Category: Australiana

Embarrassing, unintelligent rabble

No, not my opinion, for I know nothing of Rugby Union – or of Rugby of any flavour, come to that.   But in pursuit of Cuprum‘s vehement assertions, I have diligently perused the Australian media and distilled their informed views – which include the hindsight realisations of both the Wallabies captain and coach – into my headline.

Rather than attempting to understand the finer points of the articles and to précis their wisdom – a course of action that would be highly unwise for a Rugby rabbit – I present my evidence as links –

So whichever way you look at it – sorry Cuprum, but you were wrong.   In spades.
We was wubbish! 😥

Juliar to put the High Court in its place

Look – and please do remember that I have a fervent dislike for our Prime Minister – there’s no way we’re going to go down the same limp-wristed route as the UK.

If our High Court decides to make an interpretative ruling that effectively negates the intentions of a law passed by our elected government, we’ll change the wording of that law to make it crystal clear to the judiciary who is actually in charge of our nation.   And it ain’t the Chief Justice.

Although the legislation has not yet been passed, Juliar has today convinced her cabinet and the Labor caucus to support her in the introduction of the requisite alterations to the Migration Act.

She has, sensibly and pragmatically, declared that the changes will not define any particular solution to our immigration problems, but will clarify the undisputed right of the current executive to take such actions as it considers necessary, irrespective of foreign legislation or the High Court’s view of our obligations under any foreign legislation to which we may be a signatory.   This should make it politically viable for Abbott and the opposition to support the amendments.

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Can she do it this time?


Last year Sam reached the finals of the Paris Open, but was defeated in an incredible display of unusual skill by her Italian opponent.

This year she’s stormed her way into the final of the US Open, to challenge the High Priestess of Tennis, Serena Williams.   She’s the first Aussie lady to make it to the American final since 1977 – that’s a long time between drinks!  Can she win her first Grand Slam title?

Frankly, I doubt it; Serena is some tough cookie.   But although logic says no, my heart will be cheering for Sam.

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Can’t resist it!

Those are Mike Hussey’s bowling statistics (yes, I did say ‘bowling’) for the first innings of the second Sri Lanka Test.  As perfect as they could be.

To make it even better, it was Kumar Sangakkara whom he dismissed, one of the best batsman around. 😀

For non-cricketers, you can read that as “one over, one maiden, no runs for one wicket”.

Juliar’s getting rattled

Given the astounding success of my last post about Australian politics (2 whole comments on topic, 19 correcting my grammar), I feel duty-bound to engage you with the latest goings-on down-under. 😀

Our High Court, as High Courts are wont to do these days, has declared Juliar’s “Malaysian Solution” to the “Boat people” illegal – as being contrary to the complex legislation (The Migration Act and Regulations) that addresses, inter alia, our responsibilities as signatories to the Refugee Convention (UNHCR).

Gillard is spitting chips, and accusing the court in general and The Chief Justice in particular of changing the entire face of immigration, and of being inconsistent.   Her colleagues are undecided as to whether they should –

  • support her,
  • support her publicly whilst arranging for her political assassination,
  • ask one of a number of old has-beens to take over (including Peter Beatty, ex-Premier of Queensland, a very popular chap, now retired, and, would you believe it, even dear old Kevin Rudd), or
  • push the young Commissar Shorten into the rôle before his time, a behind the scenes factional power-broker so ghastly, so doctrinaire, that he makes Juliar look honest and right-wing.

What Gillard should do, of course, is call a general election, but the chance of that is almost vanishingly small since they all – her party, the Greens and the three Independents who side with her – like power far too much to give it up before they have to.

She has demonstrated her lack of integrity and incompetence many times over, and her attack on the Judges is now highlighting her inner petulance.   Pity us, for we probably have another two years of this before we can throw her and her hard left, corrupt and bullying cronies out.

Rugby World Cup 2011 in NZ – an amateur pundit goes on record

Not a blog for all I fancy, so if not your cup of tea, do feel free to ignore! Although, to attract some of our members, here is a free look at the greatest Number 10 currently playing, young Daniel Carter. A lovely chap, I have met him, he’s very polite and shy:

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Gillard threatens legal action …

… and an article is immediately withdrawn from The Australian, and a cringing apology published.

Strangely, however, follow-up articles in other papers have (apparently) published the text that raised Juliar’s ire.   As a quotation, which they can (apparently) get away with.

When a Prime Minister threatens to sue a journalist for defamation, Boadicea and I usually reckon it’s tantamount to an admission of guilt – but this time we could be wrong.   What is undeniable is that this spat has spotlighted a grubby episode in Juliar’s earlier life; one that was in the public domain but played down, at the time, to such an extent that many of us had never heard of it.   Even if today’s accusation is completely false, it’s a reminder of the sort of crim that she used to knock around with.

The sleaze within some Unions and the ALP (Australian Labor Party) which has recently been revealed, makes me wonder just how corrupt Labor is.   Starting with Kev’s political assassination, we’ve seen WikiLeaks dob in Senator Mark Arbib as the Americans’ spy, we’ve seen Juliar unashamedly reverse her promise on the Carbon Tax and MP Craig Thomson finally exposed for spending many thousands of dollars of HSU (Health Services Union) money on booze and prostitutes (admittedly a grand old Australian tradition) and now Juliar’s youthful indiscretions are coming back to haunt her.

What a barrel-load of corrupt bastards!   I can yet foresee the AFP (the Feds) being summoned to arrest the entire chamber, and the Governor-General forced to order a second dismissal.   But her (the G-G’s) daughter is married to Bill Shorten, an ex-Union boss and Labor power-broker who currently holds the position of Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation.   No chance!

For a different slant on the brouhaha, try this article in Crikey.

One in the eye for the politically correct tossers

Radike Samo is a Fijian-born Rugby Union player; a bloody good one, too.

He plays for the Wallabies and was one of the try-scorers on Saturday when Australia won the Tri-Nations competition.

Two enthusiastic fans won airfares and tickets to the match from Qantas, a ‘condition’ of which was that they would dress up as their favourite team member.

So they did.   Qantas published a photo of them and were immediately attacked by the pc brigade for being racist.   Qantas apologised and removed the photo.

But hey, hang on a minute.   The tossers were well out of order, it seems, because Samo was tickled pink at what his fans had done; he was genuinely flattered.   Here’s what he said –

I don’t know what all the fuss is about. These guys were actually paying me a tribute.  It was a bit of fun and I think it was great they regard me as their favourite Wallaby.

I didn’t have an issue with it at all. I was glad to be in a photo with them, so I don’t know why anyone is getting worked up – that sort of reaction is just silly.