vn2zzjlqzdblcy4h6vygipyclni@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Even Christians aren't supposed to consume blood (Acts 15.29). Which is why we don't eat black pudding on Fridays.
Perhaps. Truman, Johnson and Ford all managed to consolidate power. Come to think of it, someone as inept as Andrew Johnson, following Lincoln, held on as President for four years. Different times, possibly.
Having met Tony Burke jogging, he's no Peter Dutton.
Presupposing that neutronium and whales are different, you have a point.
One day, Gabriel, you'll be as old as me and speak only in cringe.
Our American cousins have to be cryptic, otherwise they might get a visit from the FBI.
Thanks! I sit corrected.
Silly Hemipteran decided to emerge on one of my tires, so I gently moved them. The intersection of Derp and Perfection 💚 #InverteFest
For Morrison, read Turnbull.
When Joe Biden was 79, he had nearly completed his first year in the White House.
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WH bedroom DJT (weakly): Melania, are you praying for me? M: Of course DJT: Does Congress pray for me? M: Yes, dear DJT: The Senate? M: All America prays for you. Billions of people have you in their prayers tonight DJT sighs and goes to sleep. M folds hands, looks up: Jesus Christ, take him soon
'You can't call it a potato cake! It's not a cake.' 'You can't call it a potato scallop! It's not a scallop.'
I did the reverse in 1992. A helpful colleague led me through a televised RL game so I wouldn't be inarticulate at the water bubbler.
Say what you like about the Albanese government, it's been more effective and stable than the governments of Keating, Rudd, Gillard, Abbott, and Morrison.
tbf Trump usually goes to Bedford, NJ, during summer.
Is this linked to the idea that it's news if someone doesn't want it to be known; otherwise it's just public relations?
Zooey becomes more and more eager to go outside. I have ordered three kitty holsters and a leash.
If "materially contributed to Hamas’s refusal to release its hostages, and to the breakdown of the Gaza ceasefire talks" is cause for denying entry visas to government officials, wait until these folks hear about Israel www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
In my heart, I know you're right.
But if it were a church, Trump would respect it, right? Right?
Although at this stage, the money is just a way of keeping score.
Don't be silly. That's not a sheep.
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such a petty, weak little man
Albo is OK.
It needn't be experts. If we're doing user research for policy design, then we can talk with everyday gun touchers.
/2. 3. Union Station is already a madhouse without cramming it with pre-gaming Dodgers fans trying to get on a goddamned sky tram. 4. I am not getting in a small enclosed space with drunk Dodgers fans after a game. If I want a drunken fistfight I will tell my wife America’s Got Talent is stupid.
I think it's unreasonable to expect the smaller of a kookaburra pair to lay an egg.
Yes, our emails can still get through unimpeded. :)
Such a tangent in 20 seconds by Katter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i73...
It's been her business model.
In the United States, Monday 1 September is Labor Day. It marks the end of a two month silly season. In Australia, we should start getting US news again.
One of the things I admire about the United States of America is that you don't put the head of your current head of state on your coinage. Rather, it is the head of an illustrious past president. I fear this may change.
Wow. Are those jars filled with balls of cheese or cheese flavoured puffed corn?
Cheers!
Reminds me of that old husband/wife phone-call joke. 'President Trump was playing on the roof.'
Possibly. Orthodox Christians, during Lent, traditionally abstain from meat, including whale and neutronium.
As you know, Bob.
I'm still astonished (horrified) at the herding of survivors into that football stadium with no real support And the military aid sent to help seemed more to keep them in than to help them escape the catastrophe
Good point. Neutronium doesn't have scales.
I believe you. Why is The Guardian letting me down?
Politician's housing allowances? A bit like the 2009 UK expenses scandal only with more student protesters. But yes, 4WDs kill more people in Australia than sovcits.
Now if this story had appeared in Haaretz, I'd give it more credence.
Arguably. The counter argument is that neutronium, like a whale, isn't scientifically a fish. Neutronium, like a whale, has no gills. Disclaimer: I am not Jewish.
But Brad, the nuclear codes are like Trump's team. They're all zeros.
I'm not defending Bob Katter Jr. I'm merely describing reality. You don't have to like it.
You don't like Bob Katter and you wish the rules were different. I get it.
While I share your doubts of an ozempic side reaction; I really, really believe the lawyers might have suggest that. What was that 1974 Doonesbury phrase? 'Scenario them rosily.'
Sorry, non-canonical gospels are outside my areas of study.
Trailblazer: how Elizabeth Reid helped change Australia | Canberra CityNews In his series of stories of remarkable Canberrans, DAVID TURNBULL meets Elizabeth Reid, who in 1973, as a 31-year-old arts graduate from Taree, became the world’s first adviser on women’s affairs to a head of government.
The same 'sick of Labor' we saw Federally in 2013.
If Katter: - keeps successfully being elected by the voters of Kennedy; - is not an undischarged bankrupt; and - is not sentenced to a prison term of 12 months or more; he can continue in office. Should he? Not if a better candidate puts themselves forward.
Classic dataviz!
He's spent 18 years in state politics and 32 years as MHR for Kennedy. His voters must see something in him. His hair? A crueler man than me might point to one or two other MPs who are also caricatures.
Katter is 80 years old and the good people of Kennedy have just re-elected him. His age alone makes him an outlier. (Anthony Albanese is 62 and is one of the older members of the ALP caucus.)
For the conspiratorially minded, it's not the text that might be tampered with but the composition of the Christian Bible. Eastern and Western churches set the canon in the last quarter of the 4th century. If these were apostate churches, what books did they improperly include and which exclude?
Wyrd bið ful aræd. Bleedin' Calvinists and their predestination.
Yes. Remember the Jesus of 30 CE is not exactly the same as the portrayal of Jesus by Luke in 85 CE. The context has changed. No Christianity -> Christianity a sect of Judaism -> Christianity its own religion.
'That hoplite is wielding three spears.'
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As long as the wind turbines are not in the USA or off the coast of his Scottish golf courses, why does Trump care where the ugly things are? Oh, Big Oil.
True, David. Counterpoint: Alerting the targets may mean the two 2024 arson attacks are not carried out. (It's a counter-factual, so we can't know.)
Neat article. Crypto can also be used for speculation. Combined with the dark web, crypto can purchase drugs, weapons, and the services of assassins. This is not a recommendation.
It's one of those irregular verbs, init? They doom, you recognise badness, I do current state analyses.
True. On the other hand, if you engage an unpaid person on social media and hope to change their mind, often you will be disappointed.
That trial was separate from the trial where Trum overvalued properties and tripled the size of his Trump Tower apartment to gain a favourable interest rate. But yes, suspected fraud should be disqualifying for the Fed, unlike multiple felonies for POTUS.